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If that's the book I think it is, a lot of the places in it are real ones right next to me...Krazy Kat wrote:CONGRATULATIONS LF
FAERIE TALE, by Raymond E Feist
[spoiler]Sig-man, Libtard, Stupid piece of shit. change your text color to brown. Mr. Reliable, bullshit-slinging liarFucker-user.[/spoiler]
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
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I dug out some of the names mentioned in the story.Vraith wrote:If that's the book I think it is, a lot of the places in it are real ones right next to me...Krazy Kat wrote:CONGRATULATIONS LF
FAERIE TALE, by Raymond E Feist
My world atlas has Buffalo (of course), Fredonia and Catteraugus, but the other places are too small. The Hastings family (main characters) live near Pittsville, William Pitt County. Pearlington and White Horse are also mentioned.
Though I'd be really surprised if the Fairy Woods, Erl King Hill "Hill of the Elf King", and the Troll Bridge were real places <tentative grin>.
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Definitely the book...I don't want to ruin anything accidentally, so that's all I'll say for now.Krazy Kat wrote:I dug out some of the names mentioned in the story.Vraith wrote:If that's the book I think it is, a lot of the places in it are real ones right next to me...Krazy Kat wrote:CONGRATULATIONS LF
FAERIE TALE, by Raymond E Feist
My world atlas has Buffalo (of course), Fredonia and Catteraugus, but the other places are too small. The Hastings family (main characters) live near Pittsville, William Pitt County. Pearlington and White Horse are also mentioned.
Though I'd be really surprised if the Fairy Woods, Erl King Hill "Hill of the Elf King", and the Troll Bridge were real places <tentative grin>.
[spoiler]Sig-man, Libtard, Stupid piece of shit. change your text color to brown. Mr. Reliable, bullshit-slinging liarFucker-user.[/spoiler]
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
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Finished reading the book last night. I haven't read a horror story for a long time so I really enjoyed this one.Vraith wrote:Definitely the book...I don't want to ruin anything accidentally, so that's all I'll say for now.Krazy Kat wrote:I dug out some of the names mentioned in the story.Vraith wrote: If that's the book I think it is, a lot of the places in it are real ones right next to me...
My world atlas has Buffalo (of course), Fredonia and Catteraugus, but the other places are too small. The Hastings family (main characters) live near Pittsville, William Pitt County. Pearlington and White Horse are also mentioned.
Though I'd be really surprised if the Fairy Woods, Erl King Hill "Hill of the Elf King", and the Troll Bridge were real places <tentative grin>.
After spending an hour or so on a Google-map searching the perimeters of Cattaragaus Indian Reservation , I'm assuming that Pittsville is a Raymond E Fiest invention?
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He takes liberties [which he should, it's fiction not history.Krazy Kat wrote: Finished reading the book last night. I haven't read a horror story for a long time so I really enjoyed this one.
After spending an hour or so on a Google-map searching the perimeters of Cattaragaus Indian Reservation , I'm assuming that Pittsville is a Raymond E Fiest invention?

[spoiler]Sig-man, Libtard, Stupid piece of shit. change your text color to brown. Mr. Reliable, bullshit-slinging liarFucker-user.[/spoiler]
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
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Dune. It's been over 25 years since the last (only) time I read it. I had forgotten how good it is! After I finish, I'll probably re-watch that crappy movie of it and ruin the whole experience.....though I'm hoping it will make the movie seem better.
Dandelion don't tell no lies
Dandelion will make you wise
Tell me if she laughs or cries
Blow away dandelion
I'm afraid there's no denying
I'm just a dandelion
a fate I don't deserve.
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Dandelion will make you wise
Tell me if she laughs or cries
Blow away dandelion
I'm afraid there's no denying
I'm just a dandelion
a fate I don't deserve.
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KK does that collection include the story Widget, Boff and I.
I use to have a TS anthology which contained the above story (if the title is correct) and story about someone with a split personality disorder. Part of the set up is the doctors ex-wife (who had run off with the above person) asks him for help.
I use to have a TS anthology which contained the above story (if the title is correct) and story about someone with a split personality disorder. Part of the set up is the doctors ex-wife (who had run off with the above person) asks him for help.
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No, it doesn't have that one.hue of bone wrote:KK does that collection include the story Widget, Boff and I.
If it's of any interest to you, the stories are:
Mr Costello, Hero
The Touch of Your Hand
Affair with a Green Monkey
A Crime for Llewellyn
It Opens the Sky
A Touch of Strange
The Other Celia
The Pod in the Barrier
The Girl Had Guts
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Don't watch the Lynch movie! (Maybe that'll bring MM outta the woodwork.)___ wrote:After I finish, I'll probably re-watch that crappy movie of it and ruin the whole experience...
Once you've finished it, visit the Hangar and we can talk about it there.

I've just started Swords Against Wizardry, last of my newly acquired Fritz Lieber books.
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