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Post by TheUncleanOne on Aug 25, 2006 7:02:12 GMT -5
Yes Correct (finally)... I really thought the description of the cloning and hatching process was more memorable...
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Post by Quintare on Aug 25, 2006 14:56:24 GMT -5
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World? There's a movie? LOL I never did like Huxley... though I suppose I was pretty young when I read him.
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Post by Quintare on Sept 30, 2006 0:59:38 GMT -5
Okay, need a quote and no one else is coughing one up so here's my go at it:
footnote 19The Necrotelicomnicon was written by a Klatchian necromancer known to the world as Achmed the Mad, although he perferred to be called Achmed the I Just Get These Headaches. It is said that the book was written in one day after Achmed drank too much of the strange thick Klatchian coffee which doesn't just sober you up, but takes your through sobriety and out the other side, so that you glimpse the real universe beyond the clouds of warm self-delusion thatsapient life usually generates around itself to stop it turning into a nutcake. Little is known about his life prior to this event, because the page headed 'About the Author' spontaneously combusted shortly after his death. However, a section headed 'Other Books By the Same Author' indicates that his previous published work was Achmed the I Just Get These Headaches's Book of Humorous Cat Stories, which might explain a lot.
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Post by Eldarion on Sept 30, 2006 7:12:19 GMT -5
Obviously a Discworld book, I just don't know which one...
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Post by Quintare on Sept 30, 2006 17:06:51 GMT -5
"SHUT UP!" screamed Soll. "Everyone shut up! SHUT UP! The next person that does not shut up will never work in this town again! Understand? Do I make myself CLEAR? Right." He coughed, and continued in a more normal voice: "Very well. Now, I want it understood that this is a Breath-taking, Block-busting Romantic film about a woman's fight to save the-" he consulted his clipboard, and went on valiantly, "-everything she loves against the backdrop of a World Gone Mad, and I don't want anymore trouble from anyone." A dwarf tentatively raised his hand. " 'Scuse me?" "Yes?" said Soll. "Why is it all of Mr Dibbler's films are set against the backdrop of a world gone mad?" said the dwarf. Soll's eyes narrowed. "Because Mr Dibbler," he growled, "is a very observant man."
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Post by Fate on Sept 30, 2006 20:11:40 GMT -5
Haven't read it yet but it is sitting on my dresser. I think it is Moving Pictures...
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Post by laurelin on Oct 2, 2006 16:42:20 GMT -5
It's been awhile since I've re-read it, but I'll have to agree with you It's one of my favorites!
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Post by Quintare on Oct 2, 2006 23:37:35 GMT -5
Moving Pictures it is. Not to be confused with the Rush album by the same name. Although I suppose Victor is something of a modern day Tom Sawyer. For a wizard of course.
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Post by Indagatrix on Oct 3, 2006 9:31:02 GMT -5
Although I suppose Victor is something of a modern day Tom Sawyer. HAHA! I get it! Only b/c I'm old. get off my lawn!
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Post by Fate on Oct 3, 2006 14:58:58 GMT -5
I think it is my turn. I love looking for quotes cause I find something that I forgot about.
"If you wanted to teach a baby a lesson, would you cut its head off? Of course not. You'd paddle it. There can be circumstances when it's just as foolish to hit an enemy city with an H-bomb as it would be to spank a baby with an axe. War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him...but to make him do what you want to do. Not killing...but controlled and purposeful violence. But it's not your business or mine to decide the purpose of the control. It's never a soldier's business to decide when or where or how—or why—he fights; that belongs to the statesmen and the generals. The statesmen decide why and how much; the generals take it from there and tell us where and when and how. We supply the violence; other people—'older and wiser heads,' as they say—supply the control. Which is as it should be."
Edit: No guesses? Would it help that I only read Science Fiction/Fantasy?
Edit2:It was made into a blockbuster movie in the 90's.
Edit3: don't let this quote 'Bug' ya....
Edit4: Another Quote that opens the book
I always get the shakes before a drop. I've had the injections, of course, and hypnotic preparation, and it stands to reason that I can't really be afraid. The ship's psychiatrist has checked my brain waves and asked me silly questions while I was asleep and he tells me that it isn't fear, it isn't anything important -- it's just like the trembling of an eager race horse in the starting gate. I couldn't say about that; I've never been a race horse. But the fact is: I'm scared silly, every time.
Edit5: Another Quote
"My mother said violence never solves anything." "So?" Mr. Dubois looked at her bleakly. "I'm sure the city fathers of Carthage would be glad to know that."
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Post by Fate on Oct 9, 2006 13:21:50 GMT -5
A new post to make sure it is showing up as new. Cmon its really not that hard.....
"There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men."
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Post by Quintare on Oct 11, 2006 0:48:32 GMT -5
I know this stupid book but I'll be damned if I can remember the name. Heinlein... Starship Troopers!
Omg I finally dug that out of my brain.
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Post by Fate on Oct 11, 2006 9:38:56 GMT -5
Thank you Quint!
A good book for those who have not read it. Much better than the movie.
Your turn Quint.
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Post by Quintare on Oct 11, 2006 23:12:43 GMT -5
Arthur mourned her sincerely, and built for her a great tomb and a cairn, swearing that one day he and Gwenhwyfar should lie there at her side.
As for Balin, the Archbishop Patricius laid it upon him that he should make a pilgrimage to Rome and the Holy Lands; but before he could go into exile, Balan heard the tale from Lancelot and hunted him down, and the foster-brothers fought, one with another, and Balin was killed at once with a single stroke; but Balan took cold in his wounds and did not survive him the whole day. So Viviane - so they said when a song was made of it - was avenged; but what of that, when she lay in a Christian tomb?
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Post by RedArrow on Oct 12, 2006 10:47:07 GMT -5
Jonathan Livinston Seagull?? lol pretty much hinted out there.
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Post by Quintare on Oct 12, 2006 21:44:33 GMT -5
nope, sorry RedArrow. Arthurian legend has always fascinated me, and one of these days I'm actually going to read the 12th and 15th century versions of the tale. Wait till I start quoting from one of those LOL
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Post by Quintare on Oct 14, 2006 2:05:19 GMT -5
The book opens with this:
Morgaine speaks:
In my time I have been called many things: sister, lover, priestess, wise-woman, queen. Now in truth I have come to be wise-woman, and a time may come when these things may need to be knonw. But in sober truth, I think it is the Christians who will tell the last tale. For ever the world of Fairy drifts farther from the world in which the Christ holds sway. I have no quarrel with the Christ, only with his priests, who call the Great Goddess a demon and deny that she ever held power in this world. At best, they say that her power was of Satan. Or else they clothe her in the blue robe of the Lady of Nazareth - who indeed had power in her way, too - and say that she was ever virgin. But what can a virgin know of the sorrows and travail of mankind?
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Post by Aeron Serabien on Oct 14, 2006 10:49:12 GMT -5
Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley?
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Post by Quintare on Oct 14, 2006 12:47:35 GMT -5
That would be it One of my all time favorites.
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Post by Julie Sturbridge on Nov 18, 2006 15:16:05 GMT -5
Q, It looks like you're up, if you want to re-energize the Book Quote Game thread!
JS
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Post by Quintare on Nov 19, 2006 1:47:15 GMT -5
"Mornings, before daylight, I slipped into corn fields and borrowed a watermelon, or a mushmelon, or a punkin, or some new corn, or things of that kind. Pap always said it warn't no harm to borrow things, if you was meaning to pay them back, sometime; but the widow said it warn't anything but a soft name for stealing, and no decent body would do it."
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Post by Eldarion on Nov 19, 2006 16:11:29 GMT -5
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
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Post by Quintare on Nov 20, 2006 8:09:19 GMT -5
Good job Eld! I wondered if that was going to be too obscure...
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Post by Eldarion on Nov 20, 2006 15:56:07 GMT -5
Nah, "warn't" and "widow" gave it away. This one should be easy: By a curious coincidence, "None at all" is exactly how much suspicion the ape-descendant ______ had that one of his closest friends was not descended from an ape, but was in fact from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse and not from Guildford as he usually claimed.
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Post by Aeron Serabien on Nov 20, 2006 17:20:30 GMT -5
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
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Post by Eldarion on Nov 20, 2006 20:49:21 GMT -5
You got it! Your turn.
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Post by Aeron Serabien on Nov 21, 2006 11:36:39 GMT -5
________ motioned for them to back away from the door. Then he pulled forward a few of the taller boys, including Crazy Tom, and made them kneel, not squatting back to sit on their heels, but fully upright so they formed an L with their bodies. He flashed them. In silence, the army watched him. He selected the smallest boy, ______, handed him Tom's gun, and made _____ kneel on Tom's frozen legs. Then he pulled _____'s hands, each holding a gun, through Tom's armpits.
Then the boys understoon. Tom was a shield, and armored spacecraft, and _____ was hiding inside. He was certainly not invulnerable, but he would have time.
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Post by Julie Sturbridge on Nov 22, 2006 2:08:25 GMT -5
Ender's Game ?
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Post by Aeron Serabien on Nov 29, 2006 10:51:00 GMT -5
sorry, missed that over the holidays. You got it!
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Post by Julie Sturbridge on Dec 9, 2006 13:47:28 GMT -5
Sorry for the delay, but here's something to help us get back into the book quote game:
If I had been smart, I would have surrendered once I saw that I was hopelessly outnumbered. But I'm not smart; I've already proved that. Better yet, I would have run like hell when Jim told me the Boss had sent him...instead of climbing in and taking a nap, for Gossake. I recall killing only one of them. Possibly two. But why did they insist on doing it the hard way? They could have waited until I was inside and gassed me, or used a sleepy dart, or even a sticky rope. They had to take me alive, that was clear. Didn't they know that a field agent with my training when attacked goes automatically into overdrive? Maybe I'm not the only stupid. But why waste time raping me? This whole operation had amateurish touches. No professional group uses either beating or rape before interrogation today; there's no profit in it; any professional is trained to cope with either or both.
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