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Post by Julie Sturbridge on Dec 30, 2006 15:18:36 GMT -5
Reviving the Book Quote game:
Here are two more passages with some recognizable hints, I think. Further hints: it was published in 1982 and the author is currently deceased.
I may never need that route again but someone in my line of work will need it. Besides, as my boss says, with all governments everywhere tightening down on everything wherever they can, with their computers and their Public Eyes and ninety-nine other sorts of electronic surveillance, there is a moral obligation on each free person to fight back wherever possible--keep underground railways open, keep shades drawn, give misinformation to computers. Computers are literal-minded and stupid; electronic records aren't really records . . . so it is good to be alert to opportunities to foul up the system. If you can't evade a tax, pay a little too much to confuse their computers. Transpose digits. And so on...
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--thus young Daniel Shipstone saw at once that the problem was not a shortage of energy but lay in the transporting of energy...young Shipstone resigned from General Atomics and became the most American of myth-heroes--the basement inventor. Seven frustrating and weary years later he had fabricated the first Shipstone by hand....What he had found was a way to pack more kilowatt-hours into a smaller space and a smaller mass than any other engineer had ever dreamed of. To call it an "improved storage battery" (as some early accounts did) is like calling an H-bomb an "improved firecracker."
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Post by Quintare on Dec 30, 2006 23:53:04 GMT -5
Sounds like a Stainless Steel Rat book, but I think I've read all of those and I don't think this is one of them.
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Post by Julie Sturbridge on Dec 31, 2006 15:41:51 GMT -5
Nope--no Stainless Steel Rat.
Another hint, then: the protagonist is from the Chicago Imperium and she's an "Artificial Person" [genetically engineered human].
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Post by Quintare on Jan 2, 2007 9:39:54 GMT -5
Heh, sounds like a good book, but I'm certain I've never read it.
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Post by Quintare on Feb 22, 2007 20:33:09 GMT -5
Been thinking about this quote for awhile now and I swear it's gotta be one of those Anne McCafferey-ish Margaret Weis type books about a woman who's thrust into some strange new life and granted incredible powers that threaten her understanding of herself. Killashandra... Del... some name like that usually.
God, am I even close LOL?
Anyway, I always love those books when I'm reading them, but then when I'm done they seem to quickly blur together into obscurity.
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Post by Indagatrix on Feb 22, 2007 21:12:21 GMT -5
wow...did some searching - found a thesis that quotes that passage. Only way I could figure it out. Quint you'll kick yourself when you find out...
but since I had to search for it I won't guess...
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Post by Julie Sturbridge on Feb 22, 2007 23:26:03 GMT -5
I'm glad someone posted to the thread--I was about to just find another book and start anew.
Does anyone else have a guess? Quint, do you want another passage or hint?
I think Inda's right--people might kick themselves when they hear what it is...
JS
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Post by Quintare on Feb 23, 2007 0:26:56 GMT -5
oooh oooh, the 'H bomb' term really dates this one... sounds like something Heinlein would say... still no title though... dammit
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Post by Quintare on Apr 8, 2007 0:56:32 GMT -5
I knew it had to be Heinlein. LOL. Do I get points for that, even though I finally had to google the title? It's one I never read. Unfortunately the later Heinlein really turned me off so I stopped reading him pretty much altogether. I never even finished Farnham's Freehold. So different from his earlier work before he got obsessed with sex and incest.
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Post by Julie Sturbridge on Apr 8, 2007 3:59:48 GMT -5
Hmmm...I was thinking the last few days about how I had the book quote still hanging out there and was considering just posting a new one. I thought for sure that someone would get Friday. I'll find another book now and post a quote...
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Post by Julie Sturbridge on Apr 28, 2007 13:23:42 GMT -5
OK, time for my lazy ass to restart the thread that I've let languish.
The prior book that caused much consternation was Robert Heinlein's Friday. Great book, if you haven't read it...and probably not too invalid of a prediction of the state of North America a century or so from now.
OK...a new one. I'll give two quotes because the one I wanted to give is kind of hard...
"Humans must never submit to animals." [Note: "animals" in this use actually refers to other humans...]
"There existed on [name of planet goes here] no need to build a physical paradise or a paradise of the mind--we could see the actuality all around us. And the price we paid was the price all men have paid for achieving a paradise in this life--we went soft. We lost our edge."
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Post by Quintare on Apr 28, 2007 17:01:36 GMT -5
:/ This is going to be a hard one. I can think of a few books that have this kind of theme, but none told in the first person.
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Post by Julie Sturbridge on May 12, 2007 14:02:54 GMT -5
OK, here're two more from the same book...
What do you despise? By this you are truly known
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To attempt an understanding of [protagonist name] without understanding his mortal enemies, the [antagonist's family name], is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.
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Post by Julie Sturbridge on Jun 9, 2007 14:03:25 GMT -5
OK...gotta resurrect the book quote game, too. Sorry I've been such a delinquent...
I believe this is the first line of the book:
A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.
In the movie of this novel, the first line is:
The beginning is a very delicate time...
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Post by Quintare on Jun 10, 2007 9:55:35 GMT -5
Sorry, totally stumped on this one.
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Post by laurelin on Jun 18, 2007 8:12:09 GMT -5
Why am I thinking about Dune? I know I've read this but the only book that is popping into my head is Dune......is it Dune?
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Post by Julie Sturbridge on Jun 19, 2007 22:22:11 GMT -5
You got it, hippychick! Shoot! :-P
JS
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Post by laurelin on Jun 20, 2007 9:39:20 GMT -5
Now I have to think of a book to use....since our 15 year old nephew moved in, all my books are in boxes in the basement! Must....rack....brain......
Okay, this is from a book that came out recently (and one that I had to buy as soon as it was on the shelf).
Then they lifted up Turin, and saw that his sword was broken asunder. So passed all that he possessed.
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Post by Quintare on Jun 20, 2007 10:39:26 GMT -5
There is a new Middle Earth book out? Christopher is writing from notes again?
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Post by laurelin on Jun 21, 2007 7:19:39 GMT -5
;D
Anyone know the title?
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thea
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Post by thea on Jun 21, 2007 7:45:52 GMT -5
Fellowship of the Ring?
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Post by Quintare on Jun 21, 2007 9:59:56 GMT -5
Oh jeeze, I wasn't planning on buying any books but I think I can fit one into my budget. Next stop google, then off to Amazon. Charge! Yikes! $47.00 at Amazon... cheapest used is $36 To the Library! lol
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Post by Aeron Serabien on Jun 21, 2007 10:30:18 GMT -5
Somehow my hubby found it in a local used book store for $12. He's very excited, but he's making himself try to read the Simarillion for the 5th time before he gets to read this one. Since our bedroom floor is now adorned with Tolkein atlases and the like I think it may be working. I know exactly what book we're talking about, but I don't know the title.
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Post by miriel Silverhand on Jun 21, 2007 10:37:28 GMT -5
The Children of Hurin, I think it is. Turin is the son of Hurin if I remember correctly.
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Post by laurelin on Jun 21, 2007 10:38:01 GMT -5
Sorry, Thea. It is not Fellowship of the Ring. It is from a book that came out last month.....
[glow=red,2,300]Yippee for Miriel!!! Your turn! ;D[/glow] I hear ya, Quint. Luckily I had a coupon from Barnes & Noble. I think I paid around $25 for it (Hurray for mailing lists!).
I love the Silmarillion! I use to have two 1st eds, but I gave one to a friend when he got married (he gave me a copy of the Red Book as a wedding gift) and he cried. Awwwwww.....
*Laurelin has a bit of a Tolkien problem*
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Post by kelkhil on Jun 21, 2007 13:08:04 GMT -5
A "bit" of a Tolkien problem? *looks around his living room and sees maybe 15 Tolkien books on various bookshelves*
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Post by RedArrow on Jun 21, 2007 13:57:12 GMT -5
Tolkien problem? Still got my Hobbit and Trilogy copies from 1970 which have gathered many friends the companion books, expanded books, illustrated books, calanders, Hobbit and Trilogy on tape/ cd, first dvd releases collectors dvd releases.. the road goes ever on Favorite song... Bilbo's Bath Song Question... Could Tom Bombadil really be God?
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Post by laurelin on Jun 21, 2007 16:26:20 GMT -5
Ummmm.....I have had a Tolkien calander every year (except this year - darn that brother-in-law for buying me a dragon calander instead!), but my pride and joy is my unathorized Ace edition of the trilogy (*drool*), in perfect condition, from Powell's (the bookstore of the Gods!). Come on, Miriel! Before we (okay, me) completely Tolkien-ize the thread! *looks at Kelkhil and says, "I have more than 15 Tolkien books. You should look harder." *
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Post by miriel Silverhand on Jun 21, 2007 18:23:54 GMT -5
Come on, Miriel! Before we (okay, me) completely Tolkien-ize the thread! I am doing my best, not much English books around here. Unless you want a quote from my Honda VFR 800 service manual I should have one before the end of the weekend. A+
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Post by Eldarion on Jun 22, 2007 10:32:33 GMT -5
Tolkien problem? I ain't got no steenkin' Tolkien problem! Surely I can't be the only one who owns the soundtrack to this. Or the only one who remembers seeing this.
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