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Post by Aerynrox on Mar 6, 2006 11:08:51 GMT -5
Sorry BD. I haven't been paying attention. You are correct. Jane Eyre is a long-time sentimental favorite with me. Your turn.
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Post by Aerynrox on Mar 15, 2006 8:27:03 GMT -5
Big ole' Book Bump! ;D
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Post by Black Dragon on Mar 31, 2006 1:02:02 GMT -5
Sorry for taking so long on this one:
"He was naked in a bed the first time you saw him?" She was cheerfully outraged. I nodded. "You do meet men in the most interesting places," she said.
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Post by Indagatrix on Apr 4, 2006 9:32:15 GMT -5
Circus of the damned
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Post by Black Dragon on Apr 4, 2006 9:47:52 GMT -5
That's correct. By Laurell K. Hamilton as part of the Anita Blake series.
Your turn, Inda!
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Post by Indagatrix on Apr 4, 2006 15:45:32 GMT -5
"But I'm not a serpent, I tell you!" said Alice. "I'm a - I'm a -" "Well! What are you?" said the Pigeon. "I can see you're trying to invent something!" "I - I'm a little girl," said Alice, rather doubtfully, as she remembered the number of changes she had gone through that day. "A likely story indeed!" said the Pigeon in a tone of the deepest contempt. "I've seen a good many little girls in my time, but never one with such a neck as that! No, no! You're a serpent; and there's no use denying it. I suppose you'll be telling me next that you never tasted an egg!" "I have tasted eggs, certainly," said Alice, who was a very truthful child; "but little girls eat eggs quite as much as serpents do, you know." "I don't believe it," said the Pigeon; "but if they do, why then they're a kind of serpent, that's all I can say."
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Post by Aerynrox on Apr 4, 2006 16:02:56 GMT -5
Well, this seems to be some sort of a play on Lewis Carroll, but I'll be darned if I've read it. OT The film Dreamchild about Lewis Carroll's inspiration for the Alice books is among my favorite films of all time. Ian Holm's performance is beyond masterful. /OT
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Post by Indagatrix on Apr 6, 2006 9:55:46 GMT -5
You are very very close Roxy
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Post by Aerynrox on Apr 6, 2006 11:55:04 GMT -5
Well...Is it Alice's Adventures in Wonderland then? Maybe I just don't remember this part. Edit: Author= Lewis Carroll aka Charles Dodgson
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Post by Indagatrix on Apr 6, 2006 14:09:39 GMT -5
Yep right before the pig & pepper chapter.
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Post by Aerynrox on Apr 6, 2006 14:47:17 GMT -5
Well, I'll be darned.... Here's my quote: I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. I'll be surprised if someone doesn't get this pretty quickly.
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Post by Eldarion on Apr 6, 2006 20:49:20 GMT -5
That would be Paul Atreides in Frank Herbert's Dune.
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Post by Aerynrox on Apr 6, 2006 21:17:34 GMT -5
Correct, Eld! It's a Bene Gesserit Litany which Paul - and most human beings - chosen ones or not - can learn from. Your turn.
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Post by Eldarion on Apr 8, 2006 0:18:57 GMT -5
"You don't understand at all," said the wizard wearily. "I'm so scared of you my spine has turned to jelly, it's just that I'm suffering from an overdose of terror right now. I mean, when I've got over that then I'll have time to be decently frightened of you."
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Post by Fate on Apr 8, 2006 8:20:36 GMT -5
I am actually reading this. Rincewind to the hero's in the Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett.
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Post by Eldarion on Apr 8, 2006 12:00:16 GMT -5
Ha! What timing! I figured that one would last a day at least!
Your turn, my friend.
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Post by Fate on Apr 8, 2006 16:59:47 GMT -5
I think my first one so I will make it easy..
"That pretty little slip of a girl?" the gleeman exclaimed. "A village Wisdom? Why at her age she should better be flirting with the young men than foretelling the weather and curing the sick."
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Post by Black Dragon on Apr 8, 2006 20:42:30 GMT -5
Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time Book 1 Eye of the World, I believe it is called?
I knew that one right away
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Post by Fate on Apr 9, 2006 0:27:06 GMT -5
Told ya it was easy. The first glimpse at Thom Merlin. Your turn BD.
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Post by laurelin on Apr 26, 2006 13:49:40 GMT -5
I know it's not my turn, but may I cut in?
It was a bright, defrosted, pussy-willow day at the onset of spring, and the newlyweds were driving cross-country in a large roast turkey. The turkey lay upon its back, as roast turkeys will; submissive, agreeable, volunteering its breast to the carving blade, its roly-poly legs cocked in a stiff but jaunty position, as if it might summon the gumption to spring forward onto its feet, but, of course, it had no feet, which made the suggestion seem both empy and ridiculous, and added only to the turkey's aura of goofy vulnerability. Despite its feetlessness, however, its pathetic podalic privation, this roast turkey - or jumbo facsimile thereof - was moving down the highway at sixty-five miles an hour, traveling faster, farther on its back than many aspiring actresses.
;D
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Post by Black Dragon on Apr 26, 2006 16:06:03 GMT -5
Go right ahead Laurelin, I had forgotten that it was my turn anyways, so I give my turn to you
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Post by ronin on Apr 26, 2006 19:47:55 GMT -5
That really sounds like Terry Pratchett, don't know which book it might be though.
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Post by Indagatrix on Apr 27, 2006 22:32:30 GMT -5
Tom Robbin Skinny legs and all
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Post by laurelin on Apr 27, 2006 22:50:55 GMT -5
Tom Robbin Skinny legs and all Yippee!! Correct!! ;D Your turn, Inda...
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Post by Indagatrix on Apr 28, 2006 9:35:21 GMT -5
Plenty of names here -- perhaps someone can figure it out ------------------------------
"You are too big for such foolishness, Morgause," she said sharply. "Say your thanks to my lord of Cornwall and take your fairings to your room. And put away the silks, for you will not wear such things till you are grown. Don't think to play the lady here just yet!"
Morgause gathered up the pretty things and went weeping to her room. Igraine saw that Gorlois followed the girl with his eyes. She thought, appalled, Morgause is only fourteen, then remembered in dismay that she herself had been but a year older when she was given to Gorlois as his bride.
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Post by laurelin on Apr 28, 2006 10:15:25 GMT -5
It has to do with Arthurian legend, but I'm not sure which book (or author for that matter) it is.
My best guess would be Mists of Avalon (since it's the only one that pops in head at the moment).
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Post by Indagatrix on Apr 28, 2006 10:19:25 GMT -5
correct Laurelin your turn... It was the closest thing on my book shelf to me...well that or a Brief History of Christian thought...but figured most hadn't read that.
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Post by laurelin on Apr 28, 2006 10:39:54 GMT -5
Wow.....good guess... "James Bolivar diGriz I arrest you on the charge-" I was waiting for the word charge, I thought it made a nice touch that way. As he said it I pressed the button that set off the charge of black powder in the ceiling, the crossbeam buckled and the three-ton safe dropped right on top of the cop's head. He squashed very nicely, thank you. since my last quote killed the thread, I thought I'd try this one...
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Post by laurelin on Jun 19, 2006 14:01:15 GMT -5
See above...
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Post by Quintare on Jun 20, 2006 22:30:21 GMT -5
The Stainless Steel Rat, by Harry Harrison
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