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Ray_Otus
About
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- Ray_Otus
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- Member, Moderator
- Games I like
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- Books I like
- The Hobbit, Dune, Roadside Picnic, All Creatures Great and Small, Nero Wolfe...
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@rossum, When I started my inventory, I went back as far as I could by looking through my shelves, notes, and just generally racking my memory. I know there are tons of books I have missed but I add them as they come to me. IOW, it's not too late to…
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I just slapped it together from dust jacket images by way of Google image search. It could probably be improved.
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Tell me that wouldn't look hot up there! LOL.
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Like this: (Image)
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Yeah. It doesn't really look good up there. Doesn't seem to fit stylistically in any case. Maybe Shoot TTRPBC a letter at a time from different books and collage it together?
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Hi. I like to read (obviously). I'm originally from the midwest (east central Indiana), now living in San Diego, California. I used to work for a university as an instructor for the Honors College; I taught composition and humanities. I have a BFA i…
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The site is looking really beautiful guys!
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@clash_bowley!
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I just finished her retelling of Beowulf, "Beowulf, Dragonslayer." It was VERY good, in my opinion. Her language is often nicely imagistic and lyrical. Though it's a kind of young adult (but not too much so) rendition of Beowulf in prose, …
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I want to know what books you read in your Rainbows & Unicorns phase. (It's obvious you were reading Neil Gaiman in your black on black phase.)
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I downloaded a couple of her ... I guess you would call them juvenile or ya fiction ... retellings of classic stories that are offered on Audible. I just started listening to Beowulf: Dragon Slayer and it's quite good. It's only about 2 hours long a…
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Makes me laugh every time I look at it. Also, I like that you gave me the Capt. Kirk shirt color and the Capt. Crunch hat. Both very appropriate.
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Sorry (not sorry) to steal your avatar, Apocryphal.
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(Quote) That might be a better idea. Let's leave this here as "history" and close the thread? People can resurrect these one by one or post new suggestions in a new thread.
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I've deleted ones we already did or are doing and ranked the rest by the number of +s they got. A +name indicates who suggested it. * +4 Hiero's Journey by Stirling Lanier, fantasy, +Richard Abbott * +4 I'm revisiting Iain M. Banks' Culture books, …
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Or, as @Apocryphal says: "I'm posting this here as a place to store suggested books, authors, or themes for future monthly picks. If you need to find it again, it's in the Book Club Discussion category. Feel free to add to it, but please only a…
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That worked!
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HA! And yes. I am using that pic as my avatar. Get your own. :D
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Before I confirmed my email I got a "you don't have permission" message. Now I just get a spinning thing (actually like three blinky rectangles).