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(Quote) I couldn't wait! These stories always charm the pants off me! (Quote) I would think Fantasy has become synonymous with Tolkien for most people - certainly to the mass public. The fact that there was a fantasy genre before Tolkien utterly re…
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It also hurt that we all basically agreed. No differences in opinion means little discussion. There have been books we all liked that had little discussion as well.
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I haven't seen any mention of which source she is translating. There are several collections with some different stories, and different versions of the same story, and none of them is in any way definitive.
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So no one knows if the stories Diyab brought in were current folk tales, or stories he created himself from bits and bobs and concepts and ideas floating around the Levant. Fascinating! I always assumed he brought in other folk tales from different …
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(Quote) Not a whit to me...
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If the puns were toned down an order of magnitude or three I might. I liked a lot of things about it, but the forced humor was off-putting.
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I couldn't possibly pull off this mad mad world!
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I quite enjoyed the crazy world of Jasper Fforde to be honest! It was fun and over the top strange. That worked quite well for me.
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This was one of the things I really liked about the book. The alt history is interesting and odd, and I was quite taken with it.
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Same here. It would never have occurred to me, and I doubt it would be something I would ever want to do.
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Lord knows I love puns, but for some reason I don't care for them in books - a little too planned. A good pun should be off the cuff. I don't care for Pratchett at all for example, and it took three tries to read Hitchhiker.
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It was a quick read, interesting enough, but the humor didn't work so well for me. I found it mildly amusing, but nothing to write home about. I actually liked it otherwise.
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(Quote) In San Diego? :D
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(Quote) > (Quote) I wonder how rimless phones work in this 'frame' of reference...
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One thing I can answer definitely, is that Djinn and Human can and do mate, and have children. If there is some reason this Djinn and Human cannot mate, it is either temporary - possibly for religious reasons - or individual - i.e. the Djinn had som…
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Not at all, Barner! Love to have you with us!
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(Quote) This is my third version of the tales I have read. There was a child's edition of the tales, I think by some English author, that I read in my childhood. I found it spectacularly magical, and loved it. As an adult I read (twice) Burton's tra…
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The ending of the 1001 Nights is like Schroedinger's cat, both happy and horrifying equally until an ending is decided upon by the reader - or listener - and each reader/listener must decide that ending for themself.
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I have to say I love the comparison of 1001 Nights to the Arthurian cycle - I think you nailed it.
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"From the story Masud means "fortunate, prosperous, lucky, happy" which I guess you can either see as an upbeat name describing his life before being found out, or an ironic one afterwards." I thought the king killed his wife an…
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Mostly done
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That's what I meant by "shared world view"
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Sounds good!
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I believe the Kel were given this instinct when they entered the service, and it was removed when they left, which gave me the impression it was indeed genetic, perhaps delivered by a retro virus, and perhaps restored the same way.
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My thinking was - and this is a guess - that Formation Instinct was a particular mindset imposed from the top, and triggered by taking a physical formation, be it of ships or troops. The Formation Instinct gave the formation power it otherwise would…
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I have written and published many military RPGs. This book had the feel of the military with very little actual substance, as if written by a grunt who understood everything on a magical level - it you do this, this will happen - so that nothing is …
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I quite liked Cheris, but she was fated to be overwhelmed by Jedao. In the end, she was Jedao. As for formation instinct, it was very magical and made no sense at all to me.
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The book went quickly enough, but I do not think I understood at all most of what was going on, accepting many things at face value, without comprehension on any deeper level.
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Confusing. It was mostly "them magic happened, and their bodies broke into thousands of glass-like shards '. I saw no attempt to relate cause and effect. It seemed arbitrary and unreal.
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The whole thing required a lot of work on my part, putting together a worldview from inferences, it was an interesting technique, but not entirely successful - witness Richard's fundamental confusion. Communication requires understanding on the part…