- dragondawn
- Pilgrim
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Re: It came at just the Rite time, too.
you and me both, cyan. i just ordered mine tonight, along with anthony bourdain's kitchen confidential. *happy sigh* free shipping, and books to come! yay! plus, y'know...tony bourdain, my secret boyfriend.
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- Magpie
- Mantis
- From: the town of thistly flowerbeds
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Re: It came at just the Rite time, too.
I can't help myself, I find this thing about the v funny.
reading very slowly, just a bit each day... I did indeed get it on Monday, and took that as a good omen... and this week really looks as good as last week was bad.
ETA: "Rite time" indeed!
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I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness! - cyan babbling about books and plantsmy crazy customers
- cyan
- Mantis
- From: Oakland
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- Posts: 22768
Re: It came at just the Rite time, too.
dragondawn wrote:anthony bourdain's kitchen confidential
I've been meaning to get that for quite some time, and his new one The Nasty Bits too.
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- kwilson
- Pilgrim
- From: Canada
- Registered: 2005-07-14
- Posts: 2
Re: It came at just the Rite time, too.
for Canadians, Chapters.ca still has copies of Rite shipping within 24 hours - in case the 1-3 weeks shipping time on amazon.ca seems a little too long :)
- Jendaiya
- Pilgrim
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Re: It came at just the Rite time, too.
Welcome, kris. :)
My copy looks fine, I can't see any problem with any v's.
I'm oddly disappointed.
Beauty will save the world.
~Prince Myshkin,
The Idiot, by Dostoevsky
- Sahi
- Mantis
- From: Assendelft (the Netherlands)
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Re: It came at just the Rite time, too.
So you have one out of the 10% that were fine? That makes your book extra unique! ;) I still haven't checked my copy.
Oh, and: Welcome Kris!
Yalahii.
"I'm a much nicer person online" - Aan'Allein
First member of the Shadowmarch Council of Sages, Official Quiller's Mint Historian
You may call me the Porcupine Lady, or if you are feeling generous the Erinaceous One.
- Miiru
- Pilgrim
- From: Just a bit left of center.
- Registered: 2001-06-20
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Re: It came at just the Rite time, too.
Mine has the odd v's, too. I found it charming, oddly enough.
Ted Kennedy in a speedo is just another sign of the coming apocalypse.
-wiked
- Sahi
- Mantis
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Re: It came at just the Rite time, too.
It took a bit of searching to find an italicized v, but mine are mere outlines too.
Yalahii.
"I'm a much nicer person online" - Aan'Allein
First member of the Shadowmarch Council of Sages, Official Quiller's Mint Historian
You may call me the Porcupine Lady, or if you are feeling generous the Erinaceous One.
- Vilmosthéo
- Pilgrim
- From: France / Germany Soon
- Registered: 2007-02-01
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Re: It came at just the Rite time, too.
I think this is one thing why the release last so long : because I have order my book november, 30 and have received it 2 month later !
I'm very happy to have it now, and it's a great pleasure to read it.
Stuart wrote:Yeah, I noticed that, it was like a shadow of a v but I thought it made mine a more unique limited copy, uber-limited; now I know they're all like that.
Nice to see they are very serious about the quality of their product but not such a biggie for me.
If Tad comes over with one of the sMarch books I'll bring it along with a black pen, sure he won't mind. He's already signed it so a few corrections won't be too much to ask.
- Sahi
- Mantis
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Re: It came at just the Rite time, too.
"I'm a much nicer person online" - Aan'Allein
First member of the Shadowmarch Council of Sages, Official Quiller's Mint Historian
You may call me the Porcupine Lady, or if you are feeling generous the Erinaceous One.
- Vilmosthéo
- Pilgrim
- From: France / Germany Soon
- Registered: 2007-02-01
- Posts: 16
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Re: It came at just the Rite time, too.
Thank you very much !
For presentation : I'm french, I had beginn to read Tad Books in English or American because it was not traduce in french, and finaly it's a very good thing for me to improve my knowledge in foreign language : thank you Tad : and finaly, yet I prefer to read it in English / American that in french :D
Yeah;)
Sahi wrote:Welcome Theo!
Yalahii.
- Vilmosthéo
- Pilgrim
- From: France / Germany Soon
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Re: It came at just the Rite time, too.
You are from Netherlands ;) :)
Sahi wrote:Welcome Theo!
Yalahii.
- Sahi
- Mantis
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Re: It came at just the Rite time, too.
Yup, have been all my life. ;)
Yalahii.
"I'm a much nicer person online" - Aan'Allein
First member of the Shadowmarch Council of Sages, Official Quiller's Mint Historian
You may call me the Porcupine Lady, or if you are feeling generous the Erinaceous One.
- Vilmosthéo
- Pilgrim
- From: France / Germany Soon
- Registered: 2007-02-01
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Re: It came at just the Rite time, too.
I have been all my life in France to : but soon, in one month I'm going to study in Germany... I have also to found a practise in a foreign country... I'm going to travel a little.
Have a nice day I have a lots of things to do ;)
When I have finish this all I want to speak about the story : "the happiest dead boy in the world" because I'like it ;)
Sahi wrote:Yup, have been all my life. ;)
Yalahii.
- Tad
- Hierarch
- From: California
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Re: It came at just the Rite time, too.
Hello, Theo, and -bienvenue-. Nice to have you with us.
"God bless your crooked little heart."
- Tom Waits
- Vilmosthéo
- Pilgrim
- From: France / Germany Soon
- Registered: 2007-02-01
- Posts: 16
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Re: It came at just the Rite time, too.
Thank you for this french word -bienvenue- ;)
I see sometimes french words in your books, it's an honor.
As I say it in the other post : i want to write about "The happiest dead boy of the world" ;)
I explain : when I finish to read : Otherland "Autre Monde" because I read it in french, I was surprised by the end because the end was not like the end I were waiting for : like in Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, because a lot of mysteries are keeped in mind : we are in the myst.
It's a choice and it's a good thing to have finish this these way because the reader can imagine the "dénouement" / his own END and can long think about it !
It's not the happy end we were waiting from :) You created my stupefaction !
I think you have received a lot of feedback with the same ideas as mine.
That's why when I read ""The happiest dead boy of the world" I was happy to know that finaly the good wins his war against the bad (the evil!). And then you give us the end we were waiting from : the response of the final battle which is not treated in the books.
I was also happy that a part of Orlando survived at this dramatic end with his dead : he is my favorite character : and I was sad to assist at his dead but with his illness he could'not live any longer : that's a fact, his soon dead was predestinated.
Great work ;)
That's what I would like to say ;) !
Since I had become it, I read every night before sleeping the Rite Short Work !
The book that I prefer is "The War of the Flowers" that's why I choose this nickname Théo Vilmos / I have also my own nickmane that I used for my passion for music which is "ornicard".
PS : Sorry for my english I do my best
Tad wrote:Hello, Theo, and -bienvenue-. Nice to have you with us.
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[ February 12, 2007: Message edited by: Theo Vilmos ]
- Sahi
- Mantis
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Re: It came at just the Rite time, too.
No worries Theo, you'll get better as you read more and most of it is perfectly understandable! :) (And we'll ask if we don't understand it!)
Yalahii.
"I'm a much nicer person online" - Aan'Allein
First member of the Shadowmarch Council of Sages, Official Quiller's Mint Historian
You may call me the Porcupine Lady, or if you are feeling generous the Erinaceous One.
- Miiru
- Pilgrim
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Re: It came at just the Rite time, too.
Ooh, a new person! Hello to you, Théo Vilmos, and welcome to our little corner of insanity.
No apologies for your English: we've seen far worse, and a fair few of us come to English as a second (or third, or fourth) language, so quit worrying whether or not you're understood. ;) You are, you are.
If you don't believe me, find a post or two by wiked. *g*
(Love you, wiked! Pls don't sic the tribe on me.)
[ February 13, 2007: Message edited by: Miiru ]
Ted Kennedy in a speedo is just another sign of the coming apocalypse.
-wiked
- Vilmosthéo
- Pilgrim
- From: France / Germany Soon
- Registered: 2007-02-01
- Posts: 16
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Re: It came at just the Rite time, too.
"Merci" / Thank You ;) I'am the member number 3785 :) That's a lot ;)
Yes for me : English was the third language : German was the second, the German border is about 30 km from my home. I had a choice to make, it was German, you know the reason yet ;)
Miiru wrote:Ooh, a new person! Hello to you, Théo Vilmos, and welcome to our little corner of insanity.
No apologies for your English: we've seen far worse, and a fair few of us come to English as a second (or third, or fourth) language, so quit worrying whether or not you're understood. ;) You are, you are.
If you don't believe me, find a post or two by wiked. *g*
(Love you, wiked! Pls don't sic the tribe on me.)
[ February 13, 2007: Message edited by: Miiru ]
[ February 13, 2007: Message edited by: Theo Vilmos ]
- Vilmosthéo
- Pilgrim
- From: France / Germany Soon
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Re: It came at just the Rite time, too.
;)Yes ;) Cool.
I have a question Sahi,
what does mean Yalahii ? Is it your signature ?
Sahi wrote:No worries Theo, you'll get better as you read more and most of it is perfectly understandable! :) (And we'll ask if we don't understand it!)
Yalahii.
- Miiru
- Pilgrim
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Re: It came at just the Rite time, too.
Being that close to the German border is certainly an excellent incentive to learn the language. I think I'd probably have done the same. *G*
As it is, I learned Spanish, as it's rapidly becoming as often-spoken as English in the US, and aside from that: it's a beautiful language.
I'd like to learn French, and am prodding various French-speaking friends/acquaintances for vocabulary and grammar lessons. I am incorrigible. :D
Ted Kennedy in a speedo is just another sign of the coming apocalypse.
-wiked
- Sahi
- Mantis
- From: Assendelft (the Netherlands)
- Registered: 2001-06-04
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Re: It came at just the Rite time, too.
Good guess! It comes from Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book and means (according to that book) "let's go hunt".
Yalahii.
"I'm a much nicer person online" - Aan'Allein
First member of the Shadowmarch Council of Sages, Official Quiller's Mint Historian
You may call me the Porcupine Lady, or if you are feeling generous the Erinaceous One.
- Magpie
- Mantis
- From: the town of thistly flowerbeds
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Re: It came at just the Rite time, too.
Welcome Theo (I didn't say that yet, did I? *is a bit confused today*)
Miiru wrote:No apologies for your English: we've seen far worse
Yes, indeed, you should see my brother.
I mean - did I say he's my brother? No, no, I meant this person I've never ever met, no, have no idea who he is...
I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness! - cyan babbling about books and plantsmy crazy customers
- cyan
- Mantis
- From: Oakland
- Registered: 2005-02-16
- Posts: 22768
Re: It came at just the Rite time, too.
Ooooh, my copy of Rite has arrived. Should I drive over to the bookstore to pick it up at lunch or wait 'til the weekend?
"Reality is for those people who can't handle fantasy!" - Genisis X Proud Member of the Log BrigadePhotos of My Works
- Vilmosthéo
- Pilgrim
- From: France / Germany Soon
- Registered: 2007-02-01
- Posts: 16
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Re: It came at just the Rite time, too.
It's also another fact, when I was a child, before I go to school, I don't speak any word in French but a Patois (a provincial dialect of German), because in our history our territory "Lorraine" was occupied by the German.
But the years gone I lost the hability to speak these Partois and I prefer French !
I'm going soon in Germany for my studies (for 4/5 months) but not at the border, at 220 km.
My grand parents speak these language : they have difficulties with French : because of the second world war. Indeed in school they had all their courses in German.
That's a good idea to want to learn French : it's one of the most difficult language to master (I heard a lot say this!).
I agree with you about Spanish.
Miiru wrote:Being that close to the German border is certainly an excellent incentive to learn the language. I think I'd probably have done the same. *G*
As it is, I learned Spanish, as it's rapidly becoming as often-spoken as English in the US, and aside from that: it's a beautiful language.
I'd like to learn French, and am prodding various French-speaking friends/acquaintances for vocabulary and grammar lessons. I am incorrigible. :D
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