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#551 2001-08-16 07:36:00

Scorpiana
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From: Neerpelt, Belgium
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Posts: 114

Re: Quiller's Mint -- the Back Room

djf wrote:



The just might be a few surprises in store for you. Yes, I think there are.

I'm almost certain about that, I think the Farseer trilogy has one of the most unexpected endings I've ever read. But in this book there are just a few little details you can see coming from a long way of.

*** SPOILER ***
Like Sorcor not telling Kyle about Wintrow being a slave?


"Can you operate it, Spock?"
   "Well, Jim, this computer was designed and constructed 300 million years ago by a totally alien race of methane-breathing, squidlike beings who built it using technologies unknown to us and used it for purposes we cannot conceive of and then mysteriously vanished leaving no shred of documentation as to its operation. It may take a few moments."

 

#552 2001-08-16 07:38:00

TreeHouse
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From: Maroochydore, Australia
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Re: Quiller's Mint -- the Back Room

Hiya Marian.

It's one of those books that have been on my reading list for god know's how long.

*Shakes fist at all the authors of the world*

Must you feel the need to make a living and release new books so often!?!

Tree'


Shoes!

 

#553 2001-08-16 07:38:00

Jendaiya
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From: Canada
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Re: Quiller's Mint -- the Back Room

Ya know what guys? I got to Smarch all day yesterday. It exhausted me. I'm still tired from it. I got in nearly fourteen hours of Smarching. Today I need to do life things, so I can't be here as much, but I am here now. And I really need some tea.


Beauty will save the world.

~Prince Myshkin,

The Idiot, by Dostoevsky

 

#554 2001-08-16 07:39:00

Scorpiana
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From: Neerpelt, Belgium
Registered: 2001-06-02
Posts: 114

Re: Quiller's Mint -- the Back Room

Well, for those of you who haven't read the Hitchhikers Guide, be sure to pick it up when you have the chance. I've seen Douglas Adams called the Terry Pratchett of science fiction.


"Can you operate it, Spock?"
   "Well, Jim, this computer was designed and constructed 300 million years ago by a totally alien race of methane-breathing, squidlike beings who built it using technologies unknown to us and used it for purposes we cannot conceive of and then mysteriously vanished leaving no shred of documentation as to its operation. It may take a few moments."

 

#555 2001-08-16 07:43:00

djf
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Re: Quiller's Mint -- the Back Room

Fourteen hours, Jen? Uiiih!

Potential Hitchhiker readers: These volumes are slim. Each not longer than the prologue to SoSL. They can even be taken as snacks between weightier tomes.


Usually, to be completely unbiased and objective, you have to have no idea what you're talking about.
Matt Fuller

 

#556 2001-08-16 07:43:00

TreeHouse
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Re: Quiller's Mint -- the Back Room

Scorp: The only Douglas Adams I have read are

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
and
The Long Dard Tea-Time Of The Soul.

I enjoyed them alot. And I will follow your advice (one day, I swear!) :)

Tree'


Shoes!

 

#557 2001-08-16 07:48:00

rimses
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From: Uqbar
Registered: 2001-06-19
Posts: 5286

Re: Quiller's Mint -- the Back Room

ladies and gentlemen, the garden terrace just opened itīs doors....

[ August 16, 2001: Message edited by: Rimmersguard ]

 

#558 2001-08-16 07:48:00

Scorpiana
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From: Neerpelt, Belgium
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Re: Quiller's Mint -- the Back Room

Tree: Well, I haven't read those books so I can't say how they compair to the hitchhuikers guide. Are they any good?

(As if I haven't have enough unread books lying around already)


"Can you operate it, Spock?"
   "Well, Jim, this computer was designed and constructed 300 million years ago by a totally alien race of methane-breathing, squidlike beings who built it using technologies unknown to us and used it for purposes we cannot conceive of and then mysteriously vanished leaving no shred of documentation as to its operation. It may take a few moments."

 

#559 2001-08-16 07:52:00

TreeHouse
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From: Maroochydore, Australia
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Re: Quiller's Mint -- the Back Room

Scorp: yeah, well I like them. i like his writing style. confusingly satirical. (or something)

hehe

Tree'


Shoes!

 

#560 2001-08-16 07:56:00

djf
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Re: Quiller's Mint -- the Back Room

Bye all! Have to hurry.


Usually, to be completely unbiased and objective, you have to have no idea what you're talking about.
Matt Fuller

 

#561 2001-08-16 07:58:00

Marian
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From: Richmond, VA
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Re: Quiller's Mint -- the Back Room

Eep, sorry Rimmers, somehow missed the Terrace. *blush*

 

#562 2001-08-16 07:59:00

rimses
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From: Uqbar
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Re: Quiller's Mint -- the Back Room

Marian: doesnīt matter....

but the terrace is first!

mwahahah

 

#563 2001-08-16 08:01:00

Marian
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Re: Quiller's Mint -- the Back Room

Well, I'm off to work. See ya'll later.

Marian

 

#564 2001-08-16 08:02:00

Marian
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From: Richmond, VA
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Re: Quiller's Mint -- the Back Room

~*~

[ August 16, 2001: Message edited by: Marian ]

 

#565 2001-08-16 08:02:00

rimses
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From: Uqbar
Registered: 2001-06-19
Posts: 5286

Re: Quiller's Mint -- the Back Room

bye Marian! come back soon!

 

#566 2001-08-16 08:54:00

rimses
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From: Uqbar
Registered: 2001-06-19
Posts: 5286

Re: Quiller's Mint -- the Back Room

do the topics close themselves? no they canīt.

this would mean AI, and no UBB serves AI....

but what if....

*shrshrshrsrh......rrrrrrrrrrrr......shrshrsrhsrhsrh*

 

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