Wanted to post this in the old DOGBLOG, but was probably only seconds too late...

Anyway, nice shiny topic.

Re: The review of "Shadowmarch: Die Grenze" in "Süddeutsche Zeitung"


Ran out today and managed to get a copy of yesterday's paper. The review (Title:"The Lesson of the Twilight People") is quite postive and stresses the symbolic meaning of "grayness" that is attributed to the Qar in the book.
The last lines read something like this:

"The intelligence and inventiveness of Tad Williams are remarkable. Even readers who are not fantasy aficionados will be anxiously waiting for the next volumes."

Taking over the world between meal times, the true british way.

Even though he is obviosly American.

-X

Don't worry, I get those two confuzed all the time. I was standing atop the harbour bridge one day and declared to all in my boomy god voice that I was going to snack!

Nobody cared for some reason.

Victory wasn't mine.

-X

i'd rather have the twinkie, if you don't mind. taking over the world is a stressy bussiness, i had to give my theme park on hawaii when it all broke down...*sobs*

Genisis X wrote:

Taking over the world between meal times, the true british way.

Even though he is obviosly American.

Well, he's half English, so maybe there's a genetic component to the whole thing?  If he starts hollering about tea and biscuits, we'll know for sure :)

Yes, Lian, you got it all right. *points at the old Dogblog*

Yalahii.

Who wants to conquer the world, just look at it. Nope, thats no good. I'll go for AlphaCentauri and have my very own solar-system... and less problems with the neighbors and wanna-be-conquerers ^^

dragondawn wrote:

*whispers to geeg*

when the heck did connor get to be nine and talking about girls?!? he was 6 last time i saw him, holding hands with terry pratchett at conjose. *sob* help me to my rocker willya?

They grow when we aren't looking.  We, of course, haven't been looking much of late - so the little buggers have grown a lot. 

I'd help you to your rocker, deary, but I don't see as well as I used to and there's just no telling where you'd end up!

Her walker. :P

*g*

I keep track of Devon's age by sorting out how old my son is, but Connor's on his own.

Yeah, I feel the same way, vis-a-vis aging children (and what that means about how old WE are.)  I have decided that the real explanation is that all the junk food and television has altered their innate frequencies and they partially in a dimension in which the time moves faster than ours.

That's my story.  I'm sticking to it.  The wrinkles in my own mirror notwithstanding.

When our parents-with-children friends are over, I always say something like, "Thank God we're all still beautiful."  A few years ago, everyone used to drop into a slightly puzzled silence when I said that -- "Is he really saying he's so handsome?  That we are, too?"  -- but now everybody laughs right away.  That's because IT OBVIOUSLY ISN"T TRUE ANYMORE, so it's finally the joke it was meant to be all along.

See, jokes can't be too subtle.  (That's another good rule to learn for you young people just starting out in life.)

It's the secret of (timing) great comedy.

Talking of timing are we due a visit from the man who's name if it were in lights would have to be ight?

Moving on, there is a thread about limited signed leatherbound etc etc copies of Rite.  Is there going to be a posh version over here? Any gen would be greatly appreciated.