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tollbaby · Post by **tollbaby** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:02 am

wow... good thing Kilty moved back to NZ LOL otherwise we might have had problems

(just teasing, Kilty is devoted to his wife & family and I'm sure he's a very good husband and father)

Meredith · Post by **Meredith** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:39 am

KiltanneN:

I was probably getting into some kind of mischief.

Post by **kiltanon** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 6:19 pm

tollbaby wrote:wow... good thing Kilty moved back to NZ LOL otherwise we might have had problems (just teasing, Kilty is devoted to his wife & family and I'm sure he's a very good husband and father)

uhhh - just bemoaning the general lack of female interest in such pursuits when I was in high school - not really trying to imply anything less...

my little girl is the apple of my eye - but being a good husband and father is a pretty tall order!..

tollbaby · Post by **tollbaby** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 8:34 pm

One I'm sure you fulfill admirably

(it's not as tough as you seem to think... just requires respect, affection and encouragement)

daetara · Post by **daetara** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 4:28 pm

welcome welcome welcome, everyone! yay, another virginian!!!

Sekem wrote:6. Name one book you would never recommend to a friend: Magician: Apprentice and Master by Raymond E. Feist

uh oh! those books are on my to-be-read pile...care to expound on why you wouldn't recommend?

tollbaby, i believe there are several books where elizabeth moon and anne mccaffrey are listed as coauthors (planet pirates has two)...so you'd probably like her.

tollbaby · Post by **tollbaby** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 6:04 pm

daetara, my ex-husband described it thusly... the Midkemia books in the Riftwar series (the Magician books, etc.) are more to please the male audience, and the Empire (or Tsuranuanni) books in the series are more geared towards the female audience. I think it's all bunk myself, having enjoyed both series equally, but from what I'm told, it's a common viewpoint. Oddness. I think you'll enjoy the Magician books

daetara · Post by **daetara** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 7:44 pm

well if that's all it is, i don't think i need worry.

mccormack44 · Post by **mccormack44** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:03 pm

I agree with Tollbaby in that I enjoyed both parts of the Riftwar Series. I didn't much like what came after though (other stories in the same universe).

I do like the ones with Janny Wurtz slightly better so there may be a smidgeon of truth here, but only a smidgeon.

Sue

JSJ1313 · Post by **JSJ1313** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 10:04 pm

Hello, I am a new member currently attending the University of Tennessee - Knoxville as a freshman.

violetblue · Post by **violetblue** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:02 pm

JSJ1313 wrote:Hello, I am a new member currently attending the University of Tennessee - Knoxville as a freshman.

I was just talking to someone from your school this morning. I live in Indiana, but I must say, the Southern accent was pretty strong! Welcome to the forum, y'all, and stay a spell (did I get that right?).

JSJ1313 · Post by **JSJ1313** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 1:07 pm

violetblue wrote:
JSJ1313 wrote:Hello, I am a new member currently attending the University of Tennessee - Knoxville as a freshman.
I was just talking to someone from your school this morning. I live in Indiana, but I must say, the Southern accent was pretty strong! Welcome to the forum, y'all, and stay a spell (did I get that right?).

Haha, well I don't have a Southern accent; my parents are both from the North and made sure I didn't develop one.

newera87 · Post by **newera87** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 8:43 pm

Hello, my name is Todd. I'm 20 years old and I'm a student at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. I'm studying actuarial science, finance, and quantitative economics. There is not much else to say about myself, because I'm bad at introductions. To answer the questions:

1. Classics
2. Mark Twain
3. Tom Clancy
4. I picked my username because of my age. Reading habits in today's culture are terrible, and I've taken the audacity to anoint myself the coming of a new era. The number 87 is the year that I was born.
5. A google search. As an aside isn't interesting that the internet site best known for its incredible search engine feature is actually spelled wrong.
6. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
7. (a.) Hong Kong by Stephen Coonts (b.) Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (c.) The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama (d.) Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol (e.) 1984 by George Orwell.

I did by best, but it's so hard to write such a limited list or pick just one author. The worst part is that within an hour I'll realize that I temporarily ignored my "favorite book ever."

Post by **laurie** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 8:54 pm

Welcome, Todd/Newera87 -- Hope you'll enjoy yourself here!

tollbaby · Post by **tollbaby** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 7:54 am

violetblue wrote:
JSJ1313 wrote:Hello, I am a new member currently attending the University of Tennessee - Knoxville as a freshman.
I was just talking to someone from your school this morning. I live in Indiana, but I must say, the Southern accent was pretty strong! Welcome to the forum, y'all, and stay a spell (did I get that right?).

VB, only people from Southern Indiana sound like that

Northern Indiana, they start to pick up the "Chi-CAW-go" accent. (dated a guy who lived in Northwestern Indiana for three years LOL)

And yet... the Northwestern Indiana to south Chicago accent is very different from the northern Illinois and northside Chicago accent... (heck of a lot more ebonics in the southside accent, for one thing).

WELCOME TODD! (sorry, didn't mean to just tack it on, but I didn't want it to get lost in the shuffle)

mccormack44 · Post by **mccormack44** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 6:07 pm

Welcome, Todd

You wrote:

â€¦within an hour I'll realize that I temporarily ignored my "favorite book ever."

Don't worry; I believe that most of us who read constantly do tend to do that. Of course, part of the trouble may be that we have so many favorites, it's hard to keep track.

Sue

cousin it · Post by **cousin it** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 7:45 am

My name is Katie, I have worked as a library assistant I for 8 years. I have to get most of my reading done now through audiobooks because I have 3 kids, 3 dogs and a husband therefore little sit down and relax with a book time.
I majored in Tech Theater(lights and props no acting) in college and worked in the field for a few years while bartending. I have also been a house painter, security specialist at a posh hotel, and a veteranary technician.
I live in the center of Florida.

1. Favorite Genre
Sci-fi horror historical romantica with some picture book thrown (I love good artwork like Brom, John Bauer or Tony Diterlizzi) in a mishmash of all my favorite genres that some authors do so well.
2. Favorite Author
Sometimes Stephen King, sometimes Joe Hill(Heart Shaped Box was so deliciously scary), sometimes Angela Knight, sometimes Stephenie Meyer, sometimes Lisa Kleypas, sometimes Kurt Vonnegut, I could go on and on. It depends on mood and the book I am reading and/or listening to.
3. Favorite Author that's not in Favorite Genre
Richard Preston
4. How/Why you picked your Member-Name
My family is very much like the Addams Family. My 7 year old boy howls at the moon while chanting Suicidal Tendency lyrics, my 9 year old daughter, who looks like the wood fairy in Tony Diterlizzi's Spiderwick drawings, strikes fear into the hearts of her little brothers when she smiles a certain way, my 3 year old son looks like a rococo cherub but at 6pm he turns into a Bosch demon, my husband is an electrician with the soul of a Viking berserker which he channels by watching UFC and playing endless games of Global Domination Risk and God of War, Thor in other words, and I, while not as graceful and poised as Morticia, have my own goth type charm in my pink faux snake Docs and out of control mass of brown hair. Who has time to go to a stylist when you have a job and 3 kids? So I am cousin it. Oh, and no one can seem to understand a word I say some days.

5. How you found IBDoF
I did a google book search for a book I have by Cordwainer Smith and found info on IBD.
6. Name one book you would never recommend to a friend
I would have to pick The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation by M.T. Anderson. I like his other books, especially Feed, but this book seemed violent and harsh in a particularly pointless way. I like the gritty and frightening in Chuck Palahniuk, Clive Barker, and P. D. Cacek's books but this just seemed a hopeless situation like a car wreck or the evening news.

7. Top 5 books/series

1. The Lorax by Dr Suess
2. War Games by Karl Hansen
3. Into the Wilderness series by Sara Donati
4. The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams
5. Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer

These are books that made me laugh, cry, think, and reread them again and again. Books that spoke to me and my life experiences. There are so many others I would like to include(anything by Stephen King, Gabaldon's Outlander series, The Time Traveler's Wife, anything by Neil Gaiman, Orson Scott Card, Steve Thayer, Tony Diterlizzi, Scott Westfeld, Frank Miller, Julia Quinn, Lisa Kleypas, Greg Iles, Judith Ivory, Laurell K. Hamilton, Angela Knight, Roald Dahl, Christopher Moore, Terry Pratchett, Terry Jones, Suzanne Brockmann, Lane Smith, John Scieszka, the Lymond series by Dorothy Dunnett, the Dune series-all of them I like the new ones too, and so many more) but the 5 above are my stranded on a deserted island books...for right now

tollbaby · Post by **tollbaby** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 11:03 am

Welcome

I'm always thrilled to see Library folk registering. I really wish I could afford to go back and work at the library. It was my favorite job.

CodeBlower · Post by **CodeBlower** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 8:48 pm

Welcome, all!

Some of the life-experiences of several of our members (old -and- new), I think, could make for some highly-entertaining reading.

sancho · Post by **sancho** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:19 am

Hi, I am Jussi, 27 yrs old guy living in Tampere, Finland. Well, right now I am staying in India for a few months, so lots of big, cheap book shops

1. All fiction: mystery, horror, thriller, SF, fantasy, ...
2. Douglas Adams
3. Richard Dawkins
4. I studied in Spain for a year and after that a friend started calling me with this nick name
5. Through book search on Google.
6. Hard question. I really can't think any answer.
7. Hard question, but I'll try:
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams,
LOTR by Tolkien,
Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier) by VÃ¤inÃ¶ Linna
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

tollbaby · Post by **tollbaby** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 10:31 am

Welcome sancho!!! Wow... I don't think we've ever had anyone in India poking around before. Finland, yes.

Make yourself at home!

Post by **gollum** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 10:59 am

I'll add a big G'Day and welcome one & all.

CodeBlower wrote:Some of the life-experiences of several of our members (old -and- new), I think, could make for some highly-entertaining reading.

But would it pass the censors?

Post by **KiltanneN** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 2:46 pm

gollum wrote:But would it pass the censors?

I'd be highly dissapointed if they did!

CodeBlower · Post by **CodeBlower** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 7:19 pm

bellgamin · Post by **bellgamin** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 2:40 pm

Aloha from Hawaii...

1. Favorite Genre - Fantasy

2. Favorite Author - Tie: L.E. Modesitt & Raymond Feist

3. Favorite Author that's not in Favorite Genre - Saul of Tarsus

4. How/Why you picked your Member-Name - Bellgamin was the name that I gave to a mage in a fantasy I wrote in 8th grade. In the beginning of the story Bellgamin was a street urchin. Thus Bellgamin = bell + gamin where...

bell = the bell of "bell, book, & candle"
AND
gamin = a wandering waif

5. How you found IBDoF - I was googling to see if there is actually such a fruit as Modesitt's "pearapple" & one of the ensuing links landed me here.

6. Name one book you would never recommend to a friend - ???

7. Top 5 books/series - Recluce series by Modesitt; Midkemia-based novels by Feist; Baker's Boy series by JV Jones (2 more ???)

Post by **gollum** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:33 pm

G'day Bellgamin, always a pleasure to welcome another LEM fan, AND a feistian!!
What a bargain ... two for the price of one

Hop you enjoy the forums, there's days

of reading in the LEM fora, quote games to get involved in, etc.

--Greg

The Internet Book Database of Fiction

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