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umsolopagas
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Hi all, I’m a 35 yr old Kenyan man working as an IT admin at a utility company.
1. Favorite Genre:
Classics, Historical, Fantasy but generally I've got ecelctic reading habits.
2. Favorite Author:
I really can't decide between Jane Austen and Charles Dickens - if only they had gotten married.
3. Favorite Author that's not in Favorite Genre:
Another toss up but would have to go with Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez
4. How/Why you picked your Member-Name:
From a character in King Solomons Mines. My brother, who I'd never seen read a novel, read my copy some years back and recently described a really funny part of the story that cracked me up when I realised what he was talking about.
5. How you found IBDoF:
I was on answers.yahoo and saw a question that really provoked me because it kind of shot down a beautiful story to pamphlet-size. Anyway googled Gandalf (and something else which I forget) and picked what looked like an interesting site.
6. Name one book you would never recommend to a friend:
I would not inflict the whole "Dune" thing on anyone. I just couldn't get anything from the storyline - too spicy. The only book I got through needed a walking stick to get to a much needed rest.
7. Top 5 books/series:
JRR Tolkien - hairy feet and all
Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez - One hundred years of solitude.
George Eliot.
Stephen King.
PG Wodehouse
and obviously my aforementioned favorites;)
1. Favorite Genre:
Classics, Historical, Fantasy but generally I've got ecelctic reading habits.
2. Favorite Author:
I really can't decide between Jane Austen and Charles Dickens - if only they had gotten married.
3. Favorite Author that's not in Favorite Genre:
Another toss up but would have to go with Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez
4. How/Why you picked your Member-Name:
From a character in King Solomons Mines. My brother, who I'd never seen read a novel, read my copy some years back and recently described a really funny part of the story that cracked me up when I realised what he was talking about.
5. How you found IBDoF:
I was on answers.yahoo and saw a question that really provoked me because it kind of shot down a beautiful story to pamphlet-size. Anyway googled Gandalf (and something else which I forget) and picked what looked like an interesting site.
6. Name one book you would never recommend to a friend:
I would not inflict the whole "Dune" thing on anyone. I just couldn't get anything from the storyline - too spicy. The only book I got through needed a walking stick to get to a much needed rest.
7. Top 5 books/series:
JRR Tolkien - hairy feet and all
Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez - One hundred years of solitude.
George Eliot.
Stephen King.
PG Wodehouse
and obviously my aforementioned favorites;)
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laurie
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Welcome to the Forums, Umsolopagas! 
Or at least some of their characters -- Pip and Oliver and Mary and Kitty Bennett maybe?
umsolopagas wrote:2. Favorite Author:
I really can't decide between Jane Austen and Charles Dickens - if only they had gotten married.
Or at least some of their characters -- Pip and Oliver and Mary and Kitty Bennett maybe?
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." -- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
"So where the hell is he?" -- Laurie
"So where the hell is he?" -- Laurie
umsolopagas wrote: I would not inflict the whole "Dune" thing on anyone. I just couldn't get anything from the storyline - too spicy.
If I was drinking - it would have flown out my nose. Welcome!
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you,
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my debut novel MY ADVENTURES IN CYBERSPACE is set on a fictitious forum, wink
hi, my name's jude and i'm an author. i've had articles published for the climbing press (high, on the edge) and music press (melody maker, iD, masterbag) but am now focusing on full length literary fiction.
my first novel MY ADVENTURES IN CYBERSPACE (MAIC) is due for publication in late 2009. The official publication date of my second novel, Mother-in-Law, Son-in-Law (MILSIL), is Spring 2009 but it will be available to buy in late 2008. hopefully the sales will help to finance the completion of the entire MY ADVENTURES IN CYBERSPACE trilogy.
i first considered setting up a blog in 2003 but waited until comment moderation was enabled on the blogger platform, so i started the blog in 2005. i write an article on average once a week, about art, music, or my own work. you can get to the blog through the link in my sig. the most recent article is called The Garden With Seven Rooms and is a photographic record of the 4 year project to landscape our 120 foot garden on a budget of £00,000 using only reclaimed and found materials. this is how i've billed it:
Looking back, I can see the parallel between constructing a beautiful garden from neglected and unwanted treasure, and our building a new life for ourselves from the rubble of our old ones.
at the turn of the millenium, i spent 3 years hard-wired into the largest climbing forum in the UK, then a small hardly moderated forum, and used my experiences there as a basis for the article Bunfight at the OK Corral, published in 2001, and then MY ADVENTURES IN CYBERSPACE. the forum now has over 50,000 registered users and 4 years after i left, they're still yakking about me.
i now limit my forum activities to occasionally posting on a local forum for residents of sheffield, and on the forum of the british chef jamie oliver. i've just stumbled across this forum and thought it looked good which is why i'm here although i'll be trying to limit my postings to under an hour a week because my writing takes precedence over posting on forums!
1. Favorite Genre- Literary fiction
2. Favorite Author - Dostoevsky, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Paolo Coelho, Thomas Hardy
3. Favorite Author that's not in Favorite Genre - Agatha Christie
4. How/Why you picked your Member-Name - I was born with it. I like it. It tells people who I am. My fluffyheliumflash username days are now a part of my frivolous history.
5. How you found IBDoF - I perform my poetry and excerpts from my novels once a month at Sheffield's premiere open-mic night, Words Aloud. (You can see YouTubes of my previous performances on my YouTube channel linked to in my sig.) This month I was planning for two actors to perform an excerpt from MILSIL in front of a live audience, but finding the actors is proving difficult in such a short time span; when I woke up this morning a poem started writing itself in my head, I wrote it down, and decided to dedicate it to Stephen Hawking and perform it on the 27th May at Words Aloud. Then I googled to see whether any other poets had dedicated their work to Stephen Hawking, and found a quite brilliant poem by the author David Memmott, called Disciples of Paradox. Searching for contact details so that I could tell David how much I liked his poem, and tell him about mine, led me here! And I still haven't got David's contact details because now I'm immersed in writing this! Forums, see, time gobblers!
6. Name one book you would never recommend to a friend - The Bible, best selling book of all time at over 1 billion sales. Einstein said "The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weakness, The Bible a collection of honourable but still primitive legends which are nevertheless, childish." I have nothing against people who believe in their God, but I believe nature is God.
7. Top 5 books/series -
Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
The Alchemist - Paolo Coelho
Lady Chatterly's Lover - D H Lawrence
Jude The Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Jonathan Livingstone Seagull - Richard Bach
regarding my blog...two of the most popular interviews have been the one with gavin clark, whose work appears on the soundtrack of many of british director shane meadows' films, such as this is england, and the one with michael de larrabeiti, travel writer for the sunday times and author of the best selling borribles trilogy, who was also long listed for the man booker prize. i conducted his last interview and did the last photo session with him, for sadly he died last month.
there is also an article about the band UNKLE here in which i photographed gavin clark backstage.
my first novel MY ADVENTURES IN CYBERSPACE (MAIC) is due for publication in late 2009. The official publication date of my second novel, Mother-in-Law, Son-in-Law (MILSIL), is Spring 2009 but it will be available to buy in late 2008. hopefully the sales will help to finance the completion of the entire MY ADVENTURES IN CYBERSPACE trilogy.
i first considered setting up a blog in 2003 but waited until comment moderation was enabled on the blogger platform, so i started the blog in 2005. i write an article on average once a week, about art, music, or my own work. you can get to the blog through the link in my sig. the most recent article is called The Garden With Seven Rooms and is a photographic record of the 4 year project to landscape our 120 foot garden on a budget of £00,000 using only reclaimed and found materials. this is how i've billed it:
Looking back, I can see the parallel between constructing a beautiful garden from neglected and unwanted treasure, and our building a new life for ourselves from the rubble of our old ones.
at the turn of the millenium, i spent 3 years hard-wired into the largest climbing forum in the UK, then a small hardly moderated forum, and used my experiences there as a basis for the article Bunfight at the OK Corral, published in 2001, and then MY ADVENTURES IN CYBERSPACE. the forum now has over 50,000 registered users and 4 years after i left, they're still yakking about me.
i now limit my forum activities to occasionally posting on a local forum for residents of sheffield, and on the forum of the british chef jamie oliver. i've just stumbled across this forum and thought it looked good which is why i'm here although i'll be trying to limit my postings to under an hour a week because my writing takes precedence over posting on forums!
1. Favorite Genre- Literary fiction
2. Favorite Author - Dostoevsky, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Paolo Coelho, Thomas Hardy
3. Favorite Author that's not in Favorite Genre - Agatha Christie
4. How/Why you picked your Member-Name - I was born with it. I like it. It tells people who I am. My fluffyheliumflash username days are now a part of my frivolous history.
5. How you found IBDoF - I perform my poetry and excerpts from my novels once a month at Sheffield's premiere open-mic night, Words Aloud. (You can see YouTubes of my previous performances on my YouTube channel linked to in my sig.) This month I was planning for two actors to perform an excerpt from MILSIL in front of a live audience, but finding the actors is proving difficult in such a short time span; when I woke up this morning a poem started writing itself in my head, I wrote it down, and decided to dedicate it to Stephen Hawking and perform it on the 27th May at Words Aloud. Then I googled to see whether any other poets had dedicated their work to Stephen Hawking, and found a quite brilliant poem by the author David Memmott, called Disciples of Paradox. Searching for contact details so that I could tell David how much I liked his poem, and tell him about mine, led me here! And I still haven't got David's contact details because now I'm immersed in writing this! Forums, see, time gobblers!
6. Name one book you would never recommend to a friend - The Bible, best selling book of all time at over 1 billion sales. Einstein said "The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weakness, The Bible a collection of honourable but still primitive legends which are nevertheless, childish." I have nothing against people who believe in their God, but I believe nature is God.
7. Top 5 books/series -
Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
The Alchemist - Paolo Coelho
Lady Chatterly's Lover - D H Lawrence
Jude The Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Jonathan Livingstone Seagull - Richard Bach
regarding my blog...two of the most popular interviews have been the one with gavin clark, whose work appears on the soundtrack of many of british director shane meadows' films, such as this is england, and the one with michael de larrabeiti, travel writer for the sunday times and author of the best selling borribles trilogy, who was also long listed for the man booker prize. i conducted his last interview and did the last photo session with him, for sadly he died last month.
there is also an article about the band UNKLE here in which i photographed gavin clark backstage.
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CodeBlower
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gpackin wrote:Hey Jude, welcome.
I can't resist either ..
Hey, Jude!
"Budge up, yeh great lump." -- Hagrid, HP:SS
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The gelding is what the gelding is, unlike people who change in response to their perceptions of events that may benefit or threaten their power. -- Lorn, Chapter LXXXII, Magi'i of Cyador
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The gelding is what the gelding is, unlike people who change in response to their perceptions of events that may benefit or threaten their power. -- Lorn, Chapter LXXXII, Magi'i of Cyador
Not so new, but who am I to miss an introduction?
The following are the answers I could come up with at the time of writing this.
1. Fantasy
2. Harry Turtledove / LE Modesitt Jr
3. Douglas Coupland
4. An extremely long story involving an epic cast of players and wargaming battles well into the wee hours of the morning.
5. Google'd Mr Modesiit, found a webpage that linked into his forum
6. C ++ for dummies
7. Darkness
Recluce
Icewind Dale
Dragon Lance
The Obsidian Trilogy
The following are the answers I could come up with at the time of writing this.
1. Fantasy
2. Harry Turtledove / LE Modesitt Jr
3. Douglas Coupland
4. An extremely long story involving an epic cast of players and wargaming battles well into the wee hours of the morning.
5. Google'd Mr Modesiit, found a webpage that linked into his forum
6. C ++ for dummies
7. Darkness
Recluce
Icewind Dale
Dragon Lance
The Obsidian Trilogy
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
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CodeBlower
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the grim squeaker
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Keep me postedim a new member and i dont know who or what im replying to im english a supporter of thecommunist party of britain and very concerned about my beloved england which has fallen into the hands of a bourgeious wrecking class they are destroying the people and the country we are in red danger crisis and the world should know about the widespread abuses that are taking place up and down england day by day civil disorder is certain
I AM A SUPPORTER OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF BRITAIN AND DUTY BOUND TO CAUSE TROUBLE
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the grim squeaker
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Nice to see someone else from the U.K. (I can finally chat in GMT britain) Welcome, Sunday18.
I trust you will enjoy your time here.
Where about in England kiddo?
I trust you will enjoy your time here.
Where about in England kiddo?
'You can take our lives but you'll never take our freedom!' he screamed.
Carcer's men looked at one another, puzzled by what sounded like most badly thought-out war cry in the history of the universe.
Carcer's men looked at one another, puzzled by what sounded like most badly thought-out war cry in the history of the universe.
This does not sound like a legit introduction. Are you here because of books, or not?sunday18 wrote:im a new member and i dont know who or what im replying to im english a supporter of thecommunist party of britain and very concerned about my beloved england which has fallen into the hands of a bourgeious wrecking class they are destroying the people and the country we are in red danger crisis and the world should know about the widespread abuses that are taking place up and down england day by day civil disorder is certain
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the grim squeaker
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I can field that one, as she PM'ed me.(slightly edited, removed all me's and I's)
Shes reading a number of books the magic mountain by thomas mann coral island by r.m ballantyne and been buying up john wainwrights crime fiction through abe books. Shes also reading the day of the peppercorn kill by him,hes a master his views disgust her and theres not much joy in his novels these are serious novels .hes an ex police officer rear gunner and has stopped writing now .he wrote over 60 crime fiction novels.She is active within communist politics elijah.
So probably.
Btw,
How many G's you actually packin'?
Shes reading a number of books the magic mountain by thomas mann coral island by r.m ballantyne and been buying up john wainwrights crime fiction through abe books. Shes also reading the day of the peppercorn kill by him,hes a master his views disgust her and theres not much joy in his novels these are serious novels .hes an ex police officer rear gunner and has stopped writing now .he wrote over 60 crime fiction novels.She is active within communist politics elijah.
So probably.
Btw,
How many G's you actually packin'?
'You can take our lives but you'll never take our freedom!' he screamed.
Carcer's men looked at one another, puzzled by what sounded like most badly thought-out war cry in the history of the universe.
Carcer's men looked at one another, puzzled by what sounded like most badly thought-out war cry in the history of the universe.
I don't see anything wrong with actively following any political ideal, so long as that practice doesn't bring any harm to anyone.
I do however seem to turn green when other's try to force their views on anyone though. Its a concept I've not yet been able to fully understand.
I did enjoy reading the post though,
I do however seem to turn green when other's try to force their views on anyone though. Its a concept I've not yet been able to fully understand.
I did enjoy reading the post though,
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
Edwin Schlossberg
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