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05-07-2001, 12:18 PM
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Thoth - Egyptian God of Wisdom
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Location: Birmingham, West Mid\'s, England
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Anyone read the Ursula leGuin Earthsea series? Teenage books, but brilliantly well done. Her take on magic is a little bit different, too.
------------------ Smile! Life is too short for bitching!  Fljotsdale |
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05-07-2001, 01:09 PM
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Elminster
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I remember reading it when I was in Middle School. I can't remember the story very well, but I do remember that I liked it.
 ------------------ Can an elf get a break anywhere these days? 
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05-07-2001, 05:06 PM
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Symbol of Cyric
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Yup!! I read them in college.. and again a few years ago. Very good books. Fljotsdale, it might be interesting to compare notes on books sometime. Seems as tho we have read MANY of the same ones.
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05-07-2001, 06:23 PM
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Thoth - Egyptian God of Wisdom
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Yeah! Nice idea Bilqis!
Let's see; how about: Piers Anthony's 'Mode' series - Virtual Mode, Fractal Mode, Chaos Mode & his 'Bio of a Space Tyrant' series? Also: Michael Scott Rohan's Winter of the World series? I read these ages ago, but I still have 'em (I collect books like crazy, I have over a thousand, if I count paperbacks...) and remember how good they were! ------------------ Smile! Life is too short for bitching! Fljotsdale |
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05-11-2001, 10:13 PM
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Elminster
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You actually managed to find the rest of Sir Michael Scott Rohan's series? I only ever found the first book and, being a habitual nordicophile, read it through and through. I saw the third book in a secondhand bookshop a lot but it was the kind of writing that I wanted to read in order. Concerning the Earthsea Trilogy (I don't call it a quartet because the fourth book isn't really as good as the other three and I didn't like it) they're generally well written, the magic system reminds me of a few (WFRP, RQ etc) that I know and I liked the subtle magic (there are some exceptions to subtlety in the first book but they are soon smoothed over).
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05-12-2001, 04:22 AM
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Thoth - Egyptian God of Wisdom
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I didn't know he had been knighted, though! I like Nordic (specifically Icelandic) literature, myself. ------------------ Smile! Life is too short for bitching! Fljotsdale [This message has been edited by Fljotsdale (edited 05-12-2001).] |
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