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NOT A WARRIORS ROLE-PLAY OR TWILIGHT FAN-FEST OR REALISTIC FICTION
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This is a thread for anything except realistic fiction*, Warriors**, or Twilight***. These have been taking over the front page, and it's really annoying (not the realistic fiction, though) So, a thread for anything BUT WARRIORS, TWILIGHT, OR REALISTIC FICTION.
My reactions to those books/genres:
* :p not so bad sometimes
** :P Yuck. Stagnant
*** *wishes it had never been written* *dies in horror of the fact that it has*
submitted by Pirocks
(May 11, 2009 - 6:36 pm)
(May 11, 2009 - 6:36 pm)
I'm curious: who?
(May 16, 2009 - 7:08 am)
Ranger's Apprentice is historical fiction/fantasy, and all the characters have normal names: Will, Horace, Alyss (odd spelling, admittedly), Cassandra/Evelyn, Duncan, Erak, Crowley... Even the abnormal names, like Halt, are normal sounding and easy to pronounce (with the exception of Morgarath, which doesn't look normal at all...).
Most "urban fantasy" has normal names.
(May 16, 2009 - 2:01 pm)
Okay, I get that. Part of the reason I like Harry Potter is that MOST of the characters have normal names.
(May 18, 2009 - 7:01 am)
So could you. Seriously, you crack me up. ;) But I don't get what was so funny with me liking the names Emily and Jennifer and Mike.
(May 15, 2009 - 5:30 pm)
Warriors rocks.....on ice!
(May 15, 2009 - 5:32 pm)
This is really getting annoying. If you want to talk about Warriors, do it on another thread, but this thread is specifically not for Warriors. I don't know why it's attracting so much trolling.
(May 16, 2009 - 7:10 am)
@ A Name: pleasepleaseplease stop corrupting the few non-Warriors threads that are left!
@ Lena: I couldn' become a comedian, because a) people would recognize my face from all the wanted posters, and b) I'd steal other people's jokes (form of plagarism). :)
@ Reuben: Yeah, I remember that... you guys were all, milk! giant cows! grandfather! fairies! dwarves! And I was like, what the heck is everybody talking about???!! and then somebody mentioned being digested by a giant cow, and I started freaking out: AAH! What's going on!!?? and then Jenni kept asking to be your friend... yeah. I remember that in vivid details.
Anyway, thanks to your weirdness/recommendation, I read them, and now I understand your jokes as much as it's possible to understand a conversation between Reuben and Koffee... ;)
(May 16, 2009 - 10:12 am)
*deep breaths*
Ok. Let's get this strait. Trolling is not funny, not cute, not clever. It is rude and seriously annoying. On a single-topic forum it is often done for lulz and tolerated to a degree. On a general-topic forum, it is not lulzy. Keep Warriors on your threads, and we'll stay out of your Warriors threads. Savvy?
(May 16, 2009 - 2:03 pm)
Yay, TNÖ! Although... what does 'savvy' have to do with anything?
(May 17, 2009 - 5:24 pm)
Savvy: verb: know or understand. /I've been told, but I want to make sure. Savvy?/
It makes sense to me...
(May 17, 2009 - 10:57 pm)
I've got an obscureish but wonderful book. It's called Faeries of Dreamdark: Blackbringer, by Laini Taylor, and it is a faerie story of EPIC PROPORTIONS. There's this little faerie called Magpie who is destined to save the world from the evil Blackbringer, an ancient monster who wants to unmake everything. Magpie has seven crow friends that help her out and fuss over her (they have awesome Scottish accents and awesome names like Swig and Maniac), and there's this young flightless warrior prince faery, Talon Rathersting, who is totally amazing. He has these cool tatoos on his face AND... he knits. *grin/squee* The second book, Silksinger, is coming out this September, yay! I highly recommend Miss Laini. She is genius.
(May 16, 2009 - 10:13 am)
Very savvy. I agree wholeheartedly.
(May 17, 2009 - 3:17 pm)
Whoa! I just found that book this spring, on the sales table at Books-a-Million! I love it, too! And Talon's knitting-*lies on back and laughs joyfully and wishes that could knit like Talon does* That is so weird that we both know this book! And, yes, the crows are soo awesome! But, oddly, I remember them as crows..........*needs to reread it*
(May 17, 2009 - 7:30 pm)
@ Jenni-Sorry! I kinda left that thread after alll the posts were unreadably thin.
Or how about the Amulet of Samarkand? It's good fantasy, with an ironicly humrous main character.
(May 18, 2009 - 6:33 am)
@Reuben- Is that your way of saying that yes, you want to be my friend? lol!
Haha yeah Bartimaeus is awesome! And "Natty boy", of course, is hysterical. Yay Kitty! ehehe.
May you always find water and shade, and the Light shine on your path!
(May 18, 2009 - 12:34 pm)