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Flint · 10-26-2006, 04:31 PM

Clodfobble · 10-28-2006, 11:01 PM

I'll agree it's interesting... but there's one chapter about 3/4ths of the way through that you can just skip. You don't need it. You'll know it when you get there. It's nothing but one long speech and there's nothing new said in it, so just save yourself the time and flip ahead to the next chapter where stuff starts happening again.

lumberjim · 11-17-2006, 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble

I'll agree it's interesting... but there's one chapter about 3/4ths of the way through that you can just skip. You don't need it. You'll know it when you get there. It's nothing but one long speech and there's nothing new said in it, so just save yourself the time and flip ahead to the next chapter where stuff starts happening again.

christ. it took him 3 hours to read it. from my stop at wawa 15 minutes from home, all the way back to work the next morning(1.5 hours) and all the way home again (1.25 hours) and there was no new information.

this part, though seems to be the real message of the book. if you just want her message, and politics, you could just read that part, i think. it's just really dry. I may actually re- listen to that part at some point, because there were a few times when things he said clicked.....but i was so drowsy from work, or the rambling manner of the speech, that it didn;t stick with me. it reminded me of one of radar's more lengthy posts about libertarianism.

Griff · 11-18-2006, 07:06 AM

I wonder if she wrote that first built the novel around it and then didn't delete it when it became superflous?

lumberjim · 10-28-2006, 11:36 PM

i'm listening to it on mp3, so i can kind of fade out when it gets redundant. I'm finding it a bit over acted, and unnaturally repetetive in dialogue. her repeated use of the phrases "no one can blame us" and "I can't be responsible for unexpected events" by the 'bad guy socialists' is a bit... unbelievable?

Clodfobble · 10-29-2006, 12:11 AM

Yeah... she writes parables, not realistic fiction.

DanaC · 10-29-2006, 08:20 AM

I am currently reading: The Evolution of the Medieval World by David Nicholas; Bede's Ecclesiastical History and Asser's Life of Alfred.....oh yeah and a Dr Who novel :P

Sundae · 10-30-2006, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by DanaC

oh yeah and a Dr Who novel :P

Oh which one? Have just bought a 2nd hand copy of Last of the Gaderene (because it's by Mark Gatiss, natch)

10-29-2006, 10:20 PM

Very good to read Bede if you want to understand England , Dana .

Don't forget that us Welsh were Christian long before Bede .

Happy Monkey · 11-04-2006, 02:38 PM

I just finished the first one today. It was a pretty good read.

Clodfobble · 11-04-2006, 03:19 PM

Interesting tidbits... she wrote it when she was 19 (and is now 27 or 28, I can't remember) and was quite surprised to see it picked up before some of the others she's written in the years since. The first book has done well enough to get a second print run, though, so she will in all likelihood have some of those other novels come out soon.

DanaC · 11-04-2006, 05:36 PM

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Very good to read Bede if you want to understand England , Dana .

Don't forget that us Welsh were Christian long before Bede

Bede is a good read.......I feel I have quite a good understanding of England already however, given that I am English ( I may have mentioned that before) and having studied quite a bit of my history.

DanaC · 11-04-2006, 05:37 PM

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Oh which one? Have just bought a 2nd hand copy of Last of the Gaderene (because it's by Mark Gatiss, natch)

It's called 'Warmonger'. Its excellent. But the best I have read lately was called 'Fear Itself.'

JayMcGee · 11-04-2006, 08:09 PM

I would just like to take this opportunity to remind Buddug to be clear of Chester city walls afore sundown.....

DanaC · 11-05-2006, 05:18 AM

heheheh

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10-28-2006, 11:01 PM	#2
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	I'll agree it's interesting... but there's one chapter about 3/4ths of the way through that you can just skip. You don't need it. You'll know it when you get there. It's nothing but one long speech and there's nothing new said in it, so just save yourself the time and flip ahead to the next chapter where stuff starts happening again.

10-29-2006, 12:11 AM	#6
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	Yeah... she writes parables, not realistic fiction.

10-29-2006, 08:20 AM	#7
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	I am currently reading: The Evolution of the Medieval World by David Nicholas; Bede's Ecclesiastical History and Asser's Life of Alfred.....oh yeah and a Dr Who novel :P

10-29-2006, 10:20 PM	#9
Buddug Guest Posts: n/a	Very good to read Bede if you want to understand England , Dana . Don't forget that us Welsh were Christian long before Bede .

11-04-2006, 08:09 PM	#14
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11-05-2006, 05:18 AM	#15
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	heheheh

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