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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-29-08 01:16 PM Original message |
So how caught up in books do you get? |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-29-08 01:20 PM Response to Original message |
1. I miss the sandworms of the deep desert. nt |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-29-08 01:27 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Shai-hulud! I remember when I went through my spice agony. |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-29-08 01:23 PM Response to Original message |
2. Well-written fiction can draw me right i that way, and leave me feeling it for days afterward. |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-29-08 01:49 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Lord of the Rings |
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Celeborn Skywalker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-29-08 07:22 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Try The Name of the Wind |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-29-08 01:31 PM Response to Original message |
4. The Years Of Rice And Salt has stuck with me big time since I first read it in 2003. |
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leftyclimber (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-29-08 07:42 PM Response to Reply #4 |
11. Another vote for Years of Rice and Salt |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 01:45 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. YAY...someone else who has read it! |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 01:58 PM Response to Reply #4 |
16. That sound a little like Lessing's Shikasta. |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 09:44 PM Response to Reply #16 |
26. That sounds interesting. |
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suninvited (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-29-08 01:47 PM Response to Original message |
5. I didnt go to school for over a week |
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LibertyLover (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-29-08 01:57 PM Response to Original message |
7. All the time |
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MrCoffee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-29-08 02:05 PM Response to Original message |
8. I got all weepy over Dan Simmon's Hyperion |
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TheCentepedeShoes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-29-08 07:28 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. The only one of his |
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azmouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 05:05 PM Response to Reply #8 |
24. Hey now! Don't go spoilin' the story for me. |
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YellowRubberDuckie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-29-08 07:47 PM Response to Original message |
12. I was exactly the same way. |
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DarkTirade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-29-08 07:47 PM Response to Original message |
13. Yeah, I tend to get emotionally attached to fiction a bit more than I should. |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 03:38 PM Response to Reply #13 |
20. You ever get to where you don't want to start a new book because |
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InternalDialogue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 03:47 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. That happened to me when I read Shantaram two years ago. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 01:55 PM Response to Original message |
15. Fictional characters have always been as real as people to me. |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 02:00 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. I used to read the last page or two of a novel before I'd buy it. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 02:22 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. I've done that, too, but mostly with authors I don't know yet. |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 03:35 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. I never learned to skim |
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PassingFair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 03:42 PM Response to Original message |
21. I love the world of Dickens. |
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WildEyedLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 05:01 PM Response to Original message |
23. Oh my God, yes |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 09:25 PM Response to Original message |
25. I can only take in so much information at one time so it depends a great |
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reyd reid reed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 09:48 PM Response to Original message |
27. It can frustrate me, sure, and it often does... |
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InvisibleTouch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 09:50 PM Response to Original message |
28. Oh, I do the same, to this day. |
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InvisibleTouch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 09:50 PM Response to Original message |
29. (dupe deleted) n/t |
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pilar007 (71 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-30-08 11:12 PM Response to Original message |
30. My husband wanted to divorce me after I read............... |
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PassingFair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 07:24 AM Response to Reply #30 |
32. That one really sucks the air outta ya, doesn't it. |
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Lucian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 12:06 AM Response to Original message |
31. I get really involved in books I read. |
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BarenakedLady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 07:28 AM Response to Original message |
33. Yes definately |
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YankeyMCC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 07:34 AM Response to Original message |
34. Oh certainly I know exactly what you mean |
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