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Post by | | Fudgey | | on May 27, 2007 14:21:37 GMT -5
Well...as I think we all know this summer is full of new books and movies coming out. Here you can post which you are looking forward to and have read/watched to discuss them with your friends. Me, I've watched Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End, read The Sight and The Lost Warrior and can't WAIT for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and movie number 5!!! Anyone else seen POTC?
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Post by pandaxbear on May 27, 2007 17:53:37 GMT -5
Has anyone ever read Children of the Lamp or The Fire Within?
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Post by Pessimistic One on May 27, 2007 20:02:43 GMT -5
Ohmygosh, I so want to see POTC: At World's End, but we can't right now, with my mom so sick and all... And Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix? I can't even wait for that one; more so than POTC. I also can't wait for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows. Shall Harry Potter die? Who knows. So far, I need to read The Sight and Lost Warrior. Oh wells... Has anyone ever read the Wheel of Time series?
P.S Rambling is fun. ^_^
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Post by | | Fudgey | | on May 28, 2007 1:23:37 GMT -5
Yays! Finally another Potter fanatic has come to the forum. Me neither - I think Lily Potter was an alcamist or something - maybe that's why Voldemort didn't want to kill her. Have you been to Mugglenet? The Fire Within....that's the one about the deer isn't it? *feels stupid* The Wheel of Time series.... Nope I haven't but I'm short of things to read at the moment. What are they about?
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Post by stormphrax on May 28, 2007 2:12:20 GMT -5
The one about the clay dragons, silly! The one about the deer is fire bringer, also a great book. To Panda: I'll answer for her, she loves it. I like it too, but I have never read Children of the Lamp. Or the Wheel of Time series.
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Post by ask on May 28, 2007 2:29:14 GMT -5
Dragon Riders of Pern, anyone? I haven't read it, but I will if I find it.
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Post by | | Fudgey | | on May 28, 2007 2:48:15 GMT -5
No actually, although like you - if I see it, I will get it. Do you know what the first one is called?
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Post by ask on May 28, 2007 2:54:03 GMT -5
Wiki it?
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Post by | | Fudgey | | on May 28, 2007 3:45:17 GMT -5
Ah! The luffly Wiki. From Wikipedia:
"Pern is a planet inhabited by humans. The original colonists were reduced to a low level of technology by periodic onslaughts of deadly Thread raining down from the sky. By harnessing the indigenous flying, fire-breathing dragons, humanity finally managed to gain the upper hand. The dragons, with their human riders, destroyed the Thread in the skies over Pern before they were able to burrow into the land and breed. However, an unusually long interval between attacks, centuries in duration, has caused the general population to gradually dismiss the threat and withdraw support from the Weyrs where dragons are bred and trained. By the time of this novel, only one Weyr remains (the other five having mysteriously disappeared at the same time in the last quiet interval), maintaining a precarious hand-to-mouth existence.
Dragons are telepathic; each bonds to a single human being when first hatched. They come in various colors which are generally correlated with their size, blue, green, brown, bronze and gold queens. Bronzes, as the largest males, are by tradition the only ones who compete to win the queens in their mating flights. Queens, however, are always the largest dragons. As their human counterparts are linked mind-to-mind, they also mate at these times.
Dragonflight chronicles the story of Lessa, the sole survivor of the noble ruling family of Ruatha Hold on the northern continent of Pern. When the rest of her family was killed by a cruel usurper, Fax, she survived by disguising herself as a drudge (a menial servant).
F'lar, wingleader at Benden Weyr and rider of the bronze dragon Mnementh, finds Lessa while Searching for candidates to Impress the Queen egg that is about to hatch. After defeating Fax in single combat (following the rules of the Pernese code duello), F'lar convinces Lessa to give up her birthright as Lord Holder of Ruatha Hold and join him at Benden Weyr. Lessa Impresses the Queen dragonet Ramoth and becomes the Weyrwoman, the new co-leader of the last active Weyr. On Ramoth's first mating flight, Mnementh is the only dragon able to catch her. By Weyr tradition, this makes F'lar the Weyrleader.
Together, Lessa and F'lar warn a dangerously unprepared Pern of the upcoming Thread scourge. They revitalize the Weyr and start working closely with the Lord Holders and the Harpers to prevent the deadly rain of Thread from destroying the Pernese civilization."
And you'll have to read it to see what happens next...^^
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Post by stormphrax on May 28, 2007 4:49:52 GMT -5
You just told us the end!
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Post by | | Fudgey | | on May 28, 2007 5:06:57 GMT -5
Oops. I didn't see that. I'll um......edit it slightly.
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Post by pandaxbear on Jun 11, 2007 13:39:43 GMT -5
I have never even heard of POTC. Has anyone ever watched Just Cause *shivers* I might just be to young but that movie creeped me out.
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Post by kittywinkins on Jun 11, 2007 13:46:09 GMT -5
I have seen POTC 3. And I don't like it.
The acting was very unsatisfactory, the relationship between Elizabeth and Will was completely fake, and they didn't spend enough time at the end of the world. The only good things about that movie was Johnny Depp being.. wel,, Johnny Depp, and the cool sea battles. I could have benifited just as well without seeing it.
Has anyone ever seen Children of Men? Now there's a good movie. Really well filmed, great plot idea, -rambles on-
I am looking forward slightly to Harry Potter 7, just because I am intregued to see how the heck J. K. Rowling will manage to wrap all these lost ends up into one book.
The one movie that came out this summer(Okay, spring) That I really did enjoy seeing was Spiderman 3.
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Post by pandaxbear on Jun 11, 2007 15:05:30 GMT -5
Now I know what you were talking about POTCxp. And I haven't watched either one. I still have to read The Order of Phonix but my dad has read all of them.
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Post by stormphrax on Jun 11, 2007 15:09:26 GMT -5
I really enjoyed POTC3 although the relationship was kinda fake. Still, i didn't care, because I watch it for the sea-battles. I also liked the East India Trading Company, they were my favourates, 'specially Benett.
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