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Re: INCUNABULUM

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 3:29 pm
by Perry Lassiter
OTHOH Doug Adams was great. Re-read most of the trilogy, and at one point had the game. Got stuck when I couldn't come up with the password for the screening door.

Re: INCUNABULUM

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 7:08 pm
by LukeJavan8
OHTHO ???

Re: INCUNABULUM

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 8:23 pm
by Slava
OHTHO ???
Perhaps OTOH, on the other hand?

Re: INCUNABULUM

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 10:45 pm
by Perry Lassiter
Yup. Brain burped!

Re: INCUNABULUM

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 11:17 pm
by misterdoe
Luke, you're verging dangerously near to invoking the sparkling. I beg you not to do this.
I was referring to the "Twilight" saga.
Auugh! He said it! Auugh! :wink:

I could do without all the vampires, myself. Though the story behind what inspired Bram Stoker to create his Dracula can be interesting for a history buff. One major element, but not the only one: Vlad IV "the Impaler," a *ahem* bloodthirsty Romanian warlord. Specifically, a Transylvanian warlord. Nicknamed Dracula, or "little dragon," after his father Vlad III Dracul.

Re: INCUNABULUM

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 12:05 am
by gailr
Luke, you're verging dangerously near to invoking the sparkling. I beg you not to do this.
I was referring to the "Twilight" saga.
Auugh! He said it! Auugh! :wink:
I know.
And after I begged him so politely to *not*. Well, I see how it is around here these days... :wink:

Luke: The meyerpires 'sparkle' which [again, imho] doesn't generate fear so much as snorting coffee out one's nose. I also omitted mentioning the Pedophilia!Daddy Issues! lietmotifs in my 30-second critique/rant above. Carl Sagan wrote, "In a novel of ideas, the ideas have to make sense." Internal consistency is wholly lacking in this series, which sets it a long ways apart from the "classics" of the vampire genre. Also, the shocking blue eyes are a feature in Underworld. The sparkling's eyes are red (eeeeevil) or gold (angelic marble cupcake adonis good guys).

Also also, regarding literary trilogies: Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide is marketed as a five-volumn trilogy. Dirk Gently is sometimes referred to as a two-volume trilogy. I don't mind when a talented writer puts an unexpected twist on a prosaic word. I mind it a great deal when I get the impression the writer doesn't understand the meaning of the words s/he uses.

Re: INCUNABULUM

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 12:17 pm
by LukeJavan8
Gotcha! ! !Thanks.

Re: INCUNABULUM

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 3:18 pm
by LukeJavan8
And Sorry I mentioned the "unmentionable".

Re: INCUNABULUM

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 9:10 pm
by gailr
^ Clearly, it's not. :wink:

Go ahead and read 'em if you like; it's a fascinating look into a very...odd...mind. I just wanted to 'warn' you!

Re: INCUNABULUM

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 10:42 pm
by LukeJavan8
No, I'm appreciative, really.
I am not into that series, at all. It's for the
younger crowd, like Star Wars was for me at that age.

Re: INCUNABULUM

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 12:06 am
by Philip Hudson
Luke: You must be a young sprout. I was already in my dotage when Star Wars came along.

Re: INCUNABULUM

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 12:56 am
by Slava
Luke: You must be a young sprout. I was already in my dotage when Star Wars came along.
Wow, I'd sure like to hear your definition of dotage. Star Wars came along some 36 years ago. I know you are a Senior Lexiterian, but I did not know we had any centenarians or even nearly such in our midst. :P

Re: INCUNABULUM

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 1:07 am
by Philip Hudson
Dotage sets in early for some of us.

Re: INCUNABULUM

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 6:04 am
by MTC
Those youthful souls born since the advent of the "Dot.Coms" are said to be in their "dotage." A dot means a lot.

Re: INCUNABULUM

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 11:44 am
by LukeJavan8
I wonder about my 'dotage' - FDR was president
(albeit only for six days) when I was born.
Senior Lexi: I blab a lot. {Actually I passed that
a long time ago too, I'm a Grand Pan, with out
the pipeflute}