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There's no way they can pull off "3001" as a flick. You'd need to make "2061" to explain certain events & that's precluded by the fact that Hyams left out &/or changes major elements of the story.
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I'm inbetween books right now. I finished the Jedi Acedemy series and will start on Jedi Eclipse tommorrow. After that it's the Lord of the Rings series.
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Currently I am reading, The Crystal Shard, Book One of the Icewind Dale Trilogy. Seems so far to be a good book! Also I am reading Novell's CNA Study Guide for NetWare 4.1 (which reminds me I need to get the updated mini book for Netware 5..) --Bradley
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Nothing for fun. Lately, it's all been for my college classes. But I do want to start reading "Flatland" by Edwin A. Abbott. It's an old book, but it seems interesting. And one of these days, I should actually start reading "Childhood's End"
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Supposed to start reading For Whom the Bells Tolls by Ernest hemingway any day now.
Can't wait to get the third book of The Night Dawns trilogy by Peter Richardson (I think) - the first two were better than what was on the TV at the time.
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Tsk, university's really screwed up my nightly reading. Apart from some comics (DragonBall, most of Jenkins Marvel stuff), I haven't read anything apart form the paper for weeks.
The two Dirk Gently books are funnier than the last two Hitch-hiker's books (which were complete drivel), but not as good as the first three (Life, the Universe and Everything being my favourite).
If you liked them, try and pick up "Red Dwarf - Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers" by Grant Naylor. It's not a novelisation as such. It's got the same characters, and some of the same incidents, but it's been greately expanded (for example, Rimmer is actually in charge of a large group of people in "Z shift") and, dare I say it, it's a more "mature" work. That still has fart jokes in it. "Better Than Life" is very funny too. The other two (which are writen by the authors seperatly) aren't as good though.
And to anyone reading the bible, I'll now spoil it. He dies.
But then they pull a deus ex machina, and he comes back. Tsk, and people complain about Jean Grey...
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Well, that's not much of a spoiler. I mean, if you're reading it straight through, there's LOTS of foreshadowing. Any moron could see it coming.
As for "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish", and "Mostly Harmless", you're right. Drivel in the highest degree.
And while I've got you, Liam, check your ICQ, wudja? I've had an authorization request waiting for about a month now...
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Unless, of course, you hold to the theory where he didn't die, and ran off to France with Mary Magdelena or whatever and had a family. Interesting stuff, what with the whole 'Holy Grail' being, in fact, sang royal, the royal bloodline. Jesus of reality is much cooler than that of faith. He gets some.
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"Satan has a powerful hand in the Roman Empire..."
I enjoyed that quite a bit. I'm disturbed that there are games like this.
BTW, what would: A) These 'things' be? B) That giant target be for?http://www.catechumen.com/images/sshot16.jpg
BTW, it's neat to see it's "family approved" when it's nothing more than a Christianized Doom. Of course, Doom was satanic. Or just bad. One of the two.
------------------ "...Well, we're about to witness All-in Wrestling, brought to you tonight, ladies and gentlemen, by the makers of Scum�, the world's first combined hair oil, foot ointment, and salad dressing; and by the makers of Titan�, the novelty nuclear missile. You never know when it'll go off!" - Monty Python, Live at the Hollywood Bowl. *ahem*
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