Tassie Dave’s
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(group member since Mar 27, 2011)
Tassie Dave’s
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So tell me what you want, what you really, really wantI wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha)
I wanna really, really, really wanna .....
Scary Yoda
My favourites last year:The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
and it's sequel The Fated Sky
Red Sister by Mark Lawrence
and it's 2 sequels Grey Sister and Holy Sister and Novella Bound
The Murders of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson
It's sequel The Survival of Molly Southbourne
Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson
Trike wrote: "Besides, it’s not about winning or losing, it’s about how you play the game, giving 110%, leaving it all out on the field, good sportsmanship and a fifth sports analogy I can’t think of just now."Nobody remembers who finished second, but the person who finished second.
The trouble with being a good sport is that you have to lose to prove it.
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
;-)
Silvana wrote: "Tassie Dave wrote: "Why not here? We are an online book club and the series is popular here."Maybe some people have not finished the books? "
If enough people were interested they could have a thread for each book.
I have only read Leviathan Wakes. I will, more than likely, read the full series when the TV show is finished.
Why not here? We are an online book club and the series is popular here.
Sword: 14/12 (117% Complete)Laser: 17/12 (142% Complete)
Some of my favourites over the years:The Belgariad by David & Leigh Eddings
A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
Milkweed Triptych by Ian Tregillis
First Law World by Joe Abercrombie
The Gentlemen Bastards by Scott Lynch
Powder Mage series by Brian McClellan
Shannara series by Terry Brooks
Remembrance of Earth's Past by Liu Cixin
The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
The Dark Tower by Stephen King
The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club by Theodora Goss
Bobiverse by Dennis E. Taylor
Lady Astronaut by Mary Robinette Kowal
Helliconia by Brian Aldiss
Saga of the Exiles by Julian May
Riverworld by Philip Jose Farmer
Memory, Sorrow & Thorn by Tad Williams
Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien
Dune by Frank Herbert
Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen R. Donaldson
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Lensman by E.E.Smith
I forgot about the Scout Troopers doing a bit of target shooting.That was funny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MF3M...
Mark wrote: "Tassie Dave wrote: "Mark wrote: "Fall 2020Only 3 months to go ;-)"
oops
Northern Hemisphere Fall 2020"
I was just joking, obviously we don't have Fall. We have Autumn :-)
Mark wrote: "Fall 2020Only 3 months to go ;-)
Welcome Dhesan.Joe Abercrombie writes great morally ambiguous characters in his "First Law World" series. Staring with The Blade Itself
https://www.goodreads.com/series/1502...
I hope all this happens in my lifetime. We have been promised a return to the moon for too long.It shouldn't entirely rely on NASA and its, 'insanely', limited budget and we can do it as a world project (governments and private companies)
"For All Mankind" has gotten me re-excited for a moon base. They have one in the middle of the 1970s (as well as the Russkis) and are up to Apollo 25? I don't think we got a mission name and number for that big ass plutonium rocket at the end.
The Mandalorian stuck the landing in the Season finale, with some pretty big reveals.Bring of Season 2.
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Dec 26, 2019 11:56AM
Mark wrote: "Jaskier has a celebrity fanhttps://twitter.com/mrsifaith/status/..."
People over 50 have poor taste in music ;-)
Except me :-)
This is now live. As of the 24th of December.It is just re-runs of older cartoons, for now. But their is the promise of new material from Gary Larson.
TheFarSide.com offers a deep dive into Gary’s offbeat sense of humor with The Daily Dose, an ever-changing, random selection of cartoons. Comic Collections offer a different themed collection of his classic cartoons updated weekly. You’ll also find exclusive, never-before-seen extras such as sketches straight from Gary’s personal Sketchbooks. And finally, beginning in 2020, and commemorating the fortieth anniversary of The Far Side, we will periodically unveil new work by the man himself! In truth, we really have no idea what might show up. But, on the other hand, what’s changed?
https://www.thefarside.com/
A letter from Gary Larson:
https://www.thefarside.com/about/48/a...
Ok it's back, but the first 2 episodes have been a little too TV trope-y for my liking. For something that isn't Disney, it's feeling very Disney so far on S2.
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Dec 23, 2019 09:39PM
I never felt that. I don't see Geralt as old. He is a very manly man.By the time Yennefer meets Geralt she is portrayed as a very strong woman who does what she wants. The characters are both much older than normal humans. In the books Yennefer is about a decade older than Geralt. They are both around 100 years old.
If he'd got it on with Piglet it might have "squicked" me out ;-)
It has been a great decade for SFF. A few not mentioned yet.Drama series:
The Man in the High Castle
His Dark Materials
Watchmen
For All Mankind
The Rain
Witcher
Westworld
Counterpart
Humans
Agent Carter
The Returned (French version "Les Revenants")
Comedies:
What We Do in the Shadows
The Last Man on Earth
Misfits
Russian Doll
Animated:
Disenchantment
Love, Death & Robots
Rick & Morty
Undone
Legend Of Korra
I didn't join Goodreads until March 2011, but I was reading along with the group since January 2009 and I was a member of the Ning forum.
Dec 22, 2019 12:54PM
The 3 separate timelines, for each main character, threw me for a bit in the first 4 episodes.I expect they will come together in the second half of the season.
