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[Janus]

Hahahaha! Grabe si Maria.. Wag ka kasing magulo Rollie.
Maria, please tell me now, magluluksa ba ko sa huli ng Hallowed? :'(

[Rollie]

Janus: Manghihinayang ka pera mo sa end. :'(
Joke. :)

[Janus]

*back hand slaps Rollie* tama si Maria, wala kang galang! hahahaha!

[Rollie]

Ouch! :D

[Angel / YA rules!/]

is it me or mga brutal na mga tao dito??? =) ganyan din ba sa mga F2Fs? hehehe...

[K.D.]

Carino brutal :)

[Maria]

reading about Tucker will never be a waste of money! LOL

Janus, keep going. i don't want to spoil you. kaya mo yan! :)

Angel, salbahe tlg mga tao dito. lalo na sa F2F. wahahaha! Punta ka upcoming F2F natin ha? *winks*

[K.D.]

Pag F2F, salbahe ako...

Sa fud!!!!

Kinakain ko lahat ng interesting na nasa menu hak hak.

Sa totoo lang, parang walang nagaaway lately. Dapat mo silang i-provoke, Maria!!! hak hak. Pero in a nice way... nami-miss ko ang Kristel vs Jzhun sa 1984. Yon talaga ang mainitang pagtatalo.

[Angel / YA rules!/]

Maria wrote: "reading about Tucker will never be a waste of money! LOL

Janus, keep going. i don't want to spoil you. kaya mo yan! :)

Angel, salbahe tlg mga tao dito. lalo na sa F2F. wahahaha! Punta ka upcoming..."

i keep looking at the dates nga and hoping i can go... ='( ...but hopefully i'll get to join you guys in the far future... =)

[Angel / YA rules!/]

K.D. wrote: "Pag F2F, salbahe ako...

Sa fud!!!!

Kinakain ko lahat ng interesting na nasa menu hak hak.

Sa totoo lang, parang walang nagaaway lately. Dapat mo silang i-provoke, Maria!!! hak hak. Pero in a nic..."

magkakasundo tayo... nyam, nyam... =)

[Maria]

KD, mahirap maghanap ng opposition sa LOTR eh. pansin mo naman db. :)

[K.D.]

Onga. I think this will be a singing-hosannah to Tolkien event!

Well, aside from discussing how brilliant is the book, who are the current authors that he influenced, his writing style, his life and all the rest.

Paging Patrick, sana mag-join ka? Magpapa-1000 signatures kami para i-petition na magkaroon ng standard bearer ang opposition party. Ikaw yon!

[Charles]

K.D. wrote: Well, aside from discussing how brilliant is the book, who are the current authors that he influenced, his writing style, his life and all the rest.


Mahabang sagot 'yan K.D. >.<

After the cult success of the Lord of the Rings (to the point that it was originally pirated in the US), there was a gap in "adult fantasy" for a few decades before Del Rey decided to release two Lord of the Rings derivatives, namely The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks and Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen R. Donaldson (both are trilogies). The book also significantly influenced the tabletop RPG Dungeons & Dragons (in fact it had to rename Hobbits to Halflings, Ents to Treants, to avoid copyright infringement) which in turn influenced a lot of readers and gamers (including Japan which would draw a lot of influence from D&D-type fantasy).

Suffice to say, modern "high fantasy" or "epic fantasy" is patterned after Lord of the Rings, which explains the proliferation of derivative tropes like elves = archers/nature, or dwarves = greedy/smiths/mountain-folk. It is also the reason why a lot of fantasy books are "trilogies" (sometimes even if there are more than/less than three books in a series).

It wasn't until recent epic fantasy starting with Robert Jordan that that specific pattern started to be broken and we start to encounter different kinds of high fantasy, at least as far as popular works are concerned.

The noteworthy peers of Tolkien was C.S. Lewis. They were in fact good friends (both were from Oxford) but had opposite views on women. Tolkien for example nurtured female scholars while Lewis didn't even think they were worth educating until late in his life. (More thorough breakdown can be found at http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.as..., last footnote)

[K.D.]

Charles, now I can't wait to meet you. Such a very informative impressive response. You seem to be a very knowledgeable young man. Ikaw na ang apo ni Tolkien!!! :)

[anarki]

Done with:

Now reading: The Gun Seller
by Hugh Laurie.

[Tricia]

Still stuck at Two Towers. Kung kelan exciting part na, dun pa di makapagbasa dahil sa work. Hehe!

[Malot]

Done reading

Now going back to

[K.D.]

Maldita, that second book is good!

[Heldervert]

malot, tapos ko na rin game of thrones...pareho na tayo binabasa...

[Malot]

@K.D. if it's from K.D's recom, it must be good (SEIKO FILMS) hahhaha!! Yup! Nasa part pa lang ako ng kina Esmeralda and Carlos story.

It's nice to read na nasa familiar setting coz you dont need to imagine "the coldness of winter" thing na nababasa mo sa ibang libro. Hehehe.

@Heldervert: eyyy di ko pa nababasa yan. Really wanted to. =) Grabe ang bilis kasi ng production ng mga good books, hindi ako makahabol.

[Heldervert]

Malot, ganda ng GOT, me book ka naman ata na nun, parang nakita ko sa collection mo hehe,,,ganda,,,

[Malot]

Yup meron nga buong series. Dont worry nasa TBR ko na yan. After the elephants and kikomachine komix, try ko isunod ang GOT. I even have the pc game. Hahahah!!!

[K.D.]

Maldita, sus. Stalker! Joke :) Thanks for checking my read folder. I liked that book. I remember I enjoyed reading some parts of it. I still remember that the characters are hiding in the basement of a big house owned by a mayaman na ale. Tas wala na silang makain hak hak.

[Malot]

Hahahah!!! Yup. Hindi ko akalain na napaka-interesting ng "The Elephants.."

I am really enjoying this book. =)

[Heldervert]

na ke alejando pa lang ako hehe...e joy ms malot..ay maldita pala...

[Malot]

Na kay Isabelle na ako. Action movie naman ngayon. Kaloka tong librong toh. Parang karinderya, lahat ng ulam naka-offer hahaha

[Heldervert]

ganun?? hehe gNda nga..HB kasi sya kaya di ko madala office...gabi ko lng sya binabasa

[Krizia Anna]

Abridged!

I'll start this today and start posting on the buddy reads thread on Monday! :)

[K.D.]

Ikaw na ang advance hak hak.

Ako tatapusin ko muna ang "The Executioner's Song" tomorrow. Then review, then start right away ng Del Monte Kristo" hak hak

[Jeng]

reading

[Adrianne]

i'm currently reading fifty shades of grey and uhmm.. I don't know if i love this because I can't stop reading or I hate this because I keep ranting about the characters on twitter. 0_0

i'm also reading i've got your number on paper back and the happiness project on my ipad whenever I feel a little down.

[Mae]

Currently reading:

Liking it so far.

Adrianne wrote: "i'm currently reading fifty shades of grey and uhmm.. I don't know if i love this because I can't stop reading or I hate this because I keep ranting about the chara..."

I saw an episode of Girls (HBO) where they use the term hate read. It's when you hate a book (or some aspects of it, at least) but couldn’t help reading it all the way through. :)

[Adrianne]

Mae wrote: "Currently reading:

Liking it so far.

Adrianne wrote: "i'm currently reading fifty shades of grey and uhmm.. I don't know if i love this because I can't stop reading ..."

Well then this is the perfect example of that hate read thing. Lol i also have a copy of the two other books from the trilogy and i feel a little excited over it but at the same time i just want to delete it from my ibooks shelf :))

[K.D.]

Adrianne, I saw that that "Shades of Gray" is now a trilogy and it has its own shelves sa FB The Block! Omaygad. Bestseller na and all but I have not read those yet. Nahuhuli na ako! Mahal kasi tsaka baka hype lang. Minsan nakaka-disappoint pag di maganda. :)

[Angel / YA rules!/]

K.D. wrote: "Adrianne, I saw that that "Shades of Gray" is now a trilogy and it has its own shelves sa FB The Block! Omaygad. Bestseller na and all but I have not read those yet. Nahuhuli na ako! Mahal kasi tsa..."

are you sure you want to read it? i've never encountered a guy who liked it... they'd even go as far as to say they hate it... =)

[K.D.]

Really?

I have foreigner GR male friends who rated this with 4 or 5 stars. I read the "Twilight" series at the height of its hype. I liked the whole series overall. :)

[Angel / YA rules!/]

K.D. wrote: "Really?

I have foreigner GR male friends who rated this with 4 or 5 stars. I read the "Twilight" series at the height of its hype. I liked the whole series overall. :)"

kasi in one post, ang mga guys puro negative ang mga pinopost... but then, baka nga magustuhan mo din... =)

[K.D.]

Pero sayang kasi ang pera pag di maganda. Hmmm. Iisipin ko pa. Erotica kasi sabi sa likod ng book. Parang ayaw ko munang magbasa ng erotica hak hak.

[Rollie]

KD: Shades of Grey is a porn fan-fiction of Twilight. They said that the writing style of Meyer was imitated, too. You liked Twilight because of father to daughter relationship. I hope that Shades of Grey has retained it for you to like it even though I currently doubt it.

[Angel / YA rules!/]

K.D. wrote: "Pero sayang kasi ang pera pag di maganda. Hmmm. Iisipin ko pa. Erotica kasi sabi sa likod ng book. Parang ayaw ko munang magbasa ng erotica hak hak."

i can send you a pdf copy so you can have a feel of the book before buying the actual thing... i didn't buy the books, someone lent it to me lang e... just give me your e-mail add if you want a copy... =)

[K.D.]

Rollie: Erotica ng father-daughter OMG. Susmaryosep! Wag na! Waagg naaaah! ---> effect ng kakabasa ng Kikomachine hak hak. Kung maka-react.

Angel: No thanks. I don't read pdf. Too strenuous to my aging eyes! I will ask our fellow members during the event on Saturday, sino may ginintuang puso na gustong magpahirap para ma-diss ko itong books na ito pag di maganda hak hak.

[Rollie]

KD: Parang naaapreciate mo na ngayon ang komiks. Kinikilatis mo na rin yung drawing like Ayban and others do. haha.

[K.D.]

Rollie: Tomoh! Magandang magbasa ng komiks kasi mabilis lang tsaka gusto ko yong nakakatawa. Ayaw ko yong nakasakay sa trisikad tapos nakikipagbarilan hak hak.

[Rollie]

Haha. Ano kayang komiks yun? Di naman siguro Zsa Zsa Zaturna. haha.

[K.D.]

Anohfa, eh di yong FHL ni Paolo Fabregas. Ay kampi kami ni Kwesi. May alliance kami against the author hak hak

[Rollie]

Haha! Kala ko Trese. :D

[K.D.]

Hoy anokaba, hindi nagtra-trisikad si Trese. Lumilipad nga yong kambal eh.

[Rollie]

Nakalimtan ko pero mostly kambal yung gumagawa ng action. hehe

[K.D.]

Oo, pinapatira ni Trese sa kanila. Pow! Pong! Bratatatat!!!! Kawpong! Pak!

[Tricia]

KD: anong meron sa FHL? In fairness, parang walang story yung 1st book LOL more of introductions of the characters lang.