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Caitlan
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Jun 07, 2013 04:28PM
Lies! Number three is the lie! I don't yet have a skateboarding jacket, though I'm planning on making one soon.
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My turn!!1.) I recently became addicted to Lord of the Rings, as well as The Hobbit. (Both the books and the movies.)
2.) I am currently in Maui, but am not allowed to do anything but sit around and play Tetris and check Goodreads because I am sick.
3.) I have shinguard rashes and purple toenails from my soccer tournament last weekend.
Yeah I think #1 is the lie as well.
#1 - Undoubtedly Kyra has been addicted for a while, and being addicted to both the books and the movies is not really possible.
2, actually. I'm not in Maui until next week.I am addicted to the movies and books as two separate stories entirely. I just pretend that they are separate to avoid enraging myself; and once I've done that, they both seem just fine to me.
Addicted and intensely love are two different things, though. XD
Ah, dangit! I almost put that one for just that reason!
Odd, I was supposed to answer 2, but chose not to because I thought I'm wrong again harhar
LOL, yeah. It seems to have even tripped Guy up. And that's pretty hard to do. XD
LoL! Kyra, you are young still. My getting tripped up is the norm of my existence. But I am mostly able to fake may way out of it.
Well, then, if that's true, you must be pretty good at faking it. You've had me stumped for over a year. XD
LOL! I will take that as high praise for my fakery, given how bright you are. Of course, I have the advantage of posting through these little windows, which makes it easier.Also, I came from a perniciously co-dependent family. Fakery within it was the key to survival.
1) I've only seen the later seasons of Monk.2) I just won five games in row, three of a verbal game and two different strategy games.
3) My halfling avenger doesn't know he has magic power.
Kyra wrote: "2, actually. I'm not in Maui until next week.I am addicted to the movies and books as two separate stories entirely. I just pretend that they are separate to avoid enraging myself; and once I've ..."
Aw! That would have been my second choice!
Edward: Hmm number 2 but partially because I am not sure what number 3 is! lol.
'Tis about my Dungeons & Dragons role playing character. I created a halfling character (Dannad Huriel) who didn't know he had powers, but that's still the lie. Dannad wasn't an avenger, but an ardent (someone who psychically inspires allies to improve their skills). It was rather funny, really; he seemed to just be a little guy wildly swinging a mace around and doing little damage, when he was actually keeping everyone else fighting at their peak.An avenger, in case you're interested, is a divinely powered ... avenger. They are given abilities that help hunt down whoever has severely breached their god's edicts.
Interesting. I've always been curious to play Dungeons and Dragons. Unfortunately, no other girls seem willing to play, and no other boys like playing with girls. XD
That's just silly; I've been trying to get a couple of girls to play with me for a long time. There's just the little problem of a couple thousand miles seperating us.Saira plays with us, though her role playing skills are a bit weak. She does pick strong characters, though.
My brother is pretty much the only boy I know willing to play Dungeons and Dragons with me. Whenever I propose it to any other boys I know, they just kind of look at each other like, "Girls play D and D...?"It's almost funny how stereotypical my school is. XD
Huh, thanks Belly. I'll have to look into that.
I never thought about something like that!!! Heading over there now...
1. When I read a story, I usually read the first paragraph, then go to the last paragraph and read the story in reverse order of paragraphs.2. I read novels in a foreign language while I drive.
3. The first thing I turn to in the newspaper every morning is the obituaries.
I have to admit, #1 does seem unlikely, doesn’t it?
Actually, #3 is the lie. I haven’t read newspapers in years.
M, you are the only person I know who reads the ending of a story before the beginning!
He mentioned this once before... I think he reads novels this way, too. Is that right??
Haha!! M, have you ever had a psychologist? Several people have actually recommended that I see one. Is it an indication that I do need one if I find that somewhat flattering?
Kyra, I've always wanted to play D&D too, but there's no one where I live to play it with. :P
Both of y'all could join a game with me and another friend on that website, perhaps ... If we can all find the time.
Kyra, about four years ago I shelled out some money to see a clinical psychologist. It was worth every cent. I learned more about myself in an hour and a half than I could have found out on my own in years. I think of psychologists as a rich person’s luxury, like leasing a Ferrari. To me, it isn’t a question of whether it’s worth it, but of expendable cash.I don’t have the attention span to read more than two or three paragraphs. Often I have to make several attempts at a paragraph that’s long and tedious. It’s an irony that I have two degrees in English and spent three years in a Ph.D. program in English, for all practical purposes unable to read the assignments, which often amounted to hundreds of pages a night. I found ways around doing the reading. I managed to get a master’s degree without writing a thesis, but it caught up with me in the doctoral program, when I was faced with writing a dissertation. Years later, I went to see a clinical psychologist to find out why I couldn’t read.
Belly, it isn’t what I’d call a sore spot, but it was a puzzle to me for a long time--I mean, the very fact of it. As you can imagine, I don’t often read novels. A few years ago, I read The Lord of the Rings. It took me over a week to read it. I read it forwards rather than backwards; but a few months ago, when I read DuMaurier’s Rebecca, I read that from back to front. I have no idea why.
I read it in an afternoon. It isn’t very long; and I knew the story already, so it wasn’t as though I had to figure out what had happened in it.
I have mixed feelings about The Lord of the Rings. Dad had read it and talked a great deal about it, and was reading The Silmarillion. The writing and landscapes appealed to me, but I found the characters uninteresting and the story pointless.
I read Rebecca because I loved the writing in it. Ordinarily, though, I can’t imagine wasting time reading a novel when I can read a summary of it instead.
That was an intriguing story about the reading and the psychologist, M. Thanks for sharing it.The only character in Lord of the Rings that I didn't like was Frodo. I thought the rest were interesting enough to carry the story, if a bit overtly archetypal - which I always found a bit ironic, given that Tolkein hated allegory, but danced very close to edge of one with all his characters.
One problem a lot of people have with it is that they think it is cliched because of hundreds of carbon copies on the shelves - even if they tell themselves it is the original that most of those derive themselves from, it's hard for them to experience as new.
The only problem I had with the Lord of the Rings books was the lack of wit, though even that wasn't completely absent. The only stories I have trouble reading are the ones that aren't funny (or try to hard to be funny).
I'm not sure if I was really on topic there, but to be fair I just woke up.
I saw the LOTR movies and then read the books, which I think was probably better for me because Tolkien didn't work very hard on character development, which is what I'm most interested in. He had the general species traits down pat, but all the elves seemed to act the same way, and (almost) all the hobbits, and so on. There were very diverse species,but very few individuals within their species struck me as particularly interesting.In the movies, though, there is a little bit more diversity. You can see the characters are a little bit more well-rounded, for the most part. And I can put a face to the name, which is nice, because Tolkien also failed to give thorough descriptions of what most of his characters looked like. And then, reading the books, I could understand the motives of the character more, when I'd failed to understand why they did something in the movie.
This is pretty much the entire reason why I've bothered with the books and the movies together; otherwise, I would probably be content with just one.
Belly wrote: "M wrote: "Ordinarily, though, I can’t imagine wasting time reading a novel when I can read a summary of it instead."That statement is quite alien to me. I love to read novels."
Agreed!!! M, I'm sorry, I find it hard to agree with you on that front. Summaries seem so bland to me.
LOL, that is true. So apparently, I'm not the only one with the opinion.(shakes head) Poor M. You seem like the kind of person who would enjoy a good novel.
I definitely do! It's simply a rare occasion that I have the concentration to get through one.I wish they would develop freeze-dried, compacted health food, so that all I had to do was take a pill, and in my stomach it would swell up into an entire lunch. (Think how painful an overdose would be, though!)
My idea of health food: Meat, dairy, vegetables (more or less in that order). My idea of unhealthy food: Wheat, sugar, and artificial junk (no particular order). No need for freeze-dried food there.
1. I've been away from the group too long!2. I'm going into my senior year of high school.
3. I did NOT miss this group.
This one better be easy guys ;D
I’m going to flip a coin, but first I have to find one that has three sides.
Haha M!!Three is the obviously correct answer. :)
