I think i am one of the lucky few who have got to read "I am Legend". believe me, it's a BRILLIANT vampire allegory....
i am waiting for a philip k dick haul. haven't read any pkd at all....tried reading "A Scanner Darkly" when i was in 9th, gave up after the first 3 pages.
do try and read Mists of Avalon. it's a brilliant retelling of the Arthurian saga from the point of view of Morgan le Fay, the Lady of the Lake and Guinevere. Try reading it with Lorenna McKennit playing in the background...gives u goosepimples.
1. Go to http://www.livejournal.com/allpics.bml?user=veenven 2. Click on 'uploading a new picture' and upload a new one 3. Give it a name. Give all your pics a name. You can do this by clicking on 'editing your picture keywords'. 4. How do you post ? If you use a downloadable client (I'm using sema), click on the 'picture to use' option and select the keyword you want.
I suspect your problem could be just with option 4.
Alternately, you can directly go to 'editing your pics' and give a name to your two pics (say 'hobo' and 'paws'). Choose the one you want while posting.
Will do, re: Mists of Avalon. I'm wary of buying fantasy books though, having been bitten badly in the past. I should probably join up some library nearby...
er..who is Lorenna McKennit ? No, don't tell me. I'll find out.
But hush, it's a crime to profess such things out in the open, where I'm at. Oh well, what the Gehenna, I'll go ahead and say the feeling is mutual. So there!
What's sad is reading all the titles that I looked at when I was 10 and used to sit in the library's sci-fi section mulling over what to take out. I always meant to get Stranger in a Strange Land but never did.
Nice to have a list of good stories compiled like that. I haven't read a good sci-fantasy in quite some time. Sword of Shannara was the last one. I tried reading some of the other books by Terry Brooks after that, but he was simply spinning the same yarn over and over again, with Druids and Elves and whatnot basically trying to leverage on the success of the Sword of Shannara. Since that is one of the last books on the list, and the first two are my all time favourites, I really should take a look at all the others. Too bad Watership Down didn't make it though.
I've read 'Maia' by Richard Adams. It's a decent book. But unlike Watership Down, it has Adult Content in it. One distinguishing feature of it is that it is the biggest non-trilogy book that I have ever read. It's about a village girl who becomes a slave girl who eventually becomes the heroine of the entire land.
ok techie question coming up - completely unrelated to your post though.
ReplyDeleteHow do you use different userpics for different posts/comments? when i changed my userpic all my posts got changed into the new one.
i scored 22. :-)
ReplyDeleteI think i am one of the lucky few who have got to read "I am Legend". believe me, it's a BRILLIANT vampire allegory....
i am waiting for a philip k dick haul. haven't read any pkd at all....tried reading "A Scanner Darkly" when i was in 9th, gave up after the first 3 pages.
do try and read Mists of Avalon. it's a brilliant retelling of the Arthurian saga from the point of view of Morgan le Fay, the Lady of the Lake and Guinevere. Try reading it with Lorenna McKennit playing in the background...gives u goosepimples.
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=95
ReplyDelete1. Go to http://www.livejournal.com/allpics.bml?user=veenven
ReplyDelete2. Click on 'uploading a new picture' and upload a new one
3. Give it a name. Give all your pics a name. You can do this by clicking on 'editing your picture keywords'.
4. How do you post ? If you use a downloadable client (I'm using sema), click on the 'picture to use' option and select the keyword you want.
I suspect your problem could be just with option 4.
Alternately, you can directly go to 'editing your pics' and give a name to your two pics (say 'hobo' and 'paws'). Choose the one you want while posting.
Let me know if you get stuck
Thanks a lot. I just typed out a long response and posted it, to find your short, to the point and teaching-her-to-fish answer.
ReplyDeleteDid I ever tell you I love you ?
Will do, re: Mists of Avalon. I'm wary of buying fantasy books though, having been bitten badly in the past. I should probably join up some library nearby...
ReplyDeleteer..who is Lorenna McKennit ? No, don't tell me. I'll find out.
Aww... shucks. You read too much into it.
ReplyDeleteBut hush, it's a crime to profess such things out in the open, where I'm at.
Oh well, what the Gehenna, I'll go ahead and say the feeling is mutual. So there!
madhavn thank you for the step-by-step, methodical and very helpful (and forward looking) approach to my ignorance.
ReplyDeletemujibmk thank you for assuming i can read, even though i dont know where to look for answers :p
Nice. I'm woefully behind. I score only 7/50 & 2/10. 3 more have been on my to-read-when-I-get-time pile for quite a while.
ReplyDeleteWhat's sad is reading all the titles that I looked at when I was 10 and used to sit in the library's sci-fi section mulling over what to take out. I always meant to get Stranger in a Strange Land but never did.
ReplyDeleteSlaughterhouse 5 counts as sci-fi?
Nice to have a list of good stories compiled like that. I haven't read a good sci-fantasy in quite some time. Sword of Shannara was the last one. I tried reading some of the other books by Terry Brooks after that, but he was simply spinning the same yarn over and over again, with Druids and Elves and whatnot basically trying to leverage on the success of the Sword of Shannara. Since that is one of the last books on the list, and the first two are my all time favourites, I really should take a look at all the others. Too bad Watership Down didn't make it though.
ReplyDeleteWatership Down may not quite fit into the classical definition of fantasy fiction, I guess.
ReplyDeleteIts one of my all time favorites too.
Any idea how Richard Adams' other books are? I remember seeing one named "Sharduk"...about a bear, I guess.
ReplyDeleteI tried reading the bear one, couldn't progress beyond the first few pages. I still have it with me, should retry one of these days
ReplyDeleteI also read Tales From Watership Down, a collection of short stories mainly about El-Ahraira (sp?). 'Twas ok, nothing great.
I've read 'Maia' by Richard Adams. It's a decent book. But unlike Watership Down, it has Adult Content in it. One distinguishing feature of it is that it is the biggest non-trilogy book that I have ever read. It's about a village girl who becomes a slave girl who eventually becomes the heroine of the entire land.
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