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I got to take a look at the 5 book index you have in the club files and I noticed a few little errors and one addition that you might want to add to it. The...
Thanks for that. We'll get around to ammending it in time. We have some of the other material somewhere. I never got to see the digest Tangler gun material....
Glad to have helped. The only other bits of Ringworld RPG material that Chaosium released were: Diffrent Wolds issue #29 had a preview of the Ringworld RPG....
After relooking at the Gauss Weapons from the Chaosium Digest the other day I rembered the Guide to Larry Niven's Ringworld, by Kevin Stein has an entry for...
I've just reread Ringworld and RW Engineers, just starting on RW Throne and I'm amazed at how much I had forgotten. I had these memories that just don't tie...
It's like that with all books. Just about every novel I've re-read (three or more times, in some cases) throws-up things I'd forgotten or merely acknowledged,...
Hello, Though it is not usually true, there has been several cases where books, or my memory of them, have been ruined by a re-read. This seems to be true of...
Amen! I've talked people into buying books based upon my retelling of the story, and they've been royally upset when they read the book and it's nothing like I...
... That's been my experience too. Case in point: I read Dune for the first time when I was about 12 or 13 and it seemed very deep and mysterious to me at the...
... This goes the same for me. Many of the books that I read and enjoyed as a teenager have not aged well. While I still enjoy the occasional re-read, they...
John Raner wrote: <snipz> ... I still enjoyed "Willows" the last time I re-read it (a few years ago), but as a US native rather than a Brit, perhaps the...
... I am a U.S. native, as well :) ... The books that I read as a child and enjoyed, I always enjoy re-reading. My original point was that certain children's...
... Ooops, I guess I ASSumed with the ".uk" origin of the list that most of the members would also be UK based. Apologies. ... I tried reading them myself as a...
... I must admit that the originals are written in the literative style of the time of writing. We may have different expectation about the style we want to...
Wasn't that the arguement that Tolkein had with Lewis. Tolkein hated allegory. I remember reading that Tolkein and Lewis challenged each other to write a...
Oh, I've no problem with the language and style; it was the structure and clever-cleverness that suffuses the stories that really grated. Of course, all that...
With regards descriptiveness. I had a problem with the Gormenghast novels. The first novel bore me witless. I never returned to it. Yet I somehow battled...
... I had the exactly same problem. By conisidence I saw a stage play of the novel as I was about to give it up. It was fantastic - and gave me a better window...
At last! Someone else who shares my view of 'Ringworld Throne'! The book started out well enough, but somehow became an incoherent mess. By the denouement I...
Messagefunny you should all say that about RW Throne. I'm a bit disappointed by it. I've got to the bit where a red herder is exploring a cloud city...
Phew! It's quite a few subjects you touch in this broad literature discussion, but what else is a mailing list for? All very interesting, nontheless, and below...
... I agree. I find it dull as well. I started "The Fellowship of the Ring" 4 or 5 times before I was able to finish it. I have never made it through "The Two ...
Allegory - a parable, fable, metaphor, a story that gives a not so hidden message - as in the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe which was a veiled christian tale...
Al Gore - an avatar, a physical manifestation of the old expression "Stiffer than a man with a 2x4 up his _ _ _." Just my two pence. Joe On Thu, 8 Jan 2004...
... hidden ... veiled ... stronger ... In the case of LoTR, many people have tried to interpret it as allegory. For example that it's alegorising either one of...
Hi All Any of you want the RW RPG and Companion? Someone has contacted me asking if any of you would be interested in buying a copy of the RW RPG boxed set and...
Hmmmm, now that I'm employed, this would be pretty keen. Then again, I have a photocopy, so I'd be happy to have someone who doesn't have it get a copy. J On...
