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    It's more like omniscient narrator who adopts the train of thought and emotions of the character he is following; the book isn't narrated all from the baddies' point of view, in fact more often than not it focuses on the good guys, but when it does shift to the baddies you get a glimpse of how their minds work and why which I find refreshing. Does that make sense?
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    "Everyone on this list,' he said, "is going to regret ever hearing about this class." He walked down the hall, and Phoebe let him go, tears of frustration and shame gathering at the corners of her eyes. She could go in the office and tell someone what just happened. "Generation Dead" by Daniel Waters.
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    Ahem, I misread sowwy! Looking forward to this, I love Moist ()! I, too, thought that Hogfather was a bit of a let-down (Teatime was suitably creepy but that was about it; they got Death COMPLETELY wrong ) so *fingers crossed*... . I suppose that means I'd better get round to reading this (i.e. re-reading most of it & reading the last 50 pages, as you may or may not know my first copy got lost in a thieving accident a few years ago; recently I picked up another but as I can't remember much apart from its brilliance methinks it would be best to begin from scratch again and have done with it).
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    Duck mini spring rolls, butterfly prawn skewers, chinese chicken thighs, mint-choc-chip ice cream with possibility of munchies !!
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    I'm glad I'm not alone and insane for liking Dru, I always found her a fascinating character in much the same way I find Lestat a fascinating character (while mopey Buffy could be likened to a fangless Louis), plus whacko as she was you could tell she truly loved Spike.
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    It's quite alright, one likes to be of service and I know what you mean, I tend to be not too impressed by all-out-evil-without-a-reason bad guys. Of course, people react in different ways to different things life throws their ways which you could say is one way of distinguishing between good and evil people, but I find it hard to believe that anyone may be inherenly evil i.e. born that way so it's good when writers flesh out their baddies (though baddies they are) and allow you to understand when and why they became baddies.
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    I'm a milk hater too but I find coffee/tea make it bearable, I prefer my caffeine black dark as night and sweet as sin but usually have to add milk to cool things down due to morning rush.
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    Though I'm mostly a coffee person I do like a nice cuppa tea, mainly the interesting ones... favourites include: Christmas tea (I wish I could find this in shops, mum gets it in little ribboned sachets in hampers and such, it's gorgeous, tastes a lot like Lebkuchen - spicey German Christmas cookies, with cinnamon in them and all sorts of nice things and icing on top - in a mug), and Twinings Lemon & Ginger/Sweet Fennel.
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    I've never seen Angel but this has pretty much always been my opinion of her in her namesake series. I still love the show because there are so many other people to love: Spike, Oz, Giles, Willow, Anya, Dru (does that make me weird? I just thought she suited Spikey so much more than whiney little witch with a - it's like liking HP though you can't stand Harry, because there's Ron and Hermione and Snape and Dumby et al. to care for.
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    ... don't get me wrong, I love Coupling but... Jeff ----> Lord Vetinari? I hope he gets him right, Vetinari is quite possibly my favourite Discworld character, dialogue-wise. He gets all the best lines!
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    Clever - the reference to Keats's "Ode to a Grecian Urn" is so obvious it becomes subtle again, one could say, and very well handled. I particularly like the second stanza though, I'm not sure if there's any actual direct quotage (I read "Antony and Cleopatra" only once, three years ago) but what with the mentioning of stages and pageants I doubt the Shakespeare allusion is just in my mind - especially as the power that theatre has to immortalise love is so often found in Wilde's appraisals of Shakespeare (see: "The Portrait of Mr. W.H."). Very powerful last two lines, to the poet the recreation of a love affair historical but immortalised in fiction seems more real than the parody of emotions so often expressed by men.
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    To be honest though I love (good) children's literature and as my memories of LOTR are rather hazy and more or less amount to "it was brilliant" (it was, after all, 11 long years ago), the idea of reading Tolkien Lite doesn't necessarily sound unappealing... .
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    I am ashamed to admit I've only ever read LOTR, and over 10 years ago at that - I remember it took me ages to read but only because the school library was loaning the volumes out separately and obviously by the time I finished "The Fellowship of the Ring" someone else (a much slower reader than I then way) had borrowed "The Two Towers" and so forth. ... any suggestions as to which one I should read next? I absolutely loved LOTR.
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    Life's treating me tolerably I suppose, a house for me and OH was found in the nick of time, it is hardly ideal but it will do at least until the dissertation is handed in mid-Septemberish after which I can actually dedicate my heart, body and soul to the discovery of a place that is. At the moment I just need a roof over my head as I struggle with the monumental (but self-imposed, so I musn't grumble) task of translating Shakespeare.

     

    Hope your & girlfriend's flathunting is successful, best of luck with the move :) very soon you'll actually be able to physically throw things at me if I'm a bad writer, leaving my readers hanging :P x

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    I can't actually preorder this as such as Amazon doesn't seem to be aware of its future existence but according to Keith Miller's LibraryThing his second novel "The Book of Fire" will be coming out towards the end of the year, it had better be a straight sequel of "The Book of Flying" making sense of the wretched ending - stunning book but the last chapter made me so cross!
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    Glad you've enjoyed "The Seance" as it's on my TBR !
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    Indeed, they are wrong - I think they must have considered that zombies ----> horror, but it isn't really. I'd say that what horror elements there are are a YA version of those you find in Stephen King's "Carrie", where what's horrific is the evil people are able to dish out on other people who just want to be normal and are not allowed to. Actual scary elements are few, far between and quite tame in a sense, personally I'm a big horror reader but that's not why I'm enjoying this; I'm enjoying it because the story is sweet and the characters are suitably loveable or detestable (not to mention well-constructed: so far at least, no one is detestable without a motive) so you really care about what happens to them.
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    Could I ask you what you thought of this, and how disturbing you would say it is? I'm a big Gaiman fan (I've loved his novels "Neverwhere", "Stardust" and "Anansi Boys", his co-operation with Terry Pratchett "Good Omens", as well as several of his "Sandman" comics) but as for his short fiction - this and "Fragile Things" - I keep picking them up in shops and putting them back down again as apparently some of the stories are quite disturbingly explicit and I wouldn't want that eek! Please help?
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    I'd love to know what you think of "The Scarlet Letter" as it's one of my favourite books of all time on a different note altogether may I heartily reccommend "Generation Dead"? You mentioned you liked YA books, well this is what you'd get if you took the vampires out of "Twilight" and replaced them with the zombies next door. It's funny, it's cute, it's sad, and it's utterly brilliant.
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    I would estimate I buy about 30% of my books new (mostly reduced on Amazon, 3 for 2 at Waterstone's or remaindered at The Book Warehouse, though) and 70% used (from Amazon Marketplace, Oxfam Books or randomly encountered second-hand bookshops). Second-hand shops are a brilliant way of trying out new authors (I'd rather find out I'm not keen on a writer for
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    :) Yay for faerie hugs, always make me loved those do!

     

    I'm ok thank you, trying to juggle househunting and dissertation writing, it's not the easiest thing in the world but I think I'm more or less on top of it, thanks to a lot of caffeine and, of course, faerie hugs.

     

    How's you? I hope everything inside and around you is as pink and fluffy and lovely as you deserve it to be xxx

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    A-hem.

     

    I do humbly beg for forgiveness, my dissappearance was inexcusable, particularly given the tantalising promise "I'm on a writing spree, I'll email you updated chapters within the week".

     

    I tell a lie, it is excusable, in a petty, pragmatic sense - I'm trying to juggle househunting (I need to move out of my current living arrangements by the end of the week) and dissertation writing and they don't pair up well so I have been a wee bit stressed of late, not much writing has been happening and I've been fairly rubbish at keeping in contact with people.

     

    Updated chapters will happen... eventually (just so you don't get too hopeful and I end up letting you down again).

     

    How's you?

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    That was "Say Cheese and Die", easily one of my favourites too. "Why I'm Afraid of Bees" (in which I'm pretty sure the kid in question turns into a bee his fmily continually tries to squash him, Kafka-style) was also pretty awesome.
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    ... apparently, the Twilight MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) is under development. Like World of Warcraft but minus orcs, darves and elves and plus humans, vampires and werewolves. Do with this information what you will.
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    My profile should be here for all who are having trouble finding it... .
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