Orlion Blight

Ugh...cross state tax filings are a pain! Let me clarify: filing Connecticut state taxes is a pain!

Tells non-linear jokes AND is genuinely concerned about accidental down votes! A Sharder in which there is no guile!

Poesia Completa and Historia Universal de la Infamia by Jorge Luis Borges (Yes, I know you're all green with jealousy! ) Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin And finally, A Collection of Essays by George Orwell

Or dinosaurs!

Woo-hoo! I can let my pedantry flag fly! So, in no particular order (necesarilly) 1) John Crowley 2) Anthony Powell 3) William Golding 4) John Steinbeck 5) Salman Rushdie 6) Mario Vargas Llosa 7) James Baldwin 8) Albert Camus 9) John Milton 10) Mervyn Peake.

And polar bears thirsty for Coca Cola! And not the cheap kind either, the glass-bottled kind!

You correctly recognized my avatar! It's a Gustav Doré illustration of Don Quixote going mad as he reads his chivalrous literature.

Oh, I have some tricks up my sleeve to combat this invasion! They mostly involve dinosaurs, lasers and rock n' roll!

Iain M Banks, huh? It's been a bit since I've read one of his books though I own a bunch of them. Great, now I've posted in the thread and don't have anything to add... umm... Davros?

I would say that makes you a true fan To continue along those lines, I have a huge problem getting into New Who. I grew up on classic Who, own The Key to Time and other disparate story lines... but I can not get into the New Who after Rose left. I think that the stories are way too convoluted and not as fun, and some of the fan favorites I just don't get (I mean, Weeping Angels? Bleh... just take a quantum hammer to them all ready ). Of course, I do try not to grouse about it too much... bashing one's favorite series (however much it's in bad taste ) is bad form. I just do not participate in the new fandom and think how ironic it is that I grew up wishing more people would know and love Doctor Who and now that has happened I'm still not happy about it

The way I look at it is, "Gee, I hope I AM still alive!" After all, the most important part of me reading these books is ME! Hopefully I won't go blind!

"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word." -John Crowley

Orlion perked up, "There's a mystery afoot!" Settling down to search the 17th Shard, he got ready to investigate... after about one minute, he got hungry and went to make sandwich.

I think Odium fears Harmony more because it is a composite of two Shards than anything else. That seems to be why he goes about shattering shards to begin with: so that one can not hold more than one Shard. I think in the natural course of events, the two would avoid each other. Harmony because leaving Scadrial would be difficult and possibly greatly weakened if he left Investiture behind; Odium because he'd probably want to make sure no other Shards combine before he even thinks about Harmony.

It's Book 3 of the Night's Dawn Trilogy. It was for fun, and kinda was for a bit... but sooooo much word vomit! Each book averages about 1100 pages, and, well, sometimes you can burn out. So the trilogy essentially takes place in a fairly extensive galactic Confederacy with all sorts of planets with different cultures and economies. On a back-water planet, a portal to "hell" is accidentally opened causing the spirits of the dead to come through and possess the living. These Possessed, once they take over a planet, take the planet out of the universe so they do not have to worry about dying again. The Confederacy is trying to stop them while also dealing with the terrible widespread depression the discovery of an afterlife entails. There's also trade deals, terrorism, magic, Satanists, Al Capone back from the dead trying to create a galactic empire, lots of badly written sex, and some aliens. And a sort of nuclear arms race as well. It's big, it's somewhat unwieldy, which means some of the more pointless side stories are more frustrating... sheesh, some of the main ones are frustrating! (I mean, Al Capone? Really? There's only so much suspension my disbelief can take, Hamilton!)

*Sniffle* I can't decide which book to read next! I've got books of short stories, books of essays, novels, science fiction, fantasy... I know I should finish Peter F Hamilton's The Naked God, but that entire book it the very definition of word vomit... and I don't wanna! *sob* I'll probably end up reading George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London... put off The Naked God for a while longer.

Samsung Favorite dumb phone brand?

The Ratigann song.Favorite Disney villain?

Such an under-rated Disney movie...

How derivative! We should integrate the importance and beauty of calculus through a series of whippings!

PatternEdit: I like how Venture and I independent of each other almost have the same post at the same time. Favorite number currently is Planck's constant. Favorite trigonometry relation?

Space AlertFavorite eighties tune?

AlmondFavorite bird? Edit: Bah! Too many people on at the same time!