It's the reprint, but I've gone through it and it's the original game with prettier pictures.
EEEEEE!!!
Must own.
Many hours of my life spent between that and Car Wars, you see.
Mal: I call you back? Wash: No, Mal. You didn't. Zoe: I take full responsibility, cap.
'Out Of Gas'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
P.M. Marc - Dec 29, 2003 3:49:07 pm PST #348 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Hil R. - Dec 29, 2003 3:51:15 pm PST #349 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Just finished reading my mother's Da Vinci Code. It was ... well, it depends on how much crack he's on, really. A cursory web scan indicates "a fair amount." Is that true?
That was somewhat my feeling, too. Also, I liked the story, and I usually love those puzzle-type novels, but I just kept getting annoyed at his style. All those chapters ending with "Sophie knew that what she had seen would explain the answer, but she couldn't think about that now," or "Langdon knew that she'd understand once he told her the answer to her question, but that would have to wait for later" didn't create suspense, they just created aggravation. Well, for me, anyway. Also, all the times that the characters would have an entire clue, but the readers would just see part of it for a few chapters. And, I just got frustrated reading through pages and pages of characters trying to work out clues that I'd already figured out, where there was really no action going on other than them going down dead ends. I wanted something to happen, and it sometimes took awhile before it did.
deborah grabien - Dec 29, 2003 3:51:49 pm PST #350 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
(fanning self with copy of Leviathan)
edit: Plei, when are you on AIM?
P.M. Marc - Dec 29, 2003 3:53:45 pm PST #351 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Isn't the DaVinci Code the one Simon Le Bon ripped into on Simon's Book Club? His complaints were like reading someone complaining about Mary Sues when they first hit them.
My exBiL is engrossed in the thing, which is sad, and lowers my opinion of him by a bit.
Volans - Dec 29, 2003 3:54:00 pm PST #352 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Many hours of my life spent between that and Car Wars, you see.
Plei is me. Although I mixed some Nuclear War in there also.
I just went and checked, and there's a French-language version of the Illuminati game. Heh.
P.M. Marc - Dec 29, 2003 3:54:16 pm PST #353 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Deb: after I get home. Maybe 2 hours?
deborah grabien - Dec 29, 2003 4:23:02 pm PST #354 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Plei, sounds good. And get some DINNER, ma'am!
(working on Matty. Since I won't be able to from Sunday through Thursday...)
msbelle - Dec 29, 2003 4:23:15 pm PST #355 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I got the Boondocks book too, Vortex.
Also, an autographed Book Lust by Nancy Pearl.
Then I got two childen's books. Allison by Allen Say and The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Grey Bridge.
Then I bought for myself: James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator(HB), Iggie's House by Judy Blume (HB), Little House in the Big Woods, and Runaway Ralph - all kid's books.
and Tell Me Lies by Jennifer Crusie.
I also borrowed my parent's Satanic Verses.
Kat - Dec 29, 2003 4:23:34 pm PST #356 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Isn't the DaVinci Code the one Simon Le Bon ripped into on Simon's Book Club? His complaints were like reading someone complaining about Mary Sues when they first hit them.
Yep. That's it.
§ ita § - Dec 29, 2003 4:27:12 pm PST #357 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Everyone is a bit marvellous, yes.
And I agree with you, Hil. You wouldn't need to be half as marvellous as them to work out the clues. Some were glaringly obvious enough that I got impatient waiting for the plot to hand the clue to the character who was a specialist, so he could work out what my non-specialist self had.
Plus, I got the impression he was just plain lying about stuff.