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Shakatany

Shakatany

Born and raised in NYC. I've been addicted to the printed word since before I learned to read. Living a dull and relatively uneventful life in the Big Apple but through books, especially science fiction, I've walked on many worlds and seen many things. I am interested in the future because that's where we're heading one day at a time. I'm a... more »
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  • Rainy Day

    Rainy Day says

    Thank you for answering me about The Blue Sword! =)

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • PhoenixFalls

    PhoenixFalls says

    Yeah, that's my understanding too. I don't follow the blog religiously anymore, but when I last read it she still had not fully explained. I think it had something to do with their different sleeping habits, their enormous libraries, and her love of gardening, but I could be wrong. :)

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • PhoenixFalls

    PhoenixFalls says

    I do read their blogs, though Robin McKinley's is quite a time commitment! We'll welcome you if ever you do come by. :)

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • PhoenixFalls

    PhoenixFalls says

    I saw some of your comments in the Fantasy and SF Fanatics group and when I clicked on your profile I noticed some Bujold and McKinley on your favorites shelf. I've recently started a group devoted to each of these fabulous authors and would love to have you join us. :)

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    I always felt sorry that one of the 'rats' was missing on their exit from the Caves.....
    did it survive? I seem to remember the 'healing' scene where he sleeps under the pine trees was my favourite section of the book......... Am I right in saying that Andre Norton was a girl?

    Regards, Michael

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    Any Show that appears on GOOD DAY NEW YORK, must be for real! I am laughing!

    Do you know I & CLAUDIUS?

    A cross between Kerouac's "On the Road" and "Animal Hospital". That's not something you get to say every day. London girl Clare de Vries' account of her road trip across America with her 19-year-old, chocolate-brown Burmese cat, Claudius, is nutty, neurotic and honest de Vries is funny, fast and self-deprecating." - "Conde Nast Traveller". Clare de Vries dreamed of chucking in her job and Thelma and Louise-ing it around the United States. Which is exactly what she did. Except that Louise was her nineteen-year-old chocolate brown Burmese cat Claudius. From celebrity pet hair stylists in New York to brown bears in the Appalachians, from astronauts in Nashville to Elvis' shag ceiling in Graceland to voodoo snakes in New Orleans, the unlikely couple just about kept their Guccis intact and even learnt to read a map. That was before riding with psychic cowboys in Texas, losing vital body parts in the Grand Canyon, gambling with hoods in Vegas and spilling drinks over film stars in Hollywood.

    It's an interesting read - not great, but interesting with a few things to say. I think the person whom the cat travels with has a few problems, but that's life.........

    Cats in the Muslim world do not seem actively discriminated against (like dogs are for example), but then a lot of the wild ones aren't exactly looked after either......
    there is a story that the Prophet Mohamed (whom as you know, had a day job as a tent-maker - hey! Jesus was a carpenter! Obviously this religion business didn't pay well!) was cutting out canvas on his table one day, when his cat went to sleep on his sleeve (as they do). Rather than disturb the cat, he cut his sleeve off with the scissors. Maybe it happened............ What do you think?

    Regards, Michael

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    Why do you feel that cats cannot be trained to perform tricks etc, whereas dogs can? There must be a reason.................? Can't be attention span! Cat's will wait for hours outside a mousehole!
    Regards, Michael

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    Here's Le Renard et l'enfant on IMDB.COM

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756648/

    Regards, Michael

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    I am trying to see how you'd fit JENNIE into a stage................ There's a lot of different locations there............... 'Animal' films are difficult - voice-overs they usually end up with (HOMEWARD BOUND stuff). I recently went to see 'Renard et l'enfant'. The fox has no voice, but the child is completely done as voice over - I think Kate Winslet does the voice. For all practical purposes you only ever see the fox and the child - nothing else. Good film. Catch it if you haven't already.
    I don't think they were able to find the 'rescuing' dog - bit of JENNIE in that! Pair-bonded..............Ugh! I think I'll stick with them being friends!
    MRS HARRIS GOES TO PARIS was made twice into a film, I seem to remember........ the first time I found a little more believable. CORONATION was a dead-end. Most of Gallico's books seemed to be really short stories to me. I've neither seen nor read THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE - it has always seemed to be out of character for him.........
    Regards, Michael

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    I feel a little ambivalent about Paul Gallico........ When he was good, he was very good, but he definitely churned out too much product..... He could also be SO maudlin, you cringed.......... JENNIE was one of his that I found most interesting, but once again, sometimes it seemed to lose the point of what it was saying. I thought of JENNIE today when I read the incredible, sad, heroic (I am actually lost for words....) incident of the Chilean dogs.....

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081209/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_chile_hero_dog

    You know PLAGUE DOGS by Richard Adams of WATERSHIP DOWN fame, I presume.

    Regards, Michael

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    Solipsism.............. well, I guess we all have elements of that in us ('There's a pun there, methinks'. Shakespeare?) Pohl anderson was good at short stories...... Zenna Henderson........... too much of the one story written over and over? Good story though!
    THE SILENT MIAOW? I liked Gallico's atmospheric book, THE SNOW GOOSE, very much. Do you know it?
    Regards, Michael

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO is the Woody Allen film I was trying to think of.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089853/plotsummary

    Regards, Michael

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    Robert Heinlein certainly was a natural story teller. I would like to have read one of the biographies of him that are available. His length of story and wordiness increased dramatically later on - presumably as he acquired a word-processor! I guess STARSHIP TROOPER has elements of Fascism in it, but it has to be read in the context of Heinlein's own life. Heinlein, I seem to remember, was a US Marine himself. If you read Leon Uris's (of EXODOUS fame) BATTLE CRY, his semi-autobiographical account of his time in the US Marines and WW2 Pacific combat, it 's uncannily similar. I guess such a training regime and times cannot but cast you in a mold. I should imagine Heinlein cursed having to die, but we can only think that maybe he's out there somewhere with Lazarus Long............... I sometimes believe that an authors characters live on in another dimension. Woody Allen has a film about this........
    I don't agree with your writing off of Clarke - on his day he could be very, very good - do you remember THE CITY AND THE STARS?
    Regards, Michael

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    I'm curious as to why you don't have more Robert Heinlein on your shelves?

    Regards, Michael

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • TonyWriter

    TonyWriter says

    Welcome! Yeah... me too - eventually got frustated with things such as politics, religion... that's probably why my character called Pablo in "Cometa-Last Queen of Sheba" could never miss any occasion of verberating against the ESTABLISHMENT
    Ciao, dear! Un abrazo!
    TonyWriter

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • memoonster

    memoonster says

    Hey hope you're enjoying the site. I've seen several books on here that I'd love to read. One of yours looks interesting..Bonecrack..is it any good?

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )


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