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DF Spoilers / Re: Maggie's Classmates?
« on: April 30, 2021, 02:51:09 PM »
Papa Raith would have preferred a daughter though. If he had a daughter with magic he could control his power would have increased substantially.
Aaaw, poor Papa Raith.  :D
Unfortunately a female wizard would only be able to control the function of her own body and not if a X- or Y-chromosome sperm makes the race. LOL

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DF Spoilers / Re: Maggie's Classmates?
« on: April 30, 2021, 02:43:57 PM »
Or maybe their fertile period is similar to vanilla mortals, but a wizard can make theirself fertile at a later age by magical means, e.g. fertility potions or else.
I have the strong impression that both Thomas and Harry have been planned pregnancies.

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The Bar / Re: Weird? Pretty much.
« on: April 28, 2021, 09:06:04 PM »
Oh yes, now I remember. They sang the whole song. It was so cute. Of course I've seen that.

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The Bar / Re: Weird? Pretty much.
« on: April 28, 2021, 08:46:09 PM »
Sorry for the double post, but I had to look:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xaILTs-_1z4

There it is. The first time I watched it in English. LOL He really screams Moon Child. But maybe, if you don't know the name in advance it is difficult to understand.

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The Bar / Re: Weird? Pretty much.
« on: April 28, 2021, 08:37:12 PM »
But I insulted her mentally. A lot.
LOL

I've seen Stranger Things. But I didn't notice the reference. What was it?

And yes, I didn't understand what he shouted into the storm the first time I watched the movie. But my father had it recorded from TV, so I got to see it several times. My first thought was "what a silly name", but now it is OK. ;) Doesn't matter. At least she has a new name and everything is safe.

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The Bar / Re: Weird? Pretty much.
« on: April 28, 2021, 08:20:35 PM »
Sounds nice.
I watched the movie, too, before reading the book. I think I was in elementary school. And Artax' death hit me, too. But the ancient Morla was great in the movie. And disgusting how she sneezed on Atreju. LOL
We had a teacher in 5th grade who let us watch several movies and analyse them. And write stories in the style. We also watched Ivanhoe, Prince Valiant and Princess Bride.

I always played I was Atreju. I even played the swamp scene with Artax dying, which was difficult, but I maneged to use some mud from the garden. LOL. My mother was not amused.
And I once sat on the original Fuchur in the Barvaria Filmstudios in Munich. It is still there.

In the movie Bastian did say the empress' new name. It was during the storm, everything was very noisy and he called her "Mondenkind". Only once, but he did it. I'm sure the name has been translated. In English it might be Moon Child or something like that. She cried a lot and said " say my name" several times, but he still refused to believe she was really talking to him, until she called him by his name.

I still hate it, when animals die in movies or books. Each time I watch a new movie and there is a dog, I warn the movie not to dare to let the dog die! But most of the time they do. With a few exceptions.

And I cried when Hedwig died!!!!  :'(

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The Bar / Re: Weird? Pretty much.
« on: April 28, 2021, 07:29:45 PM »
The comparison is awesome.  ;D
We are listening to Never ending Story. Finally I convinced one of the children to join me in listening to the audio book  ;)
It is told with different voices and sounds.
I have the book, too. It is written in red and green. This fascinated me as a kid. Red is for the real world. Green for Phantasien.

 

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The Bar / Re: Weird? Pretty much.
« on: April 28, 2021, 06:26:10 AM »
Thank you too, DC.
I've now the Emperor's Soul on my e-reader. It might be a while until I can start, but I will sooner or later.

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The Bar / Re: Weird? Pretty much.
« on: April 27, 2021, 08:37:25 AM »
Cool. Thanks, Fcrate.
There seems to be some kind of anniversary. The E-books are less than 2€ on amazon. I can live with that. LOL
That's something new to read after my Mercy Thompson reread.

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The Bar / Re: Weird? Pretty much.
« on: April 27, 2021, 05:17:46 AM »
Well, I didn't, but I decided 4 years ago that it's a bust and stopped looking for a release date. I assume it's not coming?
I don't look either. I'm sure we will notice when it is out. If ever.

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The Bar / Re: Weird? Pretty much.
« on: April 27, 2021, 05:16:19 AM »
I don't know that Mistborn is really a good starting point for Sanderson. It's a series that gets significantly better on rereads when you can connect the dots on stuff you learn earlier. Vin gets a lot more interesting as the story goes on but the early story does drag a bit.
OK, thank you. Where would you suggest I start?

Listen, I don't mean to break your heart, only manage expectations. Did you hear the uproar last summer about it?

Do you mean the release of a book named Slow Regard of Silent Things or something like that?
Was that even last year? I think I've read that a lot of people thought it was the next book, but in fact it is only a side story.
Maybe it is a nice story, but I'm not interested in the character.
If there is the last book about Kvothe one day, I'm going to be excited, but if not, I'm OK with it. I would like to see the story come to an end, but if not, I will remember it for it's style of writing.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Maggie's Classmates?
« on: April 26, 2021, 07:51:57 AM »
So if and when Maggie's YA series gets off the ground what Scions do you expect of Maggie's Classmates?

Svartalves
White Court
Fae Changelings

Are the obvious choices, someone suggested demigods but thats a little too Percy Jackson for my money.
Yeah. Those and no demigods.
And some wizard's kids. Or at least some with magical talented parents.

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The Bar / Re: Weird? Pretty much.
« on: April 26, 2021, 07:27:42 AM »
That's right. Must be the reason they always learn it so late in the school year.  ;)
Now there is only X, Y and Q missing.

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The Bar / Re: Weird? Pretty much.
« on: April 26, 2021, 06:56:17 AM »
((((Dina))))
You are awake!

The German Translation of the Harry Potter books is really good. So are some of the other fantasy books I like to read. But not all of them. Some are even good despite of bad translation.

I've read The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss in German. I had the first book from a coworker and the second from the library. It was beautifully translated. Once the next book is out, I'm going to buy the others in English. I'm very excited to read the original. I'm a bit nerdy about how a story is written. And I love authors who can use their words in artful ways, if you know what I mean.

But now I have to do school stuff. The little one is learning the letter C.
And cursive handwriting. I'm not sure this is the right word.
As there are not many German words that begin with C, there are mostly English words in use here to read and write, like Computer, Cowboy, Clown, Comic.
There is a lot of C in the middle or the end of words, but mostly it is in the combinations CH and CK, which is not the same as a single C.

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The Bar / Re: Weird? Pretty much.
« on: April 26, 2021, 05:40:29 AM »
I like Swamp Thing.

I must admit, I have never read any book by Sanderson.
I've started the first Mistborn years ago, but it bored me in the first chapters, so I put it away for a later read that never came. Now it is on the shelf in the section for books that might be good to sell.
But I've heard and read that the books were good, so I can't bring myself to give it away yet. Maybe it's the translation again. The Dresden Files are really lame in translation, maybe this is what pushed me away.
I've found the first mistborn for 0,99€ in English. I'll give it a second try once I'm through with the 4th Mercy Thompson.

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