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stephan still telling self it's just a hobby Member since March 2015 Posts: 4,559	Tourmaline on Matrix Aug 11, 2020 23:04:56 GMT -5 RickB, miket, and 3 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by stephan on Aug 11, 2020 23:04:56 GMT -5 Winston the rock-hound kitten with his Tourmaline specimen: IMG_2131_Winston the rock-hound kitten by Stephan T., on Flickr
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Toad misunderstood rock expert Only rocks understand me. Member since September 2004 Posts: 12,798	Tourmaline on Matrix Aug 12, 2020 10:35:59 GMT -5 via mobile Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Toad on Aug 12, 2020 10:35:59 GMT -5 Nice kitty. I see you read a lot of the same authors I do. Did you get through the whole Wheel of Time series?
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stephan
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Tourmaline on Matrix Aug 12, 2020 12:32:30 GMT -5

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Aug 12, 2020 10:35:59 GMT -5 Toad said:

Nice kitty. I see you read a lot of the same authors I do. Did you get through the whole Wheel of Time series?

Just the ones that Robert Jordan wrote. I still have a resentment that he went and died before finishing.

- Stephan

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"The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.” — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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Tourmaline on Matrix Aug 12, 2020 15:12:08 GMT -5 via mobile

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The books get a lot better again with Sanderson - in my opinion. I think Jordan lost his way in the last 4 he wrote. Still wonder how different it would have been if he could have done it himself. I think it wrapped up nicely.

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Toad misunderstood rock expert Only rocks understand me. Member since September 2004 Posts: 12,798	Tourmaline on Matrix Aug 12, 2020 15:13:17 GMT -5 via mobile Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Toad on Aug 12, 2020 15:13:17 GMT -5 Tv show coming on Amazon if we ever get through this COVID thing.
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stephan still telling self it's just a hobby Member since March 2015 Posts: 4,559	Tourmaline on Matrix Aug 12, 2020 15:15:58 GMT -5 EricD likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by stephan on Aug 12, 2020 15:15:58 GMT -5 Good to know. Maybe I'll finish it up now. Other series that were finished by others went kind of lame (Bourne, Dune...), though TBH they started jumping the shark before that.
	- Stephan -------------------------------------------------- "Conversation should be more like ping-pong, and less like archery.” — Alan Alda "The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.” — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Toad misunderstood rock expert Only rocks understand me. Member since September 2004 Posts: 12,798	Tourmaline on Matrix Aug 12, 2020 19:03:52 GMT -5 via mobile Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Toad on Aug 12, 2020 19:03:52 GMT -5 Exactly. Dune was an amazing first book. 2nd book was tolerable but couldn’t even finish the 3rd.
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Toad misunderstood rock expert Only rocks understand me. Member since September 2004 Posts: 12,798	Tourmaline on Matrix Aug 12, 2020 19:04:08 GMT -5 via mobile Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Toad on Aug 12, 2020 19:04:08 GMT -5 How is that for hijacking a thread?
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Tourmaline on Matrix Aug 12, 2020 19:08:58 GMT -5 stephan and EricD like this

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That is an adorable kitty! (love)

There - now we're back on track.

Robin

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

-- C.S. Lewis

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