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The casting for the White Witch is perfect. The kid playing Peter just dosen't look likes peter too me but all the other kids look great. Maybe we should start a new discussion thread about this?
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quote:Originally posted by RTVU2: The casting for the White Witch is perfect. The kid playing Peter just dosen't look likes peter too me but all the other kids look great. Maybe we should start a new discussion thread about this?
Done. Discuss the Narnia movie here.
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Lately I've been reading the Science Fiction Bookclub Omnibus edition of Madeline L'Engle's "Wrinkle in Time" series.
Those are great. I still go back and reread them every couple of years.
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quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: Lately I've been reading the Science Fiction Bookclub Omnibus edition of Madeline L'Engle's "Wrinkle in Time" series.
Hm, what does that include? Does that stop at Swifly Tilting Planet or go on to the second trilogy?
I'd like to sit with that series again some time. My old reading group did Wrinkle a while back and I noticed the Christian themes that I didn't pick up on when I was younger. I'm curious to see if I pick that up in the later books (I'm sure they're there, just remembering the plot of Many Waters).
Did you catch that awful ABC-TV movie? Some great casting (David Dorfman is perfect as Charles, same for Alfre Woodward as one of the Mrs.'s) but they oversimplified the plot.
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: Lately I've been reading the Science Fiction Bookclub Omnibus edition of Madeline L'Engle's "Wrinkle in Time" series.
Hm, what does that include? Does that stop at Swifly Tilting Planet or go on to the second trilogy?
I'd like to sit with that series again some time. My old reading group did Wrinkle a while back and I noticed the Christian themes that I didn't pick up on when I was younger. I'm curious to see if I pick that up in the later books (I'm sure they're there, just remembering the plot of Many Waters).
Did you catch that awful ABC-TV movie? Some great casting (David Dorfman is perfect as Charles, same for Alfre Woodward as one of the Mrs.'s) but they oversimplified the plot.
It's got through Many Waters. I've read the first three now, and have just started on the 4th.
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quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: [QUOTE]It's got through Many Waters. I've read the first three now, and have just started on the 4th.
Wasn't there a second trilogy focusing on Meg and whasshisname's daughter? I think they all had references to time in the title. Then again, maybe not...I get so confused trying to sort out L'Engle's books.
I want to reread the whole series but Many Waters especially. The first time I tried reading it I was still pretty young and had a hard time keeping track of all the unusual names.
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I only ever read the first three books. Weren't the later one(s) written quite a while later?
I often find that, when a series/trilogy is written in relatively quick succession, and then another book is written a while later, the new additions aren't as satisfying.
Case in point: I didn't really think Tehanu was a particularly good follow-up to the Wizard of Earthsea trilogy.
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quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: The Chronicles are good. Most Bradbury stuff is. Ever seen the mini-series with Rock Hudson?
I saw the mini-series, but Rock wasn't with me at the time.
I remember being surprised by the series because I had a very different impression from reading the book. When I read the book, I thought the Martians were still present, but don't recall them being so in the mini-series.
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I'm plowing through Philip Roth's "Plot Against America." The writng is very dense, but it's hard to put down. Lindberg is elected President of the U.S., makes a pact with Hitler and keeps the U.S. out of WWII. This is all seen through the eyes of a young Jewish boy in Newark, N.J. I love alternate histories, especially when the author mixes a lot of well researched fact with his speculative fiction.
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For any Tad Williams fans (I'm one) the first book in his new trilogy comes out on November 2.
Shadowmarch: Volume 1 introduces a world conquered by humans, who have driven the Qar, or fairy folk, into the far north. There, the Qar hide behind the "Shadowline," a mysterious veil of perpetual mist, which drives mad any human who dares enter it. Bordering that mist and named for it is Shadowmarch, the northernmost human kingdom.
Shadowmarch has lately fallen on hard times. Its king has been captured by a rival kingdom, the regent has been mysteriously slain, and the new regents are callow fifteen-year-olds. Moody, crippled Prince Barrick is uninterested in their responsibilities and haunted by eerie dreams. His twin, Princess Briony, takes their new duties seriously, but is hot-tempered and headstrong. How can they defeat the greatest threats in Shadowmarch history? Their nobles plot to overthrow them--and the plotters may include their pregnant stepmother, seeking the throne for her own child. The expanding empire of Xis has sent its agents into Shadowmarch. And, for the first time since it appeared centuries ago, the Shadowline has starting moving. As the maddening mist spreads south over Shadowmarch, it does not quite hide the powerful, uncanny, and vengeful Qar army of invasion..
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I am still trying to get through Johnthon Strange and Mr Norell but everytime I pick it upI fall asleep...
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Same problem here. Not exactly a page-turner yet. Maybe it's one of these "picks up after page 350" kind of books...I always read the end first - the ending is good...
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