English Magic
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends
Theres some cool art on the Foster's Home For Imaginary Freinds Production Crew's Blog
fosterstv.blogspot.com/
Check out Bloo in a fantasy battle with Uncle Pockets
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fosterstv.blogspot.com/
Check out Bloo in a fantasy battle with Uncle Pockets
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Saturday, June 17, 2006
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Its quite obvious from the title of this blog that I like this book!
Its one of those books that I found myself compelled to read, dispite it's enormous size and weight!
It's a tale of magic, English Magic. Magicians, Kings, prophecies, fairies( not! Fairies No gossamer wings here!), Curses , bitter rivalry, war with Napoleon and much more! Set in the England during the reign of George III , Europe, Faerie and many places in between.
I have bought this book as a present for several friends and family.
One warning though this book is huge over a 1000 pages! and is heavy!!! If I was buying it again I would by the three volume edition!
I agree with Neil Gaimen though, Like him I finsished reading it and immediately wished it was twice as long!!
Hopefully we will not have to wait the 10 years it took to write this book for the sequel!( "The Ladies of Grace Adieu" a collection of short stories by Susanna Clarke will be published in October 2006 - that should partially fill the gap)
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Its one of those books that I found myself compelled to read, dispite it's enormous size and weight!
It's a tale of magic, English Magic. Magicians, Kings, prophecies, fairies( not! Fairies No gossamer wings here!), Curses , bitter rivalry, war with Napoleon and much more! Set in the England during the reign of George III , Europe, Faerie and many places in between.
I have bought this book as a present for several friends and family.
One warning though this book is huge over a 1000 pages! and is heavy!!! If I was buying it again I would by the three volume edition!
I agree with Neil Gaimen though, Like him I finsished reading it and immediately wished it was twice as long!!
Hopefully we will not have to wait the 10 years it took to write this book for the sequel!( "The Ladies of Grace Adieu" a collection of short stories by Susanna Clarke will be published in October 2006 - that should partially fill the gap)
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Must make more effort
To actually use this blog thingy!!... We that this years resolution! Seems like i'm getting left behind by this internet thingy!
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Zodiac
In my blogger profile, blogger points out what my Star sign is.. I really find it annoying I hate zodiac's and horoscopes - they are one of the most purile things that I can think of!( them and soap tv programs)
Why can't I turn of the showing of my zodiac sign - just publishing it seems to imply that I invest some meaning in it..........
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Why can't I turn of the showing of my zodiac sign - just publishing it seems to imply that I invest some meaning in it..........
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Thursday, June 09, 2005
was "Tabs" and why I hate them
But now it about why I hate the loops hackers and co are make us install pop-up blockers.
I've just spent 20 minutes ranting about "Tabs" in the tab browsing/documangement sense. To spare you my poor spelling I click the spell check button.....pop up blocker!( both ms's and googles). Unblock.........bugger its lost all my typing.......arrrrrrrrrrrghhhhh -- 20 minutes worth. Must have been 100 words at least!
Actually my typing's not that bad so it was more like 6-700. Thanks to "Type Faster" from sourceforge, excellent touch typing tutor.
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I've just spent 20 minutes ranting about "Tabs" in the tab browsing/documangement sense. To spare you my poor spelling I click the spell check button.....pop up blocker!( both ms's and googles). Unblock.........bugger its lost all my typing.......arrrrrrrrrrrghhhhh -- 20 minutes worth. Must have been 100 words at least!
Actually my typing's not that bad so it was more like 6-700. Thanks to "Type Faster" from sourceforge, excellent touch typing tutor.
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Tuesday, June 07, 2005
This blogs title....
Is a tribute to Suzanna Clarke's exceptional novel 'Jonathon Strange and Mr Norell'. It's still in hardback at the moment but the bigger online stores( amazon,play etc) have some good offers on at the moment. The paperback is due out in September 2005.
I cannot recommend this book enough - one of the few books that really gripped me.
http://www.jonathanstrange.com/ - Has sample chapters and pdfs of sale leaflet that should give you a goof impression of the book.
I can't wait for her next book but seeing as this one tool nearly tens years to write and publish......
Theres a film due to but the book is just short of 1000 pages, and i'm very worried about how that will translate to a films length, even a long film.......
Somebody has "The Raven King" as a blogspot already :-(
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I cannot recommend this book enough - one of the few books that really gripped me.
http://www.jonathanstrange.com/ - Has sample chapters and pdfs of sale leaflet that should give you a goof impression of the book.
I can't wait for her next book but seeing as this one tool nearly tens years to write and publish......
Theres a film due to but the book is just short of 1000 pages, and i'm very worried about how that will translate to a films length, even a long film.......
Somebody has "The Raven King" as a blogspot already :-(
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My First Blog Post!
The obligatory 'my first blog entry' post. Hopefully these entrys will get more interesting.......
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