From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V3 #78 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Monday, January 25 1999 Volume 03 : Number 078 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: top five books [katrin@dimensional.com (Katrin Luessenheide Salyers)] Re: The Nields and Great Big Sea on Mountain Stage. [wbsmiles@aol.com (Wb] favorite books (was a lot of stuff) [Srm9988n@aol.com] Re: top five books [nafio@my-dejanews.com] Re: favorite books (was a lot of stuff) [Molly Doyle ] Re: please wish me luck ["KatieWow" ] Re: top five books ["KatieWow" ] Re: Favorite books (was a lot of stuff) ["KatieWow" ] Re: *gasp* *sigh* *whimper* ["KatieWow" ] Re: DC show info [Richard Butterworth , petit_chou@juno.com says... > Seee? I'm not the only one, guys. This Jon Scieszka is so completely > wonderful. Lane Smith has also done a bunch of stuff on his own (I must > recommend The Happy Hocky Family -- weirdly twisted tales for kids). > Math Curse (which they did together) is so cool, my math teacher in 11th > grade read it to us... This guy is one of my favourite kid's authors, > and I can't tell you how many people I turned onto him when I worked at > B&N. For anyone who's interested, there's an article on Lane Smith in the current issue of _Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion_, as well as profiles of several other really cool artists (including animator Faith Hubley, a long-time favorite of mine). I gave _Math Curse_ to my nephew for Xmas a few years ago - must take a look at some of Scieszka & Smith's other stuff for myself! k@ loves a bunch of illustrators too ------------------------------ Date: 25 Jan 1999 05:23:55 GMT From: wbsmiles@aol.com (Wbsmiles) Subject: Re: The Nields and Great Big Sea on Mountain Stage. >koogle@my-dejanews.com wrote: >> chad schrock wrote: >> :) >> > Oh, Mountian stage schedule around here: >> > WXPN (Philadelphia): Saturday night, 6-8 (a/k/a: right now) WRNR (Annapolis/Baltimore): Sunday night, 8-10 >> >> FWIW, WRNR is availble on Real Audio, at http://www.wrnr.com >whoops! forgot about that. thanks. Just for those of you who don't happen to get a station that runs Mountain Stage. >> (RNR is the coolest radio station in the DC area, but roughly four ppl can hear it because their transmitter isn't very strong....) >Only to the west. >It comes in great in Annapolis and the Eastern Shore. :) >(I lose the signal just after I go west of 95 in Columbia, usually.) - -- >chad at radix dot net Now I find this out! I was driving back from Connecticut today (Sunday) and had WRNR on (the only time I get to listen to it is when I'm on my way somewhere up 95!) and caught that the show would be on at 8. Since I was on 95 at 7:45 I just pulled into the rest area and sat back and listened to GBS and the Nields. I really wanted to hear Bela but since I'm seeing him at the Birchmere shows in a couple of weeks I decided home was a wiser choice. Smiles, Wendy :o) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 06:15:36 GMT From: Srm9988n@aol.com Subject: favorite books (was a lot of stuff) Katrin wrote: >>And then Vika invoked the name of Umberto Eco, of whom I haven't read >>much, but _Foucault's Pendulum_ is definitely worth the effort it takes >>to get through it. and the Vika added: >In case anyone's interested in him further, and thinks the name rings >a bell but can't place it, he's the guy who wrote the book (from which >followed the movie with the same name) _The Name of the Rose_. >Another wonderful piece of work. Intrigue, death and mystery in a >13th (I think) century monastery. Oh bravo Vik! Name of the Rose is right up there on my list. (btw: I *hated* the movie. Also, Becky said: > The Mists of Avalon_ by Marion Zimmer Bradley which is an absolutely amazing tale. Get Mary Stewart's Arthurian sequence and read all of them at once -- they're wonderful complementary works to each other. also, to come up with 5 that are mine all mine: Watership Down -- Richard Adams The Picture of Dorian Gray -- yes I know it's old, but it's also horridly delicious. In a Dark Wood Wandering -- Hella S. Haase -- an intriguing and intricate middle-ages historical/political novel. The Handmaid's Tale -- Margaret Atwood -- read it and help reach your New Year's FruSolution! grim but gripping. The Witches of Eastwick -- John Updike. this is just plain funny. Am I really only allowed 5? *sniff* Okay. But how about genres other than hoity-toity *literature*? Then we can add: a children's list! Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking-glass) -- Lewis Carroll The Twits -- Roald Dahl A Wrinkle in Time -- Madeleine l'Engle the Butter Battle Book -- Dr Seuss Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH -- Robert C. O'Brien And on the trashy side, give me a good humorous mystery with cats (Lilian Jackson Braun) or a haunting uneasy one with mysterious spaces (Tony Hillerman) to fall asleep with(or stay awake all night with, alternately.) - -- Lori ************************** "Everyone's a novelist, and everyone can sing." Visit Lori's strange and wonderful world! http://members.aol.com/srm9988n/index.html http://members.aol.com/srm9988n/index1.html (now some New York/New Year's photos!) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 06:50:00 GMT From: nafio@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: top five books Zainab listed: > _Their Eyes Were Watching God_, by Zora Neale Hurston > It simply rocks! A wonderful journey of coming of age. I'm studying it AGAIN this semester. Studied it in second semester in Women In Literature and now in semester 8 in Special Studies in Women's Literature - -1930's something-or-other. Also Jonah's Gourd Vine. Oddly enough I picked up on the _name_ before I picked up on the literature.. if anyone used to watch Ghostwriter on PBS (so good I taped every episode so whenever I have kids they can love it too) the older kids went to Zora Neale Hurston Middle School. > _Woman on the Edge of Time_, by Marge Piercy > I taught this book when I taught Women's Studies. It's a > very thought-inducing feminist utopia. Wow someone else has heard of this. Another one I studied.. semester 3 in Science Fiction. This book provokes some very interesting and disturbing thoughts. Fiona (not even going to attempt my top 5.. although I may do an extensive Diane Duane plug later) "I'm SO a Dave's people if it weren't for Mike..." - -Marie-Claude Nov 16/98 - -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 23:47:23 -0600 From: Molly Doyle Subject: Re: favorite books (was a lot of stuff) Srm9988n@aol.com wrote: > The Handmaid's Tale -- Margaret Atwood -- read it and help reach your > New Year's FruSolution! grim but gripping. I thought The Handmaid's Tale was amazing. And I just rented the movie, which blew me completely away--and I'm almost NEVER happy with film adaptations of novels I like. But I haven't been able to stop thinking about the movie since I saw it (ok, Aidan Quinn might have had a *teensy* bit to do with it ;)) Maybe it was because the woman who played Aunt Lydia could have been the *twin*--in looks, vocal characteristics, mannerisms, everything--of a woman I worked for last year, whose name was Lydia. *shudder* Way too freaky for me, esp. since Lydia always made a point of intimidating me ;) > The Witches of Eastwick -- John Updike. this is just plain funny. > Haven't read the book..perhaps I will. My best friend and I watched the movie religiously every weekend (along with Labyrinth and Beaches, don't ask) in high school. (Notice how I've been replying to everyone else's fave book posts without posting my own? hehehe...ok, I'll get on it. Hard to narrow down, though.) - -- Molly Doyle http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Balcony/6759 "You know you've been raised Catholic when your automatic response to "May the Force be with you," is "And also with you, my son." --a friend ------------------------------ Date: 25 Jan 1999 12:50:23 GMT From: bbwminors@aol.com (BBWMinors) Subject: Re: please wish me luck Katie-wow wrote: <> I have to ask this -- if you get an automatic 200 for putting your name on it, do they automatically take 200 OFF if you don't? ------------------------------ Date: 25 Jan 1999 12:57:57 GMT From: bbwminors@aol.com (BBWMinors) Subject: Re: favorite books (was a lot of stuff) Princess Lori hit on the perfect additional list ... a children's list! Let's see ... well, there are three I've been trying to find desperately through children's out-of-print book searches with no luck -- one's called The Silly Book, and has a bright orange cover. The first thing in it is a poem that starts "I went to see my mommy a minute, my mimmy a monnet, my monny a mimmit" and have been trying to find this book since my daughter was born. The second is called (something like) Bertram's Amazing Adventures, and the third is called "The Teddy Bear Habit," a young-teen novel about a boy who becomes a teenage rock star but stuffs his teddy bear inside his guitar (also turns into a hidden jewel heist mystery). The book I always buy for friends who have had their first kids is "Ferdinand the Bull" (the illustrations are as wonderful as the book itself) and as an old standby "Goodnight Moon," of course. A few others... "Gwendolyn the Miracle Hen," and my daughter's all-time favorite "The Monster at the End of this Book" (A Sesame Street book starring Grover). I know there are othes but I would have to look at her bookshelf ... Mommyqueen Lisa ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:42:13 GMT From: epbuckley@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: The Nields and Great Big Sea on Mountain Stage. In article <36AA567A.FAD62160@radix.net>, chad schrock wrote (re bela fleck): > they will be at the Lyric Opera House in Baltimore, sometime > in Feb. when I'll get to see them again. :) ORRRRRR.. you could be like all the COOL fruheads in the DC area and see them when they play at the birchmere. ;) peace, ellen (i know, i know, i'm TRYING to get these people to realize that baltimore is actually the cooler town....) - -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:42:01 GMT From: Geoffrey Long Subject: Scieszka As Heather Moore wrote: > k@t said: > >Bantock's latest, _The Forgetting > >Room_, is done in the same style and is just as outstanding. > > Anything this guy does is jaw-to-the-floor-awesome. Gotta get a word out > there about The Venetian's Wife. Wicked story, lavish illustrations, > riddled with cool stories about Shiva and Ganesha and all the rest. Hear, hear. One of the high points of my vacation to Montana last year was finding the first of Bantock's books in hardcover really cheap in a tiny little bookstore in a tiny little town in the middle of nowhere. (Along with a copy of Neil Gaiman's BRIEF LIVES, my favorite of the books in his SANDMAN series, which was also a boost to the heart.) And then Heather wrote again: > Seee? I'm not the only one, guys. This Jon Scieszka is so completely > wonderful. Hear, hear. For further coolness points in Scieszka's favor, unless I'm sorely mistaken he also did the character design for that kind-of-Tim-Burton-but-not-really version of Dahl's JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH that Disney put out a few years back... :) - ---------------------- Geoffrey Long Dreamsbay Media Labs www.dreamsbay.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 09:53:23 -0500 From: "KatieWow" Subject: Re: please wish me luck it didn't seem like it. at least, my score didn't show it :). ~~kate - -- **************************************************************************** Kate Leahy kleahy@loyola.edu **************************************************************************** nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight - --bruce cockburn, "lovers in a dangerous time" and so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches. - --douglas adams, "hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" we're splitting into two camps--mike, i'm with you. - --jian ghomeshi, bottom line, 1/1 *************************************************************************** BBWMinors wrote in message <19990125075023.20143.00002470@ng-cf1.aol.com>... >Katie-wow wrote: > ><wrong :) >~~kate, who, in a panic over her PSATs, put her name in the boxes backward >and to this day gets mail from NYU for Leahy Katherine :)>> > >I have to ask this -- if you get an automatic 200 for putting your name on it, >do they automatically take 200 OFF if you don't? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 09:55:34 -0500 From: "KatieWow" Subject: Re: top five books you know, i really need a bookstore job. whenever i'm in one people mistake me for an employee and ask me questions. scarier still--i usually know the answers :). ~~kate - -- **************************************************************************** Kate Leahy kleahy@loyola.edu **************************************************************************** nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight - --bruce cockburn, "lovers in a dangerous time" and so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches. - --douglas adams, "hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" we're splitting into two camps--mike, i'm with you. - --jian ghomeshi, bottom line, 1/1 *************************************************************************** petit_chou@juno.com wrote in message <19990124.200231.-3750103.0.petit_chou@juno.com>... >Katie said: >>"the stinky cheese man and other fairly stupid tales," by jon scieszka >>and lane smith > >Seee? I'm not the only one, guys. This Jon Scieszka is so completely >wonderful. Lane Smith has also done a bunch of stuff on his own (I must >recommend The Happy Hocky Family -- weirdly twisted tales for kids). >Math Curse (which they did together) is so cool, my math teacher in 11th >grade read it to us. You know Katie, he's written this cool series for >older kids (who am I kidding, all his books are for any age) called The >Time Warp Trio. Very cool books that teach a lot about history while >being hysterically funny. This guy is one of my favourite kid's authors, >and I can't tell you how many people I turned onto him when I worked at >B&N. > >Heather Moore >___________________________________________________________________ >You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. >Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html >or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 09:54:25 -0500 From: "KatieWow" Subject: Re: Favorite books (was a lot of stuff) only one b in gibran--but you came really close! i'm assuming you've read "the prophet"--one of those life-changers for me :). ~~kate - -- **************************************************************************** Kate Leahy kleahy@loyola.edu **************************************************************************** nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight - --bruce cockburn, "lovers in a dangerous time" and so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches. - --douglas adams, "hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" we're splitting into two camps--mike, i'm with you. - --jian ghomeshi, bottom line, 1/1 *************************************************************************** schr9271@fredonia.edu wrote in message <78gquf$r8j$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>... >hmmm...I can't narrow it down to 5 (I like too many trilogies) soI'll just >list some series and stuff.... > >first and for most on my list, however is > >~"Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn" tril by Tad Williams. This includes "Dragonbone >Chair" "Stone of Farewell" and "To Green Angel Tower". I have never been so >enthralled in a book before! The books just take you in for a long and wild >adventure. I pesonally thought it was better than Robert Jordan's series...and >there are onle 3/4 books in this one!!! > >~"Otherland" by Tad Williams. Ok, this guys rocks!!! I'm still reading the >first book in this series but, my god, can this man tell a story. It's much >more sci-fi then his other series but still as good. > >~"Thought and Meditations" by Kahil Gibbran. ummm...I'm sure I spelled that >wrong but I don't have the book here to tell. anywho, wonderful writings and >very thought provoking. > >~"Farseer" tril by Robin Hobb. "Assassin's Apprentice" "Royal Assassin" and >"Assassin's Quest" This is right up there with Tad. > >~"Drango Prince/Sunrunner" trils by Melanie Rawn. yup, I like fantasy stuff >:-) > >~"Redwall" series by Brain Jaques. Simple, lighthearted tales of furry >bravery. > >~"Christopher Park Regulars" by E.M. Swift (I think). Short stories about a >group of people in NYC that seem so far fetched they might be real ;) > >i think that's all I can think of right now. I love this thread!!! Great >idea!!! > >Amy - the book nut > > >-----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- >http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 09:58:53 -0500 From: "KatieWow" Subject: Re: *gasp* *sigh* *whimper* yuck. >-------------------------..--------------------------------< o \____/ *hug* hopefully you can read this. i hope you feel better :). ~~kate - -- **************************************************************************** Kate Leahy kleahy@loyola.edu **************************************************************************** nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight - --bruce cockburn, "lovers in a dangerous time" and so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches. - --douglas adams, "hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" we're splitting into two camps--mike, i'm with you. - --jian ghomeshi, bottom line, 1/1 *************************************************************************** Mindy J Munson wrote in message <19990124.224530.-3956459.2.SHAZALINREA@juno.com>... >WAAAAAAA!!!! I don't know wether to be happy or sad! So much is going >down in VA. > >1. wanted to see Shakes in Love with my sis's bf but ended up going to >Step Mom. That was good anyway though. We had a lil pop corn toss =+) > >2. My Rockin' fellow open-minded Christian friend returned from the >bowels of Georgia and we are having coffee tomorrow > >3. This same firend, Darcy, said that we might be ablee to truck up and >see the DC performance!!! (complete and utter soilment there!) Better >yet, she will try to get out of her classes early so I can chill with you >guys in line! > >4. I got a really cool dance wamrup thingie that is going to keep me >toasty when I ski next weekend and when I go to Toronto (at least I think >Im going to Toronto) > >5. This is a lil out of order but mom hung up my LN poster while I was a >t the movie. Its been on my floor since the Birchmere in august. Glenn >(siters bf) was a lil afraid at what Ji had to say on my poster though >=+) "Mindy- Thnaks for joining our Waco (crossed out) Wacko cult. *heart* >Jian G*scribble scribble*" tehe > >6. I went to my youth group very happy. In the middle I found out that >the kid pummled by a chair in my school was my friend. A kid started >calling Matt's (my friend) gf a whore so Matt called him a Nigger. Matt >went to his next class and put his head on the desk to sleep and the kid >took a chair and beat Matt with it. It ruptured Matt's spleen. > >7. At the end of youth group my mom doesnt show....her friend does. >Frist thought: shit. Good instincts. My gma was rushed to the hospital. > I have no detalis on that one > >8. While typing this to you my other gma took a phone call from my aunt. > My coz that went into the army just got married on the 1st of Jan in 98. > Her husband was sent to Korea for a year. A week before he comes back >she has a bad acident and totals the car. Tonight he tells her (he just >got back) that he had an affair in Korea and no longer wants to be >married. He said he'll stay with her for a month so that she can >adjust...asshole! > > >sorry to go on... at least there was some good news! =+) > >Fruchild, in need of a hug.... hey I've never had a hug from the lads.... >___________________________________________________________________ >You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. >Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html >or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 15:38:21 +0000 From: Richard Butterworth Subject: Re: DC show info Ambush Bug wrongled: > :> Is embiggens even a word? > > : It's a very promulent word, if I say so myself. > > "cromulent" It's a perfectly cromulent word. Isn't there a note on the FAQ about not posting any of this sort of peristipination on the ng? Tinkerty tonk Richard - ----------------------------------------- Salt fare North Sea weird stare further than the eye can see he had a head like a toy shop --`Some old salty'. Trad English song. - ----------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 15:28:14 GMT From: cricket5@hotmail.com Subject: Mail, etc. Hello fellow procrastinators! The hour is at hand. Get those FruCon t-shirt orders out ASAP. It often can take up to 1-1/2 weeks for mail to get from Canada to the USA, and even within the states it takes 3-5 business days. So start mailing. The deadline is only a week away! For order info, see: http://www.fruvous.com/frucon2.html#tshirt Mary PREREGISTER FOR FRUCON II It would make me really happy to have 200 people preregistered by the end of the week, so if you plan on attending, humour me and send an email to frucon2@canada.com See http://www.fruvous.com/frucon2.html for the latest info :) - -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 15:59:27 GMT From: nafio@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: Favorite books (was a lot of stuff) Becky wrote: > _The Mists of Avalon_ by Marion Zimmer Bradley > Telling of the Arthurian legend from Morgan le Fay's point of view. > I've seen this book criticized by Arthurian "scholars" for being > inaccurate, but it's a wonderful story. Focus is less on Arthur and his > knights and more on the impact that the rise of Christianity had on > priestesses, etc. I'm going to _try_ and finish this someday. Everyone I ever shared literary taste with recommended this book and I just cannot get into it. It probably would have helped if I wasn't such an Arthur enthusiast. It's not that it's inaccurate but after reading so many Arthurian novels I have a certain picture of Morgan and *g* she's not all that sympathetic to her. I _do_ like Zimmer Bradley's The Fall of Atlantis and one about Cassandra...Firebrand? My favourite Arthurian book at the moment seems to be out of print.. it's called The Pendragon by Catherine Christian. For something *in* print I recommend The Camulod chronicles by Jack Whyte. Start with The Skystone and just keep going. Fiona "I'm SO a Dave's people if it weren't for Mike..." - -Marie-Claude Nov 16/98 - -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 16:21:11 GMT From: gemini@p3.net (Trace) Subject: Re: favorite books (was a lot of stuff) On Mon, 25 Jan 1999 06:15:36 GMT, Srm9988n@aol.com wrote: > >also, to come up with 5 that are mine all mine: OK, I've thought about it and can't come up with 5, my favorite books tend to be whatever I'm reading currently ... but here are some that come to mind. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley Anything by Jane Austen, but I find -Pride and Prejudice- and - -Persuasion- the most satisfying. >Am I really only allowed 5? *sniff* Okay. But how about genres other >than hoity-toity *literature*? Then we can add: > >a children's list! Yay! I'd just like to add C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia. I still read these every few years, and I love them! They began my life long love of fantasy. Some other interesting stuff I've read recently (and not so recently). Dean Koontz -- Strangers Laurie R. King -- Her Mary Russel series, which begins with The Beekeeper's Apprentice is a fresh perspective on Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, but this time Holmes has a young, female partner. Nicely done. Jean Auel -- I've always loved her Earth Children series, beginning with the Clan of the Cave Bear. It is a wonderful story set at the dawn of human history. However, it does have the distinction of having been adapted into one of the worst movies ever made, starring Daryl Hannah. Read the book, don't watch the movie, and if you've watched the movie... I'm sorry. Dan Simmons -- Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion. Sci/fi. The first one patterned on the Canterbury Tales, and both filled with tons of Keatsisms, which is a good thing if, like me, you love Romantic poetry. Speaking of Margaret Atwood, I really enjoyed The Robber Bride. An interesting psychological study into the lives and co-dependencies of women. Douglas Adams of course! Although the Hitchikers' Trilogy is awesome, don't forget his Dirk Gently books! ok, I'm stopping now, before this gets any longer. - -- Trace gemini@p3.net *sniff* Target is within sniffing range. Hailing on all frequencies. *woop woop* Visual acquired. Our bogie is at 9:00. Fire when ready. - 1/1 BL dum tek ca tek tek ca tek tek *snort* ARGH *glare* Follow THAT one lads.... - 1/2 BL ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 16:10:02 GMT From: nafio@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: Favorite books (was a lot of stuff) Amy wrote: > ~"Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn" tril by Tad Williams. This includes "Dragonbone > Chair" "Stone of Farewell" and "To Green Angel Tower". I have never been so > enthralled in a book before! The books just take you in for a long and wild > adventure. I pesonally thought it was better than Robert Jordan's series...and > there are onle 3/4 books in this one!!! This is good and I recommend it to fantasy readers but it's awfully close to the Lord of the Rings. I kept thinking "Why do fantasy writers worship that series so much.. it wasn't _that_ good". Fiona "I'm SO a Dave's people if it weren't for Mike..." - -Marie-Claude Nov 16/98 - -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V3 #78 *******************************************