[Mirikon]

To that, CanRay, I can only say, "Meh." I've tried to read Pratchet's work a couple times, and it just didn't interest me.

[AJCarrington]

Huh... odd.

Just checked, though, and Soul Music (the book that makes the My Little Binky reference) was published way back in '94 while Soul Eater started in '03, so it's probably a coincidence

I would think so - didn't mean to imply otherwise.

AJC

[Mirikon]

A Sperethiel-English/English-Sperethiel dictionary/phrasebook, including common names in Sperethiel.

[beowulf_of_wa]

i'd actually buy the language book, though i'm not sure if i want spere or orzet more.

[Sichr]

i'd actually buy the language book, though i'm not sure if i want spere or orzet more.

Anyone can buy or download Tolkiens dictionary and consider it Sperethiel. Well...I havent seen anything like Orzet anywhere...and god damn Id love to...

[raggedhalo]

It comes from Sir Terry Pratchett.  Thus it is made of awesome.

I once skipped school to go to a talk he was giving in our town.  At the end, when I was getting my copy of Reaper Man signed, I explained that my mum had asked for me to get the time off, but the school had said no.  His response?

"Sometimes school gets in the way of education."

I went off his work around Hogfather or Jingo and never got back into it, but I've always respected him for that line.

[CanRay]

"Sometimes school gets in the way of education."

Damn good line, and I'm living proof of that.

One time I had my copy of Moby Dick stolen from me (Literally stolen, it was a copy I bought.), and the school curriculum "My Darling, My Hamburger" thrust into my hands.  The teacher refused to believe that I had finished it the night before on the grounds that "Everyone else is still struggling on chapter two."

[Wakshaani]

In their defense, Moby Dick is a terrible waste of your reading time. I drug mine back out last year for the first time in decades and, good lord, did it eat my brain. It's before we'd figured out how novels work, so is a weird comination travelogue and encyclopedia that, oh yeah, has something happen near the end. Nice sermons, and to a modern reader, Ishmael and Queequeg cuddling in bed together is FAR less innocent than I remembered, but, Noble Savage Template and all that.

Then again, I followed it up with Utopia, after which I longer for the pulse-pounding action of Moby.

(Going through the classics, as it's been decades, I find all kinds of things I missed before. Heck, I'd totally forgotten that there are several chapters in Robinson Curosoe after he leaves the island. And a set-up for a sequel!)

[CanRay]

And reading "My Darling, My Hamburger" is a piece of high culture and mental thought?

Not to mention having to do it again, and again, and again, and again, otherwise I'd fall asleep in class and FAIL?

[Mirikon]

Sorry, CanRay, but that book has nothing on "Madame Bovary". Otherwise known as the book so fragging boring that the instructor didn't bother reading it, and went straight to Cliff's Notes.

[Sichr]

And reading "My Darling, My Hamburger" is a piece of high culture and mental thought?

Not to mention having to do it again, and again, and again, and again, otherwise I'd fall asleep in class and FAIL?

Heh. You should try some russians.

[Mirikon]

Hey, since there's a Shadowrun 2050 book coming out, any chance we'll see conversions of classic modules? Harlequin, Harlequin's Back, Queen Euphoria, Mercurial... Be nice to have some classics reborn.

[Mason]

And reading "My Darling, My Hamburger" is a piece of high culture and mental thought?

Not to mention having to do it again, and again, and again, and again, otherwise I'd fall asleep in class and FAIL?

I want to slap your teacher. What, did your school not have advanced learning classes? You know, the 'smart people' classes?

[CanRay]

I want to slap your teacher. What, did your school not have advanced learning classes? You know, the 'smart people' classes?

No.

It was a Welfare School.  Right behind the track, rent-controlled, government-run housing.  "Why bother teaching them?  They're just going to be like their parents." I heard more than once.

I went to an advanced sciences High School, but it was little better.  Canada's own version of "No Kid Left Behind" sort of thing I think.  College I finally got challenged, but damage done... 

[AJCarrington]

Hey, since there's a Shadowrun 2050 book coming out, any chance we'll see conversions of classic modules? Harlequin, Harlequin's Back, Queen Euphoria, Mercurial... Be nice to have some classics reborn.

This would be very nice...

On a separate note, would very much like to see this book in full color.

AJC