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I've lived in Minnesota the vast majority of my life, but I have nothing against Manitoba. I pretend to like sports like curling (that's wintery), and hurling (that's Irish), and burling (that's for lumberjacks), and baseball and hockey. I have several cookbooks that I rarely use, but I make some...
( Iron Sunrise , Accelerando ), William Gibson ( Idoru , Neuromancer ), Vernor Vinge ( A Deepness in the Sky / A Fire Upon the Deep ), Richard K Morgan ( Takeshi Kovacs novels), Dan Simmons (nothing like the greek gods/nanotech mash-up of Ilium and Olympos]]), I could go on and on for days here.
Favorite books, in no order: Dune , City of Saints and Madmen , The Lucifer Effect , House of Leaves , The Dark Tower Series , Ilium .
Ilium and Olympos by Dan Simmons .
books - Night's Dawn trilogy , Alistair Reynolds ' books, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell , Ilium and Olympos , Dune , Sherlock Holmes stories, American Gods , Perdido Street Station , Paradise Lost , Pride and Prejudice , His Dark Materials trilogy, Harry Potter (yes, and your point?
The Improved Book Character-Savvy Test
Hola! Welcome aboard my Book Character-Savvy Test. I'll be using both my logic and knowledge (I don't think they're advanced, at this stage) to determ... ...
The Modern Major General Test
If you've ever seen The Pirates of Penzance, then you understand exactly how important it is to know whether you are the very model of a modern Major-... ...
Ilium
I do not need a map to show me my destination, The curve of your
hipbone will lead me to where the world began. Follow it down.
To desire men
When
a shirtless guy wears his pants low enough to reveal the ilium
crest, oh god that's when the drooling starts for me. The very peek
of the pevlis temps and taunts like little else. Where the thighs
meet the pelvis, this ilium line, is a gorgious part of a man.
Do you know who wrote: "Was this the..."?
Do you know who wrote: "Was this the face that launched a thousand
ships/And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?"No, not off the top of
my head---but should it count for anything, I know who authored the
lines---Was this the face that lancht a thousand shippes?And burnt
the toplesse Towres of Ilium?
The face that launched a thousand ships...
I really liked Ilium but I thought Olympos was pretty crappy and a
bit of a disappointment. He threw away a lot of the concepts he
established in Ilium and directly contradicted himself in a few
places, plus there was a decided "Evil Muslims" smell to the whole
thing.
DO tell me how pretty i am...
was this the face that launched a thousand shipsand burnt the
topless towers of Ilium?
Seriously chicks. Work out. Fat is just not attractive.
Nope, it is a reference to
Ilium/Olympos by Dan Simmons
Science Fiction Reading Suggestions
His Hyperion Cantos and Ilium/Olympos are flawed, but
brilliant masterpieces.
