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Mar 15, 2007 16:00:57 GMT -5
Post by bluephoenix on Mar 15, 2007 16:00:57 GMT -5
He was deffinately the kind of guy I could respect and lok up to as a father figure, yaknow?
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Mar 21, 2007 6:16:09 GMT -5
Post by Robert on Mar 21, 2007 6:16:09 GMT -5
Yeah I felt that way about him when I was reading the books! I loved how he treated Gerdi! It was hilarious!
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Mar 24, 2007 1:46:54 GMT -5
Post by The Old Fan on Mar 24, 2007 1:46:54 GMT -5
Hi, whazzup.
Don't mean to drop in on a private board, but in Googling "broken sky chris wooding chapters" you guys are on like, the first page. This is a cool message board.
... and I kind of NEED SOME HELP. Maybe somebody can check something for me.
I really dug these books, but for reasons of poverty back in the day, I only got 2 of them, back when they were first released in 2000 or so. I remember reading these books, and being really really impressed with (lots and lots of things, including) the chapter titles.
Did you guys ever notice the poetic elegance of the chapter titles? "Of a Screaming Spectre" -- or something like that -- is a chapter title in book 2 (I think). They're all really short and stylish. And meaningful. (I can't believe I remember this. Seriously.)
Anyway, my mom donated all my old books, and I can't get Broken Sky off amazon. So if I want to know what they really were, I'm sh** up a creek.
If somebody would post some of the chapter titles ...? That would be SO COOL. And it might even be useful, because it would be something to talk about.
A million thanks.
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Mar 24, 2007 3:36:50 GMT -5
Post by shyviolet on Mar 24, 2007 3:36:50 GMT -5
I duuno where you could find the books except maybe Ebay ( I got all mine when they first came out), but they're set for a release in 3-book format soon so if the worst comes to the worst you could buy those.
The chapter titles are all quotes from the chapter. Like... "A Matter of Shades" is from "Trust was not a matter of shades of grey for a Keriag, it was absolute and total."
That's the only one I can remember off the top of my head.
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Jun 8, 2007 18:33:45 GMT -5
Post by lexit9551 on Jun 8, 2007 18:33:45 GMT -5
I loved everything; the stones, the Jachyra traveling through mirrors (something my neighbor once tried, much to my amusement since he was five), just too many things I loved to name at once.
I learned that I shouldn't try explaining the series to people sadly, because they just don't understand.
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Jun 9, 2007 3:10:42 GMT -5
Post by shyviolet on Jun 9, 2007 3:10:42 GMT -5
Yeah, I had that problem. It's just too complicated! You've got to explain the two worlds and the stones and by the time you're done with all the background your friend is glaring at you in a way that gives you the distinct impression they're trying to explode your head with willpower alone.
I thought the travelling through mirrors was a stroke of genius, although it did scare the living daylights out of me for a while. (I've always been a little scared of mirrors anyway.)
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Jun 9, 2007 5:00:50 GMT -5
Post by Maliris on Jun 9, 2007 5:00:50 GMT -5
Many, many, many and I mean many years ago I read a horror-story which wasn´t that scary actually but it contained a rather creepy element. Some family had bought a mirror. A large, ornate thing and the daughter was a rather capricious one. One day, when she stood in front of the mirror admiring her reflection she moved a slight bit too close. She had one of her hands extended towards the mirror and suddenly her reflection grasped her hand and pulled her into the mirror. The girl was then stuck in the mirror and her reflection was free to roam the world; they switched places. Won´t tell the ending. Because it was semi-lame. Anyway!
When I read BSky I had this amused thought that once again someone added a creepy element to mirrors. Maybe mirrors have this effect on people...
Just like fog and mist! Carnivorous fog!!
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Jun 9, 2007 8:24:05 GMT -5
Post by lexit9551 on Jun 9, 2007 8:24:05 GMT -5
Yeah, I had that problem. It's just too complicated! You've got to explain the two worlds and the stones and by the time you're done with all the background your friend is glaring at you in a way that gives you the distinct impression they're trying to explode your head with willpower alone. I thought the travelling through mirrors was a stroke of genius, although it did scare the living daylights out of me for a while. (I've always been a little scared of mirrors anyway.) Yeah, it is kinda complicated when you first hear about it. But now I think of it as child's play when it comes to understanding the series, I'm odd like that. And I was never scared of mirrors, my mom has a video when I was a baby and I apparently thought my reflection was another little girl. And my brother (I'm not linking him to this forum because he's one of those people like "omg teh awesome! I want to have your babies!") said that he bets he knows what Gerdi was like as a baby from me. I was ninja baby, my mom'd look away from me for literally a second and when she looked back I'd be gone, no noise or anything.
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Jun 9, 2007 10:05:08 GMT -5
Post by shyviolet on Jun 9, 2007 10:05:08 GMT -5
Really? Crazy-amazing ninja baby! I was pretty quiet, but Mum tells me before I went to primary school whenever I spoke it would be in my own weird language. Apparently as a toddler instead of learning the language I would just make up my own words for things! She never wrote any of it down though...
In my experience the BSky universe is pretty easy to understand when you read the books, but practically impossible to explain in conversation. I used to persuade my riends to read it by showing them the cover art instead.
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Jun 9, 2007 12:00:58 GMT -5
Post by lexit9551 on Jun 9, 2007 12:00:58 GMT -5
Really? Crazy-amazing ninja baby! I was pretty quiet, but Mum tells me before I went to primary school whenever I spoke it would be in my own weird language. Apparently as a toddler instead of learning the language I would just make up my own words for things! She never wrote any of it down though... In my experience the BSky universe is pretty easy to understand when you read the books, but practically impossible to explain in conversation. I used to persuade my riends to read it by showing them the cover art instead. I was the same way as a baby, the first time I spoke after learning was my mom was going to a store and she asked me if I wanted to go in the store and I said "Of course I do mommy." in a very rude tone. Itis easy to understand when you read it but explaining it is harder when you and your friends are all too ADD to focus on any subject for more than a minute. >.<
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Jun 9, 2007 13:11:37 GMT -5
Post by Maliris on Jun 9, 2007 13:11:37 GMT -5
Truth be told, I always marvelled at how easily Chris can explain things. I always think, while reading, that I would probably break my tongue if I tried to explain some things. But he can put the most complicate, the most brain twisting story element in such simple words so that everybody gets it. They make perfect sense when I read it but I couldn´t put it into words. That probably why he´s an author and I am not. ;D
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Jun 9, 2007 13:15:26 GMT -5
Post by lexit9551 on Jun 9, 2007 13:15:26 GMT -5
Truth be told, I always marvelled at how easily Chris can explain things. I always think, while reading, that I would probably break my tongue if I tried to explain some things. But he can put the most complicate, the most brain twisting story element in such simple words so that everybody gets it. They make perfect sense when I read it but I couldn´t put it into words. That probably why he´s an author and I am not. ;D Yeah, that could be a reason. ^_^
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Jun 30, 2007 15:22:07 GMT -5
Post by Aryeec {E.F. Forester} on Jun 30, 2007 15:22:07 GMT -5
I got this book from a scholastic readers magazine, that my school used to give out, because it looked cool. Then I read it......and I mean that the good way.
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Jun 30, 2007 17:03:46 GMT -5
Post by shyviolet on Jun 30, 2007 17:03:46 GMT -5
I've had that! They give us a list of books to pick from at my old school and I picked the one that seemed the best of a bad bunch, and then it turned out to be really great and I was so surprised.
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Jun 30, 2007 18:22:26 GMT -5
Post by Aryeec {E.F. Forester} on Jun 30, 2007 18:22:26 GMT -5
i still love scholastic...
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