en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/532377 Comments by geekymat http://markreads.net/reviews/2018/07/mark-reads-the-book-of-night-with-moon-chapter-4-part-i/#IDComment1063618049 Yeah, I meant before the NME stuff....given its publication date of 1997, it likely took place between A Wizard Abroad (1993) and A Wizard's Dilemna (2001). How that fits in with the timeline shift from the NME, I dunno :) Fri, 6 Jul 2018 15:53:36 +0000 http://markreads.net/reviews/2018/07/mark-reads-the-book-of-night-with-moon-chapter-4-part-i/#IDComment1063618049 http://markreads.net/reviews/2018/07/mark-reads-the-book-of-night-with-moon-chapter-4-part-i/#IDComment1063611931 They were never after....they’re in the middle of YW somewhere, though I don’t remember the exact placement. In one of the YW books, Nita casually mentions one of the big events of this book as having happened...I think in conversation with her dad. Fur oevatf hc gur “qvabfnhef va Prageny Cnex” ovg, naq gung vg jnf haqbar ol gvzr cngpuvat. Fri, 6 Jul 2018 11:07:34 +0000 http://markreads.net/reviews/2018/07/mark-reads-the-book-of-night-with-moon-chapter-4-part-i/#IDComment1063611931 http://markreads.net/reviews/2017/11/mark-reads-lifeboats-chapter-6-part-i/#IDComment1053377854 Wait, Entenmann’s stuff is in every grocery store in the NY/NJ area....how can you miss it? LOL Wed, 22 Nov 2017 14:02:25 +0000 http://markreads.net/reviews/2017/11/mark-reads-lifeboats-chapter-6-part-i/#IDComment1053377854 http://markreads.net/reviews/2016/09/mark-reads-a-wizard-abroad-chapter-12/#IDComment1030854553 Thanks. :) I was wondering because, if vague memory serves, events of the first FW book get mentioned in the next YW book. Mon, 26 Sep 2016 10:29:17 +0000 http://markreads.net/reviews/2016/09/mark-reads-a-wizard-abroad-chapter-12/#IDComment1030854553 http://markreads.net/reviews/2016/09/mark-reads-a-wizard-abroad-chapter-12/#IDComment1030674725 I think it's a pool/billiards reference. I think "putting English on it" has something to do with adding spin to the cue ball. Fri, 23 Sep 2016 14:14:32 +0000 http://markreads.net/reviews/2016/09/mark-reads-a-wizard-abroad-chapter-12/#IDComment1030674725 http://markreads.net/reviews/2016/09/mark-reads-a-wizard-abroad-chapter-12/#IDComment1030674630 I don't have my copy handy but that sounds about right. Fri, 23 Sep 2016 14:13:26 +0000 http://markreads.net/reviews/2016/09/mark-reads-a-wizard-abroad-chapter-12/#IDComment1030674630 http://markreads.net/reviews/2016/09/mark-reads-a-wizard-abroad-chapter-12/#IDComment1030671319 I don't always have a chance to read the comments here, so I may have missed this....is Mark reading the Feline Wizards books at some point too? Fri, 23 Sep 2016 12:58:28 +0000 http://markreads.net/reviews/2016/09/mark-reads-a-wizard-abroad-chapter-12/#IDComment1030671319 http://markreads.net/reviews/2016/09/mark-reads-a-wizard-abroad-chapter-12/#IDComment1030671266 If I remember correctly, the UK edition is the original. I remember back when it was the newest book I had to special order it from Amazon UK since it wasn't available in the US. Fri, 23 Sep 2016 12:57:23 +0000 http://markreads.net/reviews/2016/09/mark-reads-a-wizard-abroad-chapter-12/#IDComment1030671266 http://markreads.net/reviews/2016/06/mark-reads-high-wizardry-chapter-5/#IDComment1025038186 I don't know if it's changed or not since then, but when I was a newly out college student in the mid-late 90's (coincidentally going to a college the next town over from where Nita and Kit live), I emailed Duane and asked her if Tom and Carl were a couple. Her response was something like "well I've always thought so." Thu, 30 Jun 2016 18:11:29 +0000 http://markreads.net/reviews/2016/06/mark-reads-high-wizardry-chapter-5/#IDComment1025038186 http://markreads.net/reviews/2016/03/mark-reads-so-you-want-to-be-a-wizard-prologue-part-ii/#IDComment1017407065 I remember doing one of my many rereads in college and realizing that Nita lived only a few miles from the campus I was sitting on. :) Thu, 24 Mar 2016 17:32:51 +0000 http://markreads.net/reviews/2016/03/mark-reads-so-you-want-to-be-a-wizard-prologue-part-ii/#IDComment1017407065 http://markreads.net/reviews/2016/03/mark-reads-so-you-want-to-be-a-wizard-prologue-part-i/#IDComment1017215566 I absolutely love these books and I'm thrilled that Mark is finally reading them! I think I must have read SYWTBAW only a few years after it came out. I remember being in grade school and finding it in my local library. I devoured it, but after returning it I could never find it again...or remember the title. :( Years later when I was in high school, my brother and I joined the Science Fiction Book Club. For the free books to start, you just picked things based on a tiny postage-stamp sized picture of a book cover. I got one called "Support Your Local Wizard". It turned out to be an omnibus of SYWTBAW, DW, and HW. I was halfway through the book 1 when I realized that this was the library book I'd never been able to find again! I was so happy. :) Been reading them ever since, including ordering a copy of A Wizard Abroad from Amazon UK, back when it wasn't available in the US. :) Tue, 22 Mar 2016 14:11:02 +0000 http://markreads.net/reviews/2016/03/mark-reads-so-you-want-to-be-a-wizard-prologue-part-i/#IDComment1017215566 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/there-once-was-a-man-from-kirkjuvagr/#IDComment21068403 I'm sort of between you and Josh on this one. The books are incredibly interesting, but I can't stand Tolkein's writing style. The books are all history and plot, with pretty poor character development and pacing. Fri, 8 May 2009 17:10:50 +0000 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/there-once-was-a-man-from-kirkjuvagr/#IDComment21068403 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/there-once-was-a-man-from-kirkjuvagr/#IDComment21068360 I actually made it through the Silmarillion back in high school. It's an interesting read, but it's ridiculously dry. I've tried to reread it a few times (in fact, I started trying again a few days ago), but I haven't made it through again. It's basically a history textbook for Middle-Earth and it reads like one, not like a novel. Fri, 8 May 2009 17:09:41 +0000 http://hijinksensue.com/comic/there-once-was-a-man-from-kirkjuvagr/#IDComment21068360