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by **chrysalis** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:57 pm

Yes, it's in Calhoun County. Why, is that longer than 2 hours away?

by **Navarre** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 8:53 pm

No, Calhoun County is right about 2 hours away. It is the county where I was raised.

My ex-wife called it The Vortex because it was "this hellish void people couldn't escape". I've tried to escape it, metaphorically, my entire life. It still has me held in too many ways.

If you really want to see it though I can make that happen. Maybe some of here can rent a tour bus and drive up. That way when we all disappear or go mad from the experience it is more likely a movie will be made about us.

by **chrysalis** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:15 pm

I knew that was your home county and that the ex always called it the Vortex, but I figured if I asked you to go with me you would have an Appalachian hissy fit.

by **Rust** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:38 pm

Navarre wrote:No, Calhoun County is right about 2 hours away. It is the county where I was raised.

My ex-wife called it The Vortex because it was "this hellish void people couldn't escape". I've tried to escape it, metaphorically, my entire life. It still has me held in too many ways.

If you really want to see it though I can make that happen. Maybe some of here can rent a tour bus and drive up. That way when we all disappear or go mad from the experience it is more likely a movie will be made about us.

So wait...

You were raised in a setting akin to H.P. Lovecraft?

by **TheZilla** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 9:27 am

Navarre wrote:
My ex-wife called it The Vortex because it was "this hellish void people couldn't escape". I've tried to escape it, metaphorically, my entire life. It still has me held in too many ways.

People say the same thing about Buffalo, NY

by **Navarre** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 12:55 pm

I really doubt Buffalo compares to where I am from.

My entire county doesn't even have a stop light.

There are only three paved streets in the county seat.

The county has a community whose actual name is Boogerhole.

You couldn't make this stuff up if you tried.

by **TheZilla** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 2:25 pm

sounds like where I went to high school in the catskills. yeesh so glad I made it out of both places.

Back on topic: Terry Brooks has a new novel due out on the 28th as the third book in the trilogy I mentioned earlier in this thread... (almost 2 years ago LOL)

by **Pants-less Bard** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 12:55 pm

At the risk of making this a Gaiman fan thread, I'll join with others in heartily recommending his work. I've read the following by him in the last 3 months and couldn't be more happy that I did.

American Gods
Anansi Boys
Coraline
Fragile Things

And I just started Neverwhere

EDIT: To say that I read them may be misleading. They were all unabridged audiobooks. Two of them read by the author himself.

by **Pants-less Bard** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 1:10 pm

Another recommendation would be any of the following. They're some of my favorite authors from This American Life, so it's primarily non-fiction. I "read" all of them by audiobook (read by the author), but these links are to the texts.

David Sedaris:
Dress your family in corduroy and denim
Me talk pretty one day
Barrel Fever

Sarah Vowell (a brilliant author and the voice of Violet in the Incredibles):
Assassination Vacation
The Partly Cloudy Patriot

David Rakoff:
Don't Get Too Comfortable
Fraud: Essays

by **chrysalis** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 12:21 pm

Has anyone every read the book Crum?

I picked it up the other day thinking I would like it, plus I used to have to travel to Crum weekly at my old job.

There are some parts to the book that are giving me issues. I've not read any further into the book since the sliced apple incident.

by **ironbite4** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 11:36 pm

Dudes and dudetes...I recomend anything by Mercades Lackey. In fact...I recomend anything that's in her Hearlds of Valdemar series. Especially her most recent one, which I happened to have finished tonight. I got the book on Wednsday. Tell you something about my work habits?

Ironbite-what can I say....I get bored easily.

by **Skyshadow** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 8:27 am

Dan Abnett. he could write the denny's menu and id buy it.

by **Rust** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 11:47 am

David Weber and Linda Evan's collaboration: "Hell's Gate".

What happens when a Multi-universe spanning empire of Magic Users (Complete with Dragons, Gryphons, and Crossbows) encounters a Multi-universe spanning empire of Telepaths with technology akin to around the Late 19th, very early 20th Century (The Internal Combustion Engine is "new" and just now being integrated to replace Steam Driven drives)?

by **Spike** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 11:22 pm

Bob Dylan: Chronicles

by **ambrose** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 12:26 am

Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
Good Omens

Lucy Joe Palladino
The Edison Trait

M.J. Simpson
Hitchhiker

William Gibson
IDORU

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