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Alaundo
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Posted - 02 Nov 2007 :  15:49:49  Show Profile  Visit Alaundo's Homepage Send Alaundo a Private Message  Reply with Quote  Delete Topic
Well met

This is a Book Club thread for Crypt of the Moaning Diamond (Book 4 of the Dungeons series), by Rosemary Jones. Please discuss chapters 16 - 20 herein.

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Ozzalum
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Posted - 22 Dec 2007 :  02:49:13  Show Profile  Visit Ozzalum's Homepage Send Ozzalum a Private Message  Reply with Quote
The bugbear poets are an inspiration; truly Ed-worthy!
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The Red Walker
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Originally posted by Ozzalum

The bugbear poets are an inspiration; truly Ed-worthy!



Not to mention how they fretted over how they looked to females.
Too funny Ms. Jones!

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Rosemary Jones
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Posted - 02 Jan 2008 :  01:48:45  Show Profile  Visit Rosemary Jones's Homepage Send Rosemary Jones a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by The Red Walker

quote:
Originally posted by Ozzalum

The bugbear poets are an inspiration; truly Ed-worthy!



Not to mention how they fretted over how they looked to females.
Too funny Ms. Jones!



Seattle, home of the grunge movement and a lot of slam poetry. It seemed natural. Besides the brothers just grew on me and kept demanding more page time. And then some of my early readers of this manuscript kept asking "but what about the bugbears?" So more scenes in the end.

I like to think that the Big O went on to find many females interested in his poetry. He's such an easygoing bugbear. Norimgic has a much more tortured outlook on life and will probably end up singing sad songs somewhere and wearing lots of black.


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Braveheart
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Posted - 14 Jan 2008 :  10:25:03  Show Profile  Visit Braveheart's Homepage Send Braveheart a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Rosemary Jones

quote:
Originally posted by The Red Walker

quote:
Originally posted by Ozzalum

The bugbear poets are an inspiration; truly Ed-worthy!



Not to mention how they fretted over how they looked to females.
Too funny Ms. Jones!



Seattle, home of the grunge movement and a lot of slam poetry. It seemed natural. Besides the brothers just grew on me and kept demanding more page time. And then some of my early readers of this manuscript kept asking "but what about the bugbears?" So more scenes in the end.

I like to think that the Big O went on to find many females interested in his poetry. He's such an easygoing bugbear. Norimgic has a much more tortured outlook on life and will probably end up singing sad songs somewhere and wearing lots of black.




Well that perspective certainly adds to Salvatore's view of monsters being more than silly monsters. A very enjoyable book so far

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Entreri: "And the real thing can kill you whether you believe in it or not."
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Rosemary Jones
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Posted - 23 Jan 2008 :  05:12:35  Show Profile  Visit Rosemary Jones's Homepage Send Rosemary Jones a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Braveheart


Well that perspective certainly adds to Salvatore's view of monsters being more than silly monsters. A very enjoyable book so far



Trust me, we don't get into the tortured love lives of destrachans. Even I draw the line there!


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Braveheart
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Posted - 23 Jan 2008 :  11:20:03  Show Profile  Visit Braveheart's Homepage Send Braveheart a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Rosemary Jones

quote:
Originally posted by Braveheart


Well that perspective certainly adds to Salvatore's view of monsters being more than silly monsters. A very enjoyable book so far



Trust me, we don't get into the tortured love lives of destrachans. Even I draw the line there!


Rosemary



Who knows, perhaps monsters are monsters because their wives at home are so terrible und dominant?

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Entreri: "And the real thing can kill you whether you believe in it or not."
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
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Posted - 12 Feb 2008 :  21:21:49  Show Profile  Visit Rinonalyrna Fathomlin's Homepage Send Rinonalyrna Fathomlin a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Heh, I enjoyed the bugbears, myself.

What really sticks out in my mind though (and I think this fits in between Chapters 16-20) is Sanval confronting a RUST MONSTER of all things! Of all monsters he got stuck with, it was that one, to some rather humorous results (not humorous to Sanval, of course).

"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
--Richard Greene (letter to Time)
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Kyrene
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Posted - 13 Jun 2008 :  07:47:43  Show Profile  Visit Kyrene's Homepage Send Kyrene a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin

Heh, I enjoyed the bugbears, myself.

What really sticks out in my mind though (and I think this fits in between Chapters 16-20) is Sanval confronting a RUST MONSTER of all things! Of all monsters he got stuck with, it was that one, to some rather humorous results (not humorous to Sanval, of course).


I have to echo this. The rust mosnter scene was the highlight of this book for me. And of course it had to happen to Sanval. When it crawled out, I laughed out loud, and chuckled as I described what I thought would happen to my wife. And thank all the little and big gods and godesses it happened exactly like that. Having to bludgeon the poor rusty to death with his 'good' boot just made it all that more entertaining. And, for goodness sake, what is a dungeon romp without a rusty to put the fear of the gods into a well armoured frontline fighter? Sanval losing his 'cool' during the bludgeoning was just the icing.

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Tremaine
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Posted - 31 May 2010 :  14:09:52  Show Profile Send Tremaine a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Sanval v the rust monster was just a brilliant scene, ah poor Sanvel and his gleaming polish armour
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