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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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 Posted - 26 Sep 2013 : 13:43:16
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I'm about midway through Reavers of the Blood Sea. It's chock full of Knaak-minotaur goodness, which I like, and it offers a somewhat more humanised view of the Knights of Takhisis, which was sorely lacking through much of the "Chaos War" material.
I think I'll be done with it by the weekend, which means I probably need to start thinking about what to read next.
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*Looks wearily at my ever-growing stacks of unread books* |
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Entromancer
Senior Scribe
USA
388 Posts |
Posted - 26 Sep 2013 : 18:19:11
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Originally posted by Jeremy Grenemyer
I am slowly making my way through Stephen King's The Tommyknockers at work.
At home I'm back to perusing the shelf of half-read books.
Good luck with Tommyknockers. I'm a diehard King fan, and I couldn't get through the book.
I just finished A Dance with Dragons; loved it. Ramsay Bolton is an excellent villain, and Stannis is just awesome. Griff and Young Griff were my favorite characters. I can't wait to see what George does with Young Griff. |
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The Red Walker
Great Reader
USA
3567 Posts |
Posted - 26 Sep 2013 : 18:25:34
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Originally posted by The Sage
I'm about midway through Reavers of the Blood Sea. It's chock full of Knaak-minotaur goodness, which I like, and it offers a somewhat more humanised view of the Knights of Takhisis, which was sorely lacking through much of the "Chaos War" material.
I think I'll be done with it by the weekend, which means I probably need to start thinking about what to read next.
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*Looks wearily at my ever-growing stacks of unread books*
Didnt Knaak write the novel about Kaz? I think I have an autographed copy of that somewhere. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36997 Posts |
Posted - 26 Sep 2013 : 23:39:46
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Originally posted by Entromancer
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Originally posted by Jeremy Grenemyer
I am slowly making my way through Stephen King's The Tommyknockers at work.
At home I'm back to perusing the shelf of half-read books.
Good luck with Tommyknockers. I'm a diehard King fan, and I couldn't get through the book.
I just finished A Dance with Dragons; loved it. Ramsay Bolton is an excellent villain, and Stannis is just awesome. Griff and Young Griff were my favorite characters. I can't wait to see what George does with Young Griff.
I'm not a King fan, myself, and I've not bothered with any of his new stuff since Dreamcatcher... But I quite enjoyed Tommyknockers. |
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Artemas Entreri
Great Reader
USA
3131 Posts |
Posted - 27 Sep 2013 : 00:46:59
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| Reading Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence. 100 pages in and it's a tad disappointing so far. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 27 Sep 2013 : 03:44:08
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Originally posted by The Red Walker
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Originally posted by The Sage
I'm about midway through Reavers of the Blood Sea. It's chock full of Knaak-minotaur goodness, which I like, and it offers a somewhat more humanised view of the Knights of Takhisis, which was sorely lacking through much of the "Chaos War" material.
I think I'll be done with it by the weekend, which means I probably need to start thinking about what to read next.
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*Looks wearily at my ever-growing stacks of unread books*
Didnt Knaak write the novel about Kaz? I think I have an autographed copy of that somewhere.
Yes, it's part of the original "Heroes" series. That's one of my favourites. I love Kaz! |
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Renin
Learned Scribe
USA
290 Posts |
Posted - 27 Sep 2013 : 14:39:47
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Originally posted by The Red Walker
Starting Brimstone Angels: Lesser Evils
I'm currently about 150 pages into this one.
I truly enjoy Evans writing and character detailing in her books. I look forward to as many as she can write. |
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The Red Walker
Great Reader
USA
3567 Posts |
Posted - 28 Sep 2013 : 02:44:59
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Read White Fang and Call of the Wild....wow....that's great writing.
Just started 20,000 leagues under the sea.
edit: I think White Fang is now in my top five favorite novels. |
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"We need men who can dream of things that never were." -
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 28 Sep 2013 : 03:11:00
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I'm almost done with Reavers of the Blood Sea.
So I've started thinking about what to read next. One query:- I took note of several Dragon Age novels [most written by David Gaider] in a discount bin at my local book store this very morn... Have any of my fellow scribes read any of these novels which apparently expand on elements referenced in the computer RPG of the same name?
I'm curious as to whether they're worth purchasing for inclusion in my "To-Read" stacks. |
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Artemas Entreri
Great Reader
USA
3131 Posts |
Posted - 28 Sep 2013 : 03:23:40
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| Finished Prince of Thorns. Wasn't too impressed with Mark Lawrence's debut novel. |
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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
India
1591 Posts |
Posted - 28 Sep 2013 : 13:05:11
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Originally posted by Entreri3478
Finished Prince of Thorns. Wasn't too impressed with Mark Lawrence's debut novel.
Hmm I was thinking about reading that myself. Could you elaborate on why you didn't like it? |
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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
India
1591 Posts |
Posted - 28 Sep 2013 : 13:06:37
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| Reading World war Z: An oral history of the Zombie War. Quite riveting. Its much better than the movie. |
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The Red Walker
Great Reader
USA
3567 Posts |
Posted - 28 Sep 2013 : 13:44:26
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Originally posted by Renin
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Originally posted by The Red Walker
Starting Brimstone Angels: Lesser Evils
I'm currently about 150 pages into this one.
I truly enjoy Evans writing and character detailing in her books. I look forward to as many as she can write.
I liked it alot, as with all of her realms novels, but the editing seemed to be lax in this one for me. I found myself re-reading several paragraphs and even a page or two due to some confusion of who was doing what because of some jumbled pronouns. |
A little nonsense now and then, relished by the wisest men - Willy Wonka
"We need men who can dream of things that never were." -
John F. Kennedy, speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963
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Artemas Entreri
Great Reader
USA
3131 Posts |
Posted - 28 Sep 2013 : 14:00:35
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Originally posted by Thauranil
Reading World war Z: An oral history of the Zombie War. Quite riveting. Its much better than the movie.
Absolutely. Below is a copy/paste of my Goodreads review:
Wow, I can't for the life of me remember the last time I wanted to like a book so much but didn't.
This book wasn't bad, but there was no spark that lit that reading fire under my ass. Sure Jorg is a teenage bad-ass, but that's not enough to carry the story. Jorg is the only character in this book who is fleshed out in any way. Granted, this is a first person narrative, but I found the rest of the characters to be flat and forgettable. I'm actually having trouble thinking of more than a handful of their names at the moment.
This was Lawrence's first book, so maybe that had something to do with it. I'll read the second book in the series later on and see if the story of Jorg pull's me in any further, because right now I'm sitting here wondering why some people loved this book. For those of you who did, please comment on what you liked about it.
*Also: why are a bunch of the real-world references (Latin, Sparta, Shakespeare, WOMD, etc) doing littering a fantasy setting?? (If you can tell me WITHOUT spoiling anything ;) )
2.5 stars...but several instances where Lawrence actually said "a game of thrones" downgrades this to 2 stars for Goodreads. |
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Artemas Entreri
Great Reader
USA
3131 Posts |
Posted - 28 Sep 2013 : 14:01:16
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| Started HP and the Deathly Hallows! :) |
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Yoss
Learned Scribe
USA
259 Posts |
Posted - 28 Sep 2013 : 14:22:51
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Originally posted by The Red Walker
Read White Fang and Call of the Wild....wow....that's great writing.
Just started 20,000 leagues under the sea.
edit: I think White Fang is now in my top five favorite novels.
I was a huge fan of both, but Call of the Wild was one of my favorite books when I was a kid. I hated reading out loud in class, which my third grade teacher took to mean I couldn't read. So she sent me to the special ed teacher, told the special ed teacher that I was carrying around this book that I couldn't possibly be capable of reading, and they made me write up a couple paragraphs as a quasi-book report in addition to all the standard "is your kid learning disabled?" testing. She sent me back to class with a note to bring home to my mother, recommending I skip to 4th grade. It's too bad I dumbed down so much by the end of junior high school.
Speaking of dumbed down, I'm almost embarrassed that the last book I read was Chael Sonnen's VIP Pass to something or other long title I forgot already. It was probably more entertaining than GSP w/ ghostwriter, or Fill in the Name Of Other MMA Fighter Who Wrote a Book (again, with ghostwriter). But it was absolutely one of those things I was glad to be reading as an ebook because I didn't want to have it sitting visibly on the dashboard at work the night I read it. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36997 Posts |
Posted - 28 Sep 2013 : 15:55:39
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quote:
Originally posted by The Red Walker
Read White Fang and Call of the Wild....wow....that's great writing.
Just started 20,000 leagues under the sea.
edit: I think White Fang is now in my top five favorite novels.
Ah, those are some classics! I've not read the Jack London books in a long time (I don't even know, off the top of my head, if I replaced them after the fire), but they are books I quite enjoy. Ditto for 20,000 Leagues, the only Jules Verne novel I've read. 
And these are some of the few books that I read because of school, and actually enjoyed. Most of that which was inflicted on us in school -- the other so-called "classics" -- were not enjoyable at all to me. I'm inclined to think that some "classics" are only called that because everyone has been told they are classics, and that more Americans would be inclined to read if they didn't have the "classics" crammed down their throat. |
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The Red Walker
Great Reader
USA
3567 Posts |
Posted - 28 Sep 2013 : 17:02:37
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
quote:
Originally posted by The Red Walker
Read White Fang and Call of the Wild....wow....that's great writing.
Just started 20,000 leagues under the sea.
edit: I think White Fang is now in my top five favorite novels.
Ah, those are some classics! I've not read the Jack London books in a long time (I don't even know, off the top of my head, if I replaced them after the fire), but they are books I quite enjoy. Ditto for 20,000 Leagues, the only Jules Verne novel I've read.
And these are some of the few books that I read because of school, and actually enjoyed. Most of that which was inflicted on us in school -- the other so-called "classics" -- were not enjoyable at all to me. I'm inclined to think that some "classics" are only called that because everyone has been told they are classics, and that more Americans would be inclined to read if they didn't have the "classics" crammed down their throat.
I forgot I just read Mary Shelly's Frankenstein before starting 20,000 leagues.....
What a GREAT story.......nothing at all like all the crap movies I've seen! Now I need to read the original Dracula as well! |
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"We need men who can dream of things that never were." -
John F. Kennedy, speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36997 Posts |
Posted - 28 Sep 2013 : 17:13:02
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Originally posted by The Red Walker
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
quote:
Originally posted by The Red Walker
Read White Fang and Call of the Wild....wow....that's great writing.
Just started 20,000 leagues under the sea.
edit: I think White Fang is now in my top five favorite novels.
Ah, those are some classics! I've not read the Jack London books in a long time (I don't even know, off the top of my head, if I replaced them after the fire), but they are books I quite enjoy. Ditto for 20,000 Leagues, the only Jules Verne novel I've read.
And these are some of the few books that I read because of school, and actually enjoyed. Most of that which was inflicted on us in school -- the other so-called "classics" -- were not enjoyable at all to me. I'm inclined to think that some "classics" are only called that because everyone has been told they are classics, and that more Americans would be inclined to read if they didn't have the "classics" crammed down their throat.
I forgot I just read Mary Shelly's Frankenstein before starting 20,000 leagues.....
What a GREAT story.......nothing at all like all the crap movies I've seen! Now I need to read the original Dracula as well!
When I told my friends that I intended to read Frankenstein and Dracula, I was told I'd really enjoy the former, and be bored by the latter. It was the other way around, though. Frankenstein just never really grabbed me, but I quite enjoyed Dracula.
One thing I found interesting in the novel of Frankenstein was how little of it was devoted to the animation of the monster. It the movies, it's always a focal point, with the lightning and the hunchback and the creepy castle and all... In the book it's like, "Okay, I had all the pieces, they were assembled, and then I animated it." There's plenty of coverage of everything before and after, but the animation itself is barely mentioned. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36997 Posts |
Posted - 29 Sep 2013 : 05:07:00
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I'm still working thru the sixth Harry Potter book; I'll likely finish it up the morrow.
I just now started reading one of the books I picked up today: William Shakespeare's Star Wars, by Ian Doescher. The subtitle of the book is "Verily, A New Hope."
I'm not really into the Bard, but even the first couple of pages have proved amusing... Here's the prologue (page 7 of the book):
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It is a period of civil war.
The spaceships of the rebels, striking swift
From base unseen, have gain'd a vict'ry o'er
The cruel Galactic Empire, now adrift.
Amidst the battle, rebel spies prevail'd
And stole the plans to a space station vast,
Whose pow'rful beams will later be unveil'd
And crush a planet: 'tis the DEATH STAR blast.
Pursu'd by agents sinister and cold,
Now Princess Leia to her home doth flee,
Deliv'ring plans and a new hope they hold:
Of bringing freedom to the galaxy.
In time so long ago begins our play,
In star-crossed galaxy far, far away.
Think I'm going to like this one. |
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9thChapter
Learned Scribe
Canada
110 Posts |
Posted - 29 Sep 2013 : 05:41:34
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| Am deeply engrossed in Michael J. Sullivan's Riyria Revelations series. Haven't read a fantasy series with such a well developed buddy arc (Royce and Hadrian) in quite some time. The world building and pacing is also very well done. Highly recommend to anyone interested - see my reviews on Goodreads for more info. |
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Jeremy Grenemyer
Great Reader
USA
2717 Posts |
Posted - 29 Sep 2013 : 06:33:42
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It's rare for me to sit down with a book and read it in one day, but I did that with Mere Mortals yesterday.
Only a partial day at work for me today so I think I'll read my at work book (The Tommyknockers) at home tonight. |
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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
India
1591 Posts |
Posted - 29 Sep 2013 : 11:52:53
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Originally posted by Entreri3478
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Originally posted by Thauranil
Reading World war Z: An oral history of the Zombie War. Quite riveting. Its much better than the movie.
Absolutely. Below is a copy/paste of my Goodreads review:
Wow, I can't for the life of me remember the last time I wanted to like a book so much but didn't.
This book wasn't bad, but there was no spark that lit that reading fire under my ass. Sure Jorg is a teenage bad-ass, but that's not enough to carry the story. Jorg is the only character in this book who is fleshed out in any way. Granted, this is a first person narrative, but I found the rest of the characters to be flat and forgettable. I'm actually having trouble thinking of more than a handful of their names at the moment.
This was Lawrence's first book, so maybe that had something to do with it. I'll read the second book in the series later on and see if the story of Jorg pull's me in any further, because right now I'm sitting here wondering why some people loved this book. For those of you who did, please comment on what you liked about it.
*Also: why are a bunch of the real-world references (Latin, Sparta, Shakespeare, WOMD, etc) doing littering a fantasy setting?? (If you can tell me WITHOUT spoiling anything ;) )
2.5 stars...but several instances where Lawrence actually said "a game of thrones" downgrades this to 2 stars for Goodreads.
Thanks a lot. I think I will avoid this book for the time being. There are plenty of other fish in the sea. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 29 Sep 2013 : 15:42:20
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Originally posted by Jeremy Grenemyer
Anyway, I just picked up Mere Mortals, which is Book II of the Star Trek Destiny series. Sage was right to speak highly of these books. I'm quite hooked on them.
Glad to hear you're enjoying the book, Jeremy. |
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Alisttair
Great Reader
Canada
3054 Posts |
Posted - 30 Sep 2013 : 02:29:26
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| Just bought Godborn (early release at Chapters...yay). At Chapter 2. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Artemas Entreri
Great Reader
USA
3131 Posts |
Posted - 30 Sep 2013 : 03:55:51
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| I'm amazed at how many vendors are breaking the street date for The Godborn. |
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Jeremy Grenemyer
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 30 Sep 2013 : 04:54:31
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Originally posted by Thauranil
Reading World war Z: An oral history of the Zombie War. Quite riveting. Its much better than the movie.
I just watched this movie with my wife last night.
This is one of those times where the movie was good enough to inspire me to want to pick up the book. |
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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
India
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Posted - 30 Sep 2013 : 12:23:33
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Originally posted by Jeremy Grenemyer
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Originally posted by Thauranil
Reading World war Z: An oral history of the Zombie War. Quite riveting. Its much better than the movie.
I just watched this movie with my wife last night.
This is one of those times where the movie was good enough to inspire me to want to pick up the book.
Well the book is very different to the movie. Brad Pitts character does not exist, instead there are many characters who each tell a part of the story. You feel that its a real account of an war not a work of pure fantasy.
Anyway its a great book I hope you enjoy it. |
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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
India
1591 Posts |
Posted - 30 Sep 2013 : 12:24:35
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Originally posted by Jeremy Grenemyer
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Originally posted by Thauranil
Reading World war Z: An oral history of the Zombie War. Quite riveting. Its much better than the movie.
I just watched this movie with my wife last night.
This is one of those times where the movie was good enough to inspire me to want to pick up the book.
Well the book is very different to the movie. Brad Pitts character does not exist, instead there are many characters who each tell a part of the story. You feel that its a real account of an war not a work of pure fantasy.
Anyway its a great book I hope you enjoy it. |
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