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mike Member
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Kim Brown Member
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I have a signed copy of Tatoosh!
I enjoy her description of her first night; shy to disrobe and put on pajamas because there aren't curtains on the windows...!
Great book, and she makes it seem as if you're right there!
"..living on the east side of the Sierra world be ideal - except for harsher winters and the chance of apocalyptic fires burning the whole area."
Bosterson, NWHiker's marketing expert
"..living on the east side of the Sierra world be ideal - except for harsher winters and the chance of apocalyptic fires burning the whole area."
Bosterson, NWHiker's marketing expert
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meandering Wa Member
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reading the Biography of Beatrix Potter.
Beatrix Potter, A Life in Nature, Linda Lear. I was unaware of her early history as a mycologist ( amateur) and the disrespect she ( and other women) met at the Linnean Society and Kew. She put forward work on the life cycles of several fungi and lichens and discussed hybrids. The work was roundly dismissed.
It is now accepted knowledge
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mike Member
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Mon Aug 22, 2016 11:13 am
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Dalguise House on the River Tay where Beatrix Potter stayed in her childhood as a summer visitor and it acted as inspiration for some of her later stories. And perhaps her interest in fungi.
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lookout bob WTA proponent.....
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Sat Aug 27, 2016 9:26 am
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"Altitude is its own reward"
John Jerome ( from "On Mountains")
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
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Not many Indian names around Portland? I'm not so sure about that. Klickitat River and Klickitat County. Tamanawas Falls on the east side of Hood. The town of Kalama. Wy'east was the name for Mt. Hood and that shows up in various places (a middle school we played sports against, for one). Multnomah Falls and Multnomah County. Clackamas River, town, county, and shopping center. Willamette River. Wahclella Falls. Those are a few that come to mind that are fairly close to Portland. I'm sure there are many more.
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Mike Collins Member
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lookout bob wrote: | Most of the natives around the lower Columbia died of 'white mans diseases' |
Author Robert Boyd lives in Portland and thoroughly examines this topic in The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence-Introduced Infectious Diseases and Population Decline among Northwest Coast Indians, 1774-1874.
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
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I've got a bit of a guilty pleasure series I've been working my way thru. I am certain I am not the target audience, being neither a tween/teen or a female. But I find them entertaining anyway. It's the Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer. Sci fi, very loosely based on classic fairy tale characters (Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, Snow White) and a mashup where all those characters eventually interact with each other. It's not as brutal as the Hunger Games series, and while there's a bit of romance, it's not as stupid and nauseating as that element was in the Divergent series.
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
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mike wrote: | OTIUTB, try Iain Banks' Culture series. Starts with Consider Phlebas |
Just got this from the library yesterday.
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
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olderthanIusedtobe wrote: | I've got a bit of a guilty pleasure series I've been working my way thru. I am certain I am not the target audience, being neither a tween/teen or a female. But I find them entertaining anyway. It's the Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer. Sci fi, very loosely based on classic fairy tale characters (Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, Snow White) and a mashup where all those characters eventually interact with each other. It's not as brutal as the Hunger Games series, and while there's a bit of romance, it's not as stupid and nauseating as that element was in the Divergent series. |
Egads! I enjoyed the first 3 books in this series. They were fairly light and fluffy but entertaining and I thought fairly well crafted. The last one, something went DRASTICALLY wrong. It was terrible! Checked in at 800 pages, easily could've (and should've) had at least 200-300 pages edited out, wouldn't have missed anything. Boring, lame, hack writing.
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
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Got a collection of short stories by Philip K Dick, quite a few of which have been adapted to the big screen. Just started, in the middle of "Paycheck" right now. Need to wait longer to form a definitive opinion. It seems like he had interesting ideas, but so far the writing/prose seems, uh, rather mediocre to me. I had a similar reaction when I read "Fahrenheit 451," the usage of language just didn't capture me at all.
Other stories in addition to the one I'm working on currently that became films include Minority Report, Total Recall, The Adjustment Bureau and Impostor. The titles of the movies have been changed from the original story in some cases. And of course Blade Runner was adapted from one of his novels as well.
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mike Member
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olderthanIusedtobe wrote: | Got a collection of short stories by Philip K Dick, quite a few of which have been adapted to the big screen. |
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? ??
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Bedivere Why Do Witches Burn?
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Bedivere
Why Do Witches Burn?
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mike wrote: | olderthanIusedtobe wrote: | Got a collection of short stories by Philip K Dick, quite a few of which have been adapted to the big screen. |
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? ?? |
Yep - that was the inspiration for Bladerunner. I found it quite enjoyable.
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Pef Member
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
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I'm not registered on that site, but I've visited it several times to see discussions about books I've read.
The PKD story I'm reading now is titled "Second Variety" and without having finished it yet, I have a strong suspicion it is the inspiration for the movie "Screamers." Maybe every single thing PKD ever wrote has been adapted into a film!
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