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Hello All,
Just started on Destiny, and stumbled across this website.

Would like to thank Fiona for what is so far a great read . I am an avid fantasy fiction reader, and have read so many books by so many different authors over the years.

I am enjoing the fact that the characters in the books don't spend several chapters looking inward at themselves before actually doing anything as seems to happen in so many of the stories that I have read!!

I'm originally from Sheffield, South Yorkshire in the UK, but emigrated to Adelaide just under a year ago. I am loving it so far, and now I found out that there is a famous author living in the city - just gets better!

I hope to drop by every now and then to chat with you all.

Laters

Bovius

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Hiya and Welcome, Bovius!

And believe it or not, but that rollicking pace just don't let up throughout the entire trilogy! Get set for one rollercoaster of a ride.

There are a few threads around that talk about the other books, but I'm pretty sure they all have warnings on them, so you should be safe.

Happy reading. ink">

PS Hmm... so the Adelaide crew just gets bigger and bigger.

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"the universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference - Richard Dawkins
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You are made most welcome here, Bovius - great name! And another Brit and another Adelaidean. Brilliant. Thanks so much for the kind words about the trilogy and I'll look forward to hearing how you get on with Destiny. In the meantime, make yourself comfortable here. This is easily the nicest gang of chatters you'll meet in cyberspace and they're fun, supportive and interesting so drop by often.

Incidentally, Borders has set up a fantasy club for readers and has asked me to chair it once a month on Monday nights. Feel free to come along. I'd be delighted to sign your Trinity books as well if you'd like me to. It kicks off Sep 9 but I'll confirm shortly in a new thread.

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Bouvis

Niceto meet you... I am also a pohmie who made his way to Adelaide... also support Leeds united so as a Yorkshire person you are most welcome.

You will find Fiona is a lovely lady and her message board attracts some wonderful people...

Have a great time in the Heartwood

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Welcome ">

Sit back, relax and enjoy the company (princess thrusts a glass of red into Bouvis' hand and wispers "ensure you only hold the stem with your fingers or you will upset our resident wine buff, Obelixx "> "

Take it from one that learnt the hard way, the warnings of fast paced rides are not to be taken lightly when one enjoys the wondrous world that Fiona creates.

I will look forward to meeting you at the next book launch

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G'day Bovius,

I'm fairly new around these parts myself, and to Fiona's work. (I'm also reading 'Destiny'.) I don't think they do anything odd to you when you finish the trilogy...you know, like one of those rites of passage deals, but, I may let you finish first...just to be on the safe side.

Pity you're another Sasenach though...we Celts are sadly outnumbered roon here. hrug"> s I guess you can't have everything.

Anyway my stash of Tequila is hidden behind all the red wine...help yourself.

Adios
Rockin' and in The Land of Oz

"He who laughs last...is probably not the sharpest tool in the shed."
Old Celtic Proverb

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*looks at all the Alcohol, takes a bean bag and plops into place with everyone else* G'Day Bovius Welcome to this little gathering, hope I'm not too late to say hello. Been a little busy with life and all "> So how are things, you will sure fit right in here with Fiona and all, plus being in Adelaide helps. Hope to catch you around on the board sometime....

and just a hint....always feel free to play practical jokes, there so much fun

Snowy

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For example, when Snowy plopped into that bean-bag, she landed on the whoopee cushion I left lying there.

YeeeHaaa !!! (I've got tequila coming out of my nose.)

Adios

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Woops, and I haven't had anything to drink yet. *grabs a whiskey and coke* Anyone want some ??? *passes the drink around*

Edited by: SnOwYfriend  at: 8/27/02 9:17:08 pm

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Hi there settle in pull up a beanbag and enjoy the fireworks.

Always nice to meet another fantasy reader and Fiona Fan I am sure you will fit right it.

What is is about Adelaide hmmmmm, it must be the water.

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*drags over her purple, furry beanbag*
*swipes some tequila*

Welcome Bovius, may you post well and often. Unlike me ">

*raises her shotglass to.....Tequila.....oops I mean Bovius!*

The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them

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Laughed at the whooppee cushion. Love those things.

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Welcome!

Have a great time among this crazy bunch!

I know I have! ">

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Believe it or not, my son actually did score a whoopee cushion in a bag at some party the other week, and, as soon as his little sister (4 nearly 5) heard it, she commandeered it.

She's been wandering 'round the house with it ever since.

She blows it up, sits on it and then rolls about the place in hysterics. It was cute...for about the first 5 minutes...but it got veryold very fast.

BUT, the trouble is she really thinks it's funny and, annoying as it is, when she laughs...you can't help but laugh at her/with her/whatever.

SO, the new version of the game is we hide it, she eventually finds it, sits on it, we all laugh and then, as soon as she turns her back...we hide it again. The mercifully good news is that she's used it so much the seams are starting to split. God willing, in a couple of days we'll be whoopee free. (In that sense anyway.)

Adios
"Be cool...and it'll be cool"
Very Old Celtic Proverb

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Thanks to everyone for their welcomes (even the Celt!!).

Still not finished Destiny, never enough time in the day to read, with Kids / Soccer Training / Games & work "> .

Currently wishing I was Orlac - must be a power thing!

Hello to fellow Yorkshireman, even though I am a Sheffield Wednesday fan ( don't laugh ).

I will have to try find some time to come down to the book club if it gets off the ground, quite a few of my friends are heavily into Fantasy fiction (and soccer), so we may all come along for a chat (and autograph!)

Better go and make a miserable attempt at earning my wage....

Bovius

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A bit late but hello anyway. Thought i'd best say something being a fellow Yorkshireman and all - born just out of Rotherham.

OK so I left England when I was 3 but once a Yorkshireman always a Yorkshireman.

I know what you mean about reading and playing soccer but thankfully the season is almost over.

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Yes my sister went through that faze too, roughly about two years ago. So glad she is over it now, drove us nuts after a while. In the end the woopi got used too much it popped when she sat on it.... It was so hard not to laugh.... Ohh well... *sighs*

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...have any of you soccer playing SF fans read "Albion! Albion!" by Dick Morland?

Adios

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"1982. Two coach-loads of Spurs supporters are burned alive by Villa fans. Football is banned.

So the supporters seize the grounds and turn them into arenas where howling mobs hurl Molotov cocktails and spray acid at one another.

Parliament is dissolved, the police go on strike...and the Clubs take over the country."

It's obviously a bit dated now, but it's still an interesting, thought provoking read.

Adios

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DN

No sorry have not even heard of Albion Albion... it isn't about West Brom winning the league is it? Now, that is pure fantasy.