[3.5] Clearly it is
- Thread starter Mark
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Michael Tree
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Plusgood corporate newspeak, mark.
Stone Angel
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But what if it never was?
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Liquid Awesome
Great post, Mark! On a similar theme this is a sort of book review that I posted on another message board a while back:
"I must take a moment to recommend a pair of books that I have only just recently had the pleasure to read and enjoy. These pair of books, and it is rumored that indeed there may in fact be a third forthcoming, are known by the titles, The Phoenix Guards and Five Hundred Years After and are lovingly crafted by the writer Steven Brust, of whom, you percieve, I am a tremendous fan.
I must caution you however that these books, while so carefully written as to be funny and yet simultaneously poignant, and containing many of those themes that my perscipacity has indicated are beloved by many a reader, including you gentlefolk of whom I am so fond (i.e. intrigue, mystery, romance and just a bit of necessary violence), are written principally in a style not unlike the one in which I presently write. If such stilted language is not problematic for you, and I maintain that it is precisely the vehicle upon which a reader may best arrive at the destination intended by the writer, which is to say, satisfaction, then I do highly recommend these works for their excellence.
If you find them to your liking, and I dare say that if you are still reading this and find it to your amusement that you will undoubtedly enjoy the books, the author of whom does far greater justice to this writing style than I, merely a humble messenger of the masterful skill displayed in said works, could possibly exhibit, then you would be well served to look into his other books, in particular those about the character known as Vladimir Taltos. While lacking the refined form of language which I presently employ, and indeed sounding for all the world like a series of "gumshoe" novels written in a fantasy world, they are, on the whole, also well executed and immensely amusing to read."
In short, the books aren't pointless, but they are verbose.
"I must take a moment to recommend a pair of books that I have only just recently had the pleasure to read and enjoy. These pair of books, and it is rumored that indeed there may in fact be a third forthcoming, are known by the titles, The Phoenix Guards and Five Hundred Years After and are lovingly crafted by the writer Steven Brust, of whom, you percieve, I am a tremendous fan.
I must caution you however that these books, while so carefully written as to be funny and yet simultaneously poignant, and containing many of those themes that my perscipacity has indicated are beloved by many a reader, including you gentlefolk of whom I am so fond (i.e. intrigue, mystery, romance and just a bit of necessary violence), are written principally in a style not unlike the one in which I presently write. If such stilted language is not problematic for you, and I maintain that it is precisely the vehicle upon which a reader may best arrive at the destination intended by the writer, which is to say, satisfaction, then I do highly recommend these works for their excellence.
If you find them to your liking, and I dare say that if you are still reading this and find it to your amusement that you will undoubtedly enjoy the books, the author of whom does far greater justice to this writing style than I, merely a humble messenger of the masterful skill displayed in said works, could possibly exhibit, then you would be well served to look into his other books, in particular those about the character known as Vladimir Taltos. While lacking the refined form of language which I presently employ, and indeed sounding for all the world like a series of "gumshoe" novels written in a fantasy world, they are, on the whole, also well executed and immensely amusing to read."
In short, the books aren't pointless, but they are verbose.
