Books, fanfic, Malfoy, gathering and more books

[Christian Stubø]

No: HPFGUIDX 9012

Book recommendation:  I see noone has mentioned it, so I will recommend Katharine Kerr's
books in the Deverry-series ('Daggerspell', 'Darkspell', 'Dawnspell' and 'Dragonspell'),
Westlands cycle ('A Time of Exile', 'A Time of Omens', 'A Time of War' and 'A Time of
Justice') and Dragon Mage-series ('The Red Wyvern' and 'The Black Raven').  They should
be read in this order.  There is at least one more book to be written in this series.

The story(ies) takes place in a world not on this planet, but nevertheless populated by
Celts, stemming from Gallia Transalpina.  The story goes through many generations and
reincarnations of main characters, but one character stays alive through all timelines
(he experienced that when you exclaim "I shall not rest until I have [insert appropriate
aspiration]", the powers that be will hear you).  The books skip between these timelines
a bit, but I did not find it confusing - rather it suited the story.

Those here who are also members of the PoU-list, will understand what I mean (though they
may not believe me) when I say that the covers on some of the books make
Leatherpants!Draco look rather tame, even in Starling's rendition (those covers also
don't have much to do with the story).  ;-)

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Fanfic-recommendation:  I recently stumbled over a fanfic called 'His Majesty's Secret
Service'.  It is well-written and, as far as I can tell, original.  It also has an
interesting, and IMO plausible, view on the house-elf plight.  The author-page is at:

http://www.fanfiction.net/index.fic?action=Directory-AuthorProfile&UserID=33896

I will also recommend the various Eliza-series by Eliza Diawna Snape, whose can be found
at:

http://www.thebesthpfanfic.homestead.com/
and
http://www.fanfiction.net/index.fic?action=directory-authorProfile&userid=14420

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Snuffles MacGoo <msmacgoo at one.net.au> wrote:

[snip]
> "Malfoy - I like the french Mal foi - 'bad faith' derivation though I think there are 
> other interpretations about."
[snip]

You know, of course, that Malfoy is a real name, used by, among others, one Bernard
Malfoy, who I believe is still Director of Research at Institut Curie in France.  As far
as I recall he is especially involved in breast-cancer research.  He participated in a
project on 'Structural and functional alterations of chromosomes from cancer cells' - a
presentation (including an email-adress to Dr. Malfoy) can be seen at:

http://www.curie.fr/sr/cdrom/equipes/malfe.htm

There was also one Bruno Malfoy, who came in as no. 795 at the 1999 New York City
Marathon (R), and I know I have seen an Eric Malfoy around somewhere.

> "Good Qualities - None (I haven't even come across any fan-fiction writers who have 
> been able to invent any - maybe I'm not widely enough read <g>)"
[snip]

I believe I have seen at least one - I think it was by Pikacheeka.

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"Amy" <alw at wilsonllp.com> wrote:

> (Raising hand in the air like Hermione usually does...)
> 
> I'll help organize something too.  I'm in the middle of co-organizing a "Global 
> Gathering" in another fandom - I think we've got 13 cities all over the world all 
> getting together the same weekend.  It's really not as hard as you'd think it would 
> be.  I'm all for meeting other HP fans.  If there's any interest, I'd me more than 
> happy to help!
> 
> Amy"
[snip]

On this topic - how many Scandinavians are we here on this board?  Certainly a joint
Norwegian-Swedish meet should be possible.

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"Parker Brown Nesbit" <pbnesbit at msn.com> wrote:

> Heidi--
> 
> I pre-ordered both upcoming books through Barnes and Noble.  You can order 
> individually.  I'd also pre-order Order of the Phoenix if I could find anyone listing 
> it!

Parker"

In August, just after having read GoF, I discovered a possibility to preorder Book 5 from
Bokkilden, A Norwegian online bookstore, so I promptly ordered it.  Now I discover that
the whole thing was some sort of technical malfunction - you can still order it, but on
the infopage they tell you not to, so I doubt the orders are valid right now.  

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Incidentally, I noted yesterday that there is apparently some new fitness-apparatus on
the market, under the name of TortureTrac (tm)...

And while I am typing this mail, the TV-news just told us about the new US TV-series
'Temptation Island'.  Blech!

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"There are two trillion six-houndred and sixtyfive billion  eight-houndred and sixtysix million, seven-houndred and fortysix thousand, six-houndred and sixtyfour litte devils in the world"
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Christian Stub
Student of Technology, architectura navalis

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