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monroe_nell gave me born free, corwin, elsa, ghost of the robot, liveship traders, muse, and the wheel of time.
born free Born Free is a 1960 book by Joy Adamson. It has two sequels- Living Free and Forever Free, but they came out as one volume(Elsa, The Lioness) here, so I didn't actually know to include them in my interests.
Joy was the wife of a game warden in Africa. When he had to shoot a mother lioness, she kept one of the cubs (namely-Elsa) and spent the following years raising her and trying to get her back to the wild. And succeeding. Elsa died free, from an illness, and the mother of three cubs, hopefully big enough to have survived, but wild enough that they didn't stay with Joy.
Joy Adamson has two more such endeavours after that- with the cheetah Pippa( resulting in The Spotted Sphinx and Pippa's Challenge) and with Penny, the leopard(Queen Of Shaba). The last one remained unfinished, because Joy was killed by a local. A few years later, her husband, George, was also killed by poachers.
But The Elsa Conservation Thrust and The Born Free Foundation are still there.
If ever books influenced me, it'd have to be these. I first read them when I was 9 or 10 and while I still had a dream, it was to do that. Pretty naive. Yet if I ever get the chance I'll probably try going to work in some of the parks for a while. Not probable though.
corwin Prince Corwin of Amber. One of my very favourite fictional characters. The first half of The Chronicles Of Amber is about him, the second- about his son, Merlin. The first is better ;]. Corwin's the eldest legal heir to the throne of Amber and in that disfunctional family, that's a really hazardous position. He's good at it though, because he doesn't have some too stuck-up sence of honesty or honour or something *g*. He has a sword, called Grayswandir and his colours are black and silver. If there's a fantasy fan out there that hasn't read Zelazny's series, you should be ashamed of yourself ;P
elsa
A beautiful animal, both outside and inside. I cried so much when she died.
ghost of the robot *clears throat* That was the band James Marsters used to be in.
And I won't say they were the greatest band ever, but they had some decent sounding songs, especially from the first album, or I wouldn't have been a fan. James left rather abruptly shortly after the European EP to pursue his other activities. Now he has some kind of solo career, but I have to admit I've only heard the first album, and while it wasn't bad, I preferred the rockier GotR.
liveship traders That's the Robin Hobb series, that continually fails to be about Fitz and the Fool(ok, a tiny bit about the Fool). ;D Actually the books are great, the writing's great, a lot of the characters are great, I just haven't got(omg, I just typed -gotten-!*headdesk*) around to finishing them. Because I'll never love anything more than the aforementioned main characters in The Farseer and The Tawny Man. After the intensity of being inside Fitz's head for six books, I thought that having multiple POVs would be refreshing, and it is. But you don't get as attached, either. Anyway, Liveship Traders are mostly praised as the better series than The Tawny Man among people who (weird as it may seem) fail to be in love with it. And, in some aspects, I can be persuaded to agree. But that'd be using logic. *rolls eyes*
muse Muse are a Brittish rock band. I like some of their songs a lot(like Feeling Good and Time Is Running Out), others, less. In any case, they get to be a bit too much for continuous listening. And they seem to have some kind of animosity going on with Placebo(who are also English...an English band I mean, right now there's nothing very English about the members *l*) and you just know whose side I'm gonna be on. Although I've heard Brian's big mouth started it. But that's part of the Molko charm *g*
the wheel of time Oh, man. My first really big book obsession. That lead me to the discovery that the internet can be used to interact and meet fellow fans, not just for browsing. *waves@paedraggaidin* Sadly, Jordan(may he rest in peace) dragged it all (both in time and in volume) out a bit too much. I still haven't been able to make myself finish his last book. And it's way better than the previous one, I've just lost the spark :[. I was gonna read just the Mat parts, but I can't find them, after the middle :/.
monroe_nell gave me born free, corwin, elsa, ghost of the robot, liveship traders, muse, and the wheel of time.born free Born Free is a 1960 book by Joy Adamson. It has two sequels- Living Free and Forever Free, but they came out as one volume(Elsa, The Lioness) here, so I didn't actually know to include them in my interests.
Joy was the wife of a game warden in Africa. When he had to shoot a mother lioness, she kept one of the cubs (namely-Elsa) and spent the following years raising her and trying to get her back to the wild. And succeeding. Elsa died free, from an illness, and the mother of three cubs, hopefully big enough to have survived, but wild enough that they didn't stay with Joy.
Joy Adamson has two more such endeavours after that- with the cheetah Pippa( resulting in The Spotted Sphinx and Pippa's Challenge) and with Penny, the leopard(Queen Of Shaba). The last one remained unfinished, because Joy was killed by a local. A few years later, her husband, George, was also killed by poachers.
But The Elsa Conservation Thrust and The Born Free Foundation are still there.
If ever books influenced me, it'd have to be these. I first read them when I was 9 or 10 and while I still had a dream, it was to do that. Pretty naive. Yet if I ever get the chance I'll probably try going to work in some of the parks for a while. Not probable though.
corwin Prince Corwin of Amber. One of my very favourite fictional characters. The first half of The Chronicles Of Amber is about him, the second- about his son, Merlin. The first is better ;]. Corwin's the eldest legal heir to the throne of Amber and in that disfunctional family, that's a really hazardous position. He's good at it though, because he doesn't have some too stuck-up sence of honesty or honour or something *g*. He has a sword, called Grayswandir and his colours are black and silver. If there's a fantasy fan out there that hasn't read Zelazny's series, you should be ashamed of yourself ;P
elsa
A beautiful animal, both outside and inside. I cried so much when she died.
ghost of the robot *clears throat* That was the band James Marsters used to be in.
And I won't say they were the greatest band ever, but they had some decent sounding songs, especially from the first album, or I wouldn't have been a fan. James left rather abruptly shortly after the European EP to pursue his other activities. Now he has some kind of solo career, but I have to admit I've only heard the first album, and while it wasn't bad, I preferred the rockier GotR.
liveship traders That's the Robin Hobb series, that continually fails to be about Fitz and the Fool(ok, a tiny bit about the Fool). ;D Actually the books are great, the writing's great, a lot of the characters are great, I just haven't got(omg, I just typed -gotten-!*headdesk*) around to finishing them. Because I'll never love anything more than the aforementioned main characters in The Farseer and The Tawny Man. After the intensity of being inside Fitz's head for six books, I thought that having multiple POVs would be refreshing, and it is. But you don't get as attached, either. Anyway, Liveship Traders are mostly praised as the better series than The Tawny Man among people who (weird as it may seem) fail to be in love with it. And, in some aspects, I can be persuaded to agree. But that'd be using logic. *rolls eyes*
muse Muse are a Brittish rock band. I like some of their songs a lot(like Feeling Good and Time Is Running Out), others, less. In any case, they get to be a bit too much for continuous listening. And they seem to have some kind of animosity going on with Placebo(who are also English...an English band I mean, right now there's nothing very English about the members *l*) and you just know whose side I'm gonna be on. Although I've heard Brian's big mouth started it. But that's part of the Molko charm *g*
the wheel of time Oh, man. My first really big book obsession. That lead me to the discovery that the internet can be used to interact and meet fellow fans, not just for browsing. *waves@
paedraggaidin* Sadly, Jordan(may he rest in peace) dragged it all (both in time and in volume) out a bit too much. I still haven't been able to make myself finish his last book. And it's way better than the previous one, I've just lost the spark :[. I was gonna read just the Mat parts, but I can't find them, after the middle :/.
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