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Recent content by Zeelinmar

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    March 2012: Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles

    I'm reading this now, but somehow can't get the images of Robert Downey Jr as Holmes and Jude Law as Watson out of my mind.
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    The Parasol Protectorate series by Gail Carriger

    Well, apparently I can't count - there are 5 books in the series, I left out Heartless. At any rate I just finished book 5 - Timeless. My only criticism is I didn't like the way it ended particularly -but, it lived up to the mystery and humor that Gail Carriger started with the first book. The...
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    The Parasol Protectorate series by Gail Carriger

    It's paranormal steampunk where werewolves and vampires are accepted as normal society. It's set in the Victorian era and the main character who is Alexia Tarabotti is soulless. She can make vampires and werewolves normal humans just by touching them. It has a good bit of humor and the writing...
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    The Parasol Protectorate series by Gail Carriger

    Just wondering if anyone has read this series - Soulless, Blameless, Changeless - and what they thought of it? I'm picking up the 4th book this weekend - Timeless. Can't wait to see how it all ends.
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    F2K Social - Free Online Creative Writing Course

    Hey - This looks interesting and of course, I'm a day late and a dollar short to sign up - do you know if they will be running it again? I looke over the site but couldn't find any information on another date for this course.
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    Hello

    Steampunk is a type of genre that inspired movies like The Wild Wild West, The League of Extrodinary Gentleman, The Time Machine. It usually centers around the time of Queen Victoria with steam powered vehicles and inventions. There are other themes as well, but those are the common ones.
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    Hello

    I just finished Mary Shelly's Frakenstein, and I'm currently reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty and The India Fan by Victoria Holt. I like a lot of the older books and Louis L'Amour, Victoria Holt and Phyillis Whitney are the authors I grew up reading. More recently I read the third book in...
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    Hello

    Hello all, new member here. I am a writer and trying to get my first novel published. I write romance, but read different types of books. I'm currently working on a steampunk vampire themed story. Looking forward to the interactions.
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