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What will you do on THE DAY

#21 Obdigore

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Posted 13 May 2008 - 01:52 PM

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Jeez, I'll be sitting on my ass, right where I am at the moment, waiting for people's reactions since I'm in the f***ing States and I will have to wait a week for the book to arrive.

-flea, flea-bitten with envy, scratching his ass

I'm in the states too... I should have it on the second or the third. Just have to shell out for the expensive express delivery.

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Posted 13 May 2008 - 01:55 PM

cerveza_fiesta;307356 said:

GOod god. 100 pages per hour?? I GUESS I'm a slow reader then.

I'd be lucky to pack in 50 pages in the same time. My buddy's like that though, he hammers through 1.5k page books over the course of a week just reading casually.

Totally wish I could do that.

Reading reasonably quickly is one of my few talents.

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Posted 13 May 2008 - 02:19 PM

100 pages an hour, I can speedread alarmingly quick but I'll settle for a nice scan skim at about 60 like Brood. Hardback will be even slower than that, it's an even slower read as my brain can only focus on so much paper at once.

I will start work on the 1st July, ARGH! Which means it will take me the best part of five days to finish unless I win Pat's contest. *grins fiendishly*

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Posted 13 May 2008 - 02:49 PM

Illuyankas;307316 said:

Open. Read. Finish and close it ten hours later. Post a bit on the forum, [linet]to let Abyss know what he's missing[/linet] about my first impressions etc....

Die.

But this is probably accurate.

By the time my copy is in my hands, i will have burned, pillaged and looted three local post offices, two courier companies and a retirement residence where it was erroneously delivered, chartered a private jet and flown to Mexico City where it was subsequently rerouted and engaged in a running gun battle thru said city with my copy in one hand and an old style M-60 in the other, fighting off drug lords who are positive the massive package with curious international stamping and bite marks is their product and not my copy of TOLL THE HOUNDS. Assuming no knife strikes or bullet holes (to the book), and notwithstanding some scorching, blood stains and Adolph Hitler's autograph on the dust-cover, i should be reading it by mid July.

My first read-thru usually takes just under a week. Then i reread all the especially amazing bits, then i'll complete my series re-read (currently stoped mid-MoI) and re-read TtH, ideally just in time for RotCG to arrive in the wrong city, necessitating a Road Warrior like truck journey of several hundred kilometers (more if Canada Post blows the bridges) whereupon it will turn out my copy of RotCG was actually sent to another A. Byss in the US. Upon locating said evil clone and spork-fighting him to the death on top of a breaching sperm whale, i will have to swim up the pacific coast holding the book above my head, steal a Harley in Vancouver and then a helicopter at a secret military base in Alberta (Rodeo: i'll call you if i have time), i will finally arrive home and read that book.

- Abyss, will rep first person who gets the Hitler ref.

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Posted 13 May 2008 - 02:59 PM

Indianabyss and the TTH Crusade?

#26 Aptorian

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Posted 13 May 2008 - 03:01 PM

Indiana Jones and the last crusade

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Posted 13 May 2008 - 03:03 PM

Indiana Jones!!! Love it! Hopefully there will be an important map in this book too!!!

I shall read through it fairly quickly, usually takes 2 to 3 days. Then I will check out the forums see what people have to say, then I'll read it again. Usually I will do a series reread a couple of weeks later, a bit slower

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Posted 13 May 2008 - 03:07 PM

FUND IT

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Posted 13 May 2008 - 04:12 PM

Abyss;307476 said:

... blood stains and Adolph Hitler's autograph on the dust-cover, i should be reading it by mid July.

Did you just goodwin's law my post?!?!?! FUCK. Thread over I guess.

PS. I Rule 34 you and your copy of TTH.

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Posted 13 May 2008 - 04:47 PM

Well I've already started getting into the pants of this girl who works at Chapters. With luck I'll have her totally swooned by a couple days before the release date. Even if I can't get into the back of the store a few days early, I'll still use her to sit on my ass and read the whole thing in the store before I even buy it. Then I'll whip out my laptop, walk 20 feet to the starbucks and join in on the 40 spoiler-full threads that'll already be abounding the forum. I would try to do it faster then anyone else, but all the europeans have a 6 hour head start from the damn time-zone effect anyways...

worrywort, on 14 September 2012 - 08:07 PM, said:

I kinda love it when D'rek unleashes her nerd wrath, as I knew she would here. Sorry innocent bystanders, but someone's gotta be the kindling.

#31 Aptorian

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Posted 13 May 2008 - 04:49 PM

A'karonys I just saw your signature. It's hilarius

I wish I was allowed to hand out some more rep today.

EDIT: minutes later I'm still chuckling at that

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Posted 13 May 2008 - 04:56 PM

Aptorian;307676 said:

A'karonys I just saw your signature. It's hilarius
I wish I was allowed to hand out some more rep today.
EDIT: minutes later I'm still chuckling at that

Agreed. I got you covered. Rep delivered.

Illuyankas;307488 said:

Indianabyss and the TTH Crusade?

Aptorian;307493 said:

Indiana Jones and the last crusade

EDIT: DAMN YOU CHICKEN!!

EDIT2: Illy I think you just came up with an awesome idea for the crippled cats next instalment of abysmal sigs...

Y'know... i think he might just have done exactly that...

- Abyss, cues up the Indiana Jones soundtrack, only with Carlos Santana on lead guitar...

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Posted 13 May 2008 - 04:58 PM

well, i'll buy two copies:

one for reading

the other so i can tear out the individual pages and fill up my bathtub so i can swim in it like scrooge mcduck.

meh. Link was dead :(

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Posted 13 May 2008 - 04:58 PM

Abyss you might as well buy from amazon.co.uk
Canadian release is set for September 23rd while its July 1st in UK, unless that changes to August soon.

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Posted 13 May 2008 - 05:07 PM

I will, on the day it is set to arrive from the UK, run out and buy tons of fast food. I will also request a few days off work, take a bunch of ADD medicine so I can absorb every word....and then I will double my post count

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Posted 13 May 2008 - 05:17 PM

I ordered from the UK but didn't pay for super express shipping. I got the medium 1 week one.

I guess I'm a loser.

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Posted 13 May 2008 - 05:26 PM

Jen said:

Abyss you might as well buy from amazon.co.uk
Canadian release is set for September 23rd while its July 1st in UK, unless that changes to August soon.

i DID.

That's why it's a retirement home and Mexico city as opposed to a Tim Hortons and Regina.

- Abyss, doesn't even know what that means...

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#38 Illuyankas

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Posted 13 May 2008 - 06:23 PM

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Posted 13 May 2008 - 08:09 PM

Well whenever I actually get it (it's tough to acquire SE books in my area) I'll probably fight the urge to do nothing but read and just read it at work on my down time. That should kill most of a week.

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#40 Obdigore

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Posted 13 May 2008 - 08:19 PM

cerveza_fiesta;307697 said:

I ordered from the UK but didn't pay for super express shipping. I got the medium 1 week one.

I guess I'm a loser.

Well, if it goes the same way as RG, you will probably get it before I do, since UPS cannot find my clearly marked (I EVEN TOOK OUT THE BUSHES UNDER MY HOUSE NUMBERING, JUST IN CASE) domicile.

I will probably have another mini-a-byssal adventure to get my copy.

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