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Something From the Nightside
by Simon R. Green



KWM01 (7:12:51 PM): hi
QueenSidhe (7:15:52 PM): Hiya.
QueenSidhe (7:16:03 PM): How's it going?
KWM01 (7:16:21 PM): ok, you?
QueenSidhe (7:16:25 PM): pretty good.
KWM01 (7:16:38 PM): working?
KWM01 (7:17:15 PM): I mean are you at work?
QueenSidhe (7:17:26 PM): Yup.
(7:17:50 PM) Z0rPr1me has entered the room.
QueenSidhe (7:17:57 PM): Had a sudden problem with my program. :-(
KWM01 (7:17:58 PM): get a chance to read the book?
QueenSidhe (7:18:00 PM): Hiya Zor
Z0rPr1me (7:18:01 PM): Hello All
KWM01 (7:18:05 PM): hi zor
QueenSidhe (7:18:13 PM): Yes, I finished the book.
QueenSidhe (7:18:18 PM): :-)
KWM01 (7:19:01 PM): before or after I sent it. :-)
QueenSidhe (7:19:05 PM): Before
QueenSidhe (7:19:18 PM): I bought the book last weekend and read it this past Saturday
Z0rPr1me (7:19:18 PM): How is everyone?
QueenSidhe (7:19:30 PM): Doing pretty good.
QueenSidhe (7:19:36 PM): Still at work as usual.
KWM01 (7:19:44 PM): ok, and you zor
Z0rPr1me (7:20:09 PM): doing good. Although I haven't found the book... doh! Thanks Kelvin for the email :-) I'll read it!
KWM01 (7:20:18 PM): lol
QueenSidhe (7:20:31 PM): :-)
KWM01 (7:21:00 PM): so what did you think of the book, vickie?
Z0rPr1me (7:21:05 PM): heh.. is it good ? The cover is nice
QueenSidhe (7:21:12 PM): I only thought it was so-so
Z0rPr1me (7:21:40 PM): wow thats my contribution... only had time to see the cover. I haven't got anytime to read it a little tonight... :-(
KWM01 (7:21:40 PM): I liked it but it was kinda dark
QueenSidhe (7:21:47 PM): I think they went to a lot of hassle to do something that could have been done much more easily
KWM01 (7:22:08 PM): hmm, like?
QueenSidhe (7:22:12 PM): Dark? Why do you say that?
QueenSidhe (7:22:46 PM): Could have just sent a person in with a gun to do the job.
Z0rPr1me (7:23:28 PM): Vickie, rofl
QueenSidhe (7:23:30 PM): ;-)
Z0rPr1me (7:23:31 PM): well it would not have been fantasy !!
QueenSidhe (7:23:36 PM): Yeah, but it probably would have actually done what they wanted.
KWM01 (7:23:41 PM): The main charector is a guy who's running from guys who try to kill him all his life for no apparent reason
QueenSidhe (7:23:42 PM): Instead of failing and bringing Taylor to the nightside.
QueenSidhe (7:23:53 PM): Yes, but why couldn't Mrs. Barret have gone in to his office and then drawn a gun on him and shoot?
QueenSidhe (7:23:56 PM): Taylor doesn't have his powers in the real world.
KWM01 (7:24:08 PM): no the house wanted to eat him
QueenSidhe (7:25:04 PM): But the house was brought to the nightside to kill him. And to kill him, the house wanted to eat him.
QueenSidhe (7:25:14 PM): Skip all the house and just shoot the man. :P
KWM01 (7:25:48 PM): lol
QueenSidhe (7:26:24 PM): He's just a regular man in the real world.
KWM01 (7:26:45 PM): true
QueenSidhe (7:26:51 PM): Although, that makes me wonder. How does Taylor do his PI stuff if he doesn't have his special talents in the real world.
KWM01 (7:27:17 PM): not very well?
QueenSidhe (7:27:21 PM): :D
KWM01 (7:28:05 PM): just look at his office, not very prosperous.
QueenSidhe (7:28:17 PM): true
QueenSidhe (7:28:57 PM): So, why did you think the book was dark?
KWM01 (7:30:01 PM): The thing with his mother. His fathers suicide. The people trying to kill him since he was a kid.
KWM01 (7:31:40 PM): the ending with what happened to Mrs. Barret
QueenSidhe (7:32:12 PM): Ahh, true.
KWM01 (7:32:58 PM): what do you think of his powers?
QueenSidhe (7:33:27 PM): I think they're very powerful. You could do almost anything with the ability to find anything.
KWM01 (7:34:30 PM): true, but it would make you a pawn for anyone who wanted to use you to find things.
QueenSidhe (7:34:34 PM): He could potentially become an Authority if he had that ambition.
QueenSidhe (7:35:09 PM): It depends on what your finding and for whom.
QueenSidhe (7:35:27 PM): If you're doing it for your own gain, I don't see how he would become a pawn.
QueenSidhe (7:36:21 PM): If he were to remain a PI who only finds things, then yes, he would like become a pawn unless he gets better at detecting manipulation.
KWM01 (7:37:08 PM): Well, in the second book he's hired to find the unholy grail but people and others are trying to get him to work for them or hand it over.
QueenSidhe (7:37:25 PM): There's a second book?
KWM01 (7:37:33 PM): yup
QueenSidhe (7:37:36 PM): How many are in the series so far?
KWM01 (7:38:05 PM): two but another comes out in august
KWM01 (7:38:30 PM): there are two other books in the same universe
QueenSidhe (7:39:35 PM): hmm. cool.
QueenSidhe (7:39:59 PM): It would be very interesting to see what Taylor does to bring on mass destruction.
KWM01 (7:40:35 PM): but it might not happen now that he nows
KWM01 (7:40:42 PM): knows
QueenSidhe (7:40:49 PM): true.
KWM01 (7:41:15 PM): favorite charector?
QueenSidhe (7:41:34 PM): But if he doesn't go after finding out who his mother is, his mother might come after him. Different circumstances, might still get a similar effect.
KWM01 (7:41:47 PM): true
QueenSidhe (7:42:25 PM): Hmm. Maybe Razor Eddie. The book was too short to really learn about the characters.
QueenSidhe (7:42:37 PM): Although, Taylor is cool just for his powers.
QueenSidhe (7:43:04 PM): You?
KWM01 (7:43:20 PM): yeah, I liked what he did with it in the second book. :-)
QueenSidhe (7:43:26 PM): :-)
QueenSidhe (7:43:34 PM): Eddie or Taylor?
KWM01 (7:44:02 PM): I like shootgun suzie. really bloodthirty :-)
QueenSidhe (7:44:08 PM): :-)
QueenSidhe (7:44:32 PM): Although, if this can be considered a character, I really liked the '60s diner.
KWM01 (7:44:48 PM): yeah that was cool
KWM01 (7:44:56 PM): dadio
KWM01 (7:45:00 PM): :-)
KWM01 (7:45:45 PM): sorry lack of sleep
QueenSidhe (7:46:06 PM): :-)
KWM01 (7:47:46 PM): any clue who his mother is?
QueenSidhe (7:47:59 PM): no idea
QueenSidhe (7:48:57 PM): I doubt we've met any character that could be her.
QueenSidhe (7:49:09 PM): I wonder why he never tried to find her.
KWM01 (7:49:40 PM): maybe he has.
Z0rPr1me (7:49:41 PM): sorry I wasn't very chatty tonight... gtg
Z0rPr1me (7:49:43 PM): Nigght!
QueenSidhe (7:49:47 PM): Night
KWM01 (7:49:51 PM): nite
QueenSidhe (7:50:06 PM): If he'd really tried to find her, he would have though. That is what he does.
(7:50:11 PM) Z0rPr1me has left the room.
QueenSidhe (7:50:27 PM): Yes, the Authorities or whoever is trying to kill him would go after him, but still.
QueenSidhe (7:50:35 PM): He seems stubborn about things like that.
KWM01 (7:51:24 PM): I don't know, he ran from the Nightside because he couldn't take it anymore.
QueenSidhe (7:51:41 PM): And also, Eddie did say that if Taylor hadn't gone after his mother, the world wouldn't have been destroyed.
KWM01 (7:52:12 PM): which is wierd, I didn't think he was that powerful.
QueenSidhe (7:53:53 PM): It depends on what he went and found after he discovered whatever about his mom
QueenSidhe (7:54:06 PM): If he went and found how to destroy the world, he'd destroy the world.
QueenSidhe (7:54:13 PM): Just like how he found how to kill the house
QueenSidhe (7:54:17 PM): And Eddie
KWM01 (7:54:19 PM): true
QueenSidhe (7:55:05 PM): It's an interesting world, but I think the plot(?) was flimsy.
QueenSidhe (7:56:05 PM): If he didn't have any ethics, Taylor could just go and find money to support himself. ;-)
KWM01 (7:56:30 PM): I guess but I see the point of the way they did it too. Why make one attenpt on his life when you can lead him into ambush after ambush.
KWM01 (7:56:38 PM): lol true
QueenSidhe (7:57:00 PM): But there was only one ambush planned by the house.
KWM01 (7:57:21 PM): the one outside the bar
QueenSidhe (7:57:23 PM): The ambush with the horrowing was by Eddie and whoever is always trying to kill him.
QueenSidhe (7:57:31 PM): Not is mother and the house.
QueenSidhe (7:57:55 PM): The timewarp appeared to be just random.
KWM01 (7:58:03 PM): maybe
QueenSidhe (7:58:04 PM): Although, I'm surprised no one else walked into it.
KWM01 (7:58:24 PM): maybe there did and got eaten
QueenSidhe (7:58:26 PM): But, that might be explained away with the fact that it's new and most people don't go to that part of town.
QueenSidhe (7:58:32 PM): That too.
QueenSidhe (7:59:24 PM): So basically, by the house, I only see one ambush.
KWM01 (7:59:48 PM): hmm, guessyour right
QueenSidhe (8:00:18 PM): From what I can tell, it seems the hardest part was finding and holding Taylor to kill him.
KWM01 (8:00:24 PM): I'm kinda surprised that Eddie was the only one left alive in the time warp.
QueenSidhe (8:00:42 PM): Depends on what he used to destroy the world.
KWM01 (8:00:42 PM): there were other immortals in that world
QueenSidhe (8:00:47 PM): Ahhh.
QueenSidhe (8:00:49 PM): I see.
QueenSidhe (8:00:58 PM): Gods and angels...
KWM01 (8:01:03 PM): yup
KWM01 (8:01:21 PM): and verious offspring
QueenSidhe (8:01:23 PM): Yeah, he shouldn't have been the only one left alive unless all the other people decided to go to an alternate universe or something.
QueenSidhe (8:01:56 PM): It really depends on what Taylor used to destroy the world.
KWM01 (8:01:56 PM): too convenient
KWM01 (8:02:17 PM): true
KWM01 (8:03:02 PM): going to read the second book?
QueenSidhe (8:03:18 PM): Possibly.
QueenSidhe (8:03:24 PM): Have the ebook version for it? :D
KWM01 (8:03:42 PM): not yet.:-)
QueenSidhe (8:03:48 PM): :-)
KWM01 (8:04:15 PM): I do have one of the ones in the same universe.
KWM01 (8:04:21 PM): want it?
QueenSidhe (8:04:46 PM): I wonder if this book is like the first books in sf. What with it being so short.
QueenSidhe (8:04:47 PM): Sure.
QueenSidhe (8:05:26 PM): So, did you get wind rider's oath yet?
KWM01 (8:05:48 PM): nope
QueenSidhe (8:05:50 PM): :-(
KWM01 (8:06:06 PM): Dan says the last guy is a really slow reader
QueenSidhe (8:06:09 PM): Oh well, only 2 more weeks before it comes out in webscriptions
QueenSidhe (8:06:39 PM): Slow??? How can you be slow at this. You get all pumped and just read until you're finished!
QueenSidhe (8:06:41 PM): :D
KWM01 (8:06:56 PM): lol
KWM01 (8:07:27 PM): I was so bored, I bought the rest of the Thraxas series.
QueenSidhe (8:07:46 PM): So what, will you be getting it after this person?
KWM01 (8:07:56 PM): yup
QueenSidhe (8:08:10 PM): I went and got Alta by Lackey, but right now, I have no interest in reading it.
KWM01 (8:08:25 PM): it's not bad
QueenSidhe (8:08:59 PM): I just can't drag up the interest in reading it
QueenSidhe (8:09:07 PM): I need to find something that I want to read.
KWM01 (8:09:28 PM): like Winrider. :-)
KWM01 (8:09:40 PM): windrider
QueenSidhe (8:09:50 PM): :D
QueenSidhe (8:10:01 PM): Actually, I was bored with the first half of wind rider.
QueenSidhe (8:10:07 PM): All that setup was slow.
KWM01 (8:11:12 PM): true but that was a hell of a cliffhanger when he left it off in the stables.
QueenSidhe (8:11:19 PM): Yup.
KWM01 (8:16:18 PM): I just found the second book in e-format.
QueenSidhe (8:16:26 PM): Cool. :D
KWM01 (8:17:23 PM): serendipity. got to love it. :-)
QueenSidhe (8:17:28 PM): :D

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