Jim C. Hines - Monday LOL Book

Monday LOL Book

Jul. 21st, 2008 at 7:45 AM

LOL books like to color with an octarine marker. Previous LOL books are available at http://jimhines.livejournal.com/tag/lol.

Today's book is The Magic Toybox [Amazon | Mysterious Galaxy], edited by Denise Little. This is another of the DAW anthologies, and is actually a collector's item -- if you visit the Amazon link, you'll see that this book actually boasts a four-star review from Harriet Klausner.

(Wikipedia link, for anyone who doesn't get the LOL.)

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controuble wrote:

Jul. 21st, 2008 12:14 pm (UTC)

Ack - cleaning up keyboard - had a mouth full of coffee when I hit the refresh button!

Too funny!

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jimhines wrote:

Jul. 21st, 2008 12:54 pm (UTC)

And my work here is done :-)

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jaylake wrote:

Jul. 21st, 2008 12:47 pm (UTC)

Hah! I actually have a story in that one...

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jimhines wrote:

Jul. 21st, 2008 12:54 pm (UTC)

Didn't you do a caveman-style story for this one? I seem to remember you blogging about that, talking about finding an unusual angle when writing for themed anthologies.

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jaylake wrote:

Jul. 21st, 2008 01:06 pm (UTC)

Precisely. "Little Pig, Berry Brown and the Hard Moon." It's about a Neanderthal baby with a stick-toy.

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antonstrout wrote:

Jul. 21st, 2008 01:00 pm (UTC)

All I am reminded of are my countless encounters in RPGs with Mimics, and in Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance on the XBox...

My DM was an evil ass.

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jimhines wrote:

Jul. 21st, 2008 01:09 pm (UTC)

You know, I don't think any of my DMs have ever tossed a mimic at us. I fought them in Nethack all the time, but that's about it.

And now I feel like I should screen this thread, just in case my current DM reads my LiveJournal...

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antonstrout wrote:

Jul. 21st, 2008 01:10 pm (UTC)

Hmm.. we can test out your longetvity at gencon with new 4th edition rules!

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jimhines wrote:

Jul. 21st, 2008 01:24 pm (UTC)

Oof. I've barely wrapped my brain around 3.5!

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mroctober wrote:

Jul. 21st, 2008 01:08 pm (UTC)

That's no toybox... it's a mimic!

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jimhines wrote:

Jul. 21st, 2008 01:09 pm (UTC)

You and Anton seem to be on the same page this morning :-)

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darkelf105 wrote:

Jul. 21st, 2008 02:32 pm (UTC)

Lol!

Yay, Terry Pratchett, unless I missed the reference and in that case I'll just think of it as a mimic. I got eaten by one of those last night in The Granstream Sage.

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jimhines wrote:

Jul. 21st, 2008 02:38 pm (UTC)

Old school Pratchett, but yes. I hadn't even considered the mimic possibilities until they were pointed out in the comments.

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guinwhyte wrote:

Jul. 21st, 2008 03:22 pm (UTC)

And the next picture would be just the box and "Nom nom nom," right? :P

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jimhines wrote:

Jul. 21st, 2008 05:34 pm (UTC)

I can *totally* imagine The Luggage saying "Nom nom nom," too.

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bearmountain wrote:

Jul. 21st, 2008 03:24 pm (UTC)

4 stars???

4 stars??? She must have hit the wrong key. I mean, there can be no other explanation!

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jimhines wrote:

Jul. 21st, 2008 05:33 pm (UTC)

Re: 4 stars???

I've seen a few other 4-star reviews from her. Not a lot, but it does happen every once in a while.

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bearmountain wrote:

Jul. 21st, 2008 05:35 pm (UTC)

Re: 4 stars???

Pure sloppiness on her part, I'm sure. Given the number of reviews she does, I'm guessing she just sometimes misses the right number of stars. There isn't much time to double-check anything when you read and review 8 to 12 books a day...

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