R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise

Alefroth · Post by **Alefroth** » Mon Feb 17, 2020 7:33 pm

Holman wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2020 7:19 pm
Blackhawk wrote: ↑Sun Feb 16, 2020 12:51 pm I also have this set. I've got at least three or four different versions of the series. And yet I never noticed until Daehawk mentioned it that they go together.

This was my first set:

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And this is still my favorite set:

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Is that first set The Brothers Hildebrandt?

It looks strikingly similar to the First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Mon Feb 17, 2020 7:57 pm

I know. He was always very careful to keep characters out of his art.

Hrdina · Post by **Hrdina** » Mon Feb 17, 2020 8:44 pm

hitbyambulance wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2020 3:23 pm
Blackhawk wrote: ↑Sun Feb 16, 2020 12:51 pm
This was my first set:

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this is the set my mom has - in the gold foil box! also the matching edition of the Hobbit, separately. my brother completely bent up the spines reading them in grade school. :/ i intended to read these, but could never clear the first fifty pages of Fellowship of the Ring... tried several times, until

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Sun Feb 16, 2020 12:51 pm
And this is still my favorite set:

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this is the set i ended up finally getting around to reading, back in 2008/2009, borrowed from my roommate at the time. they were in pretty rough shape (one was missing the backcover and the last few pages)

Funny, I checked out my wife's LoTR boxed set, which is in the gold box. It turns out that it contains only Return of the King from the Barbara Remington set, and it contains The Hobbit and The Two Towers from the second (white) set. Beats me what happened to her copy of Fellowship.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Tue Feb 18, 2020 12:28 am

25 years ago I bought a single book version or the set. Cost me like $80. Pretty fancy.
I don't think I've read it more than 8-10 times thanks to the movies coming out.
Still, it's a book I treasure.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Feb 18, 2020 1:07 am

As I recall I have it in one big hard back. The trilogy in one book. I read it once around 2000. Once was enough. Almost gave me a headache. Something about the way its written. Im more a RA Salvatore trilogy guy.

Post by **ImLawBoy** » Tue Feb 18, 2020 10:35 am

I don't mean to get off track on this fantasy book covers thread, but Charles Portis has died. He wrote five books, most famously True Grit. I never read that, but I did read The Dog of the South last year and found it odd but enjoyable.

gilraen · Post by **gilraen** » Mon Feb 24, 2020 11:26 am

Katherine Johnson

Katherine Johnson, one of the NASA mathematicians depicted in "Hidden Figures," died Monday, the administrator of NASA said. She was 101.

Johnson "was an American hero and her pioneering legacy will never be forgotten," NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine wrote on Twitter.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Mon Feb 24, 2020 12:19 pm

Johnson was a real pathfinder and I'm glad she got the recognition she deserved, if belatedly.

AWS260 · Post by **AWS260** » Mon Feb 24, 2020 3:18 pm

A nonny mouse · Post by **A nonny mouse** » Tue Feb 25, 2020 10:14 am

Lego mini figure cretor Jens Nygaard Knudsen dies of ALS.

He also developed the space and castle sets, of which I had a few. Loved them.

Lord, I still love Legos and the mini figures. My son (8) and I play with them quite a bit.

RIP. St Peter will be getting a new set of Gates, I would imagine.

AWS260 · Post by **AWS260** » Tue Feb 25, 2020 10:23 am

My son was making stop-motion videos with Lego minifigs just this weekend. R.I.P.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Wed Feb 26, 2020 9:43 am

It's weird, the ones that hit me. It also feels odd to post it in a general obituary thread.

https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/stor ... -star-dead

McNutt · Post by **McNutt** » Wed Feb 26, 2020 2:34 pm

Bestselling author Clive Cussler dead at 88.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Wed Feb 26, 2020 2:38 pm

LordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Feb 26, 2020 9:43 am It's weird, the ones that hit me. It also feels odd to post it in a general obituary thread.

61 is way too young. Always liked this song, though I wasn't really into them at the time (1994) but I do remember just how different they were than everything else happening at the time, at least in popular music. RIP

DOS=HIGH · Post by **DOS=HIGH** » Wed Feb 26, 2020 3:55 pm

You apparently can't cheat death.

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hentzau · Post by **hentzau** » Wed Feb 26, 2020 4:20 pm

McNutt wrote: ↑Wed Feb 26, 2020 2:34 pm Bestselling author Clive Cussler dead at 88.

I went through a Clive Cussler phase in my teens. Dirk Pitts? I think that was the character's name. Always dealing with maritime mysteries. They were fun reads.

Stefan Stirzaker · Post by **Stefan Stirzaker** » Wed Feb 26, 2020 4:29 pm

McNutt wrote: ↑Wed Feb 26, 2020 2:34 pm Bestselling author Clive Cussler dead at 88.

Actually thought he died years ago. I think titanic was the first one of his i read a long time ago.

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Wed Feb 26, 2020 5:22 pm

McNutt wrote: ↑Wed Feb 26, 2020 2:34 pm Bestselling author Clive Cussler dead at 88.

Awww, fuck. Hopefully his son carries on with the various series...they are brain candy to be sure but I enjoy them. I've listened to all of them that the library has on audiobook, I might have to start reading the ones they don't if ever I have a chance for discretionary reading on Kindle.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Wed Feb 26, 2020 7:52 pm

Cussler was my father's favorite later in his life. I've read three or four. They're not bad. They're not heavy, deep novels, but they're fun adventure novels, usually with a maritime angle. Good for the same itch that playing Uncharted scratches.

gameoverman · Post by **gameoverman** » Thu Feb 27, 2020 2:12 am

McNutt wrote: ↑Wed Feb 26, 2020 2:34 pm Bestselling author Clive Cussler dead at 88.

He was right up there with Stephen King as far as his books being must reads to me. I never could figure out why his material wasn't used in movies more, they are clearly made for it. It's basically an American James Bond series, a franchise waiting to happen.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Thu Feb 27, 2020 2:18 am

gameoverman wrote: ↑Thu Feb 27, 2020 2:12 am
McNutt wrote: ↑Wed Feb 26, 2020 2:34 pm Bestselling author Clive Cussler dead at 88.
He was right up there with Stephen King as far as his books being must reads to me. I never could figure out why his material wasn't used in movies more, they are clearly made for it. It's basically an American James Bond series, a franchise waiting to happen.

It didn't help that Sahara bombed badly (it made back like half its budget, total.)

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Feb 27, 2020 2:43 am

The Matt Mcanawhatever movie? I liked that movie. Watched it a few times.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 12:24 am

Freeman Dyson

He had a good run, at 96 years.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 12:41 am

My turn to say, I thought he died years ago.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 1:02 am

Remember kids....its not the Dyson Vacuum but the Dyson Sphere.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 1:10 am

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sat Feb 29, 2020 1:02 am Remember kids....its not the Dyson Vacuum but the Dyson Sphere.

And Project Orion, which would've used nuclear bombs and a ginormous pressure plate to propel a spacecraft to Saturn by 1974. Curse that test ban treaty!

Many years ago I read a book by his son called "The Starship and the Canoe." The young man rejected everything his father stood for and paddled around nature. Being more of a starship guy than a canoe guy, I thought he was a schmuck.

Alefroth · Post by **Alefroth** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 3:11 am

Kraken wrote: ↑Sat Feb 29, 2020 1:10 am
Daehawk wrote: ↑Sat Feb 29, 2020 1:02 am Remember kids....its not the Dyson Vacuum but the Dyson Sphere.
And Project Orion, which would've used nuclear bombs and a ginormous pressure plate to propel a spacecraft to Saturn by 1974. Curse that test ban treaty!

Many years ago I read a book by his son called "The Starship and the Canoe." The young man rejected everything his father stood for and paddled around nature. Being more of a starship guy than a canoe guy, I thought he was a schmuck.

Now he builds kayaks less than a mile away from me.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Mon Mar 02, 2020 12:48 pm

Jack Welch (former CEO of GE) died today at the age of 84.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Mon Mar 02, 2020 12:58 pm

He never welched on a bet.

McNutt · Post by **McNutt** » Mon Mar 02, 2020 2:31 pm

Inside the Actors Studio host and former pimp James Lipton dies at 93.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Mon Mar 02, 2020 3:05 pm

I just started re watching Arrested Development like I do every few years, and just finished watching the episodes in which Lipton plays the warden of George Sr.'s prison. RIP, James.

Octavious · Post by **Octavious** » Mon Mar 02, 2020 3:08 pm

He was 92? Jesus I hate this whole aging thing.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Mon Mar 02, 2020 5:33 pm

Octavious wrote: ↑Mon Mar 02, 2020 3:08 pm He was 92? Jesus I hate this whole aging thing.

Lat year he was.

Octavious · Post by **Octavious** » Mon Mar 02, 2020 5:45 pm

See aging strikes again! I had no idea he was that old. Not that I was really sitting around thinking about it.

Alefroth · Post by **Alefroth** » Mon Mar 02, 2020 5:49 pm

Octavious wrote: ↑Mon Mar 02, 2020 3:08 pm He was 92? Jesus I hate this whole aging thing.

It's better than the alternative.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Sat Mar 14, 2020 4:58 pm

Sad to hear that Genesis P-orrige passed this morning from leukemia. Founding member of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, s/he was the, well, genesis of industrial music. They were a creative, challenging, and divisive force.

The world is a lot less interesting today. RIP Gen.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Mar 14, 2020 5:21 pm

Im afraid to come in here now afraid Ill see Tom Hanks.

Z-Corn · Post by **Z-Corn** » Sat Mar 14, 2020 7:18 pm

Skinypupy wrote: ↑Sat Mar 14, 2020 4:58 pm Sad to hear that Genesis P-orrige passed this morning from leukemia. Founding member of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, h/she was the, well, genesis of industrial music. They were a creative, challenging, and divisive force.

The world is a lot less interesting today. RIP Gen.

That is a bummer. I didn't even know they were sick.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Sat Mar 14, 2020 7:28 pm

Z-Corn wrote: ↑Sat Mar 14, 2020 7:18 pm That is a bummer. I didn't even know they were sick.

I saw a Gofundme a couple years back, but hadn’t heard any updates since. I had just kinda assumed things had gotten better.

May the reunion with Lady Jaye be a joyous one.

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Sat Mar 14, 2020 7:36 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sat Mar 14, 2020 5:21 pm Im afraid to come in here now afraid Ill see Tom Hanks.

Does he have a pre-existing condition? Corona virus isn't known for knocking off otherwise healthy people.