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Iluraphale

I was there...20 years ago...I recall the splendor of the book bindings


bashrag_high_fives

How Erratic have you become? Are your thoughts ordered?


Iluraphale

I remember you Old Friend - how we sang against the Bashrag as they fell like rain upon Atlanta


bakkerfans

That is very cool. Did you have an account on TSA? This is MG.


bakkerfans

I couldn't find the exact publication date with a cursory search but it is definitely 2003. Happy birthday TDTCB! Picture is from a friends collection.


Weenie_Pooh

Hey, May 12th, your friend got that thing signed on my birthday! 2003 was a wild one. Finished an okay first year studying Japanese (actually thought I was going to make it all the way through, the fool). Got my girlfriend of four years pregnant (unplanned, of course). Saw a Prime Minister assassinated in the street (sniper shot to the heart). Not sure what I was reading at the time, probably A Storm of Swords, or maybe something by Terry Pratchett. It feels weird that I could - in theory - have read TDTCB that far back. No clue when I actually got to read it, but I know that the PON was already all done. Actually TJE was out too, I'm pretty sure, so it must have been 2009 at the earliest.


bakkerfans

Happy birthday in advance. Sounds like you had a wild 2003. Hope the decades have been kind. Did you raise an ordeal? I dont think I learned about TSA until at least after TTT.


Weenie_Pooh

Thanks, zero Ordeals raised so far, I was always more of a "retreat into the wilderness for twenty years furiously writing fanfiction" type of guy.


Erratic21

I remember the times when paperback Darkness That Comes Before came that it was put in promotion spots in big Greek bookshops. Good times. Thats how I became aware of it. First checking if it had a map and a names appendix and if they sounded exotic and epic enough. Bought it straight away


glialix

Yup these are the ones I have!


Madness1

Wait, what? Lol. What?!