A Long, Long Time Ago...

[Neil]

Bronzium?  Was that named after Charles Bronson?

Then it would be named Bronsonium.

[Darth Wagtaros]

So Dooku got pissy with the Jedi and decided to start vast wars and murdering people.  That isn't really cool.  Just bitchy.

[Ed Anger]

So Dooku got pissy with the Jedi and decided to start vast wars and murdering people.  That isn't really cool.  Just bitchy.

Dooku, angry that the Jedi was the gestapo of the republic, fights for freedom.

[Razgovory]

Bronzium?  Was that named after Charles Bronson?

Then it would be named Bronsonium.

Yeah, I like it better that way.

[Savonarola]

You shoudl repost your Star Wars fanfiction.

I've lost "My Dinner with Anakin," but here is Darth Vader, Days of being wild:

Easily the best fan-fic I've ever read. Not that this is saying much, mind you ...

Thanks, I think,

My personal favorite is Harry Potter and the Internship of Aestas Estas:

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3954402/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_Internship_of_Aestas_Estas

I wrote this right after I witnessed three major Harry Potter events.  I was in Ann Arbor the night the last Harry Potter was released; a number of our less well read posters made the case that all the Harry Potter books would become part of the canon of western literature; and JK Rowling compared herself to Charles Dickens.  That gave me more motivation than usual.   

[Eddie Teach]

I wrote this right after I witnessed three major Harry Potter events.  I was in Ann Arbor the night the last Harry Potter was released; a number of our less well read posters made the case that all the Harry Potter books would become part of the canon of western literature; and JK Rowling compared herself to Charles Dickens.  That gave me more motivation than usual.   

Well, to be fair she's a better read than unabridged Dickens.

[Caliga]

Well, to be fair she's a better read than unabridged Dickens.

So?  Most people like Twinkies better than broccoli but that doesn't make them better for you.

Anyway, I believe I read an unabridged version of David Copperfield and I liked it just fine.

[grumbler]

Well, to be fair she's a better read than unabridged Dickens.

  To some, no doubt this is true, but it must be a terrible thing to be so culturally bankrupt as to believe it for one's self.

[garbon]

Do people voluntarily read abridged versions? I've only read them when I was tricked into thinking it was the full thing.  The once exception was Norwich's history of Byzantium and that was only because the abridged version was the only one I could get my hands on.

[Darth Wagtaros]

I dislike abridged versions of anything.

[saskganesh]

I've read abridged editions of Gibbons, Frazier, and Dickens. the last for school, so fair is fair.

[Eddie Teach]

My perception may be skewed by the fact the last Dickens I tried to read(and only one since school) was Bleak House.

[Valmy]

I don't get the fascination with Dickens.  His characters are so one-dimensional and boring.

Ok this guy is bad...this guy is good...here is the bad woman...here is the good woman

I mean it is tiresome there are pretty much no shades of gray anywhere.

[PDH]

Q - How do you know she is a witch?
A - Bill abridged out of her!

[Savonarola]

I don't get the fascination with Dickens.  His characters are so one-dimensional and boring.

Ok this guy is bad...this guy is good...here is the bad woman...here is the good woman

I mean it is tiresome there are pretty much no shades of gray anywhere.

That is an obvious mischaracterization of Dickens.  For instance in Great Expectations Pip is a snob, Estella is capricious and cruel, Miss Havisham is a crank, Magwitch threatens Pip; yet none of them are bad people.  They have believeable motivations for their behavior and attitudes.