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    <description><![CDATA[For chat about Jennifer Strange and the strange goings-on in the Ununited Kingdoms]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:54:01 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Magic forms</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?16,110701,113614#msg-113614</link>
      <author>delacuesta</author>
      <description><![CDATA[bunyip Wrote:
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&gt; And yes, I am an ex-bureaucrat with a Canberra
&gt; history.

How can one be an ex-bureaucrat (apart from being brainwashed)?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:54:01 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Magic forms</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?16,110701,113604#msg-113604</link>
      <author>bunyip</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I also like the form numbers and all they imply, but I am waiting for the forms to be barcoded and numbered in binary.

And yes, I am an ex-bureaucrat with a Canberra history.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 06:07:34 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Song of the Quarkbeast</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?16,112799,113583#msg-113583</link>
      <author>SkidMarks</author>
      <description><![CDATA[yes OB, you are correct, I am not.

i usually have three books on the go at any given time but find that my eyes can only focus on one at a time making 1 the maximum that I can read out out aloud.

However I can multi-task, although not to the female level of complexity.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 11:35:17 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Song of the Quarkbeast</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?16,112799,113570#msg-113570</link>
      <author>OB</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hmm.. You're obviously not a woman Skids.


   I'm making a baby Quark beast for the FFiesta.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:40:07 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Song of the Quarkbeast</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?16,112799,113504#msg-113504</link>
      <author>SkidMarks</author>
      <description><![CDATA[bunyip Wrote:
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&gt; 
&gt; How many books can you comfortably read out aloud
&gt; in an orotorian type voice?


I find that only one at a time is my maximum.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:39:53 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Magic forms</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?16,110701,113351#msg-113351</link>
      <author>SkidMarks</author>
      <description><![CDATA[...Or an airplane fanatic]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:13:33 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Magic forms</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?16,110701,113350#msg-113350</link>
      <author>bunyip</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Only a seasoned bureaucrat would admit to that.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 04:33:19 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: The Last Dragonslayer - out now</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?16,109672,113349#msg-113349</link>
      <author>bunyip</author>
      <description><![CDATA[dragons are quantum!  You never can tell which is the last one!

I question the words 'middle grade'. If one rates books by readability then Dragonslayer is up with the best. And all fiction is fantasy.

Try reading Joyce or patrick white or even 'The thorn birds' and see if they are as reqadable.


Edited much later: if they are not 'reqadable' they probably won't be readable either.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 04:32:34 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Song of the Quarkbeast</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?16,112799,113348#msg-113348</link>
      <author>bunyip</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I have just finished re reading Dragonslayer and while it is aimed at a 'juvenile' audience it should be made a 'reading out aloud' textbook as it flows well and is interesting enough to keep the reader involved.


How many books can you comfortably read out aloud in an orotorian type voice?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 04:28:58 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Song of the Quarkbeast</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?16,112799,112844#msg-112844</link>
      <author>Eoink</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I've read and finished SoTQB now. I enjoyed it more than the first book in the series. To me, the world building feels a bit forced early on, and some of the explanation n the footnotes is defintely aimed at a young readership. About a third of the way through I felt it was dragging,then I suddenly got in sync with the writing and the plot, and zipped through the rest of the book without pausing.
I think I'll reread Dragonslayer soon, I can't remember much of it.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:50:02 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Song of the Quarkbeast</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?16,112799,112800#msg-112800</link>
      <author>SkidMarks</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Unfortunately mine is a Chrissy prezzie so I will be late to the party. 

In the meantime I am reading &quot;Life, Libert &amp; the Pursuit of Sausage Rolls&quot;, &quot;Heartless&quot; and &quot;Ginger Geezer&quot;. The latter is taking quite a while as I keep putting it down to start something else. 

I am also rereading TN4, then will reread TN5 &amp; 6 in preparation for &quot;Dark Reading Matter&quot; next Spring.

I got lost halfway through volume 1 of 1Q84. The alternating chapters sent me into a spin, but it intrigued me enough that I will return to it at some later time.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:54:09 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Song of the Quarkbeast</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?16,112799,112799#msg-112799</link>
      <author>Eoink</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I got the Kindle edition of this yesterday, I'm planning to start it over the weekend after I finish book 3 of 1Q84.
Anyone else started it yet? If so, look forward to sharing feelings about it.]]></description>
      <category>The Last Dragonslayer</category>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:54:17 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: The Last Dragonslayer - out now</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?16,109672,112252#msg-112252</link>
      <author>steeljam</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I am puzzled.
I bought the last Dragonslayer book in November 2011.
Now I am being told there is a second Dragonslayer book that will be the last one.
I thought the first one was the last one.

Will Jasper be doing a signing tour?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 22:42:22 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: The Last Dragonslayer - out now</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?16,109672,111161#msg-111161</link>
      <author>SkidMarks</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hi Zaphod,

I can't answer the U.S. Kindle question - not being in the U.S. or party to JFf's marketing plans, but if any of his other books are listed, then you are in with a chance!

I see that you have already found Nextian, so have fun and pies.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:58:21 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: The Last Dragonslayer - out now</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?16,109672,111156#msg-111156</link>
      <author>zaphod</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Its nice that TLD is available here in the US (though Amazon currently lists it as temporarily out of stock), but will it be available in the US on Kindle?]]></description>
      <category>The Last Dragonslayer</category>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 04:35:20 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Magic forms</title>
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      <author>SkidMarks</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I do like the numbers used for the forms!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:34:26 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: The Last Dragonslayer - out now</title>
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      <author>annie</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Just finished it!!!
Brilliant, awesome, amazing (I need some of Mycroft's bookworms to help here!)


I love having on my iPhone. for non-UnUK residents, the map is particularly helpful..

Now I can't wait for TN6.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:26:17 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: The Last Dragonslayer - out now</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?16,109672,109689#msg-109689</link>
      <author>MuseSusan</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hooray!]]></description>
      <category>The Last Dragonslayer</category>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 01:02:30 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: The Last Dragonslayer - out now</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?16,109672,109688#msg-109688</link>
      <author>admin</author>
      <description><![CDATA[This from my 'what's new' page:

Stop those emails right now! The Last Dragonslayer will be available in North America. As of last week, I've agreed a deal with publishers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to distribute TLDS in the States. Naturally all of us here at Fforde Towers are delighted with the arrangement. 

This was their press release: 

&quot;...Harcourt Children's Books, an imprint of the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children's Book Group, has acquired U.S. rights to The Last Dragonslayer and two other titles in a new middle-grade fantasy series by Jasper Fforde. Fforde is best known for The Eyre Affair and other books in his ongoing series of clever mystery novels starring crime-fighter Thursday Next.

In The Last Dragonslayer, Fforde's first foray into children's books, fifteen-year-old Jennifer Strange runs Kazam!, an employment agency that finds work for soothsayers and sorcerers. But magical work is drying up and even magic carpets are reduced to delivering pizza. So when signs start to predict the death of the world's last dragon by an unknown dragonslayer, it falls to Jennifer to take up the sword. Full of surprises, The Last Dragonslayer is classic storytelling blended with Fforde's crackling contemporary wit...&quot;

But I said North America, didn't I? And geographically speaking this also includes Canada, so we are delighted to also announce that HarperCollins will have exclusive publication rights in Canada. More publication dates and details as I know them.

-Jasper]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:11:43 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: The Last Dragonslayer - out now</title>
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      <author>MuseSusan</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Agreed!

Although I'm fairly tempted to order it from Amazon.uk anyway. It'll cost me a bit more, but it will be worth it.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 04:48:40 +0100</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?16,109672,109680#msg-109680</link>
      <author>Planet Cool</author>
      <description><![CDATA[We don't have it here in the US yet, Jasper... what's the holdup? ;)]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:38:35 +0100</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?16,109672,109672#msg-109672</link>
      <author>admin</author>
      <description><![CDATA[The Last Dragonslayer was published on the 5th November. If anyone has read it and wants to post here, please do so.

Jasper]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:30:47 +0100</pubDate>
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