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  • 06-04-2000 8:34pm
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    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    How could I have forgotten this one!

    Dave Wingroves simply brilliant epic about a future ruled by the Chinese.

    Its breadth is unbelievable (which usually means, "the authors editor is afraid to cut stuff out wholesale", but in this case its absolutely gripping the whole way).

    Its also the book from which I took my Nom de Net so many years ago (I'm now almost 11 years online as DeVore smile.gif )

    DeV.


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    TwoShedsJackson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,438 ✭✭✭TwoShedsJackson


    I'd been meaning to ask you about that this weekend smile.gif


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    Shiminay
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 28,633 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shiminay


    DeVore is also a type of velvet...

    What exactly that means, I don't know smile.gif


    All the best,

    Dav
    @B^)
    http://homepage.eircom.net/~davitt


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    Paladin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,313 ✭✭✭Paladin


    And I thought u got the name from unprocessed dev.


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    Tom Murphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭Tom Murphy


    Nah, a lot of people think its something to do with the Vore creature in Quake 1, or the irish for Deborrah (those ones are usually not very bright americans).

    He was a character I identified with until he went around raping people smile.gif) But by the time he wrote that book, I was already well identified by the name and I kinda liked it.

    Its an excellent book tho, but I stopped reading them after 4 not because they had stopped being good but because it was a year between books and I wanted to read them all in one go. There are about 8 in total (though it doesnt get crap after a while like a lot of serial books, it was planned as 8 books and its very well structured from the first page).

    DeV.


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    Slydice
    Registered Users Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    I just figured you had a fetish for a fellow Tom

    http://csm.jmu.edu/chemistry/faculty/devore/


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    Khynareth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 323 ✭✭Khynareth


    In French:

    dévorer: to eat up. To gulp your food down like a barbarian or a very hungry person.

    dévore: 2rd person singular form of this verb


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