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Jane Calumny Sat Aug 09, 2008 4:38 pm
Has anyone read Midnighters?
I've met a lot of people who have heard of it, but none of my friends have read it, and I want someone to talk about it with.
I've met a lot of people who have heard of it, but none of my friends have read it, and I want someone to talk about it with.
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Re: Midnighters
Jane Calumny Sun Aug 10, 2008 1:03 am
because I suck at summaries of books and it is totaly awesome and deserves a good summary, I'm copying it from Scott Westerfield's website(the author)
Okay, this is how it works:
There aren't really 24 hours in the day, there are 25. Got that? The extra one is rolled up too tight to see, and it flashes past most people in an instant. "Most people" means boring, normal, daylight people. But people born exactly at the instant of midnight (all together now: "midnighters") get to walk around while the rest of you suckers are frozen.
So check your birth certificate. If you were born at the stroke of midnight, you might be one of us. By the way, this is real midnight, not lame-time-zone- or daylight-savings-time-adusted midnight. Every spot on earth has its own exact moment when the sun is right under our feet. Suffice it to say that if you were born anytime between about 11:30PM and 1:30AM, you could be a midnighter. Confused?
Also, the secret hour doesn't seem to happen everywhere. Bixby is the only place that time freezes, as far as we know. Anyone out there notice something similiar? Email me.
Oh, and one more thing . . . midnight isn't empty. There are slithers, which are sort of like snakes (except they fly, sometimes) and darklings, which are pretty much any shape they want to be--as long as it's a big and scary shape. That's one thing you'll definitely notice about midnight: being number two on the food chain is a big change from being on top.
If you do find yourself walking around in the blue time, bring something made from stainless steel, and have a thirteen-letter word in mind. Darklings hate new alloys like steel, and have this epilepsy when it comes to 13s.
ok, me again...It is a REALLY good read, but I advise you not to read it if you are scared of predatory shape shifters. pretty much, if you've read all the Harry Potter books, sorry but this is the easiest reference for me, then you should know of the "lake scene" in HBP. That is how it is described everytime midnight comes around, so if that part creeped you out, go to his website and read more about it.
Okay, this is how it works:
There aren't really 24 hours in the day, there are 25. Got that? The extra one is rolled up too tight to see, and it flashes past most people in an instant. "Most people" means boring, normal, daylight people. But people born exactly at the instant of midnight (all together now: "midnighters") get to walk around while the rest of you suckers are frozen.
So check your birth certificate. If you were born at the stroke of midnight, you might be one of us. By the way, this is real midnight, not lame-time-zone- or daylight-savings-time-adusted midnight. Every spot on earth has its own exact moment when the sun is right under our feet. Suffice it to say that if you were born anytime between about 11:30PM and 1:30AM, you could be a midnighter. Confused?
Also, the secret hour doesn't seem to happen everywhere. Bixby is the only place that time freezes, as far as we know. Anyone out there notice something similiar? Email me.
Oh, and one more thing . . . midnight isn't empty. There are slithers, which are sort of like snakes (except they fly, sometimes) and darklings, which are pretty much any shape they want to be--as long as it's a big and scary shape. That's one thing you'll definitely notice about midnight: being number two on the food chain is a big change from being on top.
If you do find yourself walking around in the blue time, bring something made from stainless steel, and have a thirteen-letter word in mind. Darklings hate new alloys like steel, and have this epilepsy when it comes to 13s.
ok, me again...It is a REALLY good read, but I advise you not to read it if you are scared of predatory shape shifters. pretty much, if you've read all the Harry Potter books, sorry but this is the easiest reference for me, then you should know of the "lake scene" in HBP. That is how it is described everytime midnight comes around, so if that part creeped you out, go to his website and read more about it.
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Re: Midnighters
frost Fri Jan 30, 2009 3:55 am
YES these are good books. I II I I I hate the ending to the 3rd book though.
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