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Old 01-07-2015, 07:09 PM   #31
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I'm pretty sure "Djinni" isn't an English word. No matter how you spell it.

But I may be confused.
It's genie in English. Roughly translated.
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The original King's English doesn't actually exist any longer. It's changed since the English of the very first King. Think of a Shakespeare play and how different the English is now from the English back then.

There is no proper English. ALL English has changed. In the US the first English was the same as in the UK. That version of English has changed in both the US and the UK. The English in AU was the English from UK and that also changed.

There is not one English speaking country that has not has the English change. So saying that the English in the UK is proper English (as they would say in the UK) is a load of rubbish.
I am aware, that is why I lampooned it as The King's English vs. the silly 'muricans...

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It's genie in English. Roughly translated.

Genie reminds me of Disney version of the mythological creature, all benevolent and just waiting for you to rub that lamp and make a wish.

Jinni or djinni is much more closer to the original meaning of badass mof that are fire and air beings in Arabic mythology. They are just one class under the class of angels. Ifrits and Ghouls are types of jinni for example. And very dangerous types for that matter. Ghouls meaning has changed in the west, but originally they are not what you think they are.

Maybe it's just me but Disney has forever ruined genie for me. Ironically there's no magic there. It's too safe.
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Genie reminds me of Disney version of the mythological creature, all benevolent and just waiting for you to rub that lamp and make a wish.

Jinni or djinni is much more closer to the original meaning of badass mof that are fire and air beings in Arabic mythology. They are just one class under the class of angels. Ifrits and Ghouls are types of jinni for example. And very dangerous types for that matter. Ghouls meaning has changed in the west, but originally they are not what you think they are.

Maybe it's just me but Disney has forever ruined genie for me. Ironically there's no magic there. It's too safe.
Well, yes, but Disney wasn't likely to have a ghoul in one of its productions! Actually, I'm thrilled that they did an Arabic myth of any kind. Aladdin is the only reason I was exposed to any of that idea/culture (including the flying carpet!) at a young age. When I was older, I was curious about genies--assuming they were European because of I Dream of Jeanie (which was not a great show btw)? But once I was on to the idea, I had to research. There's some great "characters" in the Arabic culture and the Djinn is one of my favorites. Although if I ever write one I'd lean toward a magical bad-ass, not necessarily a ghouls!
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The Outlaws of Sherwood by World Fantasy Award & Newbery Medal winner Robin McKinley (ISFDB, Wikipedia), her Robin Hood retelling (Wikipedia) originally out from HarperCollins' Greenwillow imprint in 1988, and reprinted many times since. I think I may already have a paperback of this, but at this price, I'm going to snap up the e-copy as well and hope that ORM do more sales on her backlist stuff soon.

The Robin Hood legend comes thrillingly alive in Robin McKinley’s reimagining of the classic adventure

Young Robin Longbow, subapprentice forester in the King’s Forest of Nottingham, must contend with the dislike of the Chief Forester, who bullies Robin in memory of his popular father. But Robin does not want to leave Nottingham or lose the title to his father’s small tenancy, because he is in love with a young lady named Marian—and keeps remembering that his mother too was gentry and married a common forester.

Robin has been granted a rare holiday to go to the Nottingham Fair, where he will spend the day with his friends Much and Marian. But he is ambushed by a group of the Chief Forester’s cronies, who challenge him to an archery contest . . . and he accidentally kills one of them in self-defense.

He knows his own life is forfeit. But Much and Marian convince him that perhaps his personal catastrophe is also an opportunity: an opportunity for a few stubborn Saxons to gather together in the secret heart of Sherwood Forest and strike back against the arrogance and injustice of the Norman overlords.
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Killer Karma by Lee Killough (ISFDB, Wikipedia), who back in the 80s wrote a series of ground-breaking paranormal mysteries which helped set the stage for the current urban fantasy trend, according to people who know much more about sfnal history than I do. Anyway, this is her later "ghost cop investigates his own death" paranormal mystery, originally out in 2005 from the now defunct sf/fantasy specialty imprint Meisha Merlin (Wikipedia), who imploded just as they were going to start publishing some new/newly-collected stuff from authors I was really looking forward to reading.

Inspector Cole Dunavan is a cop without a body. A ghost who can't remember anything except his own murder. No one sees or hears him. He cannot move objects and initially cannot move through closed doors. When he learns that his body has not been found and the circumstances of his disappearance make it appear he betrayed his marriage and was killed by his mistress...who has also disappeared, he vows to put things right. A murdered cop, a ghost and an avenger working to communicate with his former partner, get straight with his wife, and catch his own killer.
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Reincarnated as a ghost, Elizabeth is symbiotically linked to her supervisor, Murphy--creator of the Ghost Protocol, which forbids him to acknowledge or interact with her. Confused and alone--oppressed by her ghost status and tormented by forbidden love--Elizabeth works to unlock the secrets of her own existence.

But her quest for answers lands her in a tug-of-war between powerful interests, and she soon finds herself a pawn in the struggle for control of the planet...a struggle that could separate her forever from the man that she loves.
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I suspect this is part of the promotion that Macmillan runs every month, where they offer certain books in each genre for $2.99. I haven't received the email yet, so I can't be sure.
So Google Play, Books-a-Million, and eBooks.com are not US sites? What country/countries are they in?

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Googleonia?
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I suspect this is part of the promotion that Macmillan runs every month, where they offer certain books in each genre for $2.99. I haven't received the email yet, so I can't be sure.
I'd recommend a pass on this one. I really liked the premise, and the book started out well, but wow, it crashed and burned. It was like the first part was written by one person and the second part another. I really wanted to like this book, but I just couldn't. YMMV.
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Richly drawn characters, bold worlds, magic, betrayal, friendship and hope. If you've ever longed to dare epic deeds of your own, then these stories are for you!

It's a LIMITED EDITION bundle that won't be around long. Each book can stand alone, although many are part of a larger world also waiting to be explored.

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* MAGIC OF THIEVES (Legends of Dimmingwood: Book 1) - C. Greenwood
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Currently it's just .99 but who knows how long that will last?

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