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lol yeah the evil chicken thing... Iam sure I will understand the divine intent of it all at 80.

He hero worships Ayn Rand. The man has problems.

Yup. I've ready many many other writers after I found Saki, but I swear I still aspire to write short stories like him one day. He is my goal.

yay I went to my favourite book shop and got five new books! 1. Stephen King - Cujo 2. Mark Twain - Joan Of Arc (what the ?!) 3. HG Wells - The War In The Air (Heh?!) 4. Charles Dickens - Barneby Rudge 5. Herodotus - Histories Total price 10$ 3 Pretty rare books I've never even heard of lol. Well, I've heard of barneby rudge but never found it till now. Dropped and forgotten. With good reason. Speaking of whale of a time, I remembered I've been putting off Herman Melville's Moby Dick for three years!

True, but well some books are worth the effort of formatting them yourself and later printing them. I did that for The Book of Five Rings by Musashi Miyamoto, The Art of War by Sun Tzu and the Art of War by Niccolo Machiavelli. Call me cheap but I see a problem with paying corporates for books written by authors over 300 years dead. (Wishes he was born in 2200 so he could have printed the Harry Potter books at a tenth of the price that they're sold at.)

heh I have problems abandoning books. *cough*stupidmelanierawn*cough*

I want to read a few books I've been putting off, like The Once and Future King, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers and the rest of the Narnia series.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible - 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 1984 - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D

I fell asleep twice reading about 35 pages of Sunrunner's fire by Melanie Rawn :|

ok... Any time. Dear me, the Melanie Rawn book is begging to be put down. I can't remember another book that's this boring.

OMG thank you!! It was my very first novel!

oh yeah lol my bad. I saw HG Wells and typed that.

Melanie Rawn : The Dragon Prince Trilogy Consisting of three books: 1. Dragon Prince 2. The Star Scroll 3. Sun-Runner's Fire Sequel series : Dragon Star Again with three books 1. Stronghold 2. The Dragon Token 3. Skybowl Similar series : None I can think of, but it's vaguely similiar to GRR Martin in the sense that it's less magic based and more focussed on people and their connivings. Synopsis : In a world ruled by Sunrunners, humans gifted with the ability to use sunlight to create fire and to communicate along long distances, the might of a warrior in the Desert kingdom is measured by his prowess at slaying Dragons. Zehava, the prince is particularily adept at the feat. However his heir Rohan finds the Dragons fascinating and abstains from killing them. When Zehava is killed by a Dragon, Rohan hunts it down, killing his first and only dragon. Now the Dragon Prince Rohan must battle foes of a different sort. The High Prince Roelstra of Princemarch seeks to bind his nation to Rohan's, ending the generations long rivalry between the Desert and Princemarch in a secret attempt to grab control of both nations for his heirs. But Andrade, the Lady of Goddess Keep where all Sunrunners are trained, and Rohan's maternal aunt seeks to bring forth a princedom ruled by Sunrunners by marrying Rohan to one of her students, Sioned. Review: Although the story is pretty different from most fantasy fiction in that there is no Dark Lord (whew), it does leave a lot to desire with Rawn's descriptions. Honestly, it's hard to keep stopping even midchapter. Rohan who hates violence turns out to have Gandhian philosophies at points. After the first book, the books move over years' worth, sometimes seeming more like a plotline than a novel. I am currently at book 3 and I certainly doubt I'll be picking up the second series or any more of Rawn's books. Surprisingly enough the books involve little to do with dragons, atleast the first two are that way. In my opinion, she should have Ruined the chance of being what Eragon too fails to be. Rating : 5/10

Please do read it. It's one of the best books this decade.

Rhyme. My poems all have to rhyme, I can't seem to like poems that don't. And not just rhyme, they have to have a specific rhythm.

William Henry Davies.

Anyone read his work? "The Storyteller" was the short story that made me want to write in the first place. I loved it and I still read it nowadays. I also like Sredni Vashtar, Open Window and several of the Reginald stories. I have his entire collection in an omnibus but I only lack his "only novel with a serious vein" the Rise and Fall of the Russian Empire. I hope to find it some day. He's one of my favourite writers. Too bad he died so young.

It's been years since I've read a new Shannara book. The last was Straken... I love the series especially the Voyage of the Jerle Shannara. Terry Brooks still is and forever will be the one closest to Tolkien in many ways.

Did people really panic when the audio was aired on Radio in the UK?

I like his books, well some of his books. Until he discovered Ayn Rand and decided to worship her and claim he was not writing Fantasy but writing something to change the world and that all fantasy was ****. Then again, what does a writer's character have to do with the book? Well nothing until he started littering the books with philosophy no one cares for. Well, not most people reading it for wanting a new fantasy series anyway. And then there's the comedy he definitely did not expect to put in the book. Priceless.

I adored the book. I read it in one sitting! I simply could not put the book down for those four hours. I couldn't make myself watch the movie because I did not want to hate even a little aspect of it. The story will be one to pass to the next generation and the next and the next. I swear I could manage a story that jumped like that. I never wrote a letter to any author but the first thing I did after reading the novel is send her an email telling her that I adored the book. I am most certainly looking forward to getting more of her books soon.

One of the first things I'm going to do once I start working is buy his entire series. I have read the first three books: The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic and Equal Rites. I also read Wyrd Sisters. It was my first TP book and I read it about 10 years ago. I hope to own and read all his books someday soon.

I have PA Motteux's version but the man must not have learnt the meaning of the word paragraph. Some of his paragraphs run for several pages. And I remember reading somewhere that his translations substitute english alternatives for culture related jokes instead of giving the original spanish and offering explanations in notes. I plan to buy another translation. The penguin one must be abridged, they often are. I recommend trying to find if TOR classics has it in their publications list. I like their translations. An alternative plan is to see Project Gutenburg. Find which translation works for you and see if you can find it in print. If not, well considering the size I'd say print the whole gutenburg text if it's legal where you are.

I hated the book... I liked his previous books because I wasn't on the net much to know that most of his theories/plot backgrounds are abound online.

I read "The Four Just Men" in the 9th grade... 8 years ago. It was a brilliant read and I hope to find more of his books some day. Anyone else read his work? Edit: wtf he's written like 175 novels?!