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I've now read good and bad reviews on this series and I've began to wonder; is this the same as the Da Vinci Code and Twilight hype? Because those books did not live up to their respective hypes at all. Or are they more like Tomorrow When The War Began series who were not fantastically written but very enjoyable non the less?

I read Pratchetts Colour of Magic and found that it is maybe not a good beginners book at all. It parodies a lot of other fantasy tropes and I'm afraid that if you don't have a bit of a grasp on the genre already a lot of the humour might get lost.

I finished Gone With The Wind a few days ago (took me almost 2 weeks) and started on Sense and Sensibility. However, my new Doyles Sherlock Holmes collected work arrived and kept staring at me from its place on the shelve in the way only books can stare. I had no choice but to continue with that one too. I finished the story about the 5 pips and found that the kuk klux klan was not as infamously famous as it is now. I guess that's what I get for reading books 110 years after they have been written.

Oh well, I did keep my graphic calculator. I did not tell said friend about that one. The school was planning to donate the damaged ones and mine has a small crack low in the screen. They cost 80 bucks when new so I kept mine. Turned out to be the most expensive and most useful thing I've ever taken. The old blue beasty has dragged me through many an exam because its so easy reprogrammable I always take my pencils from commercial stands. They hand them out, I take them, and then proceed with asking them hard to answer questions. They are so common at the university that I have over a 300 pens and pencils by now and I think I should stop taking them with me. I never steal pencils and other supplies who come in small stock or from other students. Someone stole my -rather expensive- copic markers once and I've been quite cross about that since I cant afford a new set. I imagine that other student wont like it much if I steal from them either.

Just like the LOtR movies then. Ugh, I dislike waiting so much!

I wanted to keep mine too but one of my much more honest friends made me give them back.

Mind bogglingly Hugeness.

I'm reading that one right now.

Destruction.

He knows us fans to well I'm afraid for I will do the same.

3!!! But HOW. I could understand 2 but 3?! Even if he includes Gandalfs Gray Counsel how will he make 3 block busters about 12 dwarves who travel armed with nothing else then kitchen knives and outsmart spiders an a dragon? I hope he remembers that The Hobbit is by far not as dark and overly epic as Lord Of The Rings. I heard that guy who played Arther Dent in the Hitchhiker film and dr, Watson in BBC's Sherlock is going to play Bilbo.

You stole it from a store? !

My books came with the post yesterday evening and I've only managed to read a few chapters of S&S since then. I've stored Sherlock on the shelve for the moment. Do not think that I'm dead when I disappear for a week or 2. I'll be residing in the 1800ts with miss Austen and mister Doyle ^.^

Oh, com'on, It was not THAT bad. (then again I read it when 13). You say in your review that Use Of Weapons was much better but that book made me irk in unexplained hatred towards it within the first 40 pages. I put it down after that.

Ooooh salmon! Thats only for very special occasions over here!

Stretch pants.

I was thinking to begin with Sense and Sensibility. I loved the BBC mini series and I've high expectations of the novel.

Why? Does it finally become to complicated and he begins messing things up`?

^.^ I agree. The only thing missing is a nice cuppa. You are now officially the second person I've talked to who has read Pride and Prejudice. Or any of Austens works for that matter. I've ordered a collection of 7 of her novels and with a bit of luck I will have it this Friday so I can begin reading this weekend. My family is still claiming that I must be crazy for buying books with my hard earned money and they will be rather cross when they discover that I've disappeared with books, again.

How can you function without the most important meal of the day? Though I have to admit I'm rather lazy too. I make breakfast in a weekend for the entire month and freeze them in. In this way no mater how low on cash I get at the end of the month I will always have breakfast. Its really useful too, I only have to open the fridge the evening before I need it so it can defrost and then I eat it on the bus the morning after. I've one of those reusable anti-spill mugs with a lid so I can even take my tea with me on the bus.

I'll put the kettle on in the meanwhile

^.^ Just remember there are 3 more books to read (or are there even more now?)

Oh yes, thank you for mentioning that one! One of the very first books I read and it stole my 13 year old heart. Friedman has also written a book about a shapeshifter/vampire on a spaceship. The name escapes me. Its a slightly weird mix of fantasy and sci-fi but I liked it non the less. It seems like she has written several fantasy sci-fi mashups.

Is that all? Don't you eat something substantial?

Not wanting to spoil but its gonna take a while before you get to see any dragons I think that's a plus though since many fantasy books try to push dragons down your throat by the truckload.