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I can't wait for the 3-in-a-row Extended Edition marathon that we'll be having when they come out! Still no Scouring of the Shire though. :(

A church near us resorted to putting 'the msg' out in txtspk in a futile attempt to attract a younger demographic. They failed miserably. A semi-unrelated point, but I find it quietly amusing that I have developed my english grammar more in Latin and Classical Greek lessons than in English. I...

Guess who's just got a copy of Paranoia XP... Paranoia is a really quite ancient tabletop RPG, recently revamped. Only it's an RPG with a difference. Stuff the fantasy, it's sci-fi slapstick satire, with mutant commie traitors and insane AI governing post-holocaust hive cities. The rulebook...

Everyone's waxing lyrical about it, and no GC release. :( I guess I'll have to content myself with Tales of Symphonia and (when I finally get my new uber-PC) Dawn of War. What a shame. ;)

Shikasta by Doris Lessing

Here 's the first volume of the unabridged version of Romance of the Three Kingdoms (it's from my Amazon wish list so .co.uk). Links to the others are on the page, IIRC.

Last year, on my Duke of Edinburgh bronze expedition, in a really sinister voice. The reason? My friend is scared of cows. Scared. Of cows. Boy, did he get the piss ripped out of him. When did you last... Make an important decision on the roll of a die? (Or is this just a gamer's thing?)

Several years ago. I'm a child of the technological age, and as such e-mail is my chosen medium of written communication. I find that I never have much to say on postcards and they end up as a host of trivial banalities, and the pictures are always the same (probably comes from going to the same...

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, though not really fantasy, may be just what you want. It's huge though. And I'm going to have to pimp Kaze no tane no Nausicaa again here. It's a future fantasy manga, but it's one of my favourite pieces of literature. An engaging and touching epic, with a...

Golyadkin from Dostoevsky's 'The Double.' Either of 'em (if indeed there are two). One (or one side of the character) was a po-faced, babbling idiot for whom I felt no sympathy whatsoever, and the other was just a selfish bastard.

Roald Dahl invented words all the time, and not just for his children's fiction. I do it as well, and it's all the better if you do so considering the etymological roots of the invented term.

Halo Jones! Good choice. Gotta love Alan Moore.

Ivanhoe is worthy as well, it's true, even if Scott does dwell on his description a bit and construct some interminably long sentences. It's a great adventure.

I have you to thank. Well, my physics teacher and yourself.

Just started Neal Stephenson's 'Cryptonomicon.'

'The First Circle' by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Set in a 'special prison' (part of the GULAG system where talented prisoners were put to work inventing lots of things in exchange for improved living conditions) in post-war USSR, it really is a classic.

Ilovebees is getting everywhere. It's starting to scare me now. At first I dismissed it, but then Penny Arcade picked it up, and now it's even hit the UK PC Gamer! WHAT'S HAPPENING!!!1!!11!!!11eleven!

Well, whilst in Switzerland I read: 'On Liberty' by J.S. Mill: If you are prepared to penetrate his verbosity and rather pompous style, it is thoroughly interesting and a philosophy that I feel a lot for. 'Nausea' by Jean-Paul Sartre: Entertaining wiffle, followed by amusing wiffle...

15 and 11. That sucks. However, I have immensely little respect for any list that doesn't include Crime and Punishment, Paradise Lost or any John Steinbeck whatsoever, so I'm not overtly concerned. And Machiavelli! Where was Machiavelli?

“Lowbrows find everything heavy going that isn’t lowbrow. Highbrows reject everything as vulgar that isn’t a mass of archaisms. Some only like the classics, others only their own works. Some are so grimly serious that they disapprove of all humour, others so half-witted that they can’t stand...