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just saw on tv last night that the Sci-Fi network has done movie called Earthsea, based on Ursula K LeGuinn's Trilogy. Any opinions on this? Seeing as how they completely botched their other adaptations.

two that i can remember are "I Heard the Owl Call My Name", and "Two Against the North". Unfortunately, I can't remember the author of either one.

your bed stops spinning, but as everyone knows, bedspins only stop when the heaving starts, and you spend the next 3 days with the dry heaves, trying to regurgitate that last bit of remaining stomach lining. i wish someone would corrupt my wish

another series of books has been brought to mind reading this thread. the exploits of James Herriot (of All Creatures Great and Small fame) and is anyone else a fan of Ogden Nash's poetry?

am i the only one that didn't care for Kushiel's Dart? see a lot of people posting about how much they enjoyed it, but i didn't like it at all.

yeah, its no secret that the first shannara book copied much of its plot outline from the Lord of the Rings trilogy. but, give the guy some credit......he did manage to write all those other books without swiping the ideas for them

Litany said: awww...c'mon i thought you'd be rooting for Sansa :p

btw, check out the length between the first in the series and any consequent books, and then the span between The Heritage set and the Voage of the Jerle Shannara set (all you moaners need to just hush up about the delays in between books)

ok. i pulled all of this from this web site there are some omnibuses included, and some i haven't read, but these are the Shannara books as best as i can pull together for you: Shannara 1. The Sword of Shannara (1977) 2. The Elfstones of Shannara (1982) 3. The Wishsong of...

part of what i find that is the most admirable about mr martin's writing style, is that he's not afraid of spending 250 pages getting you to know and care about a character, only to kill that character off. by that same token, only 3 characters i can think of that are of the "anti-stark...

kinda off topic, but i once knew a guy in college who claimed to be able to trace his ancestors all the way back to Arthur, and everyone should show some deference to him. i tried to explain Le Morte de Arthur was fiction, as was The Once and Future King. but 'twas all in vain. poor guy flunked...

i got 3 books for 50 cents each this weekend. a local library was cleaning out "unwanted" books at town festival on saturday. i got Sheri Tepper..."The Family Tree", Brian Jacques..."Marlfox" and Donald Westlake...."Kahawa" from what i can discern, the Westlake one is a departure from...

reading "The Outstretched Shadow" by Mercedes Lackey and somebody else its actually not bad so far...somewhat different than your run o' the mill fantasy

thats exactly what i was talking about.. the great game left you feeling lost and confused and a handful of men was just disjointed

i've always likec to read dave's works, although his writing goes hot and cold on me. i must confess, i haven't read "the years of longdirk", nor "a man of his word" my favorite series was "the seventh sword" definately not typical fantasy. second favorite is the tales of the kings blades

refresh my memory on the plot of mythago wood. the title is familiar

all you have to do is start the conversation :) post your question or comment and see what people have to say

although dated, P.G. Wodehouse has always made me laugh.

"A Boy and His Dog"

this was one of my "lunch books" a while back. (i'll grab whatever comes to hand and read it over my lunch break over the course of a fwe days...i really HATE the ones that are page burners taht get split by the weekend) anyway, i too, litany, had a hard time getting into it at first, but once...