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E.R. Eddison - Mistress of Mistresses E.R. Eddison - The Worm Ouroboros the language might take some getting used to. Jack Vance - Tales Of The Dying Earth. it isn't medieval (more wizards and alternate dimensions, demons etc) but it's a fun read. Cugel is a great character and really...

SillyWabbit your mind is so open I could push a skewer ear to ear and not damage any vital material.

I didn't say it was. Psychologically though there are differences and since I'm really only interested in my mind and I don't profess to understand females I will usually select the male author if I had to choose between them. Besides the genres I'm interested in I would say are dominated (in...

I don't read romance novels ;) I'm picky and skeptical and generally more interested in the male creative mind.

I usually avoid books written by females.

:confused: :eek: :mad: them's fightin words.

I think you need morals. You can't live without some set of morals and neither can society. but make up your own mind. don't follow someone else's rules blindly. do what you want as long as it doesn't harm anyone else. intelligence is nothing without the moderation of wisdom which only comes...

I'm not really interested in anything that has universal appeal or is light reading. maybe she can start with the dragonlance novels and harry potter :rolleyes: but I guess you have a point.

I'm going to Hell.

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/depression.cfm

I have to get my copy of Steppenwolf (and 1984) back from my friend. I miss it.

I'm like manic depressive. I was in a really messed up state of mind when I wrote some of these. I guess comparatively I still am. they are somewhat arranged in chronological order, newest at the top. fxxked up beautiful world of madness puncture pitiful cloud of sadness graceful...

I don't know if it is proven that he had syphilis but that's what I've read and he definitely suffered a complete mental breakdown. I think he visited a brothel as a student and that's where he might have got it. you don't want to see what syphilis can do to your face. :eek:

he had syphilis and he broke down towards the end of his life. I think he was a mad tortured genius and I love him like a father.

I thought Nietzsche was great when I was 18/19. I read his books obsessively. My favourites were Human, All Too Human and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. I think he's brilliant but dangerous. And he was insane.

The Truth Hogfather Lords And Ladies Thief Of Time most of the ones with Rincewind, Death, The Watch, the witches

I keep most of them but I've traded some in like some of my Clive Barker books. after Sacrament (Excrement) I got tired of Barker.

these GW are kind of 'science fantasy'. Gene Wolfe - The Book Of The New Sun + Coda: The Urth Of The New Sun Gene Wolfe - The Book Of The Long Sun Gene Wolfe - The Book Of The Short Sun The Lord Of The Rings Stephen R. Donaldson - 1st and 2nd Chronicles of Thomas Covenant E.R...

Angus Thermopyle (Stephen Donaldson - The Gap Series) - rapist, mass murderer, sadistic psychopath, space pirate, traitor to humanity, badass cyborg. he's great.

I couldn't continue The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny because the characters were lifeless and unlikable, the dialogue was inane and I was only 100 pages in.