What are you reading right now?
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I really would have loved to read the "Chronicles of Narnia" but then something awful happened: They made it into a movie! And a movie it is I still shudder with disgust when I think about it. That movie was so awful, so stupid that I can't bring myself to touch one of those books.
You remember the scene when they've been chased over that frozen lake and it turns out to be Santa who was after them? I mean, WTF?!? What is Santa doing in a fantasy world? OK, it may be hard to think of some way the heroes get their special weapons but honestly, Santa coming along and giving them as presents with a "Hohoho"?!? C'mon! You just can't be serious!
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Eragon by Christopher Paolini.
It's written in an odd way at some places, but I like it nonetheless.
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Didn't turn me on, either...
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*ducks under the table, hiding from shoes.*
And did you ever noticed Eragoin is only Dragon except one letter down the chain, E?
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And yes... Twilight sucks...
*Throws shoes at self*
How can anybody like that?
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"He's a Theodore Roosevelt, speak softly and carry a loud obnoxious wasp." BRK
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What I am reading right now is the "Pawn of Prophecy" by David Eddings. It is the first book in the Belgariad series.
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I so love the books and read them in german and english more often than I can remember.
If you like it, don't miss the Malloreon Saga, which tells a story several years after the Belgariad and uses the same characters!
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And to add onto the ASoIaF discussion on the last page, Daenerys is my favorite viewpoint character, with Jon in second place. Dany's just a badass.
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Don't get me started on Eragon. I love the Eragon series but i have this one friend, no matter what it is he only ever looks at the bad parts of anything and everything. I can't remember why he didn't like Eragon but he loves to read manga and even with the manga's he reads he only ever see's the faults in it...It's quite annoying as he always disses games, books among various other things.
Does anyone have Wizards First Rule by Terry Goodkind? I got the book from the same people that gave me the Clive Cussler novel. I mainly chose the book as it's a fantasy novel and i can't wait to read it without getting interrupted by any other books (I always seem to pick up 2-3 different books and read one, then another and it's all just a mess).
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If you read the first one and love it, there's 10 more afterwards.
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Three novels called The Blade Itself, Before They Are Hanged and Last Argument Of Kings.
Absolutely fabulous! Check it out!
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And I can't read David Eddings either, although in his case it's not his fault so much as the lecher who got me reading them. (Okay, at 16 I looked reasonably mature, but once you know that I'm 16 and you're 30+, you'd think you'd back off a bit. *sigh*) Anyway.
Connie Willis' new book in her time-travel universe, "Blackout", came out this week. These books are not a series so much as a loosely-connected group of characters centered around the time-traveling history department at Oxford University in 2060 or so. They are, against all odds, very good sci-fi romantic comedies. You can start anywhere, but I'd recommend "To Say Nothing of the Dog".
Connie Willis also writes amazing sci-fi drama. Check out "Passage", about a scientific researcher looking at near-death experiences to find drugs to restart the heart; and "Lincoln's Dreams", a much sadder work about a girl who seems to be dreaming about General Lee's dreams from the American Civil War.
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They are written by 2nd class authors, as most licensed novels are.
But I read all of them. I'm a nerd, ya know?
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Haha, yeah pretty much. They really are rather amateur compared to what I usually read, but I just love learning all the Warcraft lore that I can so I read them anyways. :3Karathyriel wrote:With the warcraft novels, there is one little problem.
They are written by 2nd class authors, as most licensed novels are.
But I read all of them. I'm a nerd, ya know?
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I also exist on DeviantArt.
"I'll probably be some kind of scientist, building inventions in my space lab in space!"
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