I am just about to start the first one so I can't say if they are any good. I got the first 4 v.cheap off Ebay. If I don't like them I will re-sell them and take Wolves back to the shop.
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Artemis, have you read Farie Tales and The Losers yet? The Losers isn't Fantasy but I love his books so I got it anyway. I think it's the only one he did that wasn't fantasy. Quite good
quote:Originally posted by sumaiya: Started reading Carrie yesterday. What a strange book. What a start as well. Like the writing style. Is is based on a true story or all fiction?
Sumaiya
You not seen Carrie?
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Ive got to the bit in the book where Tommy and Carrie are on stage at the Prom, I can't bear to read any further cause I knwo what will happen to her. SK really makes you feel for the characters doesn't he?
Artemis, I'm sure WHS or Waterstones could order them for you.
One of my favorite writers of all time is Raymond E. Fiest. If you like David Eddings you'll like him more, trust me. He's just brought a new one out so I'll have one to read over Christmas
You know how it's supposed to be really clever to say you like to read Dickens and Shakespeare all the time, right?
Well, who actually LIKES Dickens or Shakespeare? Who can? Dickens is a SNORE!! With the exception of the shorter books, I have never got all the way through a Dickens book. I always end up hating the heroes of the books. I can't STAND David Copperfield (book or character), he's a whiny little so and so. And it seems to me that the same things happen over and over and over again in his books (Dickens' books, not David Copperfield's books, obviously). Especially in Copperfield, which Dickens himself said was the best book he ever wrote. Was he on some kind of drugs?!
Now, I have to say I do sort of enjoy some of Shakespeare's plays. But I don't like the King ones. They're very dull. And they're the ones that are the big deals.
The same thing happens with movies that are really important and have Changed The Way We Make Movies. They're always so boring. I mean, Citizen Kane, for the love of God!
But you're not allowed to say you don't like these things or you're an illiterate barbarian. And I DON'T GET IT! I wouldn't consider myself a fool. I'm well read, I enjoy (and get) poetry, I even read clever books sometimes. I've had a good education and I know a bunch of words and can use them in sentences...
But I don't like Dickens. I only really like a few of the Shakespeares and I fall asleep in front of big important movies.
Does that make me stupid? Or just not pretentious?
(I apologise for that tirade, but it's something that pisses me off. When you're in intelligent company and they ask you if you've read some Dickens books or whatever and you say 'yes, but I thought it was more boring than Countdown' and they look at you like you're dog poo...Am I the only one who this has happened to?)
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I didn't like Citizen Kane either. I thought that I was supposed to love it because everybody says it is the "best film ever made" but I found it very tedious. I think that people are really referring to Orson Welles' skill as a filmmaker and the new techniques he was using to make Kane rather than the film itself (well I hope they are anyway). I enjoyed Shakepeare when I had cause to read the plays. But personally I think you can't really read them on your own. They were written to be performed and it is far easier to read them in a group as you do in school. I have only read one Dickens book (Hard Times) and that is only because I had to read it for my History A-level. I do have several of his books waiting to be read but I have yet to get round to it. I have hundreds of others to get through first
I do agree with you Becca. I bloody hate intellectual snobbery
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There's a klass book well book series actually by david gemmel they're called tales of the rigante and they are the best books I've read. I have read every single Tolkein book you can get and I used to think he was the best author of all time but these books are amzing,mind blowing and they also have some humour in them. These would be amazing if they were made into films!
i've wanted to read them for a while now though. 
