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Just finished The Subtle Knife, now I'm about halfway through The Amber Spyglass. For the life of me, I haven't been able to understand how anyone could find either of these books disappointing when compared to the first volume The Golden Compass. I think they more they live up to the first...

Oh yeah, I'm in.

All I ask is they put her in the cool clingy red silk outfit from the comic book. It's way hotter than that leather ensemble from the movie (although the leather was aesthetically pleasing in its own way :D ).

Reading In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien, about a Vietnamese soldier who took part in a massacre and tried to ignore the emotional fallout from it, began a career as a politician when he returned, and just lost a bid for a U.S. Senate seat when the story of the massacre leaked out. It's...

Haven't read Heroes Die yet, but Blade of Tyshalle kicked my ass up and down. Not for everyone, but definitely one of the coolest anti-heroes I've ever read.

Actually, as cool as I think it would be for some part of LotR to win Best Picture at the Oscars, I really just hope that all three parts get nominated for Best Picture and Best Director. Heck, even The Godfather movies didn't accomplish that. And if it lost all three years, it would give me...

I'm still (half-seriously) convinced that Robert Jordan originally intended to write a traditional trilogy for WoT but when he saw how much money he was making, he decided to milk it for all it was worth. Look at the ending of the third book. Yay! Rand slew the main villain! Wait a sec, no...

Washington State Georgia (Goooooooooooo Dawgs! Sic 'em! Woofwoofwoofwoofwoofwoof!) Iowa Miami But what does it matter anyway? The only game that means anything is the Fiesta Bowl. Down wit' da BCS! Up wit' playoffs![

This is what I was trying to say above, although I didn't express it quite so well. I can understand why some people have problems with some of the changes; I'm just glad that I don't have the same problems and that I can just completely lose myself in the visual world Jackson has brought to...

For pity's sake, I don't think that Peter, Fran, and Phillipa have gone to all of the trouble of braving fanboy ridicule by beefing up the Aragorn/Arwen love story just to ship her off to Valinor. He's trying to build a little dramatic tension. Ever hear of it? It's that thing that you have...

Hmm. A Fell Beast (tm) driven off by a single arrow. It's just so. . . unbelievable. Yet, I feel like I've seen something like it before. . . Oh, yeah. . . SMAUG! SMAUG! SMAUG! SMAUG! A frickin' dragon got killed by a single (albeit well-placed) arrow! Could we please lay off of...

Well, we didn't get any help from VT, but . . . HOW 'BOUT THEM DAWGS?! SEC Champions after 20 blankety-blanking years! Yee-haw!

OK, I know it's cheating, but everybody else is doing it, sooo. . . "Sword of Omens, give me sight beyond sight." "Thunder--Thunder--Thundercats! Hoooo!" Yeah, baby! The Sword of Omens! Lion-o was a little pussycat (ahem) without it. And while we're on the topic of weapons that make their...

The Lands of the Black Oath Core Ethos Statement The Lands of the Black Oath are a world that has been torn apart by a tragic war that should never have been, a war spawned by the vengeance of a heartbroken wizard, a war fueled by the greed of humans and the pride of elves. Who are the heroes...

I was just glad to find out that someone else enjoyed He-Man enough the first time to make a new series. I would like to see reruns of the original though. I think the animation in this one was quite good, but the story was a bit on the lame side. I don't see the sword-twirling and banter...

Cool! This is also the first "grown-up" fantasy series I read when I was in middle school. In fact, I can safely say that if I hadn't read the omnibus edition of the first three books of Guardians of the Flame that I recieved as part of my initial membership in the Science Fiction Book Club, I...

It's about time! I'm glad I've finally got someone like Father Ramos to watch out for my interests. When my DM subjected our group to another "golden shower" last week, I said it was the absolute last time I was putting up with that kind of behavior! Oh. It's not a real sermon? Uhhhh. ...

Glad you guys made it to the other side of the mountain of entries alive. Oh, and BUMP.

In a futile attempt to catch up on the 100+ unread books on my selves, I'm reading 5 books at the same time. I'm reading the first chapter in each book, then the second, third, etc. It's working pretty good so far, since I've read about 900 pages in 3 days (putting me at Chapter 7 of each...

SPOILER AHEAD! * * * * * * * * * * * * * Didn't anybody else enjoy the scene where Quinn and his second-in-command put on the play for the children? You know, where they acted out the climactic scene from The Empire Strikes Back ? That was my favorite scene. Screw the dragons (although they...