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I finished The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay last week. Now I'm almost finished Snow Crash. I haven't read any Stephenson before, and it wasn't as wahoo as I was expecting, but it was still a fun read. On the side, I'm reading short stories from The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna...

In the 1920's my great-grandfather wrote a series of autobiographical articles for a Yiddish newspaper in western Canada, about his family's experience of emigrating from Romania to Canada, struggling to be a farmer in a sod hut, and building a Jewish community and Synogogue in Edmonton. About...

Sure, but I want cerebral, art house style Star Wars prequels. :cool: Besides, being in the style of pulp serials doesn't mean it can't be dramatic and good quality. Deliberately writing bad dialogue and hackneyed scripts to fit a 'style' is crazy. But then, I don't think Lucas deliberately...

Doesn't that basically describe the PCs in our game? ;)

I saw the House of Flying Daggers again a little while ago, and it occurred to me that it did everything that the Star Wars prequels were supposed to have done, only a thousand times better. Spoilers below for those who haven't seen the movie. . . . . . . In addition to the gorgeous...

1) Tigana, by Guy Gavriel Kay. One of my favorite books of all time, with more beauty, tense action, sorrow, and loss than any other fantasy book I've read (except for a couple others by Kay). 2) Nine Princes in Amber. 3) Jhereg, by Steven Brust, for a Chandleresque high-fantasy assassin...

The Borders near me displayed the book in the "new releases" section at the front of the store. I've never seen an RPG displayed there. It looks great there, since it's the exact same height as all the other new hardcovers. I love the new format. It may be "nonstandard" size for RPGs, but...

C'mon June! :D

A spoiler thread on the Wizards board had the following feat: Pin Prereq: base attack bonus +1 Benefit: If you succeed on a grappling attack and your opponent fails the opposed grapple check, your opponent is automatically pinned until the start of your next turn. A pinned creature can't move...

I'm really curious how deflecting and redirecting blaster shots works. The Use the Force roll seems to substitute for the character's defense, with a certain DC to be able to redirect a shot. The example doesn't give an limits to how often it can be done, except for -5 penalties for each shot...

Oh good, I've been meaning to check those out, but couldn't find them. That's quite funny about the hats. Harry Dresden also doesn't wear a hat, but all the covers show him with one, especially the recent ones.

Do you mean Last Light of the Sun? It's a norse setting, not celtic. I definitely recommend it, though if you haven't read any Kay I think Tigana is his best book. I second the recommendation for Elantris. It's refreshingly original, not at all your typical adventure story. If you want...

I have to agree with Frank. What are you going to do with almost 20 books anyway? Why not just buy one or two at first, then buy more when you finish reading them. I recommend the spell compendium. Aside from the PHB, it's the single most useful book I own. If you don't have Tome of Battle...

I don't know of any around Dover, but if you ever make it up to Wilmington there's a great game store / scifi-fantasy bookstore named Beyond Books, just off I-95 at Harvey Road and Philadelphia pike.

I'm the same way, for some series. It really depends on whether it's a series of self-contained novels, like Brust's Vlad Taltos books or the Dresden Files, or a big sprawling story that the author spread across multiple books, like A Song of Ice and Fire. The Harry Potter books are somewhere...

Interestingly, it uses the same art as on Amazon, so it might not be a placeholder. I'm curious about the square aspect though. Are there any non-RPG SW books that are big and square? If so, it could be designed to look good next to them on the shelf.

My purchases vary a lot. Last year, I bought two books, the spell compendium and tome of battle, for $45. The previous year I bought nothing. This year I'll probably spend between $50 and $100 because I'm really looking forward to Star Wars Saga Edition, and might buy the magic item and rules...

I've been on a bit of a Wuxia and samurai movie kick recently. It occurred to me that I don't know of a single novel that's based in these genres. Are there any?

Does the TV show of the Dresden Files have spoilers for the books? I'm interested in watching the show, but I'm only on book 3 of the series, and I don't want to hear about the later books until I read them.

WotC isn't selling "intellectual property", it's selling products, and different product media have different values. A hardcover book has a higher value than a trade paperback, and a trade paperback has a higher value than a mass market paperback. Should publishers stop publishing mass market...