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Not much to report there, but I found it interesting when he mentioned they have to wait for the go-ahead from the studio -- like there's going to be some doubt about that. "I dunno, Pete; we know you're keen on making more hobbit movies, but we're not really sure if we can use another billion...

I haven't seen any movies so far this month, though I might go see Avatar and the Sherlock Holmes movie. Neither of them look particularly fantastic, however. As for TV: -Flashforward -Lost (when it's back on) -Big Bang Theory -How I Met Your Mother -The Office -30 Rock -Heroes (for now...) -V...

He's got another fan here. I just don't happen to be reading anything of his right now. :p This month I'm reading American Gods, and The Well of Ascension. After that I might break my rule about not starting A Song of Ice and Fire until the series is complete. If they end up picking up the...

That depends on what kind of Batman your son likes. There's been two Batman series in the past few years: The Batman and Batman: The Brave and the Bold. The Batman is more of a standard take on the character, though it is the weaker of the two in my opinion (particularly if you compare it to...

The new Spider-man series is my favourite of all of them (though the 90's one was good, too). It's got all the main themes and characters you expect from a Spider-man series, but retold and modernized seamlessly. Frankly it may just be my favourite Spider-man series outside of the comics (even...

Won't offend me. Sounds cool.

We've been through all that. It got rather dodgy, but peace has been restored. Birds are chirping, sun is shining...puppies are...being fuzzy, or something. It's all good now. Sanderson is talented, but he isn't perfect. Jordan had his flaws, but he's one of the all-time greats. Let's leave it...

Ah, okay. Thanks Elric's physique aside, I freaking love Michael Whelan's art.

Wow, excellent post. Thank you! As for those "moments of hackery": what books would those be? I'd like to avoid them. I'm sure his "hackery" is still pretty decent, but I don't have a lot of time to devote to reading and there are a lot of great fantasy books out there. Thanks again everyone...

Sweet. Cool. That was one of the ones I was particularly interested in. Thanks!

Thanks! Luckily there are quite a few good used bookstores in Winnipeg, and my friend works for one of the big retail booksellers here, so I shouldn't have much trouble finding most of his work.

Like the title says. I haven't read anything by him yet, and I know I'll be reading the Elric books, so I don't need any help there. However, I'd like to try some of his other stuff, and he seems to have a pretty large body of work. Can you distinguished, discerning ENWorlders lend a hand...

The story looks weak, but the visuals are very nice. I'm sure I'll see it.

Yikes...thanks for the warning on that one.

Nah, you were correct: I was being rather confrontational. I think I've been spending too much time in some of the less congenial parts of the internet. Now that's something I can understand. Sanderson's prose is fairly utilitarian, and not of the same quality as Jordan's or Kaye's (good...

Alright. I'm certainly guilty of a threadjack here, so I agree it's best I let it drop. I thought some of your assertions were worth debating, but I guess I was wrong. I'm sorry I questioned your opinion. It won't happen again.

You're making a lot of definitive statements for someone claiming "to each their own". Jordan was a talented writer, but at no time did I feel I was reading the work of a "master" (though I'll grant that WoT is sophisticated). While I'm not suggesting that Sanderson is a "master" of fantasy...

Huh. It's too bad -- I wouldn't mind a "real" vampire story, what with all the sparkly mary-sue-ness that is afflicting them nowadays (not that I've ever been a huge mark for vampire fiction, but I reallly enjoyed Dracula).

Um, huh? I'm reading Mistborn right now and this criticism seems really far off. It's especially ironic considering how you lament the absence of Jordan's writing, when he was guilty of having a number of characters who were nearly indistinguisable from one another. I gave up on WoT after book...

Is the story told through a collection of journal entries, letters, and newspaper articles like the original Dracula?