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Well, I can't add a lot to what already has been said. When you say try to read again I'm assuming you mean make a new attempt rather than a re-read. As to where to start. The prequel in Novella format in Legends is better than the expanded Novel. Jordan just goes back in and adds more...

Finished up Tripping to Somewhere by Kristopher Reisz and Dragon Champion by E.E. Knight. The former was an urban fantasy by a debut author. Its about teen angst and rebellion. The author seems to have been influenced by Kerouac and Gaiman. Seems to be aimed at teens. The latter is high...

Some pretty good suggestions here. I just finished Dragon Champion last week and enjoyed it. A brief review can be found on the blog in my sig. Characterizations were pretty good. I always reccomend R Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing trilogy, very dark and gritty. I did find the first book...

I'm currently reading Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin. Its ok so far Recently finished Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link. Link is an amazing writer, while not all the stories were my cup of tea, she is brilliantly quirky. One of the brightest names in short fiction. Also finished The Lies of...

Both setting and characters are important to the overall story. I need both. Character is probably more important to me though. as Thanee said GRRM's song of fire and ice has incredible characters in it. The setting is certainly secondary, and that is my favorite series. on the other hand RS...

Eddings, Feist, Brooks, Weis and Hickman.... Their seminal works are staples of my upbrining in the fantasy genre. I love them all and they hold special places in my heart... so in some respects they are classics. but If I had read them after reading the first half of WOT or a Song of Ice and...

I love the darkness of the show. The Chief is my favorite character. The interactions between all the cast members is outstanding...even the characters i dont like personally are good characters.

MJ Love the red heads

I second Thanee's suggestion George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire is the best I have ever read. It is fantasy, but is low fantasy, the magic is for the most part not present. I have hooked several of my friends on this series, and am trying to get several more to take it up.

Well there are the new standards in epic fantasy. The Prince of Nothing series by RS Bakker. I've read the first book, the Darkness that Comes Before. Very good, but it was a hard book to get into. Malazan series by Steven Erickson, I've only read the first one of this series as well. I was...

Finishing up Gene Wolfe's The Wizard Trying to decide what to read next. Its between Deadhouse Gates, The Warrior Prophet, The Dragon Waiting, and Focaults Pendulumn. I'm leaning towards Eco.

Wow, Its really enlightening to see what some people take from a book compared to others. While I certainly agree that ASOIAF is gritty and even graphic, I've never seen anything that I consider Gratuitous. Sure many of the scenes would be out of place in a Drizzt novel, but they fit in...

DS9 is my personal favorite of all the treks. TNG is 2nd followed by ToS. Voyaeger and Enerprise I never really got into. Although thruth be told I was not till I started watching DS9 in syndication and got to see episdoes on a nightly basis that i really appreciated it. When it came out on DVD...

I fall into this camp too. I watched the first couple of episodes when they came out on Fox and thought they were ok. But I kinda lost it in the shuffle, and never thought about them again. When they came out on DVD and they kept getting raves, I decided to check them out. I was hooked. The...

This is the best show on Television IMO. By quite a wide margin. I come down on the Adama side of things. For the most part the decisions he makes are one that I think I would make in his shoes. Roslin is not the duely elected president of the 12 colonies. She just happed to be 43rd in line of...

I'm reading Gene Wolfe's the Wizard, book two of the Wizard Knight Duology. It's extremely well written, althought it hasn't totally grabbed be as I thought it would. I have been struggling through a number of books lately. Before the Wizard Knight I read the first two books of Charles...

The first amber series is better than the second in my opinion.. yet I enjoyed the Merlin books too. I do think they might have been a little more rushed as Zelazny was terminally ill when he wrote them wasn't he?

The effects were better in old Ray Harryhousen movies than in that piece of crap last night.

I'm muddling through A Fotress of Grey Ice by J.V. Jones. Its pretty good, but I just havent had much time for reading lately. I've been fighting a cold for a couple of weeks and everytime I lay down to read I seem to fall right alseep.

I had not realized it started yet. I watched it for the first time on Thursday as that was the new CSI and the new ER and I just thought Joey would start then too. Anyway I thought it was rather funny. i always liked Drea from the sopranos. And is the nephew the pot smoking genius from Road...