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Hello, Some of you will know that the books forum hosts the ENWorld book club. The club's current selection is the The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte, which we will start to discuss on the 15th of October. More information is here: http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=99429 The...

Next Selector Mark, you are the next selector. Sorry to those who weren't chosen, but I felt Mark was the fairest choice as he offered to be a selector some time ago, only to miss out, and has a top notch record on the forum. The Club Dumas discussion starts on the 15th of October. The...

Next Selector I think I should be choosing a next selector soon. Is Mark still about? Does anyone else want to put themselves forward?

Just a bump, to keep the thread in people's eyes.

I've seen this phrase thrown about a couple of time. And I'm not in on the joke, could someone enlighten me? Where's it from?

Think very carefully about the effects of this. Level 1: 30% chance of casting a 1st level spell. Level 20: 85% chance of casting a 9th level spell; 6th level spells are automatic. 1st level wizards are going to be not very useful inside of combat. Outside of combat, they're going to have...

I don't think there's any requirement to read The Three Musketeers before The Dumas Club. Everything you need to know is spelt out in the book. The Dumas Club can be read on it's own. Most people will also have some of The Three Musketeers from films, even if they haven't read the books. I had...

Yeah, I caught that, but I just ignored it. As I understand it; the scores are normalized - to iron out differences between ratings. And then the means are calculated to rank the products. You could still normalize the scores, but then use the median. My point was that the median is superior to...

As some of you may know, the Fantasy & Sci-Fi Books, Movies & TV Forum has been running a Book Club for some time. The current selection is The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte and discussion starts on the 15th of October. http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=99429 The idea is to...

I just want to comment that I think this is a very sensible idea. Would it help the comparative bar sizes for polls? If you follow the link above, all the bars are very small, because of the low percentages. If bar size were calculated due to the suggestion above, it would be much easier to...

Hi all; I'm a bit disappointed no-one has responded to my post on page 9. Let me try to rephrase it. The reason people are unhappy with the current voting system (done by calculating the mean of the votes), is that is favours people on the extremes. If there are seven votes of: 1, 6, 6, 7, 7...

Countering Vote Stacking One, old and simple, way to assign an point value to something is to take the Median, instead of the Mean, of the votes. This isn't a new idea, but isn't implemented very often on online rating systems, and counters attempts to push the number up or down through...

It sounds very Martinesque, was A Song of Ice and Fire an inspiration? If not Martin's gods are: the Mother, the Father, the Warrior, the Maid, the Stranger, the Smith, and the Crone. It's important the names really nail the feel of each of the gods. Perhaps: The Father (Emperor, King) The...

Thanks for plug, you're a hero. Incidently, as he was mentioned. Sabatini's books are brought up in the first chapter of The Dumas Club. For what it's worth: Balkan thinks Scaramouche is the best, while Corso prefers Captain Blood. If you want to know any more, you'll have to read the book.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. It's available as an etext on Project Gutenberg. So copies are available all over the web. That was only the start of my problem though; I read it as an e-text and then I knew I had to get my hands on a physical copy...

That must be close to an original printing. I had to jump though all sorts of hoops to get my hands on copy of this book. It really is amazing. The best swashbuckler I've ever read. I'm exactly like you; I have a big stupid, grin on my face reading it. It's absolutely fantastic, particularly the...

Wow, that's really interesting. I googled on the game a bit, and it looks like it will be out in an english translation sooner than the books! http://www.rpg.net/forums/phorum/rf08/read.php?f=2398&i=46&t=1

When you've finished why not try The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte. It's very closely plotted around The Three Musketeers. And it happens to be the EnWorld Book Club's next selection. Puting Book Club promotion to one side... I'm currently trying to force my way into Tigana by Guy Gavriel...

No (though no-one's stopping anyone from naming a selection). You just need to express an interest, and be willing to start a thread and encourage discussion about the chosen book. I've put your name on the list.

Okay - hands up if you want to be next! I'll assume Mark is on the list, as he has posted several messages expressing an interest to previous selections. Is anyone else? People on list: Mark, MarauderX, The Other Librarian.