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The Two Towers is a serious bog, but if you wade through it the payoff will be there in the end. One thing about the movie adaptations that I really appreciated was the fact that war movies are much more enjoyable for me to watch, than war books are to read.
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Addressing the topic of the thread:
Anything Laurell K. Hamilton has written after "Obsidian Butterfly" in her Anita Blake series. |
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On the other hand, I just read my first Patricia Brigs and it was great. I don't recall the title, but it was the second in her Alpha and Omega series. |
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Fictionwise sells the Gor books. I think there is a bundle deal of the first 16 books, if deal is the right word. I attempted to purchase the first book last week. https://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/p3/E-Reads/? this is a link to blurb about the publisher. Trying to fill Schmitz's shoes is a tall order and I think they have done a good job, just the humour is not up to the same standard. I have just finished Sorceress of Karres and I liked it. I hope there is a couple more in the pipeline. A schmitz sequel would be wonderful of course. I am about to start an Anvil book tonight so we shall see I guess. Edit Ok. I have read the Anvil book and I have to agree with your earlier sentiment. Last edited by clockworkzombie; 03-04-2010 at 03:36 PM. |
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Fictionwise is not for us Aussies!
I don't visit Fictionwise any more. You spend ages looking at the catalogue, then find the stuff you want isn't available to Australia. It is too frustrating. At least Audible doesn't show you the stuff you can't have.
A recent radio program was discussing this and some one was brave enough to say "No wonder people do illegal downloads." There was also some one who said it should be sorted in a few months. Buying is believing. Kat-in-Sydney [QUOTE=clockworkzombie;815357]If there was a bundle of the first 5 Xanth books then I would do it, I have not yet tried and I am irritated by the geographic restrictions I have encountered so far at Fictionwise. Baen Books has been great as there are no such restrictions. Fictionwise sells the Gor books. I think there is a bundle deal of the first 16 books, if deal is the right word. I attempted to purchase the first book last week. https://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/p3/E-Reads/? this is a link to blurb about the publisher. |
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L. Sprague de Camp did an assortment of humorous fantasy in collaboration with Fletcher Pratt. He did an essay for a critical anthology on writing humorous fantasy. It largely failed, because you can analyze and explain the technical aspects of constructing a story, but you can't tell someone how to be funny. ______ Dennis |
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LOTR isn't the only major work that suffers from the middle-bog problem. Another that comes immediately to mind is Little, Big by John Crowley. It's a great story and I've read it several times, but I always hesitate to start it again because the part after the set up and before the payoff really is a bit of a slog. |
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He wasn't an author when he began. He was a college professor of Old English. He created the languages first, then peoples that spoke them, and a history of them and the world in which they lived. He was also trying to craft a specifically British branch of faery, which meant taking inspiration from Norse and Teutonic sources, but not Celtic ones. LoTR was written as one long volume, and split in three parts because it could not be produced as one book at the time. I've wondered on occasion what might have resulted had Tolkien been able to work with a good editor while writing the book, who could have advised him on aspects of structure, pacing, and the dreaded expository lump. The sorts of structural problems LoTR has are those typical to an author who hasn't written a novel before, and lacks some of the insight experience brings in how to tell a story. ______ Dennis |
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I just looked at my local chain bookstore website and they sell some of the Gor books in dead tree format. RRP is $39.00 to $53.00 AU per book. There is not a snowflakes chance in Hell I will pay those prices. Earlier this week I emailed them and asked if they were going to sell eBooks in the future. No response as yet. http://www.angusrobertson.com.au/ |
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Poking around, I see the publisher is e-Reads, an electronic book venture started by long-time agent Richard Curtis. Interesting. ______ Dennis |
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I corresponded with Fictionwise about gift books last week, and they told me that regional restrictions would still be enforced on downloads, even if you succeed in buying. I'd be careful.
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But the point is moot, because I have no interest in John Norman's Gor series in ebook format. I still have early ones in paperback, and that's quite sufficient, thank you. ______ Dennis |
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And if they let you purchase it with a non-US credit card, then refused to let you download it even from within the US or on a US IP because your credit card was non-US, they'd be opening themselves up to one heck of a lawsuit lol. |
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