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Just playing with your mind Jim...
Jim has a mind?????
Was there anything to play with or did you have to use your imagination?
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Jim has a mind?????
Was there anything to play with or did you have to use your imagination?
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Bill Pflanz
I don't see Jim Butcher on your list. If you read his website, you will see that he got his initial inspiration for his fantasy novels from Tolkien.
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Al Dyer
I gave up the long detailed novels such as Clancy in favor of short stories.
Lately I've been reading some Arthur C. Doyle, Sherlock Holmes. My favorite is The Red Headed League. I also like to catch the old movies with Basil Rathbone as Holmes.
I recently found an old book of short stories from my college years and just re-read "...The Ticktockman" by Harlan Ellison, great stuff. Also in the book was a story from Karel Čapek R.U.R., Rossums Universal Robots.
I don't know if I am just out of touch but short story writing is seeming to become a lost art.
Al...
Lately I've been reading some Arthur C. Doyle, Sherlock Holmes. My favorite is The Red Headed League. I also like to catch the old movies with Basil Rathbone as Holmes.
I recently found an old book of short stories from my college years and just re-read "...The Ticktockman" by Harlan Ellison, great stuff. Also in the book was a story from Karel Čapek R.U.R., Rossums Universal Robots.
I don't know if I am just out of touch but short story writing is seeming to become a lost art.
Al...
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Polly Pure Bread
"The Time Traveler’s Wife". It’s a combination of science fiction and love story.
Moral of the story: when you find the right person in your life, love him/her as if there is no tomorrow, for he might disappear or might be taken away from you at any given time.
Moral of the story: when you find the right person in your life, love him/her as if there is no tomorrow, for he might disappear or might be taken away from you at any given time.
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JaneB
Well, yes. Indeed so. Including murder, intended murder, live sacrifice, bigamy (seem to remember, could be wrong), fratricide definitely, under-age sex and exhortations to sell people into slavery.
Plus a whole lot more. (I read it through cover to cover one year, and found you could find at least one quote in/from it to support absolutely everything and anything you wanted to.)
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JaneB
I often read mysteries/who dunnits, though they have to be well written -eg, the series set in Venice by Donna Leon. You get a wonderful sense of what it might be like to live in Venice, and there are no simple solutions in it. And the Dick Francis racing series, at least partly because I like horses.
I suspect part of the reason I enjoy them is that I know the mystery is going to be solved and I don't have to solve it. Used to read more science fiction/fantasy, but I don't find much to read there these days.
Yes, I read that and liked it too. A unique take, and interesting.
I suspect part of the reason I enjoy them is that I know the mystery is going to be solved and I don't have to solve it. Used to read more science fiction/fantasy, but I don't find much to read there these days.
Yes, I read that and liked it too. A unique take, and interesting.
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TamTom
Hi, it ended after the 11. book.
Thanks for the rest of tips for new authors to read fantasy stuff.
I just wondering, if being in Quality, has something to do with the stuff you read, a lot of my friends (not working in Quality), don't like fantasy, and here this Quality forum are a lot of readers liking fantasy.
Have a nice week.
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JaneB
Rachel,
I loved the Tolkien books, but found the movies of same pretty boring on the whole. They're nothing like the books - but then, mostly a movie of a book isn't (what did you think of the Bridget Jones movies for example?). In the Ring cycle, they cut out all the subtlety and subplots and so on, in favour of heaps and heaps and heaps of (rather tedious to me) sword fights and massed battles and lots of close-up blood & guts - kind of a 'Boys Own Adventure' souped up. The books were infinitely better.
Tamtom,
Yes, I suspect we spend so much time focussed on facts & figures & stuff, that we kind of like a bit of escapism for entertainment!
I loved the Tolkien books, but found the movies of same pretty boring on the whole. They're nothing like the books - but then, mostly a movie of a book isn't (what did you think of the Bridget Jones movies for example?). In the Ring cycle, they cut out all the subtlety and subplots and so on, in favour of heaps and heaps and heaps of (rather tedious to me) sword fights and massed battles and lots of close-up blood & guts - kind of a 'Boys Own Adventure' souped up. The books were infinitely better.
Tamtom,
Yes, I suspect we spend so much time focussed on facts & figures & stuff, that we kind of like a bit of escapism for entertainment!
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Writers whose books have been butchered for movies?
Tom Clancy....not one good move yet, all have been so-so.
Robert Howard/L. Sprague DeCamp....Big butcher jobs ruining the character and stories of Conan (except for the original star portraying him, great fit)
Edgar Rice Burroughs...Tarzan has never, but never been even close
Tom Clancy....not one good move yet, all have been so-so.
Robert Howard/L. Sprague DeCamp....Big butcher jobs ruining the character and stories of Conan (except for the original star portraying him, great fit)
Edgar Rice Burroughs...Tarzan has never, but never been even close
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