(November 7, 2011 at 9:15 am)The Magic Pudding Wrote:(November 7, 2011 at 8:55 am)Zen Badger Wrote: My favorite character by far is DEATH.
I won't try to dissuade you of that notion but Susan Death and The Death of Rats are heroes of mine. The Death family, ah if only you could choose your relatives.
Stephen Donaldson has had me trudging over and under strange lands for thousands of years. So many fat volumes and still it continues. If he follows up the final chronicles with a prequel I'll seek him out and end the pain.
I'm looking forward to the Hobbit movie/movies.
Possibly my favorite novel is "the amazing Maurice and his educated rodents" which is nominally a kids story but would have to rank as one of the best books about what it means to be sentient I've ever encountered.
Hmm, Donaldson... I've only read the Unbeliever series and whilst the world he created in "The Land" was beautiful I just couldn't get past what a whining, self pitying snot Covenent was.
If you're not supposed to ride faster than your guardian angel can fly then mine had better get a bloody SR-71.