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No love for half-life? In no order: - Half-Life - Resident Evil - Metal Gear - Silent Hill - & the odd one out -- Mario (Hey, everyone need to be a kid sometimes)

As much as movie covers annoy me, I find that they are quite easily avoided. However.... there is something that p*sses me off to no end, and this time it is quite inescapable since the damn practice is on EVERY BLOODY BOOK! :mad: It's those little comments found (invariably and infinitely...

I don't really think that it can be considered "fantasy", though that may be determined by one's interpretation of the ending (amongst other things) but "The Dumas Club" or "El Club Dumas" in the original spanish is one of my favourite "books about books" :). It helped that the author writes...

"Dark Elves" pop up several places in fantasy. Feist had some, "Brotherhood of the dark path" (there's the real name, it begins with M, I can't remember what it is). In the Warhammer universes, there's the Druchii (as they call themselves)-Dark elves/eldar Erikson has a form of dark elf...

You for got one thing, they all have Fabio! ("The most beautiful man in the comos!" :P) on the cover. Shirtless (or a lookalike. And all the men have long hair! Why are women fascinated by long-haired men?!?! (I have to pass the romance section to get to the literature section :P, quite often)...

Oh, I'm quite aware of what it really means (thanks for the interesting explaination though :D ). I was just following the lead of most "hack-fantasy" one sees in media :P Raising the dead, legions of corpses I mean, to fufill one's nefarious purposes has always interested me in stories :P*...

Holograms, huh? Maybe, "Photomancy: :P. The ability to manipulate light w/o the use of technology--opposite of...uhh what would you call it? Umbramancy--the ability to manipulate...shadows? (my latin is limited :P---would it be Noxmancy?) If there's the ever ubiquitous Necromancy in Fantasy...

Seriously? Is this just in the UK? Or The USA too? (or the entire "West"--the continent?)

Ah, whoops, sorry :P 54 not 6.

I recently read this, and rather enjoyed it :D Did anyone else see the faint resemblance that Shadow had to Meursault from Camus' "The stranger/outsider" ? I felt throughout the book that his character was somehow based or "inspired" by that other strange, strange figure. Do you think that...

I have to agree with you, Fried Egg. Now that I think about it (I read the ole' Eddings when I was younger) the Mallorean wasn't really neccessary. (there was the possible plot concerning Errand and the future of Zedar--but we all know where that went :P ). HoopyFrood: Ha. I used to read the...

I think that the most powerful object i've come across would have to be the Orb of Aldur, and it's polar opposite of course.

I believe that there's a Genevieve omnibus out (Black Lib. eventually does this with some of their long series) that contains all? some? of the series. Although you will probably get a general picture of the warhammer universe by just reading these books, you can try going to the...

Evil Dead, Clue...Young Frankenstein? (:P)

I've read that alot about this author, that he can write execptional combat scenes. I read one work (I believe the 1st Dark Elf book? Homeland?) and there was nothing very memorable (vividness in the fight scenes I mean). I also read a SW work by him (Vector prime), again, no fight that...

Another Phys/Astrophys reader (recently did an exam on the topic :P). Hawkings, Gribben (well, never finished it-Stardust-left it in another place), Davies and intending to purchase some Feynman (when the funds start flowing again) Attempting to read Robert Penrose's "The road to reality" at the...

When I was younger, I had bought a lot of paperbacks that I had never gotten around to reading (Jedi Academy trilogy, Darksaber, Children of the Jedi, The New Rebellion etc.). I've been going through them at the moment, I might as well read them, they have been lying around for a while :P. I'd...

"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. The desert was the apotheosis of all deserts, huge, standing to the sky for what looked like eternity in all directions. It was white and blinding and waterless and without feature save for the faint, cloudy haze of the...

Praise to the patron of parsimony! That begetter of basement bargains! That- (you get the point :P ) -The 1st Chron's of Thomas Covenant (S.Donaldson)(and to think that I was about to buy them all separately! At a unused bookstore :P) -Neuromancer (Willy Gibson) -Speaker for Dead (Scotty...

I seen some here refer to the appearance of the Haradrim(sp?) in the PJ film, and something about how they are somewhat arabic looking due to the "post 9-11" whatever. Remember, that disaster occured in 2001, the Fellowship was released only about 3 or so months after the event. And since all...