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I've read Dante's Inferno many times, and it is a terrific book, though you need a decent translation

Thanks very much for such constructive criticism- I really appreciate it :) If I may just answer a couple of your queries? Addison was allowed in so easily, because he was touting Levine along with him- the sole survivor of the last space project. This carries a certain status especially in...

Now there is the trouble. Colin Farrell looked nothing like Alexander, and he didn't even get the character right. Everything was glossed over, Roxanne got far too big a role, Hephaestion wore too much eyeliner and sulked too much, Olympias was weird. I know so much about Alexander the Great...

I think you definitely have potential, and the best thing you can do is to keep writing. The more you write, the more your stuff will improve, and the more you will be able to self critique :)

This might be rather too long for one post, and if it is I will gladly delete some of it. I'd be grateful for constructive criticism, especially as relating to the ideas, and how it flows. Thank you. 'Flawed Perfection.' "What did you see?" The room was quiet and the question...

I've read the Iliad dozens of times- its one of my best books ever, and I'm always happy for an excuse to read it again. I might not (due to time constraints) be there all the time, but I'd like to join in :)

Let's be realistic however. If there is a choice between living lavishly, and having to cope with the problems that life styles brings, or living like an ascetic, I for one would go for the lavish lifestyle. Not because I don't care about the world, but because what is the use in having life if...

Why the hell does everyone think Artemis is so nasty? By the second book he was sickeningly sweet, and that's why I stopped enjoying them. Anti heroes can be very fun to read about, and I enjoy a good dose of sceptiscism in a child character, but I don't like books which make out their...

Are you a fan of anime then?

Tell me about it. Same happens with me- all I have to do is say 'did you know Ale...' and everyone groans :D I know far far too much about it. Though the film was an utter complete travesty

I saw this when I was ten I think... Definitly a rather good film

So, any English manga fans here? I like a whole selection so I'm sure we'd find something to talk about!

I read these when I was young. My dad reckoned she could write them at the rate of one a week, they were so short.

I read them, but though the plot was certainly engaging enough, I found that it was rather too simplistic, and he killed my favourite character off (Kurda) way too soon. Besides I have my own precise notions about what vampires look like.

I don't remember reading children's books funnily enough. I read classics, and sometimes a few children's novels. But I'd have to add The Little Prince by Antoine Saint Expury (or something like that.) Even at age 7 I grasped it wasn't quite what it looked like. Other than that, I was mostly...

We should probably start a thread on what we would like our daemons to look like. I'd go for something really fancy probably, then end up with half a dead rat on a stick :D But I would like some sort of large cat- like Lord Asriels

Well not to disappoint- a few months late but here is a comment. I love the movie. I like the second movie as well, but only because it has Taku and Shuya spending three months in the desert alone with each other :P So I'm a sad fangirl what of it? The first movie was excellent. I've read...

I'm contrary, I'd rather some books where the Fool came back to talk to Fitz :D But since I can't have that, I'd gladly read something like the one proposed

I write fanfiction :) Not very good stuff, but it serves as an ultra useful tool for organizing ideas, and for bettering my writing style, the feedback I get, helps me a lot. I write Yami no Matsuei, Gundam Wing, Harry Potter, I used to write Lord of the Rings then my conscience hit me over...

I read classical literature *only* until I was about seven, and then my first sci fi book was Foundation series by Isaac Asimov, so I went through my dad's shelves and depleted it of all the sci-fi- old stuff by Bradbury and so on. I read the hobbit when I was seven too. I read T.H. White etc...