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I seem to recall the Gor serious had a character from this world. but I may be wrong its been thirty years since I read them.

paranoia wow that was a great game comrade

for me a lot has to do with the way the author writes the characters and how I feel about them. funny enough books that stay with me include mice and men, animal farm and Death of a salesman all cliche classics but with sad disturbing endings that still make me think about them thirty years...

if you want something with a middle eastern flavour, you could try the arabian knights. very good read with some great stories

I have to agree with the Imp, I think Jackson did a brilliant job on LOTR given the weight of expectation, and I for one am excited to see how they make it.

I think Ebooks have to be the future and my wife prefers to read all her books online, but saying that I think paper backs will be with us for a long time for a various reasons. firstly, and I can quite remember the proportion but a significant number of books bought today in all genre's are for...

when I was younger and a lot poorer I used to trade them at a second hand book shop near me, but since I started work I have somehow managed to keep them all despite numerous moves. The only book I did keep from my youth was the one that started me on my love affair with books which was the...

very impressive. did you have any imput in the design or did you leave it to the artist ?

I think ceremonial units will survive ie: swiss guard at the vatican, but then again so long as the country survives in the current format then I can see the US maintaining its marine corp for as long as it's around. other then that I would tend to agree with most people above

so, while having a chat with some of my friends, we came round to the same old topic of who is the most infuential writer in SF and fantasy etc. the usual names were there with tolkien asimov, king, rowlings etc but then someone pointed out that you cant turn on the tv, go to the cinema or...

well if we are going for the straight forward coolest leader. I would have to say che guevara. lets be honest, I dont see many young people wearing tee shirts with pictures of the others. If its brilliance, then I would say Zhukov, or maybe Vo Nguyen Giap who has to be one of the most...

well most of the books that really stunned me, have been mentioned above so I wont dwell on them. But one book that did leave a lasting impression for god or bad was "the dice man" by luke rhinehart. Now that was one disturbed mind. And to echo some posters, I loved MSR serious