Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler Question for the avid readers here

CV and kcarlile;

Did you read Eragon? I really liked the book and the sequel, but the movie got terrible reviews so I didn't watch it. I was really charmed by the story of the author one day when I saw it on CNN and rushed out to get the book.

Did anyone else read the Dragonlance books as teens?

Nope, never read it.

I'm afraid that Dragonlance was foisted on me by a friend. After reading the first 3 books (yeah, yeah), I realized it just wasn't for me. A tad formulaic...

Yes! One fateful day I saw a huge volume on the front counter of the comic shop I frequented and bought it. It was the first three novels in one set. Wow, I complete forgot about that series.

At the time, I was in Junior High and had no idea what that meant. Now, I have trouble finding a fantasy novel that doesn't fall into "stable boy grows into a man and saves the world" type stories. Not that Dragonlance was like that, mind you, but it definitely had the story-by-numbers feel to it. I still loved it, though. So there.

I was in high school at the time, so...

You have a point about fantasty novels. About the only ones I read these days are Robert Jordan (which does fall into that formula...) and Terry Pratchett (he's played with that formula a bit)

Eragon and Eldest were very engaging books...looking forward to the next in the series...and to think Eragon was originally written by a 15 year Old Christopher Paolini...

The book deserved a better adaptation into a movie...the movie was "Ehhhhhh". Like most books adapted for screenplays, there was SOOOOOO MUCH that they left out which was vital for the story...that's what happens when you rush a product sheerly to make money with it...Could have been so good.

They have released a date for the third book in the "Inheritance" series...waiting for details...

My wife keeps wanting me to clean out my "library" to make room...

HEY! Here's an idea...give books away similar to what CV is doing with CD's and such...

Things that make you go HMMMMMMMM....

WhatFUrrer

My wife is the (book) reader of the medic8r household. Usually I stick to magazines, newspapers, medical journals, comic books - anything that gets along well with my short attention span.

I have reread the ("increasingly inaccurately named") Hitchhiker's Guide trilogy. I also played the HGttG Infocom computer game in the early 80s in high school. Anybody else remember that one?

I am considering rereading Kurt Vonnegut's books, or in some cases, reading them for the first time. So it goes.

I really like Guy Gavriel Kay's trilogy "The Fionavar Tapestry", which starts at the University of Toronto and travels to a world where figures from Camelot play a part. Sounds bizarre but if you aren't put off by something 'a little different' it's a good read. Kay is a Canadian and I believe worked on J.R.R. Tolkien's estate as an editor. (memory a little dim).

Ah, the great book giveaway! Ian tolerates it as long as he can, and then he too demands that 'something must go'! I'm bad at parting with books too. Fortunately, the Dwight Library has an amazing used book room - in the summer they make $200 a day in used books! - so we have a good option locally. The giveaway would be fun, though!

Like any good, young geek... I played it... back then my reasoning skills were still in the works, so I got frustrated with it.

Bren R.