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[Victarion]

Corum: The Prince with the Silver Hand

It's an omnibus of three epic fantasy novels which are excellent if you're in the mood for something in the spirit of Halloween. The plot involves seven giants called the Fyore Mori, which have turned 3/4 of the Earth into an frozen wasteland. Visually, they resemble the Thing, from Carpenter's The Thing. Prince Corum is summoned from a mound by some druids to save the Earth from the Fyore Mori. He battles their supernatural hounds, armies of tree-zombie creatures, and his own counterpart: a warrior damned to live forever, who wishes to break free of the cycle by bringing about the end of time. Corum's weapons are a mechanical eye that can see into the netherworld and a gauntlet that can call forth dead warriors lurking at the edge of Time, as well as some other sorcerous implements.

All in all, it reminds me a lot of The Thing due to the giants and the setting.

 

[Ash J. Williams]

C.S. Lewis at the BBC: Messages of Hope in the Darkness of War - Justin Phillips

 

[ComicChick]

reading a little bit more of battle royale tonight, finished The Rescue this morning

 

[Doc Ock]

Halfway through Ender's Game, it's a book I only read 1/4th of in middle and high school and never gotto finish it. When the movie was announced I rushed out to buy the book as I wanted to read the whole series and the Shadow series before the movie was released. Well I just started reading it yesterday and will finish it by Friday when he movie is out but I sure dont have all the other books yet so...oh well. At least I'm going to get the first read before the movie!

Oh yeah and Im doing the Harry Potter re-read I do every two years buuuuuttt...I'm way behind on that too so hopefully I have time to finish six more books before the year is up lol.

 

[The Navigator]

The Making of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.

Pretty damn interesting, seeing the process unfold. Starting on Jedi now.

 

[superjoint]

Guards! Guards! By Terry Pratchett.
Funny and awesome classic Pratchett!

 

[ComicChick]

started The Awakening by LJ Smith today

 

[hammerhedd11]

The Blood and the Shroud by Ian Wilson

 

[Teelie]

2/3rd's through Stephen King's Night Shift. I've been posting daily updates on the short stories I've been reading in the Stephen King thread. After this is probably Nightmares & Dreamscapes also by Stephen King.

 

[hammerhedd11]

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

 

[RockSP]

The Gift of Fire/On the Head of a Pin by Walter Mosley. Two very cool short stories in one volume. Gift of Fire needs to be a movie asap.

 

[squeekness]

The Wolves of Midwinter ~ Anne Rice

 

[Victarion]

A Wizard of Earthsea ~ Ursula K Leguin.

 

[Iceman]

Will be reading the Song of Ice and Fire series to tie in with watching Game of Thrones ahead of Stephen King's The Dark Tower series which I also bought recently.

 

[ComicChick]

just under a third of the way through The Awakening now. i can honestly say this is one of the few times where the show is better than the source material

 

[mongoose-mania]

The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury

 

[Doc Ock]

Finished reading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Onward to the next one!

 

[squeekness]

See them die -- Ed McBain

 

[Victarion]

The Dreamthief's Daughter:

The German count Ulric von Bek is visited by a couple of Hitler sympathizers: his cousin Paul von Minct and Klosterheim. They seek von Bek's ancestral sword, Ravenbrand. Von Bek refuses and is locked in a concentration camp. He's freed by a couple of agents from a group called the White Rose, who take him from Germany into the Mittlemarch.

These White Rose agents are actually Knights of the Balance, from a group called the League of Temporal Adventurers. Von Minct and Klosterheim are trying to capture von Bek and his doppelganger, Elric. They've enlisted a Lady of Law to besiege Elric while they use the Nazi regime to pursue von Bek and Ravenbrand. Their endgame is to use Ravenbrand/Stormbringer and the Cosmic Balance to swing Existence into Oblivion. They are tired of being reborn over and over as pawns of the Cosmic Balance and seek the peace of Oblivion.

The novel has some poignant things to say about society in general. Here's an excerpt:

"Nazis... controlled the media. On the radio, in the newspapers and magazines and movies, they began to tell the people whom they should love and whom they should hate... This is by no means a new phenomenon... The American Puritans characterised everyone who disagreed with them as evil and godless and probably witches... The British and the Americans went into China to save the country from the opium they had originally sold it. The Turks had to characterise Armenians as godless monsters before they began their appalling slaughter of the Christians.


Frightened nations will accept too easily the threat of civil war and the promise of the man who says he will avert it. Hitler averted civil war because he had no need of it. His opposition was delivered into his hands by the ballot boxes of a country which, at that time, had one of the best democratic constitutions in the world, superior in many ways to the American.
It is a mark, I think, of the political scoundrel who uses the most sentimental language to blame all others but his own constituents for the problems of the world. Always a "foreign threat", fear of "the stranger". I still hear those voices in modern Germany and France and America and all the countries we once thought too civilised to allow such horror within their own borders."

Good stuff.

 

[Teelie]

Finished off Night Shift by Stephen King last night. It's overall horror stories but most of the last few weren't horror at all. In fact 3 out of 4 of the last short stories weren't horror.

There's still some good stories in there and only a few that I found kind of boring or ill-suited to the collection.

 

[hammerhedd11]

All the Pretty Horses

 

[Anubis]

Daughter of Smoke and Bone

 

[Crockett]

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.

 

[ComicChick]

Daughter of Smoke and Bone

let me know what you think of that. i read that and its sequel a bit back

only a few chapters left in The Awakening

 

[SpideyVille]

Just finished The Fault in Our Stars by John Green.

I didn't realize that the last four books I read are movies that are either being made or will be made and will star Shailene Woodley.