Son of a Beach wrote:Yeah, the movies were good entertainment, but simplified what is probably the second-best faery story of all time, into just a fairy-tale.
What rates as number one for you?
Son of a Beach wrote:Yeah, the movies were good entertainment, but simplified what is probably the second-best faery story of all time, into just a fairy-tale.
flyfisher wrote:For some interesting stories of a different nature grab a copy of Frog Call by Greg French.
Its a Tasmanian book and has a lot of differing chapters, some about fishing ,some about life,the universe and everything
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Speculator wrote:Good stories, and books?
I'm not that much of a fantasy fan like you guys. More sci-fi (as long as it's proper sci-fi, with an emphasis on the sci, rather than just being nonsense-fi). Currently reading through Sir Issac Asimovs books. I'll be a while.
I'm a picky reader though, so I'm glad to have found such a prolific writer to keep me amused for a while.
L8r.
Kainas wrote:I have been reading the foundation series lately. Have you tried Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game in particular)
Son of a Beach wrote:I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader. I agree with Tolkien in what he said was the best faerie story of all time in his essay "On Faerie Stories" (or "On Fairy Stories" depending on who you listen to).
If you want to read it, it's in the book "Tree and Leaf", and also in one of his other books, I can't remember the name of.
Kainas wrote:Leaf by Niggle" I have just read again (prompted by your post) after perhaps a 15 year gap, and the richness of the allegory exceeded all my previous memories of it - amazing stuff!
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