Wayfarer's Tavern

so, you are not the six fingered man then Rob?

 

I usually have several novels awaiting me. But I recently exhausted my queue, and haven't had the opportunity to stock up on new ones. That leaves me with two choices: rereading some old favorites, or finishing some of the novels that I started and then abandoned as unpromising. Well, currently I'm on te latter track. I just finished Ringworld's Children, which ended up somewhat better than its beginning, but still not up to the quality of Niven's writing three decades ago. And now I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel, a Forgotten Realms fantasy novel, Silver Shadows, by Elaine Cunningham. I abandoned it years ago, but decided to give it another chance anyway.

Sometimes these forsaken novels turn out to be worth presevering through. More often, they ratify my first impression.

 

Agreed. I like Salvatore, but he needs to learn how TO KILL CHARACTERS and make them STAY DEAD.

 

Even characters the author loved?

 

This happened to me with Perdido Street Station. I bought it when I was moving to Puerto Rico and needed an airplane book.

I didn't pick it back up again for months after arriving.

It has a very strange beginning and Mieville's style is not easy to get into.

It was worth the read once I let myself go.

 

ESPECIALLY characters the author (or the reader) loved.
When you start undoing death, you trivialize its impact. "Oh my god, Daniel Jackson is dead!" "What, again?"

 

Especially those.

That's why I love George R. R. Martin. So unpredictable and intense. You never know who's going to die!

 

Hey every body

 

I wonder what the guests who read these threads think of us.

You guys should join!

 

After finishing A Game of Thrones, I quickly learned not to get too attached to anyone in the rest of the series. Still waiting for that fifth book.

 

Read "The Harafish" if you want practice losing your favorite characters

 

My Ethnic Literature prof. recommended this to me last year. Haven't gotten around to it though.

 

Only book I have gotten so mad at that I had to put it down for 2 months. Then again for a week and a half.

 

I cried when Dumbledore died, does that count?

 

Just wrote in a scene that I thought was good horror, but I dunno if it's good enough. Maybe I should post it in the critique section to get wisdom of the ages (meaning you all).

Buuuut first I should do two critiques of my own.

 

oooh, yes. post, pretty please!!!

 

When I bought the book, the clerk at the bookstore wrote

"Snape Kills Dumbledore. " on the receipt.

I was furious.

 

I would've Avada Kedavra'd him right there! That's NOT something you tell people before they read the book!



I hate it when that happens.

 

I'd have shown the receipt to the store's manager. My guess is the clerk would either be looking for a new job, or at least a fresh set of underwear when the manager was done with him or her.

 

Just a question. Suppose the exerpt I want to have reviewed has the same character that I used when I posted an earlier story of mine. Should I bump that old thread or what?

Also, if it's a horror excerpt, it should go to horror, right?

EDIT: I wouldn't have Avada Kedarva'd that clerk. I would have cast the Crutacious curse until that clerk went insane. Let it be a lesson if you're gonna spoil the ending of my favorite book.

 

What does that turn him into a T-rex?



Yeah, I didn't see it until I got home and opened the book. I probably should have shown it to the manager. I didn't see that kid working there again. My guess is that he was doing it to lots of people and got reported.

 

I think you mean Cruciatus, Crutacious seems to be a misspelling of Cretaceous.

 

Perhaps Imperious, so he could beat himself up?

LOL @ Cog, very true; managers are scary.

I love how HP-nerdly we are. *waves wand*

 

I am flypaper for useless trivia.

(It's Imperius. Like most of Rowling's spells, it's derived from Latin.)

 

Ah, stupid me.

Harry Potter is amazing.