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[silverthunder]

I finally got around to reading "Regina's Song". It's by my favorite author - can't believe it took me so long. Anyway, it was awesome, even though I saw the ending coming from the beginning. But it was nothing less than I'd expect from David Eddings. Excellent.

And then I went and saw Return of the King again last night, and the awesome-ness was continued. I adore that movie. In my opinion, the movies are a lot better than the books - and I've been reading the books steadily since I was eleven, so that's a big compliment.

And... now I'm going to hide before I'm lynched by rabid LOTR purists.

I hope it wins Best Picture, though... The theater was still packed tonight, so there's also hope that it'll make more money than Titanic.

We'll see, I guess.

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[danachan.livejournal.com]

Oh god, the blasphemy! The rabid LOTR book purists are going to eat your soul for that one, I think.

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[silverthunder]

Well, they'll have a hard time of it, because I'm a yaoi/slash fan and therefore have already SOLD MY SOUL TO THE DEVIL!

So there. ^_^

Just out of curiosity... I was having a discussion with some friends last night, and the definition of 'fan' came up. One of my friends thinks that to be a fan of Lord of the Rings, a person has to have read the books. You think that's true?

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[danachan.livejournal.com]

Well! That's a handbasket we'll be riding down in together.

*grin*

As for the true definition of a fan, well, no, I don't think so. But this is coming from a girl who wasn't really into the books the first time she read them, it took her a while to get through them - as in, several tries. And yes, while I was in fact fond of some characters at first, I really wasn't struck until I had the movie for visuals. And this is becoming something more. Because now I've read the books through, well, too many times to count. But anyway, getting back to the point, no, I don't think that reading the books should have any say in whether you're a true fan or not.

[ladycosmos.livejournal.com]

:D Yay! You read

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:D Yay! You read <b?Regina's Song</b>! Wasn't it good? Not quite his usual style of fantasy; definitely more modern. And I saw the ending as well.

Well, not <i>all</i> of it, but I knew the big secret.

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[silverthunder]

It was excellent, and different from his fantasy books, but you can't mistake his style at ALL. Which is what made it so damn *good*. It's David Eddings. How can it be bad?

And yeah... most of the ending was pretty easy to call, but that didn't take anything away from the book.

[nighteevee.livejournal.com]

I'll have to ask my mother to pick up that book when she goes to London next week. I haven't read any decent fantasy in years (well, excluding LotR). And I miss Eddings, too. Or maybe I just was overly fond of Polgara. Can't remember anymore ^^;

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[silverthunder]

Eddings is my favorite author, as you might have noticed. I own all of his fantasy series. (all four, plus Redemption and the first one in his new series) Regina's Song is different, but you can definitely recongize his style of writing, and the book is awesome.

Yeah, Polgara was a cool character. ^^ I liked pretty much all of the characters in that series, though.