No spoilers, I swear

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So I'm watching Game of Thrones, and I tell my brother 'I'm just waiting for someone from the BBC version of Robin Hood to walk past.'

Half an hour later, the actor who plays Will Scarlet (who also plays the creepy smirking boy in the doctor who ep Human Nature/Family of Blood) walks on and I'm all OMGWTFBBQ!

God I love when genre actors keep

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I can't wait to see the first ep. I love that series so much.

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I feel terrible because I have not read the books, but I think I need to.

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They are dense in a way that I'm not sure that a TV series without 22 episodes a season can pull off. Wonderful yet dark. They are probably the most influential fantasy series in the last decade.

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Yeah, I probably should have read it before now. But then again, I just recently picked up Dune, so I'm behind when it comes to the important works in fantasy and sci-fi.

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There are so many books out there that it is hard to keep up. I was an English major and I managed to avoid most of the classics.

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Hahaha understandable. I activly avoided a lot of the classics, but now that I'm trying to improve my writing, it's all Hemingway this and Vonnegut that.

Then there is stuff, like Dracula, which I don't even know why I haven't read before now.

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I'm still a little burned out on heavy reading (History major here) that even after two semesters out of school, I'm still leery of reading anything denser than YA fantasy. Its odd. I would go through a book a week in high school but college really put a damper on my reading.

There are some wonderful authors of 'literature' out there that deserve the hype associated with that false genre like Louise Erdich who has lovely prose.

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I know what you mean. I read so much dense theory in college for my degree, that when I graduated all I read was comic books and short story collections.

Louise Erdich for sure, I have a few of her story collections too. I'm also a huge huge fan of Joyce Carol Oates, who's writing is just lovely and dark and her sci-fi and horror is on point.