Saw Krabat, the movie. Was a bit disappointed in the quality of martial arts in the fight scene.

Yes, there is now a fight scene in Krabat. When some cowboy-like mercenaries loot the little village of Schwarzkolm. But are easily fought off by the Twelve Samurai twelve apprentices of the dark magician miller. With staffs. Sheesh, didn't you ( Read more... )

All your recs? Brilliant! Thanks a lot! Am feeling a lot more secure that I won't miss out something glaringly obvious.

I won't use them all for the feature itself, but as this is the opportunity to buy fantasy books and declare them work-related textbooks for the inland revenue.... I'll also get me a Tolkien biography and some real textbooks, I ( Read more... )

I'm working on a feature on Fantasy, so there's a question to all those well-read people out here:

What books/authors are not to be missed when talking about Fantasy?

The fantasy literature I read is nowhere near comprehensive, and I fear missing something with the same importance as... oh, let's say, Lord of the RingsSo if you point me to your ( Read more... )

Jessica's thoughts were suddenly disjointed.

Thanks, I also broke something while skipping throught Midnight Sun. What good is it to live eternally if you're such a bore as Edward (and his whole family)? If this piece of... ahem, literature... doesn't get printed because the dear author is so upset about the leakage that disrupted the... ahem, ( Read more... )

Finished Twilight. Am relieved. What a hell of a relationship, and I mean it quite literally. Never was a person more ready to join a sectarian cult than Bella. Since everyone I know agrees, I will cut further ranting and foaming at the mouth. Save that: I love how the good vampires are beautiful beyound measure and bad, bad James so very avarage- ( Read more... )

... maybe you grew up in a place where they don't talk about the birds and the bees, if the inevitable comes up, but about the socket and the plug. Nevertheless, please repeat after me: it's sexuality, not electricity. All your allusions to electric currences and the like notwithstandig. Where on earth did your sons come from, after all ( Read more... )

Okay, okay, I caved in ( Read more... )

The travelling spy-bard-hero? Turned out to be an Elf, of course.
Only it's not called Elf but Aurënfaie. Which is basically the same minus the pointed ears. Even better, because it opens up the field for a game of Guess The Identity (or, to be precise: Guess The Troubled Identity).

And you can employ Mystery Dots.

Luckily vol. 2 and 3 arrived, ( Read more... )

Note to self:
You're not shipping your child off to day-care every day although he fights it nails and toes when they want to wipe his face after dinner (don't ask, it wasn't a funny week in that regard) so you can read fantasy books at a time when you are actually awake ( Read more... )

So the city is threatened by very evil and incredibly strong black magicians. Eight of them against hundreds of good magicians. Who have abandoned black magic centuries ago and now face certain doom.

Our hero, one of the good guys, waits in the city for certain doom. He has a supersekrit gay lover. Nobody can know this. Otherwise he would be ( Read more... )