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Have either you or your friend provided a review that I might be able to peruse before I [eventually] tackle this book myself?

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Originally posted by Dennis

Hmm. Perhaps because of some of the characters? Too powerful for your taste? I get the impression you don’t normally go for overpowered beings, save Pug, I guess.

By the way, does the original, single edition also have a foreword? I was quite amused with this: “Upon a suggestion, I took Firedrake to a publisher about an hour and a half away. Literally walking in off the street, I asked to speak with the editor (and no, you really can’t do that these days).”

And this probably a big spoiler, but I’m curious . . . is Nathan Bedlam really dead? (I’m still on chapter 5.)

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I don't mind powerful characters... There was just something overall, about the setting and all the stories, that just didn't grab me as much as it could have. Perhaps I didn't care for the characters enough, perhaps I didn't get enough of a feel for the land itself... I don't recall.

I seem to recall Nathan reappearing, but I've not read those books in ten years or so. I barely remember any of the characters beyond Cabe, Gwendolyn, Darkhorse, Dru Zaree (sp?) and his daughter (whose name escapes me), Madrac, and the blue dragon duke that went to the other continent with Gryphon.

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Originally posted by Thauranil

I am trying out And Another Thing , the sequel to hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy.
Its seems to be quite good so far.

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Tad Williams' Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn and the Shadowmarch novels..do yall recommend them?

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I am trying out And Another Thing , the sequel to hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy.
Its seems to be quite good so far.

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For me, the trilogy ends with So Long and Thanks for All the Fish. I really didn't care for Mostly Harmless, and I prefer to stick with the original author.

There was one bit I liked from Mostly Harmless: the Bob-fearing natives that Arthur was living with. I found that quite amusing. And I worked for a time with a rather religious person, so I now usually invoke Bob where other people would invoke God.

I also never knew the original books had been censored a bit, until I bought a big omnibus edition of the 4 books in a bookstore in Dublin, and read it on the flight home. I've read the censored versions many times, so I immediately noticed the places where the text had been changed.

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I am trying out And Another Thing , the sequel to hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy.
Its seems to be quite good so far.

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For me, the trilogy ends with So Long and Thanks for All the Fish. I really didn't care for Mostly Harmless, and I prefer to stick with the original author.

There was one bit I liked from Mostly Harmless: the Bob-fearing natives that Arthur was living with. I found that quite amusing. And I worked for a time with a rather religious person, so I now usually invoke Bob where other people would invoke God.

I also never knew the original books had been censored a bit, until I bought a big omnibus edition of the 4 books in a bookstore in Dublin, and read it on the flight home. I've read the censored versions many times, so I immediately noticed the places where the text had been changed.

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I directly got the omnibus so I never knew about the censorship. It remains one of my favorite books and I would have loved to continue reading more novels By Douglas adam, alas due to his unfortunate death this is no longer possible.
So , admittedly with some trepidation, I tried out this latest novel and while not as good as the original its still an entertaining enough book. Just don't except to be blown away by it.

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I’m reading Firedrake, Book I of the Legends of the Dragonrealm . I’m loving it so far. One of the things I like about Richard is that he is an “economist”—he chooses words ever so carefully and often, if not always, avoids verbose descriptions. Another is, he makes me tolerate and to some degree like the things I normally find annoying or boring. It’s no secret that I don’t care for the bloated winged lizards that call themselves dragons. But Richard’s dragons have interesting personalities and are more human than monsters, which Gold himself, the Dragon Emperor, admitted.

Cabe Bedlam is proving to be a hero I can easily sympathize with. Though I guess it would have been better had Richard slowed down Cabe’s coming into power.

I have all the omnibus and also the latest book Shade, and I was so tempted to jump straight to it. But for some reason, I was able to resist the temptation, and so I’m starting where it all begins . . .

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I'm reading Dragons of Spring Dawning, right now.

I first got these books around 1990. I've read them many, many times since then. And yet, the death of Flint -- and Tasslehoff's reaction, in particular -- gets me every time.

That's some good writing.

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I'm reading Dragons of Spring Dawning, right now.

I first got these books around 1990. I've read them many, many times since then. And yet, the death of Flint -- and Tasslehoff's reaction, in particular -- gets me every time.

That's some good writing.

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Good enough to say twice ehhhh?

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Working on Time of the Twins, now. The first time I read them, I read the Legends trilogy before the Chronicles... Not sure why it happened that way, now. I originally got the books secondhand, from my best friend, and I don't recall now if there was a reason he handed me the second trilogy, first.

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I am trying out And Another Thing , the sequel to hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy.
Its seems to be quite good so far.

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For me, the trilogy ends with So Long and Thanks for All the Fish. I really didn't care for Mostly Harmless, and I prefer to stick with the original author.

There was one bit I liked from Mostly Harmless: the Bob-fearing natives that Arthur was living with. I found that quite amusing. And I worked for a time with a rather religious person, so I now usually invoke Bob where other people would invoke God.

I also never knew the original books had been censored a bit, until I bought a big omnibus edition of the 4 books in a bookstore in Dublin, and read it on the flight home. I've read the censored versions many times, so I immediately noticed the places where the text had been changed.

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I directly got the omnibus so I never knew about the censorship. It remains one of my favorite books and I would have loved to continue reading more novels By Douglas adam, alas due to his unfortunate death this is no longer possible.
So , admittedly with some trepidation, I tried out this latest novel and while not as good as the original its still an entertaining enough book. Just don't except to be blown away by it.

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Off the top of my head, I think only two or three things were censored, though there could be others I've forgotten. One is that Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged uses a different insult when he insults Arthur Dent; I think the kid at the cricket match also had his insult changed (the censored version calls him a "kneebiter"). And the guy at the flying party, the one who had won the Rory award for the Most Gratuitous Use of the Word "Fsck" in a Serious Screenplay (censoring mine, there, considering the CoC) -- in the censored version, the word was "Belgium". The censored version actually adds a few paragraphs, here -- the girl is quite uncomfortable using that word, and Arthur is absolutely bewildered as to why the name of a small brown European country is so offensive. (As I recall, that was actually how Arthur described it). For that part, the censored version is much funnier.

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Working on Time of the Twins, now. The first time I read them, I read the Legends trilogy before the Chronicles... Not sure why it happened that way, now. I originally got the books secondhand, from my best friend, and I don't recall now if there was a reason he handed me the second trilogy, first.

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Ah...I too, about once every 2-3 years, reread Chronicles and Legends. Those 6 books spelled out everything that made Krynn what it was-but, I just could never play in that Realm. Anything that I thought I could do just wouldn't compare to the adventures and stories of the Companions.

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