Everything has been beautifully crafted.

The Series did get a bit slow at times. People felt that too much time was spent explaining too many details. But, all that was nothing more than the foundation that RJ was placing for the end of the story.
for those of you who stopped reading the series because the story was too slow, or whatever, i recommend that you finish the series- the ending is definitely worth it.

which I acquired from http://felixonline.co.uk/books/2100/the-kingkiller-chronicle/
(academic honesty and all that)

Fair warning, This trilogy is truly amazing (and i read a lot) BUT the last book is yet to have a release date set.

Nice work on the list, glad to know i’m not the only one who gets all tingly over this stuff

That said, yes, there is a ton of great stuff out there for free (legal). I spent a lot of money on new release ebooks before realizing that I enjoyed books like the Barsoom series so much. I also really enjoyed Anne of Green Gables, of all things, and Treasure Island.

I wish thoughtful reading were seen not just as an academic parlor game but something people just *do*.

The organic shooters appeared in “The Other” comics in the Spider-Man series, but the mechanical ones just sound cool, in my opinion. Parker can then modify them to do anything; kites, nets, etc. Organic ones are kinda fixed.

Of the books you mentioned above, the only one that I’ve read is The Road by Cormac McCarthy, and I don’t consider it Science Fiction at all because there are so few elements of SciFi in it.. The closest that a Fantasy book has come to being literary fiction is The Magicians by Lev Grossman. The only reason people say that book leans towards literary is because the focus of the book is more overtly on the characters and the central plot doesn’t have the clear goal that most genre fiction has (which was, to me at least, a weakness of the book).

You’re right to mention the vastness of the stories — it would be impossible for a movie to create the sense of immersion that games do, so they really have to take a different tack when it comes to telling the stories.

I hope the deal goes through as it will set a new standard for future game adaptations. One things for sure, we’ve come along way since Bob Hoskins picked up a plunger and played Mario.

The first three Indy films, as far out as they were, worked because they took themselves slightly more seriously. No matter how many quips Indy tossed off, at the end of the day he was up against some really evil villains. Soviet Cate Blanchett and weird looking aliens just don’t cut it.

Tad Williams used to talk about returning to his Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn world at a point hundreds of years in its future, during its equivalent of the Industrial Revolution. This always fascinated me and I’m still disappointed to this day that it hasn’t happened. On the other hand, that trilogy is one of my favorite fantasy series of all time, so I wouldn’t want him going back to it unless he had a story he absolutely needed to tell.