Reading The Lord of the Rings again.

The question occurred to me yesterday: Gandalf said that a ringbearer couldn't discard or destroy their ring, and he saw that Frodo couldn't try to harm the ring, even with a fire that wasn't hot enough. So what made him think that it would be remotely possible for Frodo to throw it into a volcano?

Or why didn't the eagles just fly them from the Shire straight to Mount Doom?

BWAAHAA!!!

Took a break from reading Lord of the Rings last night. Read Only You Can Save Mankind and Johnny and the Dead, both by Terry Pratchett, both bloody brilliant books.

Having gone through nine Discworld novels in a row, I decided on a brief change of scenery and am back in the Warhammer Universe and the Horus Heresy storyline, with The Outcast Dead by Graham McNeill...I think...

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Currently reading Robin Hood and His Merry Men, by E. C. Vivian. It's the original 1927 version, and has always had pride of place on my bookshelf. One of my absolute favourites.

Decided to dig out my JSA graphic novels for a bit 'o' different and not so much hurty-headness on the imagination front...

Always felt they were better stories than much of the other comic fare around at the time, even though I thoroughly loved a fair few of them too...

I started reading A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War. So far really good. I have always liked Victor Davis-Hanson's books.

The Evermen Saga by James Maxwell. They're a quid each as ebooks on Amazon at the moment, so I read the first then bought the other three. About to start the second book.

Several fanfics made by the gentlewriters of Chorrol, shockingly enough. I have this dastardly plan of plagiarizing all of you, you see, copying all your plots and stories into one bloated monstrosity that I will call my own! *EVIL LAUGHTER*

In all honesty I'm just catching up (I'm what, 3 to 4 years late on some stories? Better late than never right?) while drawing inspiration from your stories; just to get me in that blessed and determined mood to write mine to the end.

Oh, I LOVE LOVE LOVE your writing !!!

You'll get them soon enough, old friend. I'm just ironing out the small details like a timine of events, background motivations etc. before releasing it.

Dune By Frank Herbert.

Be careful what you start. There are six books in the trilogy, and then about ten more by his son. Plus another about writing it all.

We may not see you here this year if you get started on that lot.

I read crazy fast.

I read the first book and enjoyed it, dove into the second and was disappointed. I don't think I'll bother reading any of the others.

Apart from the first two, which I read at University when they both came out in paperback, I read them as they were published. That gives you plenty of time to recover.

Since it's been a long time since I've read it; Buffy the Bowgirl, Book 1