Sounds like a good plot for a D&D session. :D As for an actual book, though, I'm not so sure. Perhaps if you had a stack of narrative framing going on it might work. As in, have Chapter 1: Melinda, 2: Other Girl, 3: Mel, 4: Girl etc. so the reader is not aware that the story of the even-number c...

She is then rudely awakened by the one-eyed man who puts a knife to her throat and demands to know how she managed to summon him here. And so Melinda is forever drawn in the world of words that walk, the booktraps that hold them, and the men that they can command. ;) That's the sort of weird plot t...

I think the problem to me is that, so far, the book has been "go to person X so they can direct you to place Y via method Z," making the story, and Goodkind's tone, rigid as a result. When the characters occasionally do something silly, it just feels...out of place. It's hard to explain. ...

Hmm, yeah, he has a tendancy to foreshadow himself to death. As Sampson says, he speaks and then confirms. It doesn't really help that it feels like I've just picked up a Chinese Bootleg of a Robert Jordan novel (which I also find a bit meh...). Actually, no a redirection seems more appropriate...on...

After setting it on fire. Way to go to burn down a franchise. *Not bitter about the recent excuses for Seiken games, no...* I loved SD3 too I feel your pain. Recent Seikens have been awful. <-- Really old avatar T_T i,ve been wanting to make a new one for the longest but i lost Photoshop X_X Also f...

Farmer/Monk still works, but not as a healer. They can abuse Chakra recovery to wake themselves up from using Lullaby, and I don't want to think what crazy heck they could do with their high LUK + Death Fist (eek!). But yeah, they're probably best as Ninjas, abusing status effects. Zodiac being a me...

It's not really silly: Pirates are not known to be awesome explorers that stray very far from their home base. Well, except when you play Sid Meiers Pirates!, anyway. LOL. Self-taught swordmanship is pretty cruel, too. Not to mention Rapid Fire and Million Thrust for hardcore damage. Especially the...

Anyway, Farmers are incredible, so its bad to draw comparison to them. Lullaby with their huge LUK is amazing, Braveheart is amazing, Free Warp Wires are amazing, and so on.

Shoguns are glass cannons, much like Ronins used to be. I can't comment on the Androids though.

For Sci-Fi, I have troubles digesting the hardcore stuff of the masters like Asimov, Clarke etc. My favourite in that field is Iain M. Banks' Culture novels, especially Player of Games, which is one of my all-time favourites (though Use of Weapons is pretty good too). I also have a soft spot for Ste...

LOL. Amazingly, that picture paints alot of truth.

I finally got around to reading the first book of Song of Ice and Fire. Took me awhile to actually get around to it, but eventually fell into it hot off the heels of the first three books of the Riyria Revelations... Twas quite surprised at how decent it was, especially since books with so many pers...

Go figure... Last-minute, slapdash papers get awesome grades, and well-thought-out ones that take a week of careful thought get terrible grades. We're just living in a parallel universe, aren't we? Heh, I remember this feeling. I actually think its down to the fact that if you were to spend a long ...