i just finished reading a book called Shadow of a Dark Queen, by Raymond E. Feist last week and it was so good i decided to order all his books haha.

here are all the books i emailed my book store to order for me.
anyone read any of them? tell me what you thought but pls pls don't ruin them for me lmao

Riftwar
Magician (1982)
1. Magician: Apprentice (1982)
2. Magician: Master (1982)
3. Silverthorn (1985)
4. A Darkness at Sethanon (1985)
5. Prince of the Blood (1989)
6. The King's Buccaneer (1989)


Riftwar : The World On the Other Side (with Janny Wurts)
1. Daughter of the Empire (1987)
2. Servant of the Empire (1989)
3. Mistress of the Empire (1989)

Riftwar : Serpentwar
1. Shadow of a Dark Queen (1994)
2. Rise of a Merchant Prince (1995)
3. Rage of a Demon King (1995)
4. Shards of a Broken Crown (1998)


Riftwar : Legacy
1. The Betrayal: Krondor (1998)
2. The Assassins: Krondor (1999)
3. Tear of the gods: Krondor (1999)

Legends of the Riftwar
1. Honoured Enemy (2001) (with William R Forstchen)
2. Murder in Lamut (2002) (with Joel Rosenberg)
3. Jimmy the Hand (2003) (with S M Stirling)

Conclave of Shadows
1. Talon of the Silver Hawk (2002)
2. King of Foxes (2003)
3. Exile's Return (2004)

Darkwar
1. Flight of the Nighthawks (2005)
2. Into a Dark Realm (2006)
3. Wrath of a Mad God (2007)

I've read almost all of them.

They're good fun, if formulaic.

Don't expect them to be too clever or worthy and you'll be fine.

(They're not "literature", they're just fun)

And a note: Magician is 1 book, not 3. Don't get Magician and the Apprentice and Master volumes. Same book. Just get Magician.

thanks hun... i'd be pretty p'd off if i bought three of the same book lol

I think they just split the original Magician into two bits - Apprentice and Master.

Haven't actually seen those versions before, but I read Macigian (more than a decade ago) and it was only one book.

They did it in the Dragonbone Chair Trilogy by Tad Williams too, they split "Siege" into two books.

And since we're on tips - by the time he got to Talon of The Silver Hawk, I think the publisher has started taking the piss a bit. The whole of that book should have been no more than five chapters in a normal book. REALLY dragged out storyline. Like they started doing in The Wheel of Time series after book 3. Lots of reading for not much plot. Great if you're interested in what order they put stuff in their saddlebags and how the cooking of the soup went, but not much in terms of story content.

that's the way it goes when you've run out of storylines. you try to fatten your book up any way possible. there's a target word count you have to reach in different genres. but the way i see it is that you're better off having a think and a regroup before putting nonsense and unrequired boring bits into your work. the book i have been working on for some time now has around 45 thousand words so far..... i know where i'm going and what the ending will entail.....but it's hard when you hit a wall and don't know how to jump from a to c without going through boring old b. lol.

i've taken a break from that particular work for the last six months. giving my mind time to regroup and think of more interesting fodder than..... "how the cooking of the soup" went lol. i will eventually get back on to it... and even though it's taking a while to get it done... it will be all the better for the time i've taken to think about it.

(i'm actually ready to start writing again...but i can never find the time to sit and do it... as when i start i may not stop for several hours)

c'est la vie!

I see what you mean, although I think the situation is different with the big-seeling writers.

They pitch an idea to the publisher, the publisher says "That's a lot for one book - make it three: more money in it."

So they do, and we, the readers, get a bum deal.

I've never started any of my dozens of ideas for novels, as I write every day for work. I guess I've had many hundreds of thousands of words published down the years, so the last thing I want to do when I get home is write some more.

Maybe when I retire.

what have you had published?

Oh, I was a journalist for over a decade.

Newspapers, magazines, articles, articles, articles coming out of your ears.

i'd love to be a journalist...... just... something syndicated perhaps.... something fun.

Tough field, especially to get syndicated. That's the holy grail - tiny number available, zillions of very talented people wanting it.

If you're truly outstanding and *different* and have broad appeal (difficult and extremely rare mix), and you have some way of getting an editor even to read your letter or email, then maybe.

Far more people get all 6 numbers on the lotto, though.

very true hunni.... but if we didn't have dreams we all may as well lie down and die! holy grail or no holy grail.... someday... i may persue it... i already have the hat and whip...watch out indiana jones.. i'm after your grail!!!!


and the things i'd do to him oooooo.... not now tho he's decrepid lookin haha... oh damn..did i say that out loud? no. i only whispered it.... phew! but..scot.... shhhhhhh

LMAO

Don't worry, your secret's safe with me.

Or are you saying you once wanted me, before I got old and decrepit?

Kids these days! Tsk!

lol you're far from old or decrepid.

And from someone with a pic like your myspace #11, I'll take that as a compliment!

hmmmm....what is number 11???