Well, I may carry on with the Deadhouse gates in the future. But I really prefer SF to fantasy. The only character that I really liked was Krupp. Because he was a bumbling oddball, with hidden talents which were revealed slowly as part of the plot. Most of the other characters were bland. As I said ...

I finished Gardens of the Moon a couple of months back and I don't think I'll be continuing with the series. I quite enjoyed it, but it didn't grab me enough. The things I didn't like about it were: - Every character is older than the last. You get 100 year old sexually active wizards, then 200 year...

I've recently thought Nic Cage would make a good Covenant. He does the flawed anti-hero thing really well. Look at Adaptation where he's very distressed, and at Matchstick Men. And we all know his macho hero roles, which isn't TC, but would come into play when it's necessary to appreciate TC's decis...

I've read a bit of Richard Dawkin's an evolutionary biologist. His book The Selfish Gene is a real eye opener. Imagining the Amnion as a type of hive society, with either one or more 'Queens', it becomes easy to imagine how an amnion might think. Evolution is a competition between genes, it's not th...