There is no lack of deeper meaning! But if you get scared easily, you might be cringing enough so you miss it in the first three books, unless you have already read THE MAN WHO FOUGHT ALONE. I know this is not the proper way, but SRD has portrayed alcoholism so realistically, so searingly, that some...

You're kidding. How time flies. Well, maybe Sam Neill would be old enough after all.

For Darrin's lady, no self-respecting Hollywood actress would dare be comfortable and matronly, so I'm stumped. (Can't remember her name, I already piled the ebooks back across the SRD shelf.)

Joy

We'll take him when he grows up. :wink: I believe gray hair and sagging flesh was mentioned more than once, about Darrin and his lady. It was one of their badges -- showed they were good enough to survive. I spent all this time thinking, and I haven't been able to think of a savvy but laid-back capt...

Never a chore to look through SRD's prose.

Now where do I find out what Eric Bana looks like?

Here's a gambit for everyone:
Which do you prefer for Hashi Lehwohl? Brent Spiner, Steve Buscemi, or Martin Savage (George Grossmith in Topsy-Turvy)?

Joy

Oh oh oh oh yeah. I remember his ship's name, Free Lunch... Had to uproot a large pile of ebook printouts to get at CHAOS AND ORDER. Darrin Scroyle, his name is. Doesn't get much "screen time," but just as firmly established in reality as the others. "Darrin scratched his chest, tryin...

Neither one had an ideal personality (define and explain "ideal personality" ;-) ) but they understood things about each other that no one else could. As for what Covenant saw in her: first of all, as he kept saying, she was the only woman he knew who wasn't afraid of him. More generally, ...

Eric Bana for that bloke who keeps scratching his chest. Two days later, I'm still cudgeling my memory on this, Landwaster. :? Is Sib Makern the bloke who keeps scratching his chest? The guy who keeps failing to guard Nick? The one who wants to be "spared"? Because if not, I simply can't ...

He used more than the *knowledge* of martial arts: ...He stepped toward me. The room whirled, and I found myself on my hands and knees. The hardwood in front of my face had a long grain like flowing veins. It seemed full of remembered sunlight, too warm for ordinary wood. The lines between the board...

Are there copies of SRD's "Epic Fantasy in the Modern World" available? I've had no success finding one.

Joy

For some reason when I think of Davies what always comes to my mind is that lost-boy character from that misbegotten Lost in Space movie, you know the one who existed in the future and met his family from the past. I do not know why. I'll have to get back to you on that one when I've seen the movie...

Joy wrote: For discussion: Vector Shaheed was the one character in The Gap who fulfilled all his ambitions. Well I don't think he aspired to end up dead and have Angus use his body as a shield, but side from that, yeah. Oddly enough, I do think Vector aspired to that. He had already accomplished hi...

Landwaster, I just visited the Angus & Robertson website. They have three of the four SRD mysteries, all but THE MAN WHO TRIED TO GET AWAY. So you wouldn't have to pay for overseas shipping.

I bought the three-in-one volume so I could have GET AWAY.

Joy

Ginny falls apart sometimes, too. They are opposites in those ways, I agree. Compensating for each other worked well for them in most ways. But Brew needed to learn to depend on himself, which he couldn't with Ginny there to lean on. He too had a sense of responsibility, in two ways: his feelings of...

I'd love to see Kevin Spacey in Vector's role - he has that calm rotund face, blue eyes... Whadaya know. Spacey was my early pick to play Vector. I only switched when I thought his newly acquired Leading Man status changed his aura, so he doesn't project passivity. IMO, anyway. In spite of your fee...

I caught some slight changes in phrases in the revised version of THE MAN WHO KILLED HIS BROTHER. Just the kinds of things one would do when tinkering with a basically satisfying work from twenty years before. I didn't go through the whole book looking for changes -- I wanted to enjoy the read. Nice...

For discussion: Vector Shaheed was the one character in The Gap who fulfilled all his ambitions.

Go ahead and prove me wrong, I don't mind.

Joy
who would love to see Vector played by Forest Whitaker

Have you tried to imagine the conversation, as Angus and Milos respond to this tie for your affections? :) Here's the conversation of the asteroid swarm: "Energies from the ripped solar winds, fed by magnetic resonance, fired lightning in long, blinding sheets against Trumpet's shields." Joy

I have no idea how many times I've reread The Gap. It is my favorite SRD story. I had to break off the series after CHAOS AND ORDER, too many other things to do, but ALL GODS will be there next time the urge to read some Donaldson becomes irresistable. It is hard to pick a favorite character. I am f...

maybe he has to write something out of himself, some personal experience; no, I am not implying that he did things like this, but maybe he had some contact with things like that in the past or maybe he simply think that rape is the most horrible crime possible, that's why it is in the center of his...

The answer to the problem of filming the rape would be to make clear every single thought and sensation going through Covenant, from the moment he meets Lena. That is how Donaldson makes it acceptable to the reader. Because I understand what he is going through, I find it possible to sympathize with...