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What fantasy would You write? (corrected)
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Tried answering it as closely as I could, then saw the answer, then went back and changed a few to other close/alternate choices, saw the same answer, went back and changed several answers again to other things I'd write, went back, and I still got
I just can't escape Donaldson's influence!
I just can't escape Donaldson's influence!
Anyone perfect must be lying, anything easy has its cost, anyone plain can be lovely, anyone loved can be lost.
For the record, I just added a couple more questions to the quiz. Maybe that'll make it a bit more specific. Thankee!
"O let my name be in the Book of Love!
It be there, I care not of the other great book Above.
Strike it out! Or, write it in anew. But
Let my name be in the Book of Love!" --Omar Khayam
It be there, I care not of the other great book Above.
Strike it out! Or, write it in anew. But
Let my name be in the Book of Love!" --Omar Khayam
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aliantha
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I did actually write a fantasy novel some years ago, and so I answered based on that manuscript. Turns out I'd write Gormanghast. Hmm, looks like I really do have to read it now....
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"Dreaming isn't good for you unless you do the things it tells you to." -- Three Dog Night (via the GI)
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Oh, cool. I love these books!
<img src="stat.rumandmonkey.com/tests/4/6/764/2444.jpg" title="Gormenghast!" alt="Gormenghast!" border="0" />
Mervyn Peake's fantasy series is like Dickens on morphine, a surreal landscape of one gigantic castle--Gormenghast--the size of a city that is its own society, nation, world. Here is born Titus, Earl of Groan, the boy destined to rule (or be ruled) by the vast castle and its rituals.
<img src="stat.rumandmonkey.com/tests/4/6/764/2444.jpg" title="Gormenghast!" alt="Gormenghast!" border="0" />
Mervyn Peake's fantasy series is like Dickens on morphine, a surreal landscape of one gigantic castle--Gormenghast--the size of a city that is its own society, nation, world. Here is born Titus, Earl of Groan, the boy destined to rule (or be ruled) by the vast castle and its rituals.
Halfway down the stairs Is the stair where I sit. There isn't any other stair quite like it. I'm not at the bottom, I'm not at the top; So this is the stair where I always stop.
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Iryssa
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*adds more books to her mile-long list of "must-reads"*
"A choice made freely is stronger than one compelled"
- Stephen R. Donaldson's The Wounded Land
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- Stephen R. Donaldson's The Wounded Land
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I saw the tv adaptation of Gormenghast, and it was pretty good. I've been meaning to read the books ever since.Myste wrote:Oh, cool. I love these books!
<img src="stat.rumandmonkey.com/tests/4/6/764/2444.jpg" title="Gormenghast!" alt="Gormenghast!" border="0" />
Mervyn Peake's fantasy series is like Dickens on morphine, a surreal landscape of one gigantic castle--Gormenghast--the size of a city that is its own society, nation, world. Here is born Titus, Earl of Groan, the boy destined to rule (or be ruled) by the vast castle and its rituals.
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