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It's the closest thing to having Russell T Davies in your house.

Advantages: Really honest and insightful
Disadvantages: None

Originally posted on dooyoo. Before buying this I read the write ups and they all said something like "Any aspiring writer should read this book" or "Any Who fan should read this book" And yes, they should, but The Writers Tale is just as relevent for anyone who has ever wondered what goes on in TV, or is simply interested in the way other people think. This is one of those all too rare books where you get true insight into not just a person but ...
...I have ever read being as it is just a collection of emails sent between Ben Cook and Russell T Davies. Davies pulls no punches when talking about the processes of writing, admitting that there is no right way to write, and expressing his dislike of those who say that there is. It is fascinating to see TV royalty struggle with the same doubts that we all have, and wrestle with his perpetual procrastination, and google himself to be met with spirit-sapping ...

rhiannonalwen 05.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale - Russell T. Davies & Benjamin Cook

Enter the Dragon

Advantages: Epic character based fantasy
Disadvantages: plot slightly weak

...you should know about the Dragonlance series is that there are many many books in it. There are however only a handful that are classed as 'First Tier'. What that means is that only these are the books that have been written by the original authors (Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman) and they tell the main story. All the other Dragonlance books tell other stories that are in some way related to the main story theme (ie. books about each of the characters ...
...world of evil. What makes Dragonlance slightly different is the fantastic character development. This is without a doubt the strong point of the book and the whole series. The story is brilliant, but nothing too original. The story revolves around a group of friends who get together at the start. You have the twins Raistlin and Caramon who are as different from each other as night and day. Raistlin is a moody young mage in hopes of becoming the ...

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Review of Dragonlance Chronicles - Tracy Hickman, Margaret Weis

Dragonflight

Advantages: A wonderful, adventure, fantasy stroy that has everything.
Disadvantages: A bit short

This book is amazing! I loved it from start to finsh. It is a mixture of futuistic and medeval tradiions. It is set on a planet called PERN, in the Rukbart system. Colonized by humans from Earth, it seemed a perfect planet. The new people for the planet soon settle into an easy way of life. Using only basic technolgy they farm the land and add what life-forms they bought with them from Earth. All is going well until the arrival of the Red Star in ...
...Thread falls from the sky every couple of hundred years. It is deadly and devours any and all lifeforms it comes into contact with. The new society have to fight to survive this deadly menace. They are saved by the planets only defence to this menace. The tiny fire-lizards. So like a tiny version of dragons, they breath fire at the menace, turning it to dust. Using what little technology they have left the society decide to bio-engineer these tiny ...

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Review of Dragonflight - Anne McCaffrey

Closer to Heaven

Advantages: Great character building
Disadvantages: A little slow paced for my taste

Fantasy and science fiction are genres that mesh well together. Some authors have written successfully across both genres, but not usually in the same story. Jaine Fenn has managed to combine both in one book and it's an interesting read. One night, a stranger is found lying unconscious in a bog just outside the village of Dangwern. He appears to have come from nowhere and, apart from a strange piece of cloth lying near his naked body, there is nothing ...
...Unfortunately, this includes the stranger himself, as he is suffering from amnesia and has no idea even where he is, much less how he came to be there. Fortunately for Sais, as he is nicknamed, the boy who finds him is "sky touched". This means he is soon to travel to the City of Lights to be tested to see if he is worthy of being a consort of the goddesses. The village elders permit Sais and the boy's mother Kerin to accompany him to see if anyone ...

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Review of Consorts of Heaven - Jaine Fenn

It is not just about football!

Advantages: It's very funny, and oh so true!
Disadvantages: None

The Disc, for those who don't know, continues to float in space, supported by the elephants who ride the back of the great swimming turtle A'tuin. The Hub about which the planet spins is a centre of great magic, and best avoided if you want to live a happy and contented life. At the outer perimeter is the great circle sea which unendingly streams over the rim into the void, which is best avoided if you want to continue to live at all. Most Discians ...
...Smeems, for instance, is the Candle Nave at the Unseen University. He has to worry about keeping the candles not just alight, but properly melted, artistically, gothicly, dribbled, as it were. Of course, there's Trevor to help. And there's Nutt. With two t's. Trevor Likely has a tendency to skive off work whenever possible, and to kick a tin can around. His dad was a legend. Nutt is… well, no-one's quite sure what Nutt is, even him. Goblin isn't ...

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Review of The Unseen Academicals - Terry Pratchett