Just for you Ogg

Slaine mac Roth · Post by **Slaine mac Roth** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 8:53 am

Don't think these pics will need explanation, will they?

Ogg · Post by **Ogg** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 9:04 am

Excellent my friend. No feelings of envy and/or jealousy I assure you

. You've brightened up a very rainy day and made the ?250 I've just spent with the wife to refit the bathroom pale into insignificance

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Now hurry up and read the thing so we can be Discworld geeks together

. I'VE read it twice the now.

Slaine mac Roth · Post by **Slaine mac Roth** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 9:08 am

Thought you'd like it

Ogg · Post by **Ogg** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 9:14 am

I answered your Discworld question via pm. I hope you're reading?...I will not mention Mr Gryle...

England v Wales on the tele

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ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 9:32 am

Looks like a familiar scene. I just took my daughters to a Terry Brooks book signing. I don't know if Brooks is popular on your side of the pond or not, but he's pretty big over here.

Congratulations! I bet that was a lot of fun.

Slaine mac Roth · Post by **Slaine mac Roth** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 12:04 pm

Personally, I do like Terry Brooks even though I don't knoow many that do. To a lot of people over here, he's thought of as a second rate Tolkien (admittedly, most American Fantasy authors are, I think it must be some sort of English snobbery) and his novelisation of The Phantom Menace did him no favours.

The signing was good. I arrived about 2 hours before Terry and, as such, wasn't too far down the queue. It was nice to spend a couple of hours chatting to Discworlders I've never met before as well as being complimented by the man himself on a nice bit of copyright theft.

(He was referring to my homemade T-shirt with a drawing of The Patrician on)

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 12:23 pm

Slaine mac Roth wrote:Personally, I do like Terry Brooks even though I don't knoow many that do. To a lot of people over here, he's thought of as a second rate Tolkien (admittedly, most American Fantasy authors are, I think it must be some sort of English snobbery) and his novelisation of The Phantom Menace did him no favours.

The signing was good. I arrived about 2 hours before Terry and, as such, wasn't too far down the queue. It was nice to spend a couple of hours chatting to Discworlders I've never met before as well as being complimented by the man himself on a nice bit of copyright theft.

(He was referring to my homemade T-shirt with a drawing of The Patrician on)

Actually, I thought the first Sword of Shanarra book was quite a Tolkien ripoff. I'm not a big fan of his. But it's been fun to meet him a couple of times.

Ogg · Post by **Ogg** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 12:46 pm

My wife is a Terry Brooks fan and I believe she owns the majority of his work. A good friend of hers even named her Daughter 'Kian' after one of the Shanarra characters.
I have read the 'Magic Kingdom for sale-Sold' series set in Landover and enjoyed them. Tolkien was taught in our school so what more can I add? I do reread David Eddings 'Belgariad and Mallorean' at least twice a year though.

The Magic Kingdom of Landover

Magic Kingdom For Sale -- Sold!
The Black Unicorn
Wizard At Large
The Tangle Box
Witches' Brew

happysmilies007 · Post by **happysmilies007** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 2:37 pm

my bro is a HUGE Terry Brooks fan..he was real disappointed when he finished off the last of the Shannara books. he's really into sci fiction, but it equally picky about what he reads.

congrats on getting the book signed Slaine!

carolynn

Slaine mac Roth · Post by **Slaine mac Roth** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 2:52 pm

I don't know if you've seen this Ogg

http://www.snowgumfilms.com/trollbridge/index.htm