All your butts are belong to me!

[Barmacral]

Heh, hardly, I've got a rather large tome by Erickson sitting on my dresser that I desperately want to read, but am holding off on it for my flight too and from Sweden, because 8 hours is a long time on a plane...

[reyler]

Yeah, but given that I'm only recently in a place where I actually could just go out and buy books or cds or whatever with any regularity, I'm accustomed to making sure it's something I want to buy first. Hence the library, hence mp3s, hence Veoh... I don't want to get stuck with having paid money for something I don't like.

[Barmacral]

Smart idea, if I did that, I'd have never bought the last Goodkind book and ruined that series for me.

[reyler]

After everything I've heard on this board I'm not likely to ever even touch the first one of his.

[Barmacral]

Good idea, I commend you for that.

[reyler]

Because apparently he's up his own ass with his own warped morality and skewed interpretation of Objectivism. I own The Fountainhead, I don't need a weak knockoff pretending to be a fantasy.

[Barmacral]

He's full of himself, and reading some of his interviews, he really really knows nothing. He just thinks he's smart.

[reyler]

That's one of the reasons I can't read anything Eddings wrote after the Belgariad. That and the fact that everything he wrote after that sucks.

[mcs0083]

I never read Eddings. Heard he was horrible.

[Barmacral]

Eddings from what I hear is something you use to introduce people to fantasy, and nothing more.

[reyler]

Pretty much. The Belgariad is good if you don't expect too much from it, and the surprise that Garion is really a king and has to fight Torak to the death is so obvious I'm not even concerned that I'm spoiling it for you in case you want to read it.

[Barmacral]

Noted, though I highly doubt I'll ever get around to reading it.

[mcs0083]

In that case I'm glad I never started reading him.

I'm going to bed. Adieu.

[reyler]

*throws rocks*

[Barmacral]

*crushes said rocks into diamonds*

[reyler]

Pah, cubic zirconium if that.

[Barmacral]

I said diamonds!

[reyler]

I said flivver ix muffridje!

[Barmacral]

Well then! *snorts*

[reyler]

Here, you dropped your inhaler.

[Barmacral]

I don't use an inhaler!

*looks around suspiciously*

Alright, fine, I'll use it.

[reyler]

*Barm unwittingly huffs swamp gas*

[Barmacral]

Thought it would be something like that. Fortunately I have no insides left to rot, credit to you reyler.

[reyler]

I'm thinking of setting up a smokehouse in there. Do up some salmon.

[Barmacral]

I prefer tuna. Not a huge fan of salmon.