[Bridie]

in other words the middle east. its meant to be really nice!

[StarLily]

thanks for helping me out gemini. and it is really nice. but it is also very hot! it's sort of like a mini-america i guess. its a great place to go to, because when i was living in Iran for the past two years, (dad got transferred) it snowed a lot in winter, so we would go to dubaii and enjoy the sun instead. :D

[wannabeactor]

i've learnt about dubai in geography

cool place

[BrianC]

Well, I just ordered The Naming from Amazon even though I am *almost always* adamantly opposed to buying into trilogies. A story good enough to tell should be able to be told in one book. Needless to say, I am in the minority of readers, but, given that the likes of Salvatore, Brooks, Goodkind and Jordan consistently hit the bestseller lists, it already seems like I live in some perverse alternate reality.

But I've decided to give Pellinor a chance based upon the sample chapters on the website. If all of the series proves as good as these chapters, then I'm certain that I'll be glad that I broke my own "rule." I've broken the rule for Sarah Micklem's Firethorn series simply because I liked the cover art, so I can do the same for Alison.

ETA: Silver Serpent of course there's an exception for JRRT, althought technically LOTR was a single volume. In fact, I own it in a single volume. It was George Allen & Unwin that broke it up for reasons of economy.

[Silver Serpent]

:D I should think so too!No exception for Lord Of The Rings?U've never heard of DUBAI!?!?!?! :eek:

[alison]

I've been at Dubai airport, but that's the extent of my knowledge... I had no idea the books went as far as that!

BrianC, I hope your gamble pays off. You can feel comforted - or frustrated - by the thought that the Pellinor series is really one really long story (though I've tried to make each part a story in itself, really impossible but a desire all the same). The Riddle picks up basically exactly where The Naming finishes, and I'm thinking of the whole narrative structure in terms of a 2000 page play in four acts...I don't know why it got that long, I basically hadn't written anything past 100 pages before this in my life (and mainly poetry, so most things not longer than a page!)

[Cait]

Alison, it would be so cool if you made the books into movies! I would see it over and over and over again. I think it has real potential..... :D

[StarLily]

dubaii's airport is really big! but yes your books were there. i think they were kinda popular too, 'cuz they were out on this big table, so you saw it when you came in the store. im glad i went there. :D

[alison]

Hi Cait - the book movie thing is hotly debated here...me, I wouldn't have anything to do with it if it ever did happen. Authors rank very low in the movie business. I'd like it because it would earn me some money, but there are a lot of pitfalls...poor Ursual le Guin suffered a lot from the tv adaptation of the Earthsea series, which sounded completely appalling, though there is an anime on the way from Ghibli Studios which I am so going to see...

Starlily, just as a matter of curiosity - which edition was it that you bought? UK, US or Australian? (And I'm so excited I actually made it into an airport bookshop...)

[crzpellinorgrl]

i got the naming from my aunt stacy for christmas. i liked so much that wen we left for new york the next day i couldnt put it down for the whole trip. my family was mad b/c i wasnt doing anything but reading. thanks to alison. ;) now im obbsessed with it.thanks again to alison most talented ability to write. to tell you the truth i have never read a fantasy book that has a girl have her period before.