[danyl]

I originally got the book because I thought it would be an ok-ish read and no more than that. One of those fantasies you would like but would never love. It turned out to be so much more. From the first chapter I was literally enthralled. I even started talking about it to my friends and spent a Geography lesson trying to get my teacher to ponder with me where it would be in the world, what with it's climates etc. if it actually existed.
For me the books are on the level off an epic. It's not something one can read and then come to the conclusion that it was good or nice. The book is amazing and should be more widely known, in my opinion, and I'm sure many others.
It can be easily compared to Tolkien because it contains the same core of the writing that shows, that for the author this book was wrote because they wanted to share something with people, not purely for money, fame etc.

[Ebi]

i love epic adventures they kind of take you to a whole new level

btw danly i like your picture, its the from the lion, the witch and the wardrobe isnt it ;)

[owleye]

i strangly feel sorry for your geography teacher

[danyl]

ebi - yes my pic is from the lion the witch and the wardrobe. it was hard trying to think of a pic small enough to be my avatar.i like yours as well. im abig fan of anime/manga etc.

owleye - lol.why? he was quite surprised when I finished school with a grage B....come to think of so was I

[owleye]

its just the image i got of someone rambling on to a teacher about something so confuzing

[harleen92]

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[Silver Serpent]

It can be easily compared to Tolkien because it contains the same core of the writing that shows, that for the author this book was wrote because they wanted to share something with people, not purely for money, fame etc.
If only i got £1 every time i say that.... :rolleyes:
Does anyone else think that Rowlings books aren't getting anybetter?Personally, i think that the fame is going to her head abit too much-the books are good...but not THAT good...not as good as everyone makes them out to be.I read them a while before they became 'famous' and the reviews in the papers were medioca(?is that how it's spelt?)

[wannabeactor]

I love Alsion's books because they are unlike anything I have ever read before. I'm a big LOTR and The Hobbit Fan but The Gift and The riddle are just fantastic. What I really love is the descriptive language. You see what Maerad sees, you feel what she feels, you taste what she tastes. :)

Some books gloss over the places that the characters go, but Alison describes it in such a way that it is a film in your head, and your in the film. Its hard to explain but these books have touched me in a way like nothing i've read before, and i've read alot. :)

p.s the poetry's fantasic by the way. ;)

Applause, jumping up and down on seat, looks around and calmly sits back down again. (got a little carried away there) :o :p

You love to write alison, don't you. A reader can tell that. Your soul is on these books. Thankyou.

[alison]

I do love to write. Even on very hot days like today, when it seems awfully hard work and I'm reading through the text for literally the tenth time... :rolleyes:

But I must say, you people make all that pain worthwhile!

[Bridie]

If only i got £1 every time i say that.... :rolleyes:
Does anyone else think that Rowlings books aren't getting anybetter?Personally, i think that the fame is going to her head abit too much-the books are good...but not THAT good...not as good as everyone makes them out to be.I read them a while before they became 'famous' and the reviews in the papers were medioca(?is that how it's spelt?)

hmm yes they have got worse. im not really a rowling fan. her heart isnt in the writing anymore.