Tag: fantasy
group name: fanficaddict
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March 25, 2007 07:23 PM EDT --
The media hype has already started regarding the new Tolkein book which is coming out. The question is, is this just going to be another patchwork of incomplete tales like the Silmarillion, or is . . . more
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December 11, 2007 09:07 PM EST --
According to the Secret History of Paris, Nicolas Flamel was an occult alchemist from Paris. Is that where the name comes from in the first Harry Potter book?
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July 12, 2007 12:44 AM EDT --
Well, it isn't a bad movie. No, but compared to the preceding Harry Potter installments, it is not particularly a good movie either. I won't spoil it. But there are some disconcerting . . . more
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February 17, 2008 11:56 PM EST --
I am normally hesitant about fantasy movies unless I am familiar with the book, and then I usually judge the movie by how faithful it was to the book and how well it was done overall. In this case, I have . . . more
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December 09, 2007 05:08 PM EST --
I'm going to start this review out by asking, "What the heck is the big deal about this movie? and Why are churches so upset?"
The movie is based on the first book in a series by Phillip . . . more
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April 12, 2007 05:18 PM EDT --
Which do you believe is better? Eragon or Harry Potter? my stepdaughter asked as I was plowing through Eldest for the second time. My off the cuff quick response was Harry Potter of course. . . . more
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December 09, 2007 07:44 PM EST --
All those fundamentalist Christians quaking in their boots that a blasphemous movie has just hit the box office before before the most important season commercializing Christ, can take a sigh of relief. . . . more
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August 25, 2007 12:09 AM EDT --
Despite my doubts back in April when I asked if cyberpunk is still relevant, I was curious to see where James R. Strickland’s Looking Glass would leave me. . . . more
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February 07, 2008 07:01 PM EST --
When you are as out of shape and old as I am you don't want to get too distracted while trudging along on the elliptical machines at the gym. So I choose the podcasts that I download onto my . . . more
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November 24, 2007 02:35 PM EST --
Hey folks. Since my book, The Book of Harry Potter Trifles, Trivias and Particularities, vol. 1 , comes out next week, I’d thought I’d have a little contest here to win a copy. . . . more
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October 19, 2007 11:30 PM EDT --
The news coming out of J.K. Rowling’s US book tour finally got interesting with tonight’s Carnegie Hall revelation that Dumbledore was, in fact, gay and in love with Gellert Grindelwald. . . . more
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July 08, 2008 12:28 AM EDT --
1966:
Superman sped across the countryside in the central United States at a speed unmatched by any human construct. . . . more
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March 29, 2007 09:00 AM EDT --
For many of us the reality of the release of the final book in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series sunk in for us yesterday with . . . more
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July 13, 2007 11:37 AM EDT --
While there are problems, sometimes critical ones, in the details, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix gets right a lot more than it gets wrong, especially in understanding the tonal quality of the . . . more
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July 22, 2007 01:37 PM EDT --
The seventh and presumably final book in JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series provides us with both a fitting end to the journey we’ve all . . . more
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November 12, 2007 09:58 PM EST --
Get your Tassimo Brewer warmed up and get out your Espresso t-discs, you are going to spend a long night discussing & arguing religion with this book.
This is the first of PKD's three final . . . more
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May 08, 2007 09:57 AM EDT --
Clive Barker’s Imajica opens with a description from Pluthero Quexos of one of the great principles of drama – that of the . . . more
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December 10, 2007 10:16 PM EST --
I think that perhaps Mormons are better positioned doctrinally to understand Pullman's Dark Materials Trilogy than any other Christian faith. There are several reasons for that namely we have . . . more
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November 18, 2007 10:25 PM EST --
The first book in Philip Pullman's fantasy trilogy is about to become a movie. Before even its premiere, it is drawing fire from the Christian Right and being called an anti-Narnia. In . . . more
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July 17, 2007 12:58 AM EDT --
As many of you know, I have often written about why young adult, as well as science fiction and fantasy literature can and does have meaning for . . . more
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