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I like fantasy, so yeah I like fiction. I'm slowly working on my own fictional stories.

I just read The Tales of Beedle the Bard, by J.K Rowling. It was great!
My favourite book is The Silmarillion by J.R.R Tolkien.
What I love about some fiction writers is the detailed back story they have for so many characters.

I've been meaning to read that for quite some time now.

I like reading fiction.

I prefer fiction over non-fiction. I'm currently reading Proust's "In Search of Lost Time Vol.3: The Guermantes Way". My two favorite authors are Dostoevsky and Kafka.

I mostly read fiction. Mostly just stuff by Stephen King and Dean Koontz. Also things like Goosebumps, Animorphs (I'm gonna have to get all those books and read them from start to finish, one of these days.). The Lionboy trilogy. I like horror/fantasy/action-ish fictions.
I've also started getting into the Dark-Hunter series, even though I generally hate romance novels, and have tried to pull myself away from this series multiple times. No success. D:

I love it. I have to get another copy though because my dog ruined it.
If you liked Lord of the Rings you might like it. It's set before LotR.
I was once so obsessed with LotR and Middle Earth I knew how to speak Elvish.

Interesting topic. I prefer non-fiction to fiction. It's difficult for me to sit down and read a fiction. For all my fictional needs, I have in my brain another world already

Other than that, I get my fictional kicks from the movies. Still it is a waste of time for me, and I only see a 2 movies a year (and maybe 2 more on rental).

How ironic that fiction is a waste of time. Yet I cannot count the hours (years!) spent daydreaming.

Which translation?

I only watch or read fiction so I can get some ideas for my own. I still think I can come up with better ideas for films than most of the stuff that they release.

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Moncrieff and Kilmartin.

Mine too (and revised by Enright). Do you own the Modern Library box set?

Mines revised by Enright also. I don't have the Modern Library box set. I only own the first three books. I plan on getting the fourth one soon since I have less than 200 pages left in Vol.3. Have you read all six volumes?

That's not hard to do with half the crap they release now. If you can write well, and think you could write a novel based on an idea someone else came up with, I have a novel I'd like written but I lack certain things to write it myself. If your interested PM me, and remind me that it was specificly about The Mazicyaza.

I read a lot less fiction than I used to. The thing that really irritates me about most fiction is that it's so predictable; it mostly follows the same basic formula, and it's really hard to feel the tension when you know that no matter how bad a situation the hero is in, they're not in any real danger because the author's obviously going to contrive some way for them to get out of it no matter what. It's also hard to think of the villains as a genuine threat, when you know that no matter how brilliant their plan will be, the hero will always find some way to thwart it without any negative consequences at all (except perhaps for the death of a token character), and the whole situation will be effectively re-set such that it's as if the villain never existed. It's just so unrealistic. If life was like fiction, then Hitler would have been defeated in an epic gun battle just minutes before he gives the order to invade Poland, as opposed to the real scenario in which he was only defeated at the culmination of the bloodiest war in history which left the world changed forever. It'd be nice if just occasionally they could have villains who actually manage to leave their mark on the world, whose plans are effective, and can only be defeated (if they can be defeated) at enormous cost. Instead everyone seems to have this obsession with bland happy endings, which tends to leave things both predictable and implausible, which I find highly unsatisfying.

Yes, more than twice over. It is, I think, the greatest work in 20th century literature alongside Joyce's Ulysses and Beckett's trilogy.

Which books are in Beckett's trilogy? I've read 'Waiting for Godot' by Beckett.