So I don't read books..Follow

That's not all they do with it, though. They talk about having all kinds of information at your fingertips, and when I was a kid the internet just wasn't something that anyone knew about. They also mentioned these "discussions" which I imagine are sort of like these forums. The idea of even having a computer in your home was still pretty foreign when I was ten years old, and this book was written before I was born.

Just interesting to me, is all.

It doesn't help, as you well know.

That's what you do, though, so I can't really fault you for it.

I don't personally have that view of GRRM, most of my friends do. I personally find his writing hard to sit down and read through without stopping to try and assimilate the 80 names that just got tossed at me.

Sanderson at least in that aspect is a better writer than GRRM.

As I've been working through Game of Thrones, I've been keeping the wikipedia entry of the major houses up to help me a bit. I'm an organized person and with a rudimentary list in front of me, I can better keep characters in my mind.

That said, seeing the TV series has helped much more, though reading the book at this point may be a tad redundant (though of course I'll pick up details that were glossed over).

Personally I have always enjoyed the entire Ender series. The sequels, however, are very different from Ender's Game. There's no battle room or any real action sequences. It really just becomes entirely about character development. I know some people who thought the sequels were just too slow. Maybe it's nostalgia, as I first read the series back in something like 4th or 5th grade, but I still enjoy them a lot.

And yes, Ender's shadow runs parallel to Ender's game from the point of view of a different character. I like Ender's Shadow, and have read it many times, but I only read through the sequels to it once. They weren't bad, but they didn't seem to be up to the standard I was expecting. I don't quite remember those books anymore, but I think there was actually quite a bit of action in them. That might be part of why I don't like them as much.

Okay, that's my rambling quota for the day.

Finished The Dark Tower books. Honestly did not see that ending coming. The books where my 1st King books. I have seen some of the films based of his books, but never read any of them due to the view of my Father. He dislikes King a lot due to how some of his books end. I enjoyed The DK story, and may check out more of his stuff later down the road.
On to something new

The Shining is definitely worth the read or listen, my personal favourite. The movie isn't that much like the book, although I do like both, just not the miniseries because that one was just bad.

I decided on The Name of the Wind. So far so good. I started Ender's Game, but it must have been a bad torrent..unless the books just Starts in what seemed like the middle of a conversation (had no intro, author, who was reading it..it just started with 2 guys talking >.>).

yea lol. Tell my if this is correct then (as I only listened to about 10-1sec). starts of as "I've watched through his eyes, I've listen through his ears..." ?
The way the person broke the chapters up make it look off too (or I'm missing 1 part -.-)