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Lord Foul's Bane  (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever #1) by Stephen R. Donaldson I wanted to like this book. It started well enough. It could have been so good. But then the main character raped an innocent girl. Was he supposed to be the hero ? A rapist can’t be the good guy. So was he the bad guy? I got the impression he was supposed to go on to be some sort of saviour. I even tried reading on but I couldn’t push the incident aside the way it is pushed aside in the book. I ended up reading the synopses of the series to see if he is repentant and redeems himself in any way, or that the girl might have risen above the despair (or better still that she might have murdered him) but it wasn’t to be, if anything her fate seemed to become sadder and sadder. I prefer the main character to be either a good character I love to love, or a diabolically bad character who ends up copping it big time.

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The Princess Bride , written by William Goldman. I often wonder, if I have to choose a composer to do music for a book I have written, who would I choose? There are some big names out there - Ennio Morricone, Howard Shore, Hans Zimmer, John Williams, Danny Elfman, (James Horner – rest in peace). Yet the composer I might choose, who is right up there on my list of favourites, is Mark Knopfler. One of the most notable things about the music of Dire Straits through the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s was the precision of the performance of the pieces produced by Mark Knopfler. Whilst his voice and style added a unique element, the music and how it was played grabbed people. It was very neat. Mark Knopfler went on to create the musical score for several movies including cult classic The Princess Bride.   It was impossible not to love the book and the movie. It was equally impossible not to love the music. If you haven’t read the book, read it! If you prefer, see the mo

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