Has anyone seen the "Sword of Truth" tv series

I admit some things don't translate well onto screen. With these books however, it seems even the things that would have translated well and were perfectly described in the books (I'm looking at you Confessor power) were done in a horribly cheesy way off manner. I can think of few things besides epic amounts of traveling that wouldn't have gone over well for the most part with only minor tweaks. And the traveling easily could have happened between episodes.

Actually, Joe, I loved the Princess Bride book.  Movie was great as well - one of the few times both were hits with me.  Sometimes (In the Heat of the Night comes to mind) the movie is better, but mostly it is the book.  The Trouble with Tribbles Star Trek episode was very good for 48 minutes, but compared to the Heinlein book The Rolling Stones from which Gerold stole the idea, there is no comparison.

I was kinda proud of the reference.  It fit on so many levels.  I'm impressed with your knowledge of the classics.

The book is often better but I didn't find that the case with the Princess Bride.  After the 3rd or 4th time of the author going off on a tangent about some "historical fact" about the two kingdoms and then didn't get back to the story, I started to get annoyed and skipped them whenever it went into a rant so I could learn what was happening to the main characters.

But the admitedly great scene when Montoya and Wesley are fencing took nine pages in the book and was sooo great.  I admit I also skipped some of the crapola.

All of this filler talk makes me think one chapter that never needed to be written ' The House of Tom Bombadil'

All of this filler talk makes me think one chapter that never needed to be written ' The House of Tom Bombadil'

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