What’s The Price of Magic? It’s a “game” or exercise taught by Orson Scott Card at a writing class I attended in San Diego recently. The purpose of which is to define rules of a fantasy world where magic is possible. For magic to be possible, there is bound to be a price.
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The Price of Magic
Book: The Penal Colony by Richard Herley
I just finished reading The Penal Colony this morning. I started reading it Wednesday and had a difficult time putting it down. It’s a fast read and a great story. I’ve been simultaneously reading another book, but this one clearly held my attention. The great thing about this book is that the author, Richard Herley [...]
Book: Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
I bought Pillars of the Earth before I knew that is was Oprah’s Book Club pick for January…honestly! But I’m not sorry I did. It’s a great book full of all the elements of a great story. Ken Follett finished it in 1989, and it’s popularity has been growing for years through word of mouth.
Ken [...]
More Summer Reading
I finally finished Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. Reading it is like reading 3 books. I really enjoyed it, but I tired of Ayn making the same point over and over. She could have easily cut that book by half and not lost a thing. I have to say though, she really gave me [...]
Who’s shrugging now?
I’ve been reading Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged for the last few days. I’m only into a little over 20%. That is when I figured out who John Galt is…couldn’t Ayn have made it a little more difficult to guess? If you solve a mystery when a book is only 20% of the way done, doesn’t [...]
Summer Reading
I have been reading quite a bit lately. I read Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead. I also finished Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis. I’m reading a little from Montaigne’s Essays for my 10 year reading plan. And I’m back tracking and studying a little philosophy with some lectures from [...]
Great Books
I have started a 10 year reading plan that touches on a lot of great books. The plan is based on a volume of books called Great Books of the Western World. Here is a web site that takes about the reading plan and links to a yahoo group where we discuss the work. I’m [...]
Positive Proof
I have followed and enjoyed the work of Project Gutenberg since the early to mid nineties. I have always wanted to participate somehow, but always worried about taking on too much and letting down the project if I didn’t pull my weight, or if my interest should wane. Maybe up until a few years ago, [...]
Socrates on death…
This is, perhaps, my favorite argument of Socrates, one that I have had for years, and now I find that Socrates had it long before me.
Moreover, we may hence conclude that there is great hope that death is a blessing. For to die is one of two things: for either the dead may be [...]
