For countless millennia, the dwarves of the Fifthling Kingdom have defended the stone gateway into Girdlegard. Many foes have tried to breach the portal, but no man or beast has ever succeeded.
Õîááèò, èëè òóäà è îáðàòíî. Ïðåäûñòîðèÿ "Âëàñòåëèíà êîëåö". The Hobbit is a great modern classic and the prelude to The Lord of the Rings Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling any further than his pantry or his cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an adventure.
Tom Sharpe writes some very wicked satire. His victims are typically the upper class, snobby English or, in his earlier works, the hypocritically rascist South Africans. In 'Ancestral Vices' we have a loosely stiched story about a crusty and warped aristocratic family, a befuddled biographer, victimized dwarves, and a murder. It's a total farce. However the author's wit and humor are lethal, and the story somehow holds together until the very end (or near so).
Eldest (Inheritance, Book 2) by Christopher Paolini
Added by: dovesnake | Karma: 1384.51 | Fiction literature | 5 March 2007
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Surpassing its popular prequel Eragon , this second volume in the Inheritance trilogy shows growing maturity and skill on the part of its very young author, who was only seventeen when the first volume was published in 2003. The story is solidly in the tradition (some might say derivative) of the classic heroic quest fantasy, with the predictable cast of dwarves, elves, and dragons--but also including some imaginatively creepy creatures of evil.