Dukes of Hazzard

A friend of mine advised me to write a movie review instead of the those boring book reviews so here it is.
This movie really reminds me of old Hindi films when the local village boys fight the evil and filthy rich land owner (and the corrupt cops). The plot revolves around the Dukes (2 brothers, their sister and an uncle), the brothers actually deliver moonshine which is brewed by their uncle. Their lovely cousin sister Daisy (Jessica Simpson) usually gets them out of trouble.
The movie has lots of car stunts and a few comic situations as well. Overall I'd say its good fun and definitely worth a watch.

P.S. - I also saw Fantastic 4 (too old now) and Bewitched (yeah I know, don't say anything, I was deperately bored).

Sword of Truth

I ordered this series in spite of the customer reviews for some of the books at Amazon.
The story is nothing original insofar as the basic plot is concerned, it about a simple woods guide living in a town ignorant of magic who later turns out to be the most powerful wizard in three thousand years.
Some of the characters and stories are really interesting, although I sometimes wished that the editor had done more work on flashbacks and most of the monologues/discussions.
But the series seems to be losing its way and getting repetitive so you might want to give this one a pass.

Empire Trilogy

I ordered this series after seeing the recommendations from users at Amazon but after I started reading I thought I'd made a mistake. This book essentially tells the same story as the Magician series but from the perspective of the Tsurani, but as the story progressed I found it very engrossing and it really does not dwell much on the same story (Milamber's rebellion and the closing of the rift are there but from a totally new angle).
I'd recommend this book with a warning though, its mostly about the Tsurani society and probably only fans of the Magician series would like it.

Drenai Tales

This series was a change back to Fantasy after reading the Hyperion series.
The stories are refreshingly short and simple. Although they were published in a non chronological order I would recommend that they are read in the order that they were published.
The stories are about the heroes of Drenai at various points of time though some of the popular heroes seem to be getting more novels based on them. After going through the ten books of the Wheel of Time and then Hyperion it was really fun to read this series and I highly recommend it to fantasy fans.

Sorry for the late update

I sort of stopped updating after the initial euphoria rubbed off.
To recap since my last update - I visited Taiwan (for 1 week in December 2004, it was great), changed my employer (in March 2005), bought a new car (Santro Xing XG, June 2005) and read a lot of fantasy novels while doing all this ;-)
So as you can see I've been busy, but now that I have a broadband connection at home I can't think of any excuses not to update my blog frequently.