@Emsley- It's not really sci-fi, but it's definetly Fantasy. Very nice characters and original story. I highly recommend it if you haven't read any of them. The first one is called The Eye of the World and there is 9 so far in the series. They're absolutely huge books too, most of them around 900 pages (paperback) or more. @Alexis-David Copperfield by Dickens is one of my all time favorite books. (isn't it Hard Times though and not Difficult Times? i could be wrong...) Good beer delights the heart of man too!