The ultimate encyclopedia of fantasy Book

I should not sit here and justify my reading habits - but for this one I feel that I should. There are many guide books out there - and I will admit that if you think about it, why do we need them. The internet is faster - cheaper and can hold and adapt information in a way books never can. So by rights guide books if this nature are self limiting the second they hit print.

OR do they - you see for the internet you have to link one article or page to the next -to form one huge daisy chain of information which you are invariably led down by the author or creator - where as a guide book you can read in any order - on any subject - you can jump around pages or sections - going back over pages when you spies something new or interesting. These books to me are a gold mine for the simple reason you get out of them what you want to - and not what someone says you should.

So for me these guides however dated or limited in their content they may be not only have a place in my collection but have a very important one - and I often go back to them and start again - and I always come away with something new. This book is deceptively informative and great fun to read.