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Raymond E. Feist


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in Los Angeles, California, The United States
December 23, 1945

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Raymond E. Feist was born Raymond E. Gonzales III, but took his adoptive step-father's surname when his mother remarried Felix E. Feist. He graduated with a B.A. in Communication Arts with Honors in 1977 from the University of California at San Diego. During that year Feist had some ideas for a novel about a boy who would be a magician. He wrote the novel two years later, and it was published in 1982 by Doubleday. Feist currently lives in San Diego with his children, where he collects fine wine, DVDs, and books on a variety of topics of personal interest: wine, biographies, history, and, especially, the history of American Professional Football. ...more

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Touching greatness

I first saw John Wooden at court side in 1963.  My neighbors had an extra ticket for the L.A. Basketball Classic, an invitational college basketball tourney hosted jointly by USC and UCLA, which at the time shared the L.A. Sports Arena as their home court (until two years later when UCLA opened Pauley Pavilion on campus).

They said, "We're going to see Michigan with Cazzy Russel."  "Who they playin

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“Life is problems. Living is solving problems.”
Raymond E. Feist, Silverthorn

“Every person you encounter, whom you interact with, is there to teach you something. Sometimes it may be years before you realize what each had to show you.”
Raymond E. Feist, Rise of a Merchant Prince

“A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.”
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Black Jewell by Anne Bishop
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Deverry by Katharine Kerr
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Fortress by C.J. Cherryh
Inda by Sherwood Smith
Riftwar Saga by Raymond E. Feist
Malazon Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson
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Riyria Revelations by Michael J. Sullivan
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Riftwar Saga by Raymond E. Feist
 
  10 votes 19.6%

Malazon Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson
 
  10 votes 19.6%

Black Jewell by Anne Bishop
 
  7 votes 13.7%

Fortress by C.J. Cherryh
 
  5 votes 9.8%

Inda by Sherwood Smith
 
  4 votes 7.8%

Riyria Revelations by Michael Sullivan
 
  4 votes 7.8%

Tales of the Flat Earth by Tanith Lee
 
  3 votes 5.9%

Saga of Recluce by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
 
  3 votes 5.9%

Windrose Chronicles by Barbara Hambly
 
  3 votes 5.9%

Deverry by Katherine Kerr
 
  1 vote 2.0%

Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock
 
  1 vote 2.0%

Corean Chronicles by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
 
  0 votes 0.0%

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