So long as he/she is interesting, I'd probably read it.  Doesn't have to be likeable.

I was about to point at Hannibal Lecter as an example of interesting character but not really likeable with all the killing...but he's not the main character in Red Dragon, Silence, or Hannibal.  Though I'm gonna guess he is in Hannibal Rising...anyone know?

1. Cat/fox/monkey/cow/anything else -demons. Uh-uh. I don't see why so many people were/are fascinated with a dude that has a tail growing out of his rear. While some people will certainly think differently, I don't see the huge deal about it. Why cross a human with a fox, what's the point?

Usually because its interesting to come up with something.  I have two races of the like in a big fantasy world I'm currently writing in.  One is a set of cat-people and the other are sort of wolfish humanoids with horns that spawned from a failed attempt at drawing my Tauren Druid from WoW.  Both are races affected by magic, though, so they were originally human.

I'd explain more on them but that would give away thing's that will come up in the stories in that world that I'm not willing to tell people.  Would completely ruin things if you went and read them.

2. Insanely big weapons. Why do people think swords that are taller than them are cool? And, how come almost all the people I talk to about this are willing to defend it vehemently, saying it's just really big, and we could use them in real life if we had them?

The really insanely big weapons are more seen in anime (Samurai Deeper Kyo or Bleach) or games (Cloud and Sephiroth from Final Fantasy 7) than anywhere else.  Large weapons in reality are really only useful when on horseback or attacking someone on horseback - in a regular old swordfight you'd die trying to use one.  The insanely big one's are just always seen as more cool than regular old weapons.

Sometimes the overlarge weapons make sense - there's an actual explanation for the big weapon used by the main character Ichigo in Bleach - but usually they don't.  Sometimes it just goes with the character.

What was the quote?

"Holy shit!  Hellhounds!"
"Harry," Michael said.
"Sorry.  Holy shit!  Heckhounds!"

Something like that...

The Abstruse One
Darryl Mott Jr.

Yup, that was the quote pretty much.

My basic thing with swearing is use it in times of crisis with most characters unless they're the sort that use them in every other sentence they say.  Or in certain situations (like traffic, guh, TRAFFIC).  That's what I've held to with my swearing in real so I hold to that in fiction.

I've had that happen before but it was on another board system.  My account on ezboard once said I registered in the year 1898 or somewhere around there.

Heard nothing till just now.  Sounds interesting though.

Alas, no finished novels here. 

I always pictured it like a video game with three energy bars.  The first one refills immediately upon the spell being cast or when the spell is no longer being sustained.  The next refills slowly until you sit down and catch your breath, refilling completely within 10 minutes to an hour or so.  The last refills very slowly and doesn't refill at all while energy is being channeled.

I had to stop and stare at the screen at reading that because of how much sense it makes.

1) I write whenever I get inspiration or have the time.  Inspiration is usually scattered and I have the time now but that's about to be blown away by school.

2) Yes.  I have a whole...er, 30 something pages, I think, of just notes for my fantasy world.  Since its a big world with lots of things in it, I want to know the meager limits of what I can do within it.  Though the stories connected to it are really the only one's I've ever written outlines out for.  Eh.