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Spiral Jacobs wrote:Thanks Avatar, I'll be sure to have a look there
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Lord Vishnu's Love Handles by Will Clarke
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The Gap Into Madness: Chaos And Order

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Avatar wrote:The Gap Into Madness: Chaos And Order

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Oh man, I remember finishing A Dark and Hungry God Arises for the first time, I was literally on the edge of my seat. I couldn't wait to get to the next book. And this one, too, raised my blood pressure to extremes.

Oh no I feel a re-read coming....not again! 4 times should be enough, right?
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Nope. :D Don't even know how many times this is for me. But then, I'm an inveterate re-reader.

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Just finished Imager by Modesitt.

Sometimes, I really wish that guy wasn't such a prolific writer.
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This Day All Gods Die

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Avatar wrote:This Day All Gods Die

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I can re-read the beginning of the book over and over, those Hashi chapters are excellent.
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Not really a book, but I just finished The Queen of Air and Darkness by Poul Andersen. A neighbor had been pestering me to read for months now and I just got around to it.
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Spiral Jacobs wrote:
Avatar wrote:The Gap Into Madness: Chaos And Order

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Oh man, I remember finishing A Dark and Hungry God Arises for the first time, I was literally on the edge of my seat. I couldn't wait to get to the next book. And this one, too, raised my blood pressure to extremes.

Oh no I feel a re-read coming....not again! 4 times should be enough, right?
I just picked up Chaos and Order looking forward to getting my teeth into it. ;)
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Enjoy. :D Think I'm gonna have to reread Mordant's Need sometime soon too.

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Based on everyone's glowing reviews here, I'm currently 200 pages into Flowers forAlgernon.
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right now am reading Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian.
it's pretty good for a dracula book. i'm enjoying it.
altho she does get a little carried away with scenery
descriptions sometimes.

next up on the tbr pile: R. Scott Bakker's Neuropath which i
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I read The Historian and thought it was okay, Luci.
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Reading The Runelords. It's fun. Not very compelling, but it's a good adventure, and has some cool ideas about magic and crap.
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The Well of Ascension, by Brandon Sanderson. Fantastic, innovative writer within the fantasy genre. Great world setting, innovative magic system and characters you care for. Unexpected plot as well!
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Reading Zindell's Neverness.

It's confusing the hell out of me because I KNOW I've read it before (now that I've started it), but I just cannot remember when where or how long ago. Normally I keep all my books and I don't have an old copy of this.

It's nice to get back to sci-fi though, don't think I've read one in the last eight years.
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The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell. Interesting so far.
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Stonemaybe wrote:Reading Zindell's Neverness.
YES!!! :D :D :D
aliantha wrote:The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell. Interesting so far.
YES!!! :D :D :D
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