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U learn stuff if u hang @ the Hangar...
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Ok thanks will check it out.
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Roland of Gilead wrote:If McCaffrey ever had it, folks, she's done lost it now. :Z:
She had it for sure. Her seed ideas are good but then they get overused and mined out. <grand mixing of metaphors>

Read the early ones of each McCaffrey series, Roland. Those are the fresh ones.
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Not reading any fantasy/sci-fi stuff right now. Just waiting for Feast for Crows!
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I am reading C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters. They are a series of letters from an older, more experienced demon to a younger one, about how he should best go about corrupting his "patient". :lf:
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I'm re-reading Lord Foul's Bane... There's a lot of stuff I missed from when I first read them in Jr High!
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As soon as I can get them all together, I'm going to give Moorcock's Elric Saga another read. It has been years! Shadow and I are both going to re-read them, so we can really get involved better with danlo's thread at the Hangar :)
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I am ripping my way through Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy -- I read the first two books today -- I literally can't put it down!!! :lol: :lol:
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Oh, I heard those were good, duchy. Have to add those to my list too. :D
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Right now I'm digging into some of my christmas presents. RA Salvatore's The Thousand Orcs--a silly D&D/Forgotten Realms book. I just finished the first Harry Potter book the other night.

Duchess---I've never read Pullman's books, but I recently read that his His Dark Materials series will be adapted to the big screen within the next few years.

Furl's---I love Elric! I think I'll add Moorcock to my re-read list!!
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Tulizar wrote:Furl's---I love Elric! I think I'll add Moorcock to my re-read list!!
COOL!!! You'll have to come to the Hangar too! Danlo has started a Moorcock thread over there. :D :D
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duchess of malfi wrote:I am reading C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters. They are a series of letters from an older, more experienced demon to a younger one, about how he should best go about corrupting his "patient". :lf:
I gotta check that out.


i just finishe The Gunslinger and Started in on The Drawing of the Three. will do whole tower series this year.
Just in time for Runes in fall. and probably latest potter at same time.
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I'm rereading aSoIaF (I'm up to aCoK) - and still waiting for the store to get me a copy of tGAT:SIEGE!
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Reading The Bane of the Black Sword-book 5 of the Elric stories...
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im reading Pawn of prophesy from eddings, its pretty good, i should have picked it up sooner :P
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Just waiting for Fool's Quest to come out in February.
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Ran out of stuff to read, so a quick rummage through the ship's library turned up Men at Arms by Pratchett (almost done... not his most shining work, but good enough to pass the time), and Eyes of the Calculor by Sean McMullen.
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I am reading the third book of Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, The Amber Spyglass. This series is still blowing me away...very well written, hard to put down... 8)
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Just finished HP PRISONER OF AZKABAN, my fave HP so far. About to start a time-travel historical: A.D. 62: POMPEII, by Rebecca East.
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I have just started the last book of the Osten Ard series by Tad Williams: The Green Angel Tower.

I'm not a big fan of this series so far, but it has improved over the last two books and is supposed to have a nice twist in the end.
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