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aliantha wrote: I find that's true with Eco in general. For me, it helps to skim the pedantic bits and get on with the narrative. :lol:
Nah, Name of the Rose was excellent, and easy reading too.

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Deadhouse Gates. The library came through for me. :D
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Toll The Hounds.

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The City and the City, China Mieville.
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Path of the Warrior, by Gav Thorpe.
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Druz Stephen Brust (book 10)
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A Tapestry of Time by Richard Cowper
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Right now, I'm reading Changeling by Roger Zelanzny
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Jhegaala Brust (book 11) I'm just ripping through these things!!!
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Dust of Dreams

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Memories of Ice. There goes my TC re-read for the moment. :)
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On Basilisk Station by David Weber
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Horizonscan wrote:Memories of Ice. There goes my TC re-read for the moment. :)
Oh! Oh! Oh!!!!!! My favorite of all!!!! Even above Deadhouse Gates, imho.

Hey, wait. I don't see that you read DG?? Did your library get it? Mind you, you could just as easily read MoI first. I won't mess continuity at all. I'm just curious.
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Horizonscan wrote:Memories of Ice. There goes my TC re-read for the moment. :)
Oh! Oh! Oh!!!!!! My favorite of all!!!! Even above Deadhouse Gates, imho.

Hey, wait. I don't see that you read DG?? Did your library get it? Mind you, you could just as easily read MoI first. I won't mess continuity at all. I'm just curious.
Second post this page. :) I read it. :cry: MoI will have to go some way to beat DG, as far as I'm concerned. It's shaping up well though. :D
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Yeah, I can't possibly argue with anyone who prefers DG. Extraordinary book!
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Local library just had a fundraising book sale; got an entire shopping bag of books for $5.00, among them all of the Herbert/Anderson Dune prequels. On "The Machine Crusade" now...they're ok, but don't have the depth/density of the originals...
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Horizonscan wrote:MoI will have to go some way to beat DG, as far as I'm concerned. It's shaping up well though. :D
The siege of Capustan does a good job of coming close to DHG. :D
Vraith wrote:but don't have the depth/density of the originals...
Haven't read them, but have been reliably told that there are serious canononical issure with them too.

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Horizonscan wrote:MoI will have to go some way to beat DG, as far as I'm concerned. It's shaping up well though. :D
The siege of Capustan does a good job of coming close to DHG. :D
Vraith wrote:but don't have the depth/density of the originals...
Haven't read them, but have been reliably told that there are serious canononical issure with them too.

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Yes. There definitely are.
[spoiler]Sig-man, Libtard, Stupid piece of shit. change your text color to brown. Mr. Reliable, bullshit-slinging liarFucker-user.[/spoiler]
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
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'The Claw of the Concilliator' by Gene Wolfe
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