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Hiro wrote:'The Claw of the Concilliator' by Gene Wolfe
I read one of those...think it was "Sword of the Lichtor" maybe?
Never found the whole series yet, but I liked the one [I need to shop online for books more, instead of at used stores and garage sales.]
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Hiro wrote:'The Claw of the Concilliator' by Gene Wolfe
I read one of those...think it was "Sword of the Lichtor" maybe?
Never found the whole series yet, but I liked the one [I need to shop online for books more, instead of at used stores and garage sales.]
That must have been confusing, reading The Sword of the Lictor w/o reading The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Conciliator beforehand. Gene Wolf is already a bit of a mind-bender as it is.
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wayfriend wrote:
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Hiro wrote:'The Claw of the Concilliator' by Gene Wolfe
I read one of those...think it was "Sword of the Lichtor" maybe?
Never found the whole series yet, but I liked the one [I need to shop online for books more, instead of at used stores and garage sales.]
That must have been confusing, reading The Sword of the Lictor w/o reading The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Conciliator beforehand. Gene Wolf is already a bit of a mind-bender as it is.
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"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
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Vraith wrote:
wayfriend wrote:
Vraith wrote: I read one of those...think it was "Sword of the Lichtor" maybe?
Never found the whole series yet, but I liked the one [I need to shop online for books more, instead of at used stores and garage sales.]
That must have been confusing, reading The Sword of the Lictor w/o reading The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Conciliator beforehand. Gene Wolf is already a bit of a mind-bender as it is.
/nod
So far, I prefer 'The Claw of the Concilliator', I didn't care so much for 'The Shadow of the Torturer'.
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I just recently read the whole series, including the later one, set ten years after "Citadel."

I like 'em. The first was probably my favourite actually. but yes...somewhat mindbending.

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Currently reading the emergency Budget just recently announced by our newly elected ConLib government here in the UK!!

Definitely should be filed under 'Fiction-Fantasy' :biggrin: :biggrin:

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Tombs of Atuan in preparation for my next chapter dissection over on the Hangar...
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Reading a book called "Circle at Center". A lot of the characters seem very old, and desperate to try new things.
Avatar wrote:I just recently read the whole series, including the later one, set ten years after "Citadel."

I like 'em. The first was probably my favourite actually. but yes...somewhat mindbending.

--A
I love that series. Definitely made for re-readers. I've heard Urth spoils everything so I never read it, but recently I had to find out what happened so I finally caved and looked on a website.
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I never noticed the flood would occur, but I did expect that Urth would have a sad ending, so to speak
Seeker of Truth wrote:Currently reading the emergency Budget just recently announced by our newly elected ConLib government here in the UK!!

Definitely should be filed under 'Fiction-Fantasy' :biggrin: :biggrin:

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Why are you reading it. Do you work for the government?

I don't think the authorities will accept it as fiction fantasy. I tried to run Moby Dick by as fantasy once and Stephen R Donaldson (on the GI) slapped me down. He referred to the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Iliad as ancient works of fantasy instead...
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Re Moby Dick: if the whale could talk, it would be fantasy. ;)

Started The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood yesterday.
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Now on ER Edison's Mistress of Mistresses. It's an interesting book, contains romance that I find reasonably compelling though also fear-inducing (as there's a great focus on the whole 'when desire is quenched you desire something new' theme). The language is unmitigatingly rich and well-structured. My only problem so far is that he occasionally includes letters in medieval'ish spelling which become difficult to understand.
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Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melnibonè.

First time I've ever read any of his Elric books.

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Avatar wrote:Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melnibonè.

First time I've ever read any of his Elric books.

--A
oooo! awesome. i loved those books when i read them lo these many
years ago. my favorite moorcock (gee that sounds funny to say :lol: )
is The Warhound and The World's Pain.

i sent the Martin books to a friend in kentucky and he's reading them now so i am taking a break in the malazan re-read to read them along with him.
we're on A Clash of Kings at the moment. :biggrin:
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Avatar wrote:Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melnibonè.

First time I've ever read any of his Elric books.

--A
I have read the first two, and like them a lot. I also have the first three Corum books and plan to read those soon.
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Holsety wrote:
Avatar wrote:Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melnibonè.

First time I've ever read any of his Elric books.

--A
I have read the first two, and like them a lot. I also have the first three Corum books and plan to read those soon.
Finished "The Machine Crusade" [herbert/anderson....meh]

Haven't read the Elric books, but am right now 1/2 way through "The Cornelius Chronicles" vol. 1. This Moorcock is an odd duck...haven't decided if that's good yet.
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I'm enjoying it so far. Touch old fashioned in the style, but still enjoyable. I've got a bunch more too...got 6 in one volume, which is itself vol 8 of the "Eternal Champion" series, all Elric stories.

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for any of you Moorcock readers that are interested in critical and theoretical essay on the subject of epic fantasy (as i am) i'd highly
suggest Wizardry and Wild Romance: A Study of Epic Fantasy

the link is a decent review of the the book which has a forward by China Miéville.
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lucimay wrote:for any of you Moorcock readers that are interested in critical and theoretical essay on the subject of epic fantasy (as i am) i'd highly
suggest Wizardry and Wild Romance: A Study of Epic Fantasy

the link is a decent review of the the book which has a forward by China Miéville.
Not at all fair, Lucimay, you know how stirred up I get when people say "Critical and theoretical" ....
It does look interesting from the link. [and from his fiction so far, I'm not surprised he'd write something like that].
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lucimay wrote:for any of you Moorcock readers that are interested in critical and theoretical essay on the subject of epic fantasy (as i am) i'd highly
suggest Wizardry and Wild Romance: A Study of Epic Fantasy

the link is a decent review of the the book which has a forward by China Miéville.
I read one essay where he criticized Tolkien and said Mervyn Peake was a lot better. I'm not a Tolkien hater but the essay was well written and made some good points. Maybe I'll pick up this book sometime Luci, thanks for the recommendation.
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