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Lord Foul wrote:Finished re-reading Blood Meridian. Re-reading Wuthering Heights now. Been ages so it feels very new!
Oh wow- Blood Meridian! Haven't thought of that book in years!

I'm getting stuck into The Chronicles of Amber for the first time. Really enjoying them.
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Ah! Amber freakin' rocks!!!!
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I love Amber.
The Courts aren't all that bad either...
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Horizonscan wrote:What did you think of the Soldier Son trilogy? I read the Farseer, Liveships and Tawny Man trilogies and thoroughly enjoyed all of them. But I just could not get on with Soldier Son at all. I think I forced my way through all of the first book but it's clearly left no impression on me apart from a vague memory of complete boredom. .
I thought the Soldier Son trilogy was pretty good. Maybe you should give it another go and see if (after however long its been) you could get through it.

The Live ship traders seems to not be in the same universe as the Farseer and Tawny man trilogies..so Im OK there. But I do have to quit reading the Tawny man trilogy and read the entire Farseer one before I start back again.
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Don't you worry, the Liveship Traders is in the same universe as the Farseer and Tawny Man series...just different characters *gasp*!
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Yeah, it's kind of like getting to book 4 of the Malazan series. :lol: Well, not really. Hobb actually explains stuff as she goes along. :lol:

I just started book 3 of the Liveship Traders trilogy last night.
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*watches as the list of fantasy tripe continues*

I'm kind of picky as far as fantasy goes. The overall quality of the genre reminds me of prog rock's cesspool. I rarely venture beyond the pillars of George Martin, SRD, and Tolkien (and Le Guin, of course). I might make an excursion later for Vance.
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You forgot Peake! :D
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I read too fast to be able to afford being picky. :D I draw the line at Brooks and Eddings, but I'll read most anything else, even if it's just once.

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Finishing up on The System Of the World by Stephenson. Again massive and impressive, but someone help me: I've kinda lost track of why
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Daniel is so intent on shipping the Solomonic gold to Russia and keeping it out of Isaac's hands. Is it because he wants to keep Isaac on the right path instead of going all mumbo-jumbo with Alchemy?
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I just finished Quicksilver, Spiral, and am a little tentative about continuing the Baroque Cycle, is it worth slogging through?
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Spiral Jacobs wrote:Finishing up on The System Of the World by Stephenson. Again massive and impressive, but someone help me: I've kinda lost track of...]
Your reasoning is about right to me.
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Remember, he was called back to Europe to more or less undertake that task. I think Waterhouse is also trying to keep the Scientific Revolution more or less on track. I think he equates alchemy with monarchy, and the scientific method with parliamentary rule. The old and mystical needs to make way for the new and logical.
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...no I enjoyed the hell o/o it (maybe ended a bit abruptly) ---it's just that the changing POV in The King of the Vagabonds has me a little worried...(I've heard great things about The System of the World)
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Sorry danlo for using [quote] when I meant to use
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IIRC, Quicksilver began with Waterhouse, then shifted to Jack and Eliza. Confusion picks up with Jack, which is one of the best parts of the Cycle, and then shifts back to Waterhouse and Eliza. There really are three main characters/POVs in the story, but they become more involved with each other farther in. The problem in Quicksilver is that half-way through you feel like the story ended midstream and another totally different story started. This gets rectified.
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Ah ha! Thanks! I will continue with it then! :yeehaa:
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I wasn't even gonna bother commenting on Av's reading this time. :lol: A Potter book per day?
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