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Just going on to Chapter 5 of AATE.

Got some cool SRD bargains today: Hardback Runes for €2. I have a large paperback already but couldn't resist that kind of a bargain. It's so cool it may induce me into a reread!

I also got a Fontana paperback copy of Gildenfire for €3. I already have it in a recently acquired copy of Daughter of Regals but it's such a nice little book, I had to have it (and it has cover art I've never seen before).
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My DoR doesn't have Gildenfire for some reason, but I have it in the little stand-alone volume. Maybe the same one...cover with the circle inset on it? (Those are my favourite covers...I have the first chrons, and 1 & 2 of the second with those covers.)

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Those covers are the best- I have the omnibus of 1 and 2 with that artwork, as well as Gildenfire :)
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Cambo wrote:Those covers are the best- I have the omnibus of 1 and 2 with that artwork, as well as Gildenfire :)
I've got the stand alone hardcover with Fist and Faith on it.
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Avatar wrote:My DoR doesn't have Gildenfire for some reason, but I have it in the little stand-alone volume. Maybe the same one...cover with the circle inset on it? (Those are my favourite covers...I have the first chrons, and 1 & 2 of the second with those covers.)

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That's the one. Those are my favourites too, especially the one for TIW.
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sindatur wrote:
Cambo wrote:Those covers are the best- I have the omnibus of 1 and 2 with that artwork, as well as Gildenfire :)
I've got the stand alone hardcover with Fist and Faith on it.


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Steve Erikson The Bone Hunters :biggrin:
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sindatur wrote:
Cambo wrote:Those covers are the best- I have the omnibus of 1 and 2 with that artwork, as well as Gildenfire :)
I've got the stand alone hardcover with Fist and Faith on it.

A wise choice.
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sindatur wrote:
Cambo wrote:Those covers are the best- I have the omnibus of 1 and 2 with that artwork, as well as Gildenfire :)
I've got the stand alone hardcover with Fist and Faith on it.

A wise choice.
Thanks to the Watch's Fist and Faith, I have the same small volume.
(autographed by both the Watch's Fist and Faith and SRD) :hearts:
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Really? That's what you got him to autograph? How honored you must feel to have his right there with mine!

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ayeup.
My AATE is also signed.
...but I was really more interested in having his autograph on the same page as yours.

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Truly, I think that small volume is my favorite writing of SRD's. And your dissection of it touched me in ways I can not describe. For me, those two autograph's belong together in that book.
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Well, that's one of the nicer posts about me ever! :D Thank you!
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that IS very sweet Menolly! what a treasure!! :D


i've gone off the fantasy/sci-fi for a while. i discovered Lee Childs' Jack Reacher series and am totally engrossed. i believe there are about 16 volumes (really quick reads) and i am on number 4 right now, averaging about 3/4's of one a day!! :D it's just like the time i read all the john d macdonald travis magee books in a two week period! felt like i spent two
weeks in longboat key (and not even a tan to show for it! lol!!)

after i finish jack reacher i have mary karr's Lit to read, then i will re-read A Dance with Dragons!
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Fist and Faith wrote:Really? That's what you got him to autograph? How honored you must feel to have his right there with mine!

:lol:
Quite honestly, if I had to choose, I'd have to seriously toss up who I'd rather meet and have sign my copy of Gilden Fire.

And you know, I think Fist would win out.
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Cambo wrote:
Fist and Faith wrote:Really? That's what you got him to autograph? How honored you must feel to have his right there with mine!

:lol:
Quite honestly, if I had to choose, I'd have to seriously toss up who I'd rather meet and have sign my copy of Gilden Fire.

And you know, I think Fist would win out.
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I've been fortunate enough to have met both. :hearts:
...once at the same time, even. ;)

Fist, I know Cambo is doing what he can to make the next official elohimfest in Albuquerque. I hope you will plan on attending as well.
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The Gunslinger. Been over a year since my last DT reread.

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From my limited experience (the first 4 books of Dark Tower) I don't understand the appeal of Stephen King.
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I didn't make it through Gunslinger. But other King stuff I've read is amazing. In particular, Deadzone, The Stand, and Firestarter.
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Murrin and Fist, I had problems with The Gunslinger as well. But I read Av's suggested reading of the cycle with other King books interspersed between those officially part of the cycle, and it made it much more interesting. I especially enjoyed the tie in of Salem's Lot right before Wolves of the Calla (if I am remembering the order correctly).
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