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Broke off from Equal Rites (Terry P) to read Annealed by Lynne Cantwell, now back to ER.
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Red Dwarf by Grant Naylor.

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Better Than Life, sequel to the above, by the same. :D

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Finished Hyperion (was great, though the cliffhanger ending a bit frustrating). Starting on A Canticle for Liebowitz. Like Hyperion, this is a book I've seen mentioned repeatedly in different places, so my interest is piqued.
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Cambo wrote:Starting on A Canticle for Liebowitz.
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My favorite stand alone novel (even though there was a sequel published many years later. Canticle works better as a stand alone for me).
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I love Canticle.

Doing a quick read of Gemmel's Last Sword of Power.

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Started Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.
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Read The Dead Zone this weekend. Still good.

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Right now I'm listening to Fatal Revenant by some guy named Stephen R. Donaldson. Not sure if any of you are familiar with his works.

After that ... I dunno. Maybe Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
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Wildling wrote:Right now I'm listening to Fatal Revenant by some guy named Stephen R. Donaldson. Not sure if any of you are familiar with his works.
I think I may have listened to that one before ;)

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I finished The Handmaid's Tale. The ending would be infuriatingly ambiguous if it wasn't for the "Historical Notes" at the end, which give you a small idea of what might have happened to Offred.
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Started on Lauren Beukes' The Shining Girls, a thriller about a time-travelling serial killer.
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Tell me what it's like. That and Zoo City are on my list of next books to buy.

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Taking a break from The Language Instinct and quickly re-reading Monstrous Regiment for something light.

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Read The Truth this weekend, now re-reading Snow Crash.

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I've started Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch. I considered rereading The Lies of Locke Lamora first, because I can barely remember any of it, but decided to just go ahead anyway.
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Finished Octavia Butler's Mind of my Mind this weekend. Now on Clay's Ark.
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Been meaning to check out some Butler sometime.
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Finished A Canticle for Liebowitz, now I'm reading Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. Only other book of his I've read was Slaughterhouse Five. I very much enjoy his writing style.
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I'm Murrin wrote:Been meaning to check out some Butler sometime.
Only read Wild Seed and Mind of my Mind, and started Clay's Ark now. But I like her a lot so far. Nice ideas about telepathy. A very interesting villain. And her style is very centered on the characters, what they're thinking and feeling, without bothering me with the surroundings/landscape.
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