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I know, I've got no idea why they're doing it that way.
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Jonathan strange and mr norrel at themo
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Short story volume called Temps, concieved of by Neil Gaiman. Short stories about "super-heroes" who do part-time, freelance work for the government. Light, fun reading.

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I'm forever picking up mediocre fantasy... just started Prince of Ill Luck, first of the Warhorse of Esdragon series by Susan Dexter. So far, its only saving grace is the horse.
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Right now I'm reading the collected works of Edgar Allen Poe, and on alterntate nights I'm reading the bible cover-to-cover. I think maybe they both qualify? :wink:

No offense to anyone religious- actually I'm reading the bible because it was on my bookshelf and I realized I had never read it.
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I'm reading 1984 for the third time. Love it!
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I've read the bible cover to cover. It gets pretty racey at about the Song of Songs, but evens out into WILD at revelations.
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One McCaffrey just seems to lead to another. Now I'm on THE DOLPHINS OF PERN. It's been several years since my last major McCaffrey reread.
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I'm finally starting to make progress with Sea of Silver Light but am still nowhere near completion. I don't know what's happened to me - I've been on this book two weeks.
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Two at once. Stranger in a Strange Land by Heinlein, and Chainfire by Terry Goodkind. His stuff's not terribly great, but it's entertaining, if not preachy. Oh well. It's above Salvacrap.
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DragonLily-- Dolphins is one of my favourite Pern books.

Pumpkin King-- Can't go wrong with Stranger. ;)

I'm about to start Fred Saberhagens First Book of Lost Swords. No idea what it'll be like.

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Heh. Just finished (as of an hour ago) The Book of Swords (1, 2, &3). Last time I read them was over a decade ago. Still good books, if not quite as good as I remember them. The ending is kind of anticlamactic and leaves a lot of loose threads, but I guess that's what the Lost Swords books are for (which I also read, but it's amazing how little of the books I remember).

Also finished Erikson's Gardens of the Moon. Good stuff. Not often you find such overt magic use along with good narrative. Come to think of it, there are very similar themes in the two books as it concerns man and gods.
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I'm in the middle of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell and enjoying it immensely, and I've also been dipping into some of Lovecraft's short stories lately. I've never actually read Lovecraft before, and was beginning to feel embarrassed about it. Once you get past his syntax and his slightly over-the-top adjectives, it's pretty amusing--not to mention creepy--stuff. My favorite thing so far is how New York City is apparently a cesspit of evil and ancient malevolent horrors whose putrescent emanations are only the very tip of a chill and unholy iceberg of fear that waits unseen for the frail barques of simple human souls to crash upon it and smash themselves into splinters of madness and despair. :D
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Hearing all those titles makes me want to go reread them all. I am also wondering if Heiinlein was into wife-swapping in real life or just in fiction?
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That's a good question, oh Ultimate Utencil.
Myste, that was hilarious.
Av and Sylvanus, I haven't read the lost swords or swords since I was... umm... 16? 17?
I remember enjoying the whole thing except for the ending.
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Would anybody else hesitate just a tad before sending farslayer off on its business? Im just picturing the hatfield-mccoy thing with farslayer around ...
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I'd be like "JOHN SMITH!"
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Dragonlily wrote:One McCaffrey just seems to lead to another. Now I'm on THE DOLPHINS OF PERN. It's been several years since my last major McCaffrey reread.
I'll be there soon; I'm waiting for First Fall to show up so I can read it first, then I'm reading either Dolphins or Masterharper, whatever the order is.
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DOLPHINS comes before MASTERHARPER.

My current one is DRAGON'S KIN, by Anne & Todd McCaffrey. Can't assess it yet, I'm only on page 30.
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Finished Sea of Silver Light (at last!) last night. Today I read "Blood Follows: A Tale of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach", a Malazan novella by Erikson. "The Healthy Dead", another Bauchelain & Broach story, should arrive at the end of the week.
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