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I got Dune for christmas and I'm reading it right now
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I'll never do it again
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SRD - The Runes of the Earth (second reading) and
JRRT - Tuor und seine Ankunft in Gondolin
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Robin Hobb's "Shaman's Crossing". I wanted to start with Hobb's Assassin books, but my wife has read the first 2 parts of the Soldier Son trilogy, and has "convinced" to start with those. :)
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Just finished reading Patrick Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind. Daw Books are really pushing this one, hoping that it will be the next "big thing." It's a good debut, if not as impressive as Duncan's Vellum and Lynch's The Lies of Locke Lamora.

Still, a satisfying read. It will be released later this spring, so you'll likely hear a lot more about it since Penguin Books will be making a lot of noise. Check out the blog for the full review!

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Terry Pratchett - Reaper Man
but after Donaldson (and J.R.R:Tolkien) all books are hard to read :wink:
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I just starte rereading LOTR on New Years Eve...two years to the day after I read it the firt time....it took me two months then..lets see how long it takes this time.
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Midnight Tides by Steven Erikson, book five of his Malazan Book of the Fallen fantasy series.
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The Telling by Ursula K. Leguin. I think the Sarge would really dig this one.
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I've just started re-reading Revelation Space by Alistair Reynolds.
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Elric of Melnibone, which seems to be a compendium of several small stories.
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I'm afraid there's no denying
I'm just a dandelion
a fate I don't deserve.

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Just finished reading Guy Gavriel Kay's Ysabel. Splendid novel, head and shoulders above most of what comprises the market nowadays. Ysabel will certainly be one of the books to read in 2007.

Check the blog for the full review!

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Robin Hobb - Forest Mage...
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Still plugging away at Midnight Tides. About halfway done with a book that is about a thousand pages. Thus far, it is the weakest installment of the series for me other than Gardens of the Moon. I realize that there are important things going on for the series as a whole, but I am just having trouble getting into this one. :?
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Just started Jonathon strange and Mr Norrell. Still trying to get used to her style of writing - reminds me of Jack Vance, which is not a compliment from me!
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Stonemaybe wrote:Just started Jonathon strange and Mr Norrell. Still trying to get used to her style of writing - reminds me of Jack Vance, which is not a compliment from me!
Now that was a book I immediately loved. :) The writing style is actually very carefully modeled after Regency England, which is when the novel takes place. 8)
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Now that was a book I immediately loved. The writing style is actually very carefully modeled after Regency England, which is when the novel takes place.
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I just ran through a collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury called 'The Illustrated Man'. I'm starting to become a fan of Bradbury's after 'Farenheit 451', 'Something Wicked This Way Comes', and now these short stories. I like that he writes in a sentimental fashion at some times, and a cynical one at others, and he never lets either get to far ahead of the other.

Now I'm starting into 'The Hobbit', I don't think I've ever read it, because the last time I visited the story, my uncle read it to us over the course of some months when I was a kid.
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but after Donaldson (and J.R.R:Tolkien) all books are hard to read :wink:
I assume you read 'Mort' already? I think the second Rincewind book was my favorite, but every Pratchett I've ever read has provided lots of laughter.
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The illustrated man was freaky. Specially the one with the kids and the playroom. *shudder*

Brad-man's a good writer.
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Balon wrote:The illustrated man was freaky. Specially the one with the kids and the playroom. *shudder*

Brad-man's a good writer.
Yeah, a few of the stories are chilling. Some end curiously, some end sadly, and some deserve to be stretched out a little. The story about the playroom is definately one of the chilling ones.
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The Velt?
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