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Rereading my old Darksword trilogy by Weiss/Hickman...forgot how much I enjoyed them...definitely their darkest combined work.

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Half-way through Return of the Crimson Guard. And all of you Malazan-haters can bite me!!!

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Ohhh Fistyyyy -- I don't suppose you would consider loaning it to me when you're done, would you? <bats eyelashes> <with apologies to Raen!>
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Hmm... *running eyes over ali's body* Perhaps we can work something out.



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Just finished Dan Simmons' Muse of Fire.

A mix of science fiction and Shakespeare. . . How can you go wrong!?!

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Stonemaybe wrote::roll: And I was going to try jordan soon!
You should!

Now that I'm near the end of the book (I haven't had a lot of time for reading lately) I can say that actually, it's nothing like Jordan. :P
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Just finished The Unlikely Ones by Mary Brown. I found it on a $1 rack and picked it up. It was a really good story, adn I'm glad it was a hardcover as I will find a place on my bookcase for this. :D
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I'm going to give Dhalgren another try...wish me luck!
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Reading "Golgotha Falls" by George Ukwendo. Let you know how it was after I'm through with it.
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Spiral Jacobs wrote:I'm going to give Dhalgren another try...wish me luck!
Dhalgren has its fans. I'm a big one. I've read it at least six times. It's very profound, and worth reading, if you can get past the beginning.
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Skimming the Wikipedia entry (trying to avoid spoilers), Dhalgren sounds intriguing!
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Malik23 wrote:Skimming the Wikipedia entry (trying to avoid spoilers), Dhalgren sounds intriguing!
Well, don't you know now I have to go to Wikipedia and see what it says ... pah, makes it sound like a mis-mash of cliches.

Here's what it's about ... lift all of the social constraints that weigh us down, and people will become ... exactly who they are. No more so than the story's protagonist, who has forgotten his name and his past, the things that weigh us down the most.

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I started it several years ago but failed to get through the beginning. I'm now taking it slower, sentence-by-sentence. Delany is certainly not light work, but Nova and Babel-17 are among my favorite books. I've also read The Einstein Intersection but I can honestly say I don't understand one iota of that novella.
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Malik23 wrote:Skimming the Wikipedia entry (trying to avoid spoilers), Dhalgren sounds intriguing!
I love it...read it several times. It's not real easy-reading though.

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Just finished Carrie Vaughn's Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand.

This fifth volume is another fun and entertaining addition to what is a cool urban fantasy series!

Check out the blog for the full review. :)

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At Christmas I started Ender's Game. I haven't got far, so I haven't really formed any thoughts on it yet. My opinion of Card jumped yesterday though, when I read that he wrote the legendary 'you fight like a dairy farmer' couplet from The Secret of Monkey Island. :D
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I started reading the part that's on NationStates, but I quickly found Barry's style annoyed me. I think it's just a bit too matter of fact and, for want of a better (or real) word, unpoetic for me.
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Just started Hunter's Run a very intriguing looking SciFi by two New Mexico authors and a famous editor/author. I'm going to do a longer rant about it on Ahira's Hangar's Martin forum later today. George R. R. Martin, Daniel Abraham and Gardner Dozois are the authors-and it's based on Dozios' rough draft from the very early '70. You can feel Martin and Abraham's influence right away as it's stocked with Mexican/New Mexican folklore.

Why write a rant? Well this is an example, among numerous other projects, of how Martin climbs into his inner circle and does these selfish things thus pissing off his loyal and long suffering Fire and Ice fans.
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Seriously - try Joe Abercrombie, best Fantasy I've read for years - and I've read alot,
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I started reading Horus Rising by Dan Abnett. This is the first book in the Horus Heresy series.
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Just finished A Fantasy Medley, a limited edition anthology featuring short stories by Robin Hobb, Kate Elliott, Kelley Armstrong, and C. E. Murphy.

All in all, an interesting and enjoyable read.

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