Kevin's Watch

The Thousandfold Thought.

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Has anyone read this book Acacia by David Anthony Durham? I was reading a list of the 25 best fantasy books and this one was on the list. Let me tell you this is one great writer. His writing is tight, and manages to avoid the stereotypes that would be tempting in a story like this.
staffersmusings.blogspot.com/2012/06/series-review-acacia-by-david-anthony.html

Just finished the Lions of Al Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay.
Might read some non-fiction for a while, I have a couple of books that I haven't cracked into that I have been meaning to. Either that or start A Clash of Kings.

Looking for something to tide me over until tomorrow, when we're starting a mini-read of 1984 and Brave New World in the Gen Lit forum, (join us if you're interested), so am reading Heinlein's Friday, which I've always enjoyed.

(Cue Heinlein disparagement...)

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No Heinlein disparagement from me (OK, outside of the second half of Stranger....

Av, try Harkaway's The Gone-Away World. I think you'd like it.

Av, try sending me your freakin' address.

Just finished up Wicked Book 4 "Out of Oz", it's a fantastic finish to the series, and though it ties up many things, some new things were opened up, that can provide McGuire an opportunity to revisit the Wicked Universe in the future, should he so choose.

This morning I popped in the first CD of Roger Zelazny reading The Chronicles of Amber (Corwyn and Merlin Cycles). I've listened to the Corwyn Cycle once before, so that'll be a nice revisit, and I haven't read or listened to the Merlin Cycle at all yet, so, that'll be a real treat once I get through the first 5 books and finish the Corwyn Cycle. I understand there is supplemental stuff out there, short stories or something? How do they fit in with the two main Series (Corwyn and Merlin Cycles)?

Fist and Faith wrote:Av, try sending me your freakin' address.

I can vouch that Av can take forever before giving that out...

[Syl] wrote:No Heinlein disparagement from me (OK, outside of the second half of Stranger....

Av, try Harkaway's The Gone-Away World. I think you'd like it.

Thanks, I'll keep an eye out for it. I do love post-apocalyptic stuff. Especially when I can image a world or universe with an independent existence around the actual story.

Fist, you got it.

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Brave New World

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Anne McCaffrey & Margaret Ball's PaternerShip.

This is not my first time reading it, though.

I'm currently re-reading Azimov's Foundation series

Nice one. ^ I keep trying to buy them, but I can never remember which one I have.

I'm reading David Gemmell's Waylander II.

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And now his Dark Prince.

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Love Gemmell's stuff. I've read Waylander 1 & 2, but not the 3rd one, and most of the rest of the Drenai books...

Currently over halfway through The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson.

The Time Machine - HG Wells

bruce3371 wrote:Love Gemmell's stuff. I've read Waylander 1 & 2, but not the 3rd one, and most of the rest of the Drenai books...

Damn, I thought I'd read them all, but I didn't remember a 3rd Waylander book.

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Avatar wrote:I'm reading David Gemmell's Waylander II.

I read Waylander and some other Drenai books, but I don't think heroic fantasy is for me (I'd never even known there was such a sub-genre until I read Gemmell ). Maybe I'm just too aware at this stage that a hero in fantasy is basically someone who kills lots of people but doesn't get killed himself/herself.

I'm reading The Silmarillion for the first time, at the moment. I'd say I have the book for more than twenty years but could never read it. I could never get over the fact that it was closer to history or myth than storytelling. (And after LOTR and TCTC it never stood a chance.)

It also really bugged me that the setting kept on being altered. I found that I could never quite place in Middle-earth where anything was happening. I got over this by starting with the last chapter and working backwards. Now at least I know where the places being inundated would have been in relation to the Middle-earth of LOTR. (I also finally figured out where Númenor was, after all these years )

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Almost finished with "The Lodestone Trilogy", which is more of a scifi/fantasy. Really a good read!

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