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    Gardens of the Moon frustration

    I find this an interesting statement. I've just begun a re-read from the beginning as I was losing track of what went before. I had let too much time go between novels. I think that it is almost crazy that Erikson begins the book with characters who are not named, but that you can figure out...
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    Quick question from the first books

    It may be explained in later books, as Erikson tends to do, but the first book begins at the end of the siege of Pale. It's intimated through conversations that Rake is a mercenary who had made a deal with the sorcerers of Pale to make a stand against the Malazans. The sorcerers of Pale fled...
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    Red eyed Centaur Plant

    Dark is the Sun, by Philip Jose Farmer? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Is_the_Sun
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    Neal Stephenson

    I picked up Snow Crash for Audible for a trip I just had to make. Three hours there and three hours back I didn't stop the book once. When Hiro starts getting into the linguistics discussion with the Librarian I was enthralled. Only halfway through, but I have it on my eReader as well so I can...
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    Read Twilight, can't find anything better!

    Someone, a few pages back, wrote that Twilight and the rest of the series have gotten a good number of teens to read for pleasure. And was then shot down by another poster. Another poster said they'd question my mental faculties since I read it; being far beyond the age of 14. I don't believe...
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    Film Genres

    No order other than DVDs with the DVDs and Blu-Rays with the Blu-Rays. But I just had a thought that arranging my movies by colour would be rather interesting as viewed from a distance.
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    What was the last movie you saw?

    Last night I watched Aliens. I have the boxed set and want to watch them all prior to Prometheus. Not looking forward to the fourth one as the newborn alien gives me nightmares... :(
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    Inspiring lines

    I cry whenever I read Under Heaven by G.G. Kay, but the line that gets me first is when Zian says, "I follow a fading dragon over hills and rivers".
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    David Weber/Eric Flint Torch of Freedom

    I can't offer any hope since I haven't read it :) But, I have the first HH book on my iTouch for listening to in the car and I just don't get the attraction. It got really great reviews on Audible. I'm trying to get through it - and I like the idea (plus Nimitz is cool) but I have just started...
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    Eric Brown

    Well that is cool. When you see him, you can mention that he has a new fan way over here on Vancouver Island in BC. Looking forward to reading some more of his stuff.
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    Eric Brown

    I couldn't sleep so I decided to see what others think of an author I am beginning to like quite a bit. So far I have read Engineman and Guardians of the Phoenix... I may have searched wrong, but I couldn't come up with any results for his name. My brother seems to find cool books more often...
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    After 20 years a New Novel by R A MacAvoy

    Today her works might be classed as young adult fiction? That's why I think of her stuff as similar to The Blue Sword or The Hero and the Crown. Interesting as a teenager, but an extremely fast read these days. Imaginative stuff for sure. I'm certainly not knocking any of them in any way. I'll...
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    After 20 years a New Novel by R A MacAvoy

    That is really cool to hear. I was given A Grey Horse as a birthday present by my Mom when I was young. She is notorious for buying books because they have neat covers, which is why I ended up with Dragon on a Pedestal (DK Sweet is an amazing artist), but I really enjoyed it (both actually, I...
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    Non standard fantasy worlds

    Is PJ Farmer's Dark is the Sun fantasy or science fiction? Probably sci-fi huh? I kind of remembered it as fantasy because of the crazy lifeforms.
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    Robin McKinley

    I think that Piers Anthony got me into reading fantasy with his Dragon on a Pedestal back when I was 10, and AC Clarke got me into sci-fi with A Fall of Moondust around the same time.. but when I think back on my favourite fantasy authors throughout my life, McKinley tops the list.. as does...
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    The scarce, rare, valuable and disgustingly expensive book thread

    I have a hard cover copy of the first American printing of Watership Down - with the dust jacket. Also have almost a full set of Marguerite Henry's children books about horses, Black Gold, Brighty of Grand Canyon etc. But some of those have library marks. They are all mine for sentimental...
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    SF & F and interesting new social orders

    Yes, I just finished it and I am starting on the sequel. Just be prepared for one or two pretty graphic scenes.
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    Favorite Fantasy series?

    I have noticed that Tad Williams Dragonbone Chair series doesn't get mentioned very often.. They were probably the first epic fantasy books I ever read. I also have been enjoying his Shadowmarch series, but I wasn't so much into the Otherworld series. Oh, and then then there is Guy Gavriel...
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    SF & F and interesting new social orders

    I just finished The Sparrow, and while the earth based part was typical of Jesuit hierarchical society, what they found on the new planet was definitely different. Well, maybe not different so much as shocking.
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    e-books, hardbacks or paperbacks our thoughts.

    I borrow eBooks from the local library all the time. They are available from the webpage and they automatically go inactive after three weeks. I also borrow CD audiobooks for listening to in the car. My eReader is awesome. I'm the kind of person who reads a pile of books all at once, reading...
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