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...Lolita??? I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet. It's probably the most famous work by any of the Russian greats. (Not that I'm an expert: I staggered drunkedly through War and Peace, cried myself to sleep on Crime and Punishment and that's about it.) I intend to fill some gaps in my...

Started Gardens of the Moon... twice. It's definitely not enjoyable at this point. I experience 6 kinds of bewilderment and 2 kinds of agony everytime I pick it up.

You probably know this already, but it does get a lot better. Books 11-13 are the best in the series; Egwene's sections in book 11-12 are some of the most awesome scenes I've read. By the sound of it, half the forum got sick of the lethargy of the middle books and gave up. It breaks my heart...

*Barges rudely into conversation, ignoring what has been going on for the last 4 posts* Into the third part now :) The only way to describe reading this is bizarre. I feel like I'm clutching desperately at the character through who's eyes I'm reading as they hurtle through the plot at...

Robert Newcomb's Chronicles of Blood and Stone. All Terry Goodkind past book 4 of SoT. I found quite a bit of Terry Brooks and Robert Jordan quite dry as well.

Like dask, my copy of Times Atlas was expensive. Also, in NZ books are obscenely dear in the shops. 8-10 pound books cost about 18-20 pounds in New Zealand bookstores.

'Kay then *Big Breath* I'm going to try again. Thanks guys. ...Could I ask though, what exactly is up with those houses ("house of shadows", "house of death" etc) and also what are warrens I keep reading about? They're portals, but apparently are linked with magic.

First post and I need to let off steam :mad: Anyway, I like to consider myself 'well-read', having read more 'proper-literature' than someone at my age has a right to. However, during my early teens, I was filled with a glut of cheesy fantasy books, not to mention four stories that have...