EN World Book Club

[Sam]

September Discussion

I've started the thread for discussion of jester47's selection for September, Dragondoom. You can find the thread here: http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=63928

 

[Sam]

Just a reminder that JoeBlank has chosen Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay for the November Selection. We will begin discussion on November 1. As a fan of Kay's Fionavar Tapestry and Sarantine Mosaic, I'm really looking forward to this book. Now if Amazon will hurry up and get it here!

 

[Dacileva]

Just a reminder that JoeBlank has chosen Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay for the November Selection. We will begin discussion on November 1. As a fan of Kay's Fionavar Tapestry and Sarantine Mosaic, I'm really looking forward to this book. Now if Amazon will hurry up and get it here!

Oh, me too! I just picked it up from my local library (after requesting it through the Cleveland Library Net), so I'm all set to start it once I finish my current book (Lion's Blood, by Steven Barnes, which is very good so far, well into the last 1/4).

And yes, that means that I'm reading another book between Book Club selections. I actually read two. Right after finishing Dragondoom, I read Lord of Castle Black, to get the bad taste out of my head. That read as fast as Brust's books usually do (sadly), so I started Lion's Blood, and should have it finished by this weekend.

Back to Guy Gavriel Kay, I loved the Fionavar Tapestry... I think it's by far the best "real world people in a fantasy realm" story ever written, and I've just fallen deeply into it every time I've read it (3 times and counting).

 

[JoeBlank]

Dacileva, I envy you, finding time to do all that reading. I barely made it through Dragondoom in time(although I liked it more than some of the others have indicated). I am just a slow reader, I guess. That and having a full time job, a wife and 3 kids.

I will start Tigana this weekend, if not tonight. I read the introduction (might be called a prelude or some such) back when I was making my decision on what book to choose, but I will need to reread that.

The only Kay I have read is Sailing to Sarantium, which I only finished a couple of months ago. I knew I wanted to read more, and had to choose one of his few "stand-alone" novels. Tigana struck my fancy, so here we go.

 

[Sam]

Dacileva, I envy you, finding time to do all that reading. I barely made it through Dragondoom in time(although I liked it more than some of the others have indicated). I am just a slow reader, I guess. That and having a full time job, a wife and 3 kids.

Be careful what you envy. I know that the reason I have time to read 4-6 books a month is because I spend upwards of 1:45 hours / day on a train.

 

[Dacileva]

Be careful what you envy. I know that the reason I have time to read 4-6 books a month is because I spend upwards of 1:45 hours / day on a train.

Yup. I have this much time to read because I'm only getting 15 hours a week of work, and my job is kinda boring. And my fiancee is really sick, so she's sleeping most of the time.

 

[Sam]

This discussion of November's selection, Tigana, has been started by JoeBlank in this thread: http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=68039

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