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[July] What are you reading?
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Enchantress
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I am currently rereading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I've read most of it before, but I didn't finish the last five chapters. Hey, tell me how Helsing is Krug, I've been thinking about trying it out myself.
Desdichado
Hero
It's bad enough that you always start a movie poll about a week before movies are released, but now you're starting a monthly what are you reading thread before the month starts! 
But, to answer the question, I'm reading some non-fiction about the Dark Ages: In Search of the Dark Ages by Michael Wood, The World of the Celts by Simon James, King Arthur: the True Story by Graham Phillips and Martin Keatman and Quest for Arthur's Britain by Geoffrey Ashe.
For fiction, I'm reading The Winter King again, by Bernard Cornwell, soon to be followed by the follow-ups to that novel, The Enemy of God and Excalibur. I'm also still mired in Jhereg, for whatever that's worth.
But, to answer the question, I'm reading some non-fiction about the Dark Ages: In Search of the Dark Ages by Michael Wood, The World of the Celts by Simon James, King Arthur: the True Story by Graham Phillips and Martin Keatman and Quest for Arthur's Britain by Geoffrey Ashe.
For fiction, I'm reading The Winter King again, by Bernard Cornwell, soon to be followed by the follow-ups to that novel, The Enemy of God and Excalibur. I'm also still mired in Jhereg, for whatever that's worth.
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EricNoah
Adventurer
"Hard" sci-fi novel Spin State. by (apparently) new-ish author Chris Moriarty. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553382136/102-9900179-8375323?v=glance
Good stuff so far. The teleportation technology of the story is very compelling -- you're not really teleported, you're destroyed and recreated at the quantum level. This can wreak havoc on a person if it's done too many times, particularly on one's mind as a few memories are wiped out each time you do it. Makes me want to make a house rule for D&D.
Good stuff so far. The teleportation technology of the story is very compelling -- you're not really teleported, you're destroyed and recreated at the quantum level. This can wreak havoc on a person if it's done too many times, particularly on one's mind as a few memories are wiped out each time you do it. Makes me want to make a house rule for D&D.
Andrew D. Gable
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Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay (still)
Wyn A'rienh
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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Barendd Nobeard
Explorer
"A Girl of the Limberlost" by Gene Stratton-Porter
Wombat
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Let's see.
Several Osprey/Men-at-Arms books (Aztec, Mixtec & Zapotec Armies; Border Reivers; Matchlock Musketeer; Landsknechts; Buccaneers; French Religious Wars). Along the same line Michael Wood's Conquistadors.
The five Harry Dresden books; just started Elizabeth Peters He Shall Thunder in the Sky (yeah, Amelia!).
After that, probably some more Arthurian material, to prepare for the film, including Morris' Age of Arthur.
Several Osprey/Men-at-Arms books (Aztec, Mixtec & Zapotec Armies; Border Reivers; Matchlock Musketeer; Landsknechts; Buccaneers; French Religious Wars). Along the same line Michael Wood's Conquistadors.
The five Harry Dresden books; just started Elizabeth Peters He Shall Thunder in the Sky (yeah, Amelia!).
After that, probably some more Arthurian material, to prepare for the film, including Morris' Age of Arthur.
Pielorinho
Iron Fist of Pelor
Nonfiction: An Unexpected Light, an account of an Englishman's travels in Afghanistan in the eighties and nineties. Riveting.
Fiction: Absolute Friends, John LeCarre's latest spy novel. I'm only just starting it, but apparently it was at the center of a lot of controversy. So far it's just very beautifully written, with an elegance unusual for the genre.
Daniel
Fiction: Absolute Friends, John LeCarre's latest spy novel. I'm only just starting it, but apparently it was at the center of a lot of controversy. So far it's just very beautifully written, with an elegance unusual for the genre.
Daniel
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