John Q. Mayhem
Explorer
I just finished Dragonlance's Annotated Legends. I started Wealth of Nations, but just couldn't get into it.
[June] What are you reading?
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Andrew D. Gable
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Started Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay a few days ago.
JoeGKushner
Adventurer
I started reading Ed Greenwood's second novel in the Band of Four, something like the Vacant Throne. Man, I thought since it was short I'd be able to finish it quickly but I forgot how much his writing style doesn't mesh with me. Unfortunately, I'm one of those dummies who has to finish a book once he starts it.
I'll have to clean my brain afterwards by reading the novellas of George R.R. Martin in the two Legends books!
I'll have to clean my brain afterwards by reading the novellas of George R.R. Martin in the two Legends books!
CCamfield
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theburningman said:
Wow... they didn't use the original art. What idiots! What they used is... staggeringly bad.
Anyhow, as far as non-fiction is concerned, I am... still... STILL... reading The Ancient Near East 3000-330 BC by Amelie Kuhrt (I think I've been reading it off and on for about 4 months, maybe more), but I'm the second of the two volumes, and reading about late Egypt, around the time when the Egyptian ruler hired a bunch mercenaries, including some from Greece, who left graffiti carved on various monuments. Very interesting.
I was at a used bookstore the other day and came away with some neat books about Egypt, mainly 2 of 3 small books titled Ancient Egyptian Literature, by Miriam Lichtheim. These are collections of translations of Egyptian inscriptions, proclamations, stories, love poems, etc. I read one of them, a later folktale about a prince who tried to get ahold of a cursed magical tome written by the god Thoth. It included a series of games of checkers, essentially, with the spirit of a dead prince, in order to get the book... the ghost won each of the three games, and pushed the living prince further into the ground with each game. (Then the living prince's assistant arrived with his magical amulets, and he freed himself.)
Pielorinho
Iron Fist of Pelor
No, although I plan to sometime; I'm somewhat limited by my crapy public library. I should start haunting the used bookstores, see if I can find them.drothgery said:
However, his author's notes expressing his indebtedness to Dumas inspired me to read, at long last, The Count of Monte Cristo. At nearly 1500 pages, it's the longest book I've ever read, and it's totally and completely gripping. I've never had so much fun before with a pre-twentieth-century author.
Well, except for Mark Twain, but Twain's just a god.
Daniel
Pants
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Finished Gardens of the Moon by Erikson. Very much an excellent book at some points, the characterization was pretty weak though.
Going back to plodding through King's The Stand.
*Sigh* At the pace I'm going, I'll finish it by the time either Deadhouse Gates or A Feast for Crows is out.
Going back to plodding through King's The Stand.
*Sigh* At the pace I'm going, I'll finish it by the time either Deadhouse Gates or A Feast for Crows is out.
myrdden
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Pants said:
I highly recommend this series. For those wondering how high-magic, epic level storylines could evolve - this series is for you. The plot is well thought out and coherent focusing on the expansion of an empire (like the the Roman Empire) in a world where magic and gods exist. I found the characterization to be supurb (perhaps not George R. R. Martin supurb, but pretty damn good) with lots of shades of grey.
I really can't recommend this book enough. I think it is book one of (so far) a 5 book series. I haven't had a chance to read beyond book one yet so I can't comment on how the rest of the series is.
MonsterMash
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Nearly finished Lost Continents by L. Sprague de Camp about the Atlantis myth. Coming up lots of other stuff including the 1000 and one nights.
