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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CCamfield" data-source="post: 2622539" data-attributes="member: 8123">Coincidentally I've just finished reading Going Postal this week.  Pretty good (as usual for Pratchett)!I am currently in the middle of reading:- The Pyrates, by George Macdonald Fraser (who has written the many-volumed Flashman series).  A pastiche of swashbuckler books and films, a fun romp so far that winks at various swashbuckler stereotypes and so on.  Fun stuff.- The Deer and the Cauldron, by Louis Cha.  Chinese martial arts novel - in English translation, 3 volumes.  I'm in the middle of the second book.  Also, unexpectedly, a sort of sendup of more serious stories.  It's about a young lad named Trinket who gets wrapped up in adventures involving the Triad societies, Imperial politics, evil martial arts cults, and a hunt for 8 copies of a certain sutra.  However Trinket is a shameless good-for-nothing who is no good at martial arts, and who lies his way out of everything!  He's a bit annoying, but overall it's fun.- (gaming) From Stone to Steel, a d20 book about weapons at different levels of technological development.  I got a review PDF from the publisher, so I am trying to devote  time reading this so I can write my review before too long. - also, a book about how mythology was used for politics at Olympia and Delphi in ancient Greece.</blockquote>