[Hinter]

More spoilers:

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Women occasionally smooth their skirts and tug their braids.

[Illuyankas]

Better than

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tugging their skirts and smoothing their braids

However that works

[murphy72]

Illuyankas, on Aug 23 2009, 08:21 PM, said:

WOT Spoilers:

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Rand is the Dragon Reborn

Hinter, on Aug 23 2009, 08:24 PM, said:

More spoilers:

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Women occasionally smooth their skirts and tug their braids.

Illuyankas, on Aug 23 2009, 08:27 PM, said:

Better than

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tugging their skirts and smoothing their braids

However that works

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You forgot the Sniffing!

Just finished Mike Carey's Vicious Circle. It's a sort of a cross between Charlie Huston's Joe Pitt series with some good one liners like Butcher's Dresden Files. Recommended.

This post has been edited by murphy72: 24 August 2009 - 02:16 PM

[Bauchelain the Evil]

LOL.
Finished The Judging Eye. The Scalpers,especially Cleric, were great characters and wonderfully writen and the scene in the Black Halls, very reminiscent of Moira but better, is surely one of the best scene in fantasy. On the other hand the part with the Great Ordeal ws rather boring but I'm sure that once they meet the Sranc and get to Golgotterath it will be better. The parts with Momen would have probably been the same if not for Kellhus's creepy kid. So all in all, while a god book, I was expecting a bit more from Bakker.

[Rakebitten]

Michael Moorcock's Elric series is excellent, as well as his VonBek compilation.

Another great fantasy work is Fritz Leiber's Tales of Lahnkmar, featuring the rogue magician Grey Mouser and his barbarian co-hort Fahferd. They're amusing, well written, and a good in-between-epics read.

[Deornoth]

Finished reading an ARC of Harry Connolly's 'Child of Fire'. It's an Urban Fantasy much like any other but the 'Lovecraftian' slant makes it stand out from the pack. The relentless pace (a little too relentless sometimes) had me hooked and the fact that Connolly has no issues balancing the plot on things like a stray bullet gave things a real bite. My full review is over Here. I'm now finishing off 'Wolfbreed' and I'm well into Mike Carey's 'The Naming of the Beasts' (which is awesome)...

[RangerSG]

Rakebitten, on Aug 25 2009, 01:47 PM, said:

Michael Moorcock's Elric series is excellent, as well as his VonBek compilation.

Another great fantasy work is Fritz Leiber's Tales of Lahnkmar, featuring the rogue magician Grey Mouser and his barbarian co-hort Fahferd. They're amusing, well written, and a good in-between-epics read.

I grew up on Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser. Great reads, hard to find them these days though. And that is a true shame.

[Abyss]

RangerSG, on Aug 25 2009, 07:22 PM, said:

Rakebitten, on Aug 25 2009, 01:47 PM, said:

Michael Moorcock's Elric series is excellent, as well as his VonBek compilation.

Another great fantasy work is Fritz Leiber's Tales of Lahnkmar, featuring the rogue magician Grey Mouser and his barbarian co-hort Fahferd. They're amusing, well written, and a good in-between-epics read.

I grew up on Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser. Great reads, hard to find them these days though. And that is a true shame.

Moorcock and Leiber make for interesting reading. The stories are timeless but still a really interesting contrast to 'modern' fantasy. Elric was amazingly ambiguous at times. Whiny and angsty, but cool.

Faf and the Mouser... i always LIKED their stories, but never loved them... maybe because I had already read the Belgariad when i found Leiber, i kept preferring Barak and Silk as THE fantasy lit buddy combo On the rereads years later, Leiber holds up better than Eddings tho'.

- Abyss, notes this was all long before i ever read of QB and Kalam or Trull and Onrack...

[Deornoth]

RangerSG, on Aug 26 2009, 12:22 AM, said:

Rakebitten, on Aug 25 2009, 01:47 PM, said:

Michael Moorcock's Elric series is excellent, as well as his VonBek compilation.

Another great fantasy work is Fritz Leiber's Tales of Lahnkmar, featuring the rogue magician Grey Mouser and his barbarian co-hort Fahferd. They're amusing, well written, and a good in-between-epics read.

I grew up on Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser. Great reads, hard to find them these days though. And that is a true shame.

They're in the Fantasy Masterworks series aren't they? Those are definitely still on the shelves

Finished reading S.A. Swann's 'Wolfbreed', a historical fantasy of werewolves and the northern crusade in Prussia. I didn't expect to like this one as much as I did, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I thought Swann was a little too heavy handed with the central argument though and I saw the twist coming a mile off... My full review is over Here. I'm now finishing off 'The Naming of the Beasts'...

[Rakebitten]

Abyss, on Aug 26 2009, 10:19 AM, said:

[Faf and the Mouser... i always LIKED their stories, but never loved them... maybe because I had already read the Belgariad when i found Leiber, i kept preferring Barak and Silk as THE fantasy lit buddy combo On the rereads years later, Leiber holds up better than Eddings tho'.

- Abyss, notes this was all long before i ever read of QB and Kalam or Trull and Onrack...

I've never picked up Eddings, so I can't say as to his writings, but also thought honourable mention should go out to Frank Franzetta and the Death Dealer series. Another dark fantasy with well developed characters and one mean assed protagonist.

I think, in hindsight, Leiber was the next author I'd read after Tolkien, and that's what probably firmly set the hook in my mouth on fantasy some 2 and a half decades ago.

[Abyss]

There is something to be said for the first author you 'discover'. Tho i read Alexander's PRYDAIN series and Cooper's DARK IS RISING before THE HOBBIT but it was still Hobbit (and mos def NOT LotR) that hooked me, followed by the BELGARIAD.

- Abyss, ...amazed he actually found time for sports as a kid...

[Rakebitten]

Right said, there Abyss...The Hobbit was my first true fantasy, and opened the door on some great books and lesser tomes as well.
I had to chuckle about your afterthought, too. I was an athlete in every sense of the word (and still coach youth hockey, as well as help run and organize a youth hockey league for underpriviledged kids) yet I always found the time to read.
I think back about all those misspent nights in my youth playin Gar Gygax's D&D...those nights would never have happened if not for Tolkien.

I wonder...is this a good thing or a bad one???

Regardless, I now have a beautiful wife and three young boys who love me despite my nearly unparalleled level of geektitude, so whatever arguement there is to the above question is, I suppose, moot.

[Deornoth]

Finished reading Mike Carey's 'The Naming of the Beasts', latest in his 'Felix Castor' series. I'm not sure what the book will do in terms of the flow of the series itself but, on it's own, it might just be the best Urban Fantasy I read this year. I can't see anything else topping it. My full review is over Here. It's now a race to see whether the Michael Moorcock short story collection or Warren Fahy's 'Fragement' is finished first...

[LadyMTL]

I finished reading The Meaning of Night (which I liked but I was able to guess a lot of it beforehand) and now, while I wait for DoD to ship, I'm re-reading Christopher Moore's Lamb. I love that book!

[Skywalker]

Back to reading Fionavar Tapestry #3 - The Darkest Road after an extended break from it for DoD

[Mushroom]

Finished Watchmen recently

Still need to get back to Finishing The Wizard by Gene Wolfe
Slow going by still rewarding nonetheless.

and still in the middle of Straw dogs by John Gray and Power Faith and Fantasy: US foreign Policy in the Middle East 1776-Present

[kcf]

Finally got a review written for The Last Hot Time by John M. Ford. Now I still owe reviews for Darkest Hour by Mark Chadbourn and No Dominion by Charlie Huston.

Currently, I'm reading and enjoying Dust of Dreams by Erikson.

[Salt-Man Z]

I'm having a bear of a time getting through Gormenghast. It's just become soooo slow and tedious.

It doesn't help that I've been reading Paul Kearney's The Ten Thousand, which has turned into quite an excellent book. I got to the halfway point the other night, and had my mind completely blown. I had some serious problems putting it down after that.

[Bauchelain the Evil]

Reading Armageddon's Children. Normally I wouldn't have gone a kilometer near Brooks, but it was a birthday present and manners force me to read.

[SporadicSmiles]

I'm actually reading Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, it was on my ereader as a free book and i am going to read them all alphabetically (which will take a while).

Its actually a lot more enjoyable than i thought it would be. then again i dont even know what it was supposed to be about so i dont know where its going. Which is great =>