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| Posted By : Lane - 7/17/2007 10:15 PM | Since I split my time in the summer between my "work home" in Austin (really my brother-in-laws' pad) and my "home home" in Waco, I usually keep two books going at once -- one that I read and those that I listen to in the car (Audible is a wonderful, wonderful thing).
Right now, I just finished listening to Gaiman's "Stardust" (in anticipation of the upcoming film), and tomorrow morning I'll start Robert Stanek's "The Kingdom of the Elves and the Reaches." I haven't heard anything about it, but I'm in the mood for a good epic fantasy.
As for the printed side, I'm flying through Gene Wolfe's enjoyable "Book of the Long Sun;" it's very different in tone than the "Book of the New Sun." It's more light-hearted, with better developed characters, though I do think that Wolfe is developing these characters at the expense of the mythic urgency that permeates the tale of Severian.
Coming up on my bookshelf I've got Howard's new Bran Mak Morn anthology and Pratt and DeCamp's "The Incompleat Enchanter." Hopefully I'll get to these before school ramps back up in August and I'm buried up to my eyes in law books.
-L. |
| Posted By : Bill Ward - 7/17/2007 10:20 PM | I loved Long Sun, have you spotted the references to New Sun within it? You'll probably want to follow up with Short Sun, it's a direct sequal.
Bran Mak Morn and Incompleat Enchanter are on my 'sooner rather than later' list as well. |
| Posted By : Lane - 7/17/2007 10:51 PM | Indeed I have. I have a sneaking suspicion that "Two-Headed Pas" is someone I've met before...
You're going to hate this, but I have an autographed copy of the Short Sun books. Just sittin' on my shelf, waiting for me to finish the Long Sun.
-L. |
| Posted By : von Darkmoor - 7/18/2007 1:15 AM | I both enjoyed reading and kept (the more significant of the two) The Complete Compleat Enchanter (which includes the Incomplete), can't seem to get into a thing of Gene Wolfe's other than the one work (The Knight Wizard) that his fans can't, and have yet to read anything with Bran Mak Morn in it.
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| Posted By : Lane - 7/18/2007 10:08 AM | I have read "The Knight," but haven't got into "The Wizard" yet. I found it enjoyable if a bit uneven and slow at times. Once you get about 300 or so pages into "The Knight," the pace quickens (i.e., once Able actually becomes a knight).
-L. |
| Posted By : Frank - 7/18/2007 2:41 PM | | If you want to preserve the value of your signed editions my advice is to find some cheap reading copies and leave your good ones unopened and out of sunlight. A lot of the value is in the stiffness of the binding, so even opening them to just 90 degrees can diminish their worth. My first editions are opened only once for the author to sign, and even then I hand it over gingerly, making a show of opening it just enough for the author to slip his/her pen in there and scribble. |
| Posted By : Bill Ward - 7/19/2007 12:01 PM | Or send them to me  |
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