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   From: dthierbach@usenet.arcornews.de   
      
   Taemon  wrote:   
   > Dirk Thierbach wrote:   
   >> Taemon  wrote:   
      
   >>> Oh, boy. I review fantasy for the public library   
   >> Anything you can recommend? :-)   
      
   > My heart bleeds for the current German fantasy.   
      
   Ah, the *good* German fantasy authors (e.g. Michael Ende, Cornelia Funke)   
   are usually marketed as children's books :-) If you can get your hand   
   on "Der Spiegel im Spiegel" ("The mirror in the mirror") by Michael Ende,   
   read it. Definitely not children's fiction...   
      
   Though there's not a lot of good German fantasy authors, and probably   
   few could be classified as "current". And we don't have to talk about   
   Hohlbein and Co.   
      
   > It's what I mainly get these days (translated to Dutch). Nah... I   
   > haven't gotten a good book in months.   
      
   I don't mind if it's not current. :-)   
      
   > Fortunately, I am not restricted to reading what's sent to me so I have   
   > found Abercrombie to recommend :-)  Another series called "First Law", and   
   > the best of them.   
      
   I have "The Blade Itself" here, but haven't read it yet. The beginning   
   was not so promising, so I got distracted... but maybe that was just   
   a first impression.   
      
   BTW, I can recommend "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss (not   
   German, despite the name). A really good read.   
      
   - Dirk   
      
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