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   From: derek@pointerstop.ca   
      
   Jette Goldie wrote:   
      
   > Derek Broughton wrote:   
   >>   
   >   
   >> Ugh.  Sounds like Iain Banks.  He has the absolute worst names for   
   >> people,   
   >> but the names of his interstellar vessels are _brilliant_.  I gave him up   
   >> after one book, but my wife - the non-SF person - enjoys him.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Tried any of his non-SF stuff?  It comes under "Scottish Fiction" in   
   > my local Borders.  Iain M Banks for SF, Iain Banks for non-SF.  His   
   > "Crow Road" has what I think is possibly the best ever opening   
   > line/hook for a story.   
      
   No, my wife is reading all of them, but life's too short...   
      
   I got my first bunch of Taemon's recommendations from the library.   
      
   I've started on, and am really enjoying, the /Black Sun Rising/ (though page   
   1 almost threw me - she "reigned up" her horse, which should be "reined in".   
   I was hoping it was just bad copy-editing, but then the character named her   
   husband's best ability, followed by a whole list of other best abilities.   
   Fortunately, she met her grisly end before even being properly introduced.   
   Things improved from there.)   
      
   I thought I'd just reserved the first book of /The Braided Path/, but   
   received an "omnibus edition".  It's sitting on my bookshelf taunting me.   
   It _claims_ to only be 976 pages, but it looks like a lot more...   
      
   I have /The Name of the Wind/ by Rothfuss, that Dirk recommended, and   
   another Friedman /The Madness Season/ (didn't I tell you Taemon, that if   
   they use initials like "C.S. Friedman" it's a female author?), and /Soldier   
   of Sidon/ which Taemon would never have recommended...   
   --   
   derek   
      
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