XPost: alt.fan.tolkien, rec.arts.books.tolkien, alt.books.cs-lewis   
   From: Taemon@zonnet.nl   
      
   Derek Broughton wrote:   
      
   > 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'm currently reading her "In Conquest Born", awful title, awful cover, too.   
   But a very good read. Apparently a trilogy - I don't know if it stays good   
   for three books. But I haven't read a bad Friedmann yet.   
      
   > 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...   
      
   Well, the first 600 are pretty good.   
      
   > 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?)   
      
   I long suspected K.J. Parker to be female for that reason. But apparently he   
   gives interviews.   
      
   >  and /Soldier of Sidon/ which Taemon would never have recommended...   
      
   Does that mean you don't recommend it to me? :-)   
      
   I can recommend Karen Miller's Empress to you, very strange, very good. Not   
   the next to books in that series, though. Strange, that. The Innocent Mage   
   was like that too, pretty good part one, emberrassing part two.   
      
   T.   
      
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