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   From: derek@pointerstop.ca   
      
   Taemon wrote:   
      
   > 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 finished /The Madness Season/ (SF, not fantasy) and thought it even better   
   than /Black Sun Rising/.  Everybody and their dog has tackled the vampire   
   myth - and I've read most of them - and really doubted I'd ever again   
   encounter a novel approach.  I'm really impressed.   
   >   
   >> I have /The Name of the Wind/ by Rothfuss, that Dirk recommended, and   
      
   which I am currently very much enjoying   
   >   
   >>  and /Soldier of Sidon/ which Taemon would never have recommended...   
   >   
   > Does that mean you don't recommend it to me? :-)   
      
   I haven't got to it yet - it's my reserve in case any of the others are   
   duds.  I feel sure that I _can_ recommend it based on his previous work.   
      
   > I can recommend Karen Miller's Empress to you, very strange, very good.   
      
   Once again, somebody's reading your recommendations before me.  I'm third in   
   line for this one.   
      
   > 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.   
      
   We don't have that in our library.   
      
   --   
   derek   
      
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