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CupofJoe

CupofJoe

Istari
"Firefly: a celebration" created by Joss Whedon

Take my love
Take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care
I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me.

Take me out
To the black
Tell them I ain't coming back
Burn the land
And boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me.

Have no place
I can be
Since I found Serenity
But you can't take the sky from me.
 
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Chessie

Istari
Current list:

-Inharmonic (Songmaker Series), which I found completely by accident and he writes in a world similar to mine. :D
-Eight Seconds To Forever (CR)
-Shine On (HR)
-Guerrilla Publishing (almost done)
-Six Figure Author (halfway done)

It's going to be a busy reading month!
 
skip.knox

skip.knox

Staff
Moderator
The Black Count, a history about the extraordinary life of Alex Dumas, the father to Alexander Dumas, author of The Three Musketeers, etc.
 
P

Peat

Mystagogue
Read By The Sword by Mercedes Lackey today as I needed a fun feel-good braindead book to read while waiting for my dad at the hospital. Did its job admirably.

Was reading Blood of Elves, but got a little tired by the scarcity of action.
 
Insolent Lad

Insolent Lad

Master
Just finished Chesterton's 'The Man Who Was Thursday.' Didn't realize it was a 'fantasy' until I was well into it, as it's spy-story premise transmuted page-by-page, growing more humorously absurd and eventually downright mystical.
 
DragonOfTheAerie

DragonOfTheAerie

Istari
Insolent Lad said:
Just finished Chesterton's 'The Man Who Was Thursday.' Didn't realize it was a 'fantasy' until I was well into it, as it's spy-story premise transmuted page-by-page, growing more humorously absurd and eventually downright mystical.
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That's one of my favorite books!! :D I don't think it really belongs in a genre, and those are my favorite kind.

I just love Chesterton's writing style.
 
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Chessie

Istari
The Musicmaker book wasn't very good. Sigh. Got burned again. I'm so sick of dry sounding books. Ugh.

Finished a couple of the other books, which also weren't very good (except for Chris Fox's book, that was helpful!). Now reading Forsworn. And...I actually love it.
 
skip.knox

skip.knox

Staff
Moderator
Chessie said:
This sounds very interesting! The Three Musketeers is one heck of a book!
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The book is fascinating. Alex Dumas was the son of a French aristocrat and a black woman in Santo Domingo. He came to France at fourteen, got into the Army just before the French Revolution. He was actually a famous soldier and then general, commander of something called the Black Legion.

I know a bit about the French Revolution. Seeing it re-told from this angle has been enjoyable. Still reading. Alex just commanded an assault on Mont Cenis.
 
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Chessie

Istari
The Count Of Monte Cristo is also another one of his masterpieces. It took me forever to read but I loved it so much I went and rented the movie afterward!
 
Tom

Tom

Istari
Finished The Goblin Emperor last night! A very dense political fantasy that took a lot of time and effort to get through, but it was absolutely stunning. Court intrigue, steampunk, underdog hero, extensive worldbuilding...just my kind of book. If you can manage to remember 50+ character names and work through some extremely long, hard-to-pronounce words, I'd highly recommend trying it out. It's also kind of a slow-burn type plot, and a lot of the action is supplied by political maneuvering.
 
neodoering

neodoering

Master
Right now I'm reading an indie graphic novel called Vampire in Hollywood, and other tales of supernatural law, by Batton Lash. It's a humorous set of stories with the premise that each story tells the tale of a supernatural being that for one reason or another needs a lawyer to represent him, and he goes to attorneys Wolff and Byrd for help. Full of artistic in-jokes, and at times laugh-out-loud funny.

I just finished The Three Musketeers and really enjoyed it. Fast paced, interesting, lively, and fun. Not fantasy, but still a good time.

While I'm discussing books, a few years ago I read the complete The Arabian Nights , translated by Burton. I'd say, don't bother. There are a lot of stories that are very similar to each other, and some that are flat-out boring, and some that are just not well written/translated. Read an abridged version, with the best stories in it. There aren't a whole lot of fantasy tales in the Nights, but there are enough to give you a taste of Arabia.
 
Mythopoet

Mythopoet

Dark Lord
I just finished reading Lirael and Abhorsen by Garth Nix. I found them really enjoyable. The world of the Old Kingdom is really well done and fascinating.
 
Steerpike

Steerpike

Staff
Moderator
Mythopoet said:
I just finished reading Lirael and Abhorsen by Garth Nix. I found them really enjoyable. The world of the Old Kingdom is really well done and fascinating.
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Those are good. Sabriel is still my favorite, but I haven't disliked any of them.
 
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