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Which book are you reading now? Volume X
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The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch.
Think "Ocean's Eleven" (though that description would fit the book's sequel even better) in a Fantasy Venice-counterpart including Mafia-infighting with witty banter and people cursing.
It's my first reread; I picked it up again four months after finishing it the first time, and that's saying something. I can only recommend it, the writing is very witty and the author just loves to heap lots of trouble on his characters. The fantasy aspect plays very low in the background, so it's a worthy read whether you like typical fantasy or not.
Think "Ocean's Eleven" (though that description would fit the book's sequel even better) in a Fantasy Venice-counterpart including Mafia-infighting with witty banter and people cursing.
It's my first reread; I picked it up again four months after finishing it the first time, and that's saying something. I can only recommend it, the writing is very witty and the author just loves to heap lots of trouble on his characters. The fantasy aspect plays very low in the background, so it's a worthy read whether you like typical fantasy or not.
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
Is this a Nazi version of Fanny Hill?
The Life of Greece, Will Durant. I've had it checked out from the library for nearly a month, but am planning on actually reading it this week.
I don't remember there being a lot of Latin in there. Certianly, you don't have to know it to enjoy it.
A classic from the (second) golden age of SciFi. Thanks for reminding me, I'll have to re-read it again.
Luckymoose
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New Cambridge Medieval History Vol. 7. Which covers the 15th century.
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Larry Niven's Ringworld for the moment, but this months issue of "World Soccer" came out today so I'll divert. Then I'll probably go onto Pieter Geyl's (can't remember if it's Piet or Pieter) 2nd volume of his History of the Netherlands Republic.
Pieter. History of the Dutch Republic (or History of the Republic of the Netherlands) seems more correct as a title translation. An excellent example of historiographic writing, I must say. 
Left Alexander Tisman´s The Use of Man for Joyce Carol Oates´s The Assignation.
Left Alexander Tisman´s The Use of Man for Joyce Carol Oates´s The Assignation.
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Pieter. History of the Dutch Republic (or History of the Republic of the Netherlands) seems more correct as a title translation. An excellent example of historiographic writing, I must say.
Left Alexander Tisman´s The Use of Man for Joyce Carol Oates´s The Assignation.
Well he called it History of the Netherlands Republic himself (it's a re-read on my part), though Nederlandshce Stam is probably best translated Dutch State. It is a very interesting book, and I find it very readable, and compared to similar period works remarkably balanced.
But he should have stuck to Dutch. Stam translates to tribe (definitely not state) - which probably sounds even weirder in English then in Dutch.
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Ringworld is awsome! The rest in the series aren't that great. You can end with The Ringworld Engineers and you can be done.
Brian Shanahan
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I tend to buy SF books at random. Terry Pratchett I'll buy asap and history according to what I want to know more about at the moment.
Just finished Ringworld (at 5:00a.m. this morning) and I felt it kind of came to a juddering halt at the end. They met your one Prill and everything was solved very quickly after that, in about 30 pages IIRC.
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Yeah, the ending feels a bit like Dune. You are basicaly thrown out of the book.
If you like Niven and want to contine along the Ringworld line, then you have to read Protector to understand The Ringworld Engineers.
If however you like the author but not the book, I would reccomend A Gift from Earth or the short story collection Neutron Star.
I'm happy. I finaly managed to find a copy of Poul Andersons 'A Stone in Heaven', the concluding book of the Dominic Flandry series. I liked the other Dominic Flandry books so I'm hoping this one will be good.
Not an insignificant amount.
And I still liked it quite a bit, I just think I missed out on some of the meaning in key places because I didn't know what was being said. (Like in the closing lines, which I actually looked up)
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
Finished this tonight. What a fantastic book. Personal accounts are always fascinating.
Going for a 180 degree change of pace, I will begin Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights tomorrow.
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D-day Dodgers: The Canadians in Italy, 1943-45 - Daniel G. Dancocks
The Prussian Officer - D.H. Lawrence
The Prussian Officer - D.H. Lawrence
The Dark Tower series by Stephen King, currently finishing up The Song of Susannah. Also started Market Forces by Richard K. Morgan. I recently read the Jump 225 Trilogy by Edelman, Daemon and Freedom by Suarez, The Merchant Princes series by Charles Stross and Swan Song by Robert McGammon.
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