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Cory Doctorow's Eastern Standard Tribe was interesting--in parts. It was one of those books with two storylines told in alternate chapters or sections--but one was more interesting than the other, and I found myself wanting to skip over one to get to the other. Sadly, the premise on which the book hung, that of "tribes" who lived on the same time zone instead of their local one in order to facilitate communications, wasn't as prominent as I would have liked. That was what really interested me in the first place, but it wasn't that big a part of the book.
So, worth reading, but not the best thing I've read this year.
Now I'm reading Night Watch by Terry Pratchett.
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I read such a diverse set of books! Right now Martha and I are working our way through Allingham mysteries (because at the reading by Elizabeth George someone asked her who *her* favourite mystery writers were...).
I loved Nancy Kress's Crossfire. Martha was disappointed because she thought there should have been more conflict between the humans in the larger group, I thought it would just be distracting to the main story.
I don't remember what my sig says I'm reading. I keep forgetting to update it.
I'm also reading The Geometry of Love by Vissar. It's an exploration, in great depth and detail, of the structure and history of a single church.
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4/5/2005, 1:28 pm
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Night Watch was excellent as usual, if a tad more serious than some Discworld offerings. Now I'm reading the anthology Low Port which I'm mostly enjoying, but the stories are, on the whole, rather dark.
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4/22/2005, 10:58 pm
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Re-reading The Wounded Land by Stephen Donaldson, 4th in the Thomas Covenant series. I set myself the task of re-reading the whole series before The Runes of the Earth appeared in paperback. I'm not sure if I'll make it... I left a long gap between #3 and #4.
Would I reccomend it? That's a tough question. I love the series, but I can see lots of reasons why people wouldn't. Donaldson has a very idiosyncratic writing style. There are not many books these days that have me reaching for the dictionary three times on the first page! (spavined, adjective, afflicted with a swelling or inflammation of the carpal or tarsal joint in a horse's leg; desuetude, noun, a state of disuse; condign, adjective, worthy or deserving.)
If you can put up with prose like, The house squatted among its weeds like a crippled toad, spavined by antiquity, and characters who are so angst-ridden that you want to give them a good slap, then yes I would whole-heartedly recommend this book. It's full of original ideas and unique fantasy elements (and ignore the "comparable to Tolkien" quote on the cover; there is no point of comparison).
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4/23/2005, 2:24 am
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I'm working my way through several Robert Sawyer novels.
I'm enjoying his writing. Clean style, very technical/scientific but he manages to explain stuff so I neither feel it's dumbed down nor lost in detail, and stuff about reality, spirituality, the meaning of life, and so on.
I'm waiting for the first in a series to come in at the library, I have Hybrids and Humans, the second and third books in a series. I'm #6 of 11 holds on 5 copies of Hominids.
Martha and I both do this, though I'm being less strict about Sawyer's work... we like to start with the author's first book and work our way to the most current book. We did that with Pratchett and, more recently, Elizabeth George. We do that when we *discover* an author and every once in a while when we want a *retrospective* on a particularly preferred writer.
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4/23/2005, 4:23 pm
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Oh, I just finished a wonderful book titled: Sorcery & Cecilia, or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot by Patricia Wrede and Caroline Stevermer. I highly recommend it to anyone who likes stories set in the Victorian/Regency period in an alternate world where magic exists. The authors wrote it as a series of letters back and forth between the two protagonists, each author taking the part of one character, and they didn't discuss the plot or story while writing the first draft--just kept sending each other the next letter. In fact they started it just as a game, not intending a book at all.
Anyway, I absolutely loved it.
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I just finished Terry Pratchett's book "Hat Full of Sky" and it was a blast. It is marketed as a kid's book, but I loved it. Perfect Pratchett, a bit over the top, a bit of a moral, and in the end everyone is basically good, you just need compassion to see them for themselves.
Now I'm reading Anne Lamont's "Bird by Bird" which is a great read, I don't know that it's going to help my writing, but it's a scathingly fun read.
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Ooh, I want to read Hat Full of Sky this summer, but I have to read Wee Free Men first. My daughter has that one on her shelf, so it's just waiting for me.
I just finished the sequel to Sorcery & Cecilia, The Grand Tour, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. My plan was, after that book, to not start anything new until I'd read through my manuscript that I'm about to start rewriting. So unless something jumps off the shelf at me, I'm going to try and stick to that plan.
Although I do need to read Harry Potter 4 before the movie comes out...
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Tibetan Folk Tales and Fairy Stories, collected and translated by Sudhin N. Ghose
It's... exactly what it says on the cover 
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Oh, that's cool. I have the Snow Lion's Turquoise Mane. It's full of Tibetan stories. I love the way they just ramble on and then end and I'm left sitting there saying "what! what? what!"
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