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I really need to have a go at EarthSea one day soon. I have several of LeGuin's short story collections, all of which have at least something worth reading more than once. Compass Rose is probably my favorite.
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You really ought to get all three of them AND The Wind's Twelve Quarters which has an extra Earthsea tale in it. A voracious reader will knock them out in practically no time and yes(!) they're fantastic.
I'm a sucker for well written fantasy and I just picked up a new Darkover novel called The Alton Gift by Deborah Ross (who 's been doing a pretty decent job of continuing MZB's works) and a new Pern novel called Dragon Harper by Todd McCafferey (likewise doing a very nice job of continuing the work with his mother's excellent Pern series).
Oh yeah, I've been looking for a few Heinlein novels to fill a couple of gaps in my collection so I picked up The Rolling Stones. I'd forgotten how much fun that book is.
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LeGuin' last Earthsea book is the adopted daughter of Ged(the burned out wizard) and the girl under the temple. It's truely wonderful, the kind of end to a series that I wish #50 had been.
I've packed it away somewhere, darn it, or I'd tell you the name of it.
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I enjoyed the Todd McCaffery novel. He started out ok, not all that special, but he's starting to grow into the role pretty well. This one was pretty good overall. His primary characters have emotional depth now (not all of them but more than ever before) even if they're perhaps a bit too competent. So far he does have a habit of not filling in much of the background but it works well enough if you've been aboard the Pern stories for a while. He doesn't have to fill in too much because you already know a lot of it, a great advantage to working inside an already existing framework.
The Darkover novel was good. I might like them better now than I did when Bradley was writing them, they're less driven by MZB's social agenda. It picks up after the Terrans have left Darkover where the people and the government are left with a power vacuum. It was hard to put down.
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I haven't found the LeGuin book yet, but I think the title is 'Tehanu'.
Todd's doing better, I think, too. I really enjoyed the characters in his mini, except for the bad guy. I thought he was around for just too long!
I've always liked the watch whers!
I'm reading the Sonoma Diet right now. Scanning really, before I start it in March.
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Yellow Kid:
quote:You really ought to get all three of them AND The Wind's Twelve Quarters which has an extra Earthsea tale in it. A voracious reader will knock them out in practically no time and yes(!) they're fantastic...
Actually I do own The Wind's Twelve Quarters, but had completely forgotten that it had some of the Earthsea stuff in there.
D'oh !!
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There's a type of story where an author takes a fairy tale and rewrites it ~ fleshes it out into a novel.
I have a number of them, but I read a new one the other day called 'The Goose Girl' by Shannon Hale that was pretty fantastic.
She's a princess, although not a very good one, it seems. But her aunt taught her to talk with animals when she was little, particularly birds and horses.
Later, while a goose girl, she learns how to talk with the wind.
The next book is a continuation of characters and deals with Isi's best friend, Enna ~ a forest girl who learns to talk with fire.
Great stories and great takes on having a superpower as teens.
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick.
Winner of the 2008 Caldecott Medal.
The inside jacket describes it as combining elements of picture book, graphic novel, and film. The New York Times review described it as a silent film on paper. It's a delightful story of a young orphan boy hiding in a train station, an old man who runs a toy shop, and a young girl. It's a mystery that evolves into a preoccupation with mechanical things that evolves into a celebration of film. Highly recommended for both the story and the innovative way it is told.
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Got up to page 100 in Neal Stephenson's Anathem and dropped it. Read the last chapter to see what I'd missed... there seemed to be something about multiverses but there was just too much of something. Maybe this is a book that could benefit from being turned into a comic book series or GN, since visuals might help transcend some of the dictionary-ness of it. Stephenson's books are hit or miss for me.
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I finished Sorrow of Young Werther by Goethe. It was good. Now reading Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller. One of the best books I've ever read.
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Whoa, that's quite the praise, Jorge! I may have to check out Tropic of Cancer (I have two books I need to read first...)
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