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  1. opaltiger

    What are you reading?

    Embassytown, China Mieville.
  2. opaltiger

    What are you reading?

    Right you are. Read it in more or less one sitting.
  3. opaltiger

    What are you reading?

    The City and The City, China Mieville.
  4. opaltiger

    What are you reading?

    Last Argument of Kings, Joe Abercrombie.
  5. opaltiger

    What are you reading?

    Everyone finds Sansa boring at first, and most people are all "how on earth did she get so interesting" after a while. :D
  6. opaltiger

    What are you reading?

    Just for the record, Flareth, it doesn't really matter where you start Discworld (so long as you start at the beginning of any given mini-series) and The Colour of Magic really isn't very good. If you're not too far in I would suggest starting with another! Anyway, currently reading Lavinia, by...
  7. opaltiger

    What are you reading?

    The Sea Watch, Adrian Tchaikovsky. He writes consistently good epic fantasy, I don't know why more people haven't heard of him.
  8. opaltiger

    What are you reading?

    It has appendices? Seriously? Just pretend they don't exist D:
  9. opaltiger

    What are you reading?

    Dune isn't that long, and it's definitely worth it. I found the sequels to be somewhat superfluous, though.
  10. opaltiger

    What are you reading?

    The Wise Man's Fear, Patrick Rothfuss. Finally.
  11. opaltiger

    What are you reading?

    It strikes me too much as an attempt to pass off fantastical elements as credible and Proper Literature, Not That Silly Science Fiction Stuff. :( See also: speculative fiction; Atwood, Margaret.
  12. opaltiger

    What are you reading?

    yes yes, I wasn't talking about snobby literary types :P This reminds me of an article I read in the Guardian a while ago. It went like this: good literary fiction is better than bad genre fiction, therefore genre fiction will never be as good as literary fiction. No, seriously. The examples he...
  13. opaltiger

    What are you reading?

    A lot of people call Orlando science fiction. I love the sort of early before-science-fiction-was-a-term stuff, so I'm really curious to read it.
  14. opaltiger

    What are you reading?

    Have you read any of her novels? If so, might you be able to advise me where to start? I think I want to read either Mrs. Dalloway or Orlando, can't decide which.
  15. opaltiger

    What are you reading?

    A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen Moby Dick, Herman Melville Yeah I'm not sure what happened there.
  16. opaltiger

    What are you reading?

    Writer/actor by day, giant scorpion by night,
  17. opaltiger

    What are you reading?

    Tuf Voyaging, George R. R. Martin. Took me a bloody long time to find a copy, too.
  18. opaltiger

    What are you reading?

    But the alethiometer isn't actually called the golden compass. :( And, back when Pullman was still using that title for the trilogy as a whole, it was "The Golden Compasses", as in pair of compasses.
  19. opaltiger

    What are you reading?

    There are people who saw the film before reading Northern Lights? Oh, dear. (And yes, the title was changed in America. I suspect it was another case of 'American children won't know (or care) about the northern lights!')
  20. opaltiger

    What are you reading?

    Wicked - Gregory Maguire
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