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Old 30th October 2006, 01:39 AM   #616 (permalink)
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Three more birthday gifts:

Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
The Sunny Side by AA Milne
The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
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Old 30th October 2006, 03:06 AM   #617 (permalink)
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Three more birthday gifts:

Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
The Sunny Side by AA Milne
The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Tigan is a classic IMO. My favourite work by Kay, let us know how it goes. Master & Margarita is weird but cool. Never read Sunny Side..
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Old 30th October 2006, 04:28 AM   #618 (permalink)
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Read both Tigana and Margarita a long time ago but did not have copies of my own. The edition of Tigana I received is the 10th anniversary one so it's quite lovely.

I'll probably read Master & Margarita again soon. It's definitely wierd but not as wierd as Heart of a Dog. Bulgakov has a way of turning everything slantwise.

The Sunny Side is AA Milne's collection of tales for 'Proper Grown Ups'. He'd apparently tried to publish it before and been told it'd never sell since he was known for having written the Pooh tales. Sunny Side is turning out to be a lot of fun thus far and you can clearly recognise the folk of the Hundred Acre Woods in the characters.
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Old 30th October 2006, 05:44 AM   #619 (permalink)
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Read both Tigana and Margarita a long time ago but did not have copies of my own. The edition of Tigana I received is the 10th anniversary one so it's quite lovely.
I have that edition, too :-) Though I think Tigana is actually not nearly my favorite Kay. I think Lions of Al-Rassan and A Song for Arbonne tie for that honor :-)
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Old 30th October 2006, 06:13 AM   #620 (permalink)
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Aarti ... Lions of al-Rassan is the tops for me definitely along with the Fionavar Tapestry.
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Old 30th October 2006, 11:21 AM   #621 (permalink)
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Aarti ... Lions of al-Rassan is the tops for me definitely along with the Fionavar Tapestry.
AH..allow me to qualify Fionavar Tapestry is my fav Kay work followed by Tigana. I've never read "Lions" so I think it's one to add to the list.
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Old 30th October 2006, 11:40 AM   #622 (permalink)
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Recenty started Gardens of the Moon and I'm enjoying it so much that I've now ordered the next 3 in the saga
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Old 30th October 2006, 11:41 AM   #623 (permalink)
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Now that I've finally found out what IMO and IMHO stand for (all hail Google) ... I think you'd like Lions of al-Rassan GOLLUM.
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Old 30th October 2006, 09:27 PM   #624 (permalink)
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I just finished "The Hickory Staff - Book I in the Eldarni Sequence" which I bought 3 days ago.

And I just bought "Wheel of Time: New Spring".
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Old 2nd November 2006, 04:05 PM   #625 (permalink)
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Yesterday bought all four of the Isaac Asimovs R. Daneel Olivaw & Elijah Baley books in one tome.
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Old 2nd November 2006, 08:27 PM   #626 (permalink)
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Now that I've finally found out what IMO and IMHO stand for (all hail Google) ... I think you'd like Lions of al-Rassan GOLLUM.
I think you should definitely add it to the TBR, GOLLUM! It has very little magic, though, compared to Tigana.

I must admit, I tried reading the first Fionavar book and just didn't get into it at ALL. I think I have trouble with "present-day" fantasy- ones that involve people from nowadays. So I had very little interest from the first in Fionavar.

Kay's next book, Ysabel, is also set in modern-day Provence. So we'll have to see how it goes!
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Old 3rd November 2006, 04:43 AM   #627 (permalink)
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Not a book, but received the latest issue of H. P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror in the mail on -- appropriately -- Halloween.... Has a large section on Lumley, and a new Chelsea Quinn Yarbro story....
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Old 3rd November 2006, 04:49 AM   #628 (permalink)
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From Raman of Silverfish Books an early Christmas present. A hardback, illustrated edition of Carlos Ruiz Zafon's Shadow Of The Wind. It's an absolutely lovely book and I didn't even know there was an illustrated edition on the market.
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Have just purchased the Finovar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay. A brilliant bargain, the three books for only $AU12.
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Old 5th November 2006, 09:42 PM   #630 (permalink)
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Tad William's Otherland books have read previously but don't have copies

Memoirs of a Geisha

Triss by Brian Jacques

and Stephen King's Insomnia again previous read but no copy
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