You know what I could really do with right now?

[dolorous_ett]

I would love to have a new and wonderful long SF or fantasy book (series of books would also be fine) that I've just discovered and could wallow in.

What I really want is to read something like Harry Potter, Alastair Reynolds's Revelation Space series, Robin Hobb's Assassin series or A Song of Ice and Fire - and not just reread it either, but

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[cloudsinvenice]

Also, if you're open to history, a couple of things: there's a comm on DW that's doing a rolling re-read of the Patrick O'Brian books, and they're starting again with Master and Commander in June. It's given me the nudge to finally start those books, so I'm poised with M and C and waiting...

The other thing, history-wise, is this lovely massive thread, also on DW. I just ended up bookmarking the whole thing because in the comments there were so many books/authors I wanted to try:
http://legionseagle.dreamwidth.org/159224.html

[catkind]

oops didn't mean to be anonymous, hope comment got thru anyway. that was me with the list of random authors.

[erised1810]

nope. same here. i'm rereadign the hp books and trying to drive the 'huh? that's a continuity error' otu of my ears. because it's still afuckign good story eve if parts of it hang abit loose and maybe the prose isn't al lthat...oh what the hell. it had me replay scenes over in my had till 3 am for the whole of last week. there. i hope to find some good odl gems in my pile of books over here o which i can tel lthe world to 'hey. look at hat. never thought it woudl be this cool?"

[azurelunatic]

Diane Duane's Young Wizards series struck me like that. Our heroine discovers the true magical power of words; great responsibility catches up to the great power shortly thereafter