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gnikniht_tuoba

The endless battle ...

Oct 23, 2005 19:58

You'd think that, at this point in my life, I would know better than to go to the library. Certainly not on a weekend when I have so blasted much to do. (whine) I really DID need that copy of the "King's Comissioners" for a math lesson coming up this friday ( Read more... )

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anonymous October 24 2005, 10:27:03 UTC

I totally can't wait for Batimaeus. Glad to hear it's coming out slightly earlier... i think it was originally schedule for Feb 2006. Woot! Anyway, hope your school work got done quickly.
-E in Jpn

oldshaghat October 24 2005, 12:44:18 UTC

I haven't heard of those authors at all - are they like anyone else? I've been looking at my books and wondering where to go next. (Although in truth, I'm still reading Shogun. I am kinda slowing down at the 900 page mark.) G.R.R. Martin's Feast of Crows is out soon, and I'll get that I suppose ... tangent: I don't really know if I like GRRM or not. I've read and, I guess enjoyed, the books thus far (Game of Thrones, and .. uh, those other two) but every so often I just have to sigh and shake my head. Maybe it's his little adolescent boy fantasy approach to sex, or his predictable "unpredictability" ... I don't know. I guess on the whole it's good and I will likely read the rest of the series in the next 20 years. end of tangent.

Anyway, how about If you liked so-and-so, you'll like Hale / Bell?

gnikniht_tuoba October 24 2005, 13:46:34 UTC

I'm not keen on the Martin series (which my cousins consider to be a blasephemous statement.) It's too violent for me.

Hale/Bell are both young adult authors, so not as edgy as Martin. I suspect they might not grab you. All the stuff I read is young adult, but in that vein, I think you'd prefer the Jonathon Stroud books (the Bartemaeus series) or the Turner series (The Thief, The Queen of Attolia). Both are excellent. The Thief was a newberry honor book a couple years back, and Stroud is a British children's editor who recently took up writing himself. I heard the first Bartemaeus book on tape and was absolutely delighted with the humor of the story.

one-sentence hooks ... gnikniht_tuoba October 25 2005, 01:48:07 UTC

"The Thief" & series describes the polticial and theological wranglings of three city-states in a region reminicsent of ancient greece. It's fantasy, but in a fairly subtle way.

The Bartimeous books are pure fantasy -- they're set in an alternate Britain with a caste system where magic-users run the government. It's a fairly modern Britain, maybe 1940-ish, with cars and all.