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francisca wrote:

Algolei wrote:

team-preston wrote:Looking at his track record with women it's easy to see.

Oh yar? I was on the women's track team in high school, too.

So, you aren't a pygmie, then.

Is that a short-person joke?




(ironically I'm not short...I'm 6'6")

team-preston wrote:

francisca wrote:

Algolei wrote: Oh yar? I was on the women's track team in high school, too.

So, you aren't a pygmie, then.

Is that a short-person joke?

All my person jokes are short.

Reading Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gabriel Kay.

Just finished two novellas, "The Tain" by China Mieville and "Unicorn Tapestry" by Suzy McKee Charnas. Both vampire stories, but very different from each other. Before that I read Bradbury's Dandelion Wine.

Just started de Camp and Pratt's Compleat Enchanter.

I'm reading Infernal Sorceress by Gary Gygax.

It is set on Aerth (Yarth), but it doesn't feature Magister Setne Inhetep like the three previous books.

Currently reading Dragonworld by Byron Preiss & Michael Reaves. This book is from 1979 and for an impulse buy at the used book store I am really impressed. Look it up on amazon you can get it cheap!

Also if you like quick pulpy sword & sorcery try:
Brak the barbarian by John Jakes,
Brak vs. Mark of the Demons
Brak vs. the Sorceress
Brak: When the Idols walked

The whole Brak series felt like it was written while playing D&D one on one it was really a fun read.

The Last Apprentice by Joseph Delany! For those of you in England this is known as The Spook's apprentice. There are 5 books in the series so far. They are a really cool, lots of great ideas for witch's, ghosts etc.

I zipped through all 5 books in like 3 weeks, give them a try!

Okay, it's more scifi horror than fantasy, but...

has anyone read World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks? If so, what do think of it?

I read at rottentomatoes that the director of Quantum of Solace is going to direct the film version of this novel, and the the synopsis I read at wiki comes across pretty cool

Current fantasy reads are Keith Taylor's Bard III: The Wild Sea and The End of the Story: the Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith, Vol. 1. I'm savoring the latter heady vintage one or two stories at a time, interspersed with my other reading... I just checked out Martha Wells' City of Bones from the library, so that'll be next on the list.

The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Not exactly "fantasy", but it's a pretty good read.

Deogolf wrote:The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Not exactly "fantasy", but it's a pretty good read.

Damn right.

I wish some publisher would get their act together and reprint all of Doyle's Professor Challenger stories, preferably in a single-volume omnibus (I've heard that there is such a volume, but I've never seen it).

EDIT: Well, speak of the devil. Also, if you have their Kindle device you can buy "The Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" for $4.95.

Wow. I didn't know that Doyle's The Lost World had sequels, so to speak. I thoroughly enjoyed The Lost World, so I am going to have to read the others.

Another 19th-century Englishman who is great is H. Rider Haggard.

Geoffrey wrote:Another 19th-century Englishman who is great is H. Rider Haggard.

Yeah. I've read his "White Heart, Black Heart" short story. Quite good. I have a compilation of his with "She" and "King Salomon's Mines" in it.

I just finished DeCamp & Pratt's Compleat Enchanter. I've got a fantasy anthology that I have one more story to read. After that, I think I'm going to move on to re-reading Edith Hamilton's Mythology. Fantastic basic primer on Greek/Roman mythology, with a little Norse thrown in.

See if you can find Roger Lancelyn Green's Myths of the Norsemen for a great Norse Mythology primer.

I just discovered The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. Good stuff.