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Jeff is a friend of mine, so of course I would recommend him Larry Send a noteboard - 07/02/2011 08:33:41 AM
I'm reading The Darkness that Comes Before and enjoying it, though I don't remember anything. I'm beginning to suspect I picked up the second or third book in the series when I started Bakker a few years ago, which would explain why I didn't understand anything that was going on. :P


But I tend to be tougher on those with whom I know on a more personal level, so don't take it as me just promoting someone unworthy of consideration. His fiction is never quite the same from collection to collection, novel to novel. My favorite novel by him, Shriek: An Afterword, is more akin to Nabokov's Ada than it is to the so-called New Weird label which has been attached to him.

I've read series where I started way past #1. First WoT book I read was CoS :P
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

Je suis méchant.
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I need a book. A good book. A book that I will enjoy. Ghavrel - 06/02/2011 08:25:51 AM 1536 Views
Zadie Smith - White Teeth. Legolas - 06/02/2011 11:31:06 AM 1395 Views
Spring Snow looks good, thanks. *NM* Ghavrel - 06/02/2011 08:32:51 PM 600 Views
The question is not what you have read, but what you enjoyed reading... jh - 06/02/2011 12:57:01 PM 1340 Views
Re: The question is not what you have read, but what you enjoyed reading... Dreadlord - 12/02/2011 09:24:55 PM 1241 Views
I recommend.... LiterateDog - 06/02/2011 02:41:48 PM 1494 Views
Sounds fun. I'll check it out. Thanks. *NM* Ghavrel - 06/02/2011 08:27:48 PM 573 Views
+1 random thoughts - 07/02/2011 02:10:27 PM 1268 Views
Short fiction. Chas - 06/02/2011 03:49:50 PM 1239 Views
Have you read Foucault's Pendulum? That's been translated into English. Tom - 06/02/2011 05:09:55 PM 1143 Views
I keep starting it and having something else come up. Ghavrel - 06/02/2011 08:25:30 PM 1352 Views
I am with Tom on this one Camilla - 07/02/2011 01:00:21 PM 1076 Views
The Black Prism by Brent Weeks was pretty good *NM* Fox and Ravens - 06/02/2011 09:20:58 PM 560 Views
Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow. Novo - 06/02/2011 09:52:43 PM 1131 Views
Sold me on the Jesuits. I'll check it out. *NM* Ghavrel - 07/02/2011 12:25:25 AM 585 Views
Maria V Snyder - Poison Study *NM* Yunalesca - 06/02/2011 10:03:51 PM 869 Views
Different things. Decadant things. Larry - 06/02/2011 10:10:52 PM 1121 Views
Haven't read any Vandermeer, actually. You recommend him? Ghavrel - 07/02/2011 12:26:35 AM 1205 Views
Jeff is a friend of mine, so of course I would recommend him Larry - 07/02/2011 08:33:41 AM 1337 Views
I'll put him on the list. Ghavrel - 07/02/2011 08:50:15 AM 1196 Views
Good Larry - 07/02/2011 09:21:59 AM 1174 Views
I've been looking for a hardcover edition of Là-Bas in French. Tom - 07/02/2011 06:05:27 AM 1151 Views
I get the sense that would be very expensive if found Larry - 07/02/2011 08:38:37 AM 1269 Views
Might as well ask American publishers where the obsession with hardcovers comes from. Legolas - 07/02/2011 09:32:50 PM 1134 Views
Don't libraries as a rule have hardcovers? jh - 07/02/2011 09:56:07 PM 1143 Views
Not really, no. Legolas - 07/02/2011 10:04:52 PM 1195 Views
Huh. Belgians. *NM* jh - 08/02/2011 07:23:05 AM 544 Views
irish libraries are probably 2/3 paperback to 1/3 hardback *NM* Stephen - 09/02/2011 12:00:11 AM 587 Views
I think you have two different questions there random thoughts - 07/02/2011 10:08:40 PM 1166 Views
Yes, but those are matters of what one is used to, like I said. Legolas - 07/02/2011 10:23:32 PM 1190 Views
so they are buying paperbacks and turning them into hardbacks random thoughts - 09/02/2011 03:14:55 PM 1194 Views
Yes, that's definitely a factor. Legolas - 09/02/2011 07:30:14 PM 1227 Views
Re: Yes, that's definitely a factor. Camilla - 09/02/2011 07:39:25 PM 1205 Views
Have you tried Anne of Green Gables or Middllemarch? Tashmere - 07/02/2011 01:16:51 AM 1135 Views
Have you read The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss? *NM* Tashmere - 07/02/2011 01:18:30 AM 587 Views
Anything by PG Wodehouse, Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett. Stephen - 07/02/2011 03:21:43 AM 1137 Views
Or, indeed, Malcolm Pryce's Aberystwyth books Camilla - 07/02/2011 01:01:15 PM 1075 Views
Julian Comstock random thoughts - 07/02/2011 02:12:39 PM 1428 Views
You might like Quicksilver. *NM* Camilla - 07/02/2011 07:09:32 PM 681 Views
Pretty much anything by Neil Gaiman, esp. Good Omens (w/Pratchett). More recommendations inside ... Bookwyrm - 08/02/2011 05:43:22 PM 1366 Views
The Man Who Was Thursday! cabbage - 18/02/2011 12:44:56 PM 1083 Views
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