Missed Last Unicorn, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, the Doomsday Book, the Eyre affair (kept trying to put in Bronte), Outlander, Sunshine, and Elric Saga. I have genuinely never heard of any of those books or their authors. A few, like #100, space trilogy by c.S Lewis, I only got because I just started typing last names of authors on my shelf - that was pretty effective.
Set in Britain during the Napoleon Wars, about two wizards (yes, it's not entirely historically accurate...). But a very good book, even if that description doesn't sound like it.
I've heard very good things about The Eyre Affair too, but still haven't read it myself. The Last Unicorn is a fairly good fairy tale-like story. Outlander is the first in Diana Gabaldon's series about a British woman who somehow goes back in time to 18th century Scotland (I understand that she and her Scotsman emigrate to 18th century America in later books). A friend of mine once described it as "kilt porn", which is accurate, though harsh - they're not bad books. The Elric Saga is some old sword and sorcery fantasy, I'm not quite sure if the books were written first, or the comics... the former, presumably. Don't know the other two.
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- 20/01/2013 11:11:53 PM
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93, though I had to cheat for a couple spellings
- 22/01/2013 06:23:36 PM
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JS&MN is a great book, you're missing out.
- 23/01/2013 06:56:01 PM
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Don't listen to him. It's a horribly boring book. Couldn't finish it *NM*
- 24/01/2013 01:46:24 AM
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Re: JS&MN is a great book, you're missing out.
- 24/01/2013 01:04:50 PM
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Never heard of the Elric Saga?
- 24/01/2013 04:10:39 AM
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Surprisingly no, I just looked up the list of books and I think I maybe heard of one
- 24/01/2013 12:52:37 PM
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I've heard that Moorcock had a pretty unusual writing approach in the past.
- 25/01/2013 04:00:25 PM
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Re: I've heard that Moorcock had a pretty unusual writing approach in the past.
- 25/01/2013 07:06:38 PM
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Seems most of these Elric books don't go far beyond a hundred pages, so yeah... *NM*
- 25/01/2013 11:35:28 PM
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Re: I've heard that Moorcock had a pretty unusual writing approach in the past.
- 03/02/2013 04:54:47 PM
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I just got the first one second hand, I have to say I'm kinda curious. *NM*
- 25/01/2013 04:47:57 PM
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they are classics and you should read them
- 25/01/2013 05:56:05 PM
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Yeah. I don't really like fantasy but I know of the Elric series. It's well written, so they say. *NM*
- 26/01/2013 01:29:16 AM
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I like the series, but I wouldn't use "well-written" to describe the 1960s-1970s books
- 26/01/2013 02:40:07 AM
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