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jackhammer 01-02-2008 02:56 PM

Picked this up today:
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/im...28/n140656.jpg

His spin on the Arthurian story was pretty damn special and steeped in realism. This is set in Britain around the time of the viking invasions. I am so looking forward to this. I have an obsession with dark-ages Britain.

Urban Hat€monger ? 01-02-2008 03:18 PM

Dawn Of The Dumb

An Anthology of Charlie Brooker's columns.

gpackin 01-03-2008 07:03 PM

Friday by Robert A. Heinlein

TheDonald 01-03-2008 07:10 PM

I'm in the middle of a biography of the famed inventor Nikola Tesla. He brought us alternating current <3 lol

Mockingbird! 01-04-2008 10:50 PM

The Pictures of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde
I finally got myself a copy today, and im absolutly in love with the book:)

sleepy jack 01-04-2008 10:57 PM

Oscar Wilde is a genius and that book is amazing.

Mockingbird! 01-05-2008 12:02 AM

I know, he is my absolute favorite
I've been walking around quoting the book all day:)...people seem to think its weird though...

Dr_Rez 01-05-2008 12:01 PM

I hav been searching for a good fantasy book lately. Any suggestions?

jackhammer 01-05-2008 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by RezZ (Post 428250)
I hav been searching for a good fantasy book lately. Any suggestions?

I read a lot of history/fantasty/D & D type of things to offset my more serious reading.

DAVID GEMMELL- anything by him. i love his stuff.
PIERS ANTHONY-his INCARNATIONS OF IMMORTALITY series is excellent.
BERNARD CORNWELL-the Arthurian trilogy is probably the best retelling ever written. Bold gritty and bloody. Also try STONEHENGE.
STEVEN LAWHEAD-His TALIESIN trilogy links the Atlantis and Arthurian trilogies.

gpackin 01-07-2008 12:04 PM

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Originally Posted by RezZ (Post 428250)
I hav been searching for a good fantasy book lately. Any suggestions?

The Videssos Cycle by Harry Turtledove. It's a four book series starting with The Misplaced Legion. If you are unfamiliar with it here is a summary of the first book from the publisher:

As they faced one another in a duel of survival, the Roman tribune Marcus Scaurus held the spell-scribed sword of a Druid priest, and the Celtic chieftain Viridovix held a similar sword, bespelled by a rival Druid sorcerer. At the moment they touched, the two found themselves under a strange night sky where no stars were familiar and where Gaul and Rome were unknown. They were in an outpost of the embattled Empire of Videssos—in a world where magic and dark sorcery would test their skill and courage as no Roman legion had ever been tested before.

I'm currently reading Krispos Rising also by Harry Turtledove. Set in the Empire of Videssos, but about 500 or so years before the events in the Videssos Cycle series.


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