yay books!!!
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supertinksJamie and I are very fond of reading. As a result, we have lots and lots of books in our house, and its an ever increasing collection.
To further our collection of random fantasy novels, I recently (a couple of months ago) agreed to trial my SF&F book club's "Ultimate Fantasy Collection", which is a collection of 30 different hardback fantasy novels. I had no idea what books would be in it, and I don't have to keep them all. I got a free Raymond E Feist book just for saying yes, plus the first book in the collection on a free trial. I agreed to it, thinking it would contain many books we didnt already have. The rest of the collection arrived today.
Of the 30 books, 11 of them we definately already own, so I shall be sending those back (arranging the collection was easy - all I had to do was phone the number and press some buttons, didn't even need to talk to anyone! however, I do need to leave the books outside ready for the collection, which will happen "sometime in the next week". Hmm. Hopefully they will come on Friday when I am at home!
The other 17 books include one which I'm not sure if we own or not, so I'll need to check with Jamie before sending that one back (its Renegades Magic by Robin Hobb, We've got the first two and I'm sure he bought this one as well). The rest are:
2 more Raymond E Feist
3 Terry Brooks
3 by Trudi Canavan (never heard of her, but they look interesting)
2 by James Barclay (Again, never heard of but look interesting)
2 by Naomi Novik (books 1 and 4 of a series, of which I already have book 3 from a random editors choice I got sent ages ago, plus these are books Jamie has been umming and aahing about whether he wants to read them or not - Napoleonic war, but with added dragons)
2 by Scott Lynch (which look awesome)
1 by Patrick Rothfuss, (which also looks interesting)
So yay for lots of new books! by relatively new authors as well, for the most part.
Reading them will have to wait though, as I have just started Adrian's book, which I got from the book club the other month.
To further our collection of random fantasy novels, I recently (a couple of months ago) agreed to trial my SF&F book club's "Ultimate Fantasy Collection", which is a collection of 30 different hardback fantasy novels. I had no idea what books would be in it, and I don't have to keep them all. I got a free Raymond E Feist book just for saying yes, plus the first book in the collection on a free trial. I agreed to it, thinking it would contain many books we didnt already have. The rest of the collection arrived today.
Of the 30 books, 11 of them we definately already own, so I shall be sending those back (arranging the collection was easy - all I had to do was phone the number and press some buttons, didn't even need to talk to anyone! however, I do need to leave the books outside ready for the collection, which will happen "sometime in the next week". Hmm. Hopefully they will come on Friday when I am at home!
The other 17 books include one which I'm not sure if we own or not, so I'll need to check with Jamie before sending that one back (its Renegades Magic by Robin Hobb, We've got the first two and I'm sure he bought this one as well). The rest are:
2 more Raymond E Feist
3 Terry Brooks
3 by Trudi Canavan (never heard of her, but they look interesting)
2 by James Barclay (Again, never heard of but look interesting)
2 by Naomi Novik (books 1 and 4 of a series, of which I already have book 3 from a random editors choice I got sent ages ago, plus these are books Jamie has been umming and aahing about whether he wants to read them or not - Napoleonic war, but with added dragons)
2 by Scott Lynch (which look awesome)
1 by Patrick Rothfuss, (which also looks interesting)
So yay for lots of new books! by relatively new authors as well, for the most part.
Reading them will have to wait though, as I have just started Adrian's book, which I got from the book club the other month.
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Date: 2008-11-11 09:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-12 08:18 am (UTC)James Barclay's books started well - I loved Dawnthief, and the follow up, Noonshade, was pretty good too. Got a bit bogged down after that, but pretty easy reading. I love his way of doing magic spell names, and the concept of The Raven just rocked.
Scott Lynch
Date: 2008-11-13 12:10 am (UTC)If you decide you like Scott Lynch, you can see him in person at ArmadilloCon 31. Austin, Texas, August 2009. Big fun. www.armadillocon.org