Ha ha - I like that! And that is the book I was thinking of buying.
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Doing my best not to go on my “The Fantasy Masterworks full-colour covers like that one were the BEST and they discontinued them after a year or two and now I have to hunt down old copies so they match my collection” rant. But they’re gorgeous.
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Oh my giddy aunt, I have finally found someone who has read “The Dark is Rising”. That book had such a huge impact on me when I was a youth - the atmosphere was so intense!
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The British Library’s current exhibition on Fantasy (which is AMAZING including the original and only copy of Beowulf) had a day with Susan Cooper giving a talk, and there are a LOT of Dark is Rising fans out there.
Also, I bought this combined edition cos I like it so much and planned to read all 5 books at Christmas (but didn’t have time).
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I have too … given it as a reward for good attendance in the Boys Brigade of all things - one of the foundational texts for me!
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I loved those books when I was a kid.
I recently (well, it might be 5 years ago) tried to reread _under sea, under stone. I found it boring, predictable, classist, and racist, and didn’t finish it. I didn’t actually even make it very far, well less than half way.
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Also love. Can recount from memory: When the dark is rising, 6 shall turn it back. Three from the circle; three from the track.
Merriman Lyon!
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Ah, I’ve got one from that SF Masterworks collection: HG Wells - The Time Machine/War of the Worlds. The first Wells I read.
The ones I’m gutted about missing out on are the rounded-corner editions from 2006. I only bought Flowers for Algernon, Ubik, and The Sirens of Titan at the time. Maybe I should hunt for them on eBay …
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Greenwitch and The Grey King were regularly discussed at undergraduate cafeteria lunch times by the gamers I spent time with.
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Those are some great books right there!
Love me some Vonnegut. What a writer! I didn’t expect him to be so funny!
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All five Dark is Rising books are on my ‘must re-read sometime soon’ list. I won’t let your assessment stop me re-reading them, but I shall be interested to see if I agree with it!
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Finished Feersum Endjinn last night. I got similar vibes to reading Neuromancer for the first time but I don’t think this really stuck the landing.
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I’ve been listening to a lot of audiobooks recently. I keep buying physical books and then not reading them, so I’ve been making my way through my to-read pile with the help of my Spotify subscription and my local library:
- The Silk Roads, by Peter Frankopan
- Femina, by Janina Ramirez
- Humble Pi, by Matt Parker
- The Psychopath Test, by Jon Ronson
- The Power of Geography, by Tim Marshall
All non fiction, so once I’ve finished that last one I’ll switch to either The Mirror and the Light, by Hilary Mantel or All the Light we Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr (which I think has been in Netflix recently)
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Now that is a fascinating book! I love anything Ronson has done, but that one is particularly special.
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As I read through The Lost Metal I’m noticing a lot of mentions of the cosmere. Maybe they were present in the previous books but I’ve forgotten given the gap between reading them.
For those of you who’ve read “The Stormlight Archive”, is it worth jumping into if I’ve enjoyed the “Mistborn” series?
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That would be a yes, qualified by the fact that its going to be 10 books long and each of them 1000 pages or longer.
EDIT: Although if anyone is going to achieve that Herculean task, let’s face it, its Brandon Sanderson.
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Cool. Might have to see if my local library has them in, looking a bit pricey on Kindle currently.
Edit: They have books #2, #2.5, #3, #3.5 and #4. 
Edit: Seems like “Way of Kings” is only available if I expand my search outside of local libraries. Odd.
Reading Bill The Galactic Hero by Harry Harrison, which is a lot of fun. I started out searching for the term “bowb” (couldn’t remember which book it was in). And it’s a parody of Starship Troopers (which I can’t remember reading, so will try it again). If the internet is correct (and when isn’t it?), Heinlein was a bit pissed off and didn’t talk to Harrison again.
Also, the movie of Starship Troopers is great!
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