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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote micky Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 25 2016 at 19:45
spoilers? oh I'd never do that. Thumbs Up

She has 4 series of books.  3 trilogies ( the 3rd of the 3rd is due out this year IIRC) and the best of the bunch IMO a series of 4 books set in the same world but not with the characters you are reading of.

The Rain Wild Chronicles. Related to the FitzChivalry centered tri-trilogies indirectly. The setting is mentioned often in the Fitz book Even fantasy worlds I guess are nothing more than one nice global village haha. No spoilers but they intersect. All are great.  Read them all Thumbs Up

and thanks Sam. The hell with hobbies and projects. I picked up Salem's Lot and am rereading again. LOL
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote dr wu23 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 26 2016 at 11:09
The Hobb books sound interesting.....I'll ck out Assassins Apprentice at the local library.
Anyone who likes classic fantasy needs to read the 'Nine Princes In Amber' series by Zelazny.....perhaps my all time favorite fantasy-sci-fi series.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote micky Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 26 2016 at 18:13
they are.  I really found them interesting. Raff is more into that stuff than me.She has suggested a fair amount of stuff for me to read. Some connected and some didn't.  Hobbs definitely did. I enjoyed those books and am looking forward to reading the conclusion to the latest trilogy.
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Just finished Salem's Lot.  No matter how many times I read it.. it still makes me feel like a child and gives me the heebies jeebies.

So with that detour ended. back to work here.  And doing a spot read (selected chapters) of one of the more intersting. .and controversial books out there in the realm of ww2 history.

We all knew Stalin was as evil. probably worse than Hitler.

Did one also know that like Hitler and Germany.. Stalin and the Soviet Union lost ww2.  Fascinating premise.. and it makes perfect sense once all the puzzle pieces are laid out and finally are put together.

A lot of my friends hate this book.. they are Glantz stooges...  personally I think this guy had it right. Corresponding to everything I have found in my own research.




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Currently reading Hex and the City....a Simon R Green novel of the Nightside.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote siddhivinod Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 29 2016 at 05:22
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy is the best book.. you also can try 
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Just picked up Wyatt's authorized biography, Different Every Time, from the public library.  God bless public libraries!
I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....
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I'm still waiting for someone on this listserv to read mine and tell me what they think.
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sh*t.....
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done...  only 10 left in stock btw! Thumbs Up  I'll let you know what I think Terri Clap
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thanks!
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Thumbs Up  well you are my 2nd favorite PA's forum author and that is without having read the book.  Let's see if you got what it takes bump Russell from his well earned #1 slot. Of course he also earned it for uncorking perhaps the 2nd greatest PA's review here, one that almost topped the greatest (mine of course) for how it firebombed the forum and created chaos and discord. So you have some tough competition there LOL

sorry about not having ordered it earlier Heart


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no worries, I was just in a mood this morning and feeling put out. I went to the WWI museum in Kansas City this weekend and they had two of the worst books on the truce - badly researched and total rubbish and I was annoyed that they were stocking them and not mine.
 
Who is Russell and what has he written (besides good reviews)?
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote micky Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 02 2016 at 18:58
no worries Terri.  I can understand that sentiment completely

Russell is Russell Kirkpatrick...an inactive ProgReviewer from the glory days of the site. He has written some really good fantasy stuff. I picked them up and really really enjoyed them.  He is a good writer.

He was perhaps first famous for that.. then later his books were overshadowed by instigating the most sordid,controversial and yet perhaps most entertaining episode this site ever saw.. in fact I should be fair and bump his review over mine to #1..

the episode... known to old timers here and spoken in hushed reverential words...

Torman Maxt....
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I've just started reading One Train Later, Andy Summers autobiography.


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote emigre80 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 07 2016 at 11:20
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

no worries Terri.  I can understand that sentiment completely

Russell is Russell Kirkpatrick...an inactive ProgReviewer from the glory days of the site. He has written some really good fantasy stuff. I picked them up and really really enjoyed them.  He is a good writer.

He was perhaps first famous for that.. then later his books were overshadowed by instigating the most sordid,controversial and yet perhaps most entertaining episode this site ever saw.. in fact I should be fair and bump his review over mine to #1..

the episode... known to old timers here and spoken in hushed reverential words...

Torman Maxt....
 
Hmm, I will want all the details at some point.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote micky Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 07 2016 at 14:53
LOL deal. Good times it was.

now reading... Clap



got it this morning before we left.  Just read the 1st chapter.  Very well done Terri, and got me hooked enough and interested enough to continue if I wasn't obviously invested already.

I had checked on the shipping status of this on Amazon yesterday. Another couple copies sold. Down to 8 in stock.  Come on people.  Support our own.  Sell this motha out...
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote Finnforest Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 07 2016 at 15:57
Originally posted by King Only King Only wrote:

I've just started reading One Train Later, Andy Summers autobiography.




Cool!  Thanks for posting, I have to look into this one





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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:



now reading... Clap
got it this morning before we left.  Just read the 1st chapter.  Very well done Terri, and got me hooked enough and interested enough to continue if I wasn't obviously invested already.
 
can't wait to hear your opinion of the rest.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Raff Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 07 2016 at 17:05
I haven't read the book yet,  but - as a lifelong reader - I can tell that a lot of painstaking research went into it, as well as genuine interest for the subject. Kudos, TerriBeer! I am in awe of people who are able to produce something as accomplished as a full-fledged book. Though I have written a lot of essays (some of which have been published), I have never thought of writing a book.
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