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JS&MN is a great book, you're missing out. Legolas Send a noteboard - 23/01/2013 06:56:01 PM
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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Sporcle quiz: The Top 100 Sci-fi and Fantasy Authors Rebekah - 20/01/2013 11:11:53 PM 1291 Views
90/100 for me. Nate - 21/01/2013 01:51:59 AM 827 Views
Same, 90 Aeryn - 22/01/2013 02:13:07 PM 861 Views
...I have some reading to do *NM* Dark Knight - 21/01/2013 03:24:57 AM 345 Views
58 but I should have only gotten 56. Tom - 21/01/2013 04:49:56 PM 747 Views
88, though as Tom and Nate noted, with some luck. Legolas - 21/01/2013 06:22:35 PM 711 Views
forgetting hardly anyone on that list is "unforgiveable" Tom - 21/01/2013 07:30:17 PM 737 Views
77 Stephen - 21/01/2013 07:14:27 PM 717 Views
97/100 Larry - 21/01/2013 09:00:59 PM 892 Views
I am to spelling impaired to play but I have read 60 of them random thoughts - 22/01/2013 12:49:40 AM 760 Views
93, though I had to cheat for a couple spellings Isaac - 22/01/2013 06:23:36 PM 699 Views
JS&MN is a great book, you're missing out. Legolas - 23/01/2013 06:56:01 PM 737 Views
Don't listen to him. It's a horribly boring book. Couldn't finish it *NM* Dark Knight - 24/01/2013 01:46:24 AM 360 Views
Warning duly noted, thanks *NM* Isaac - 24/01/2013 01:05:25 PM 326 Views
Re: JS&MN is a great book, you're missing out. Isaac - 24/01/2013 01:04:50 PM 712 Views
Why disturbed? Nate - 24/01/2013 04:16:15 PM 697 Views
Re: Why disturbed? Isaac - 25/01/2013 06:51:26 PM 691 Views
Never heard of the Elric Saga? random thoughts - 24/01/2013 04:10:39 AM 697 Views
Surprisingly no, I just looked up the list of books and I think I maybe heard of one Isaac - 24/01/2013 12:52:37 PM 736 Views
I've heard that Moorcock had a pretty unusual writing approach in the past. Stephen - 25/01/2013 04:00:25 PM 676 Views
Re: I've heard that Moorcock had a pretty unusual writing approach in the past. Isaac - 25/01/2013 07:06:38 PM 770 Views
Seems most of these Elric books don't go far beyond a hundred pages, so yeah... *NM* Legolas - 25/01/2013 11:35:28 PM 301 Views
Re: I've heard that Moorcock had a pretty unusual writing approach in the past. Katja - 03/02/2013 04:54:47 PM 902 Views
I just got the first one second hand, I have to say I'm kinda curious. *NM* Legolas - 25/01/2013 04:47:57 PM 347 Views
they are classics and you should read them random thoughts - 25/01/2013 05:56:05 PM 819 Views
Yeah. I don't really like fantasy but I know of the Elric series. It's well written, so they say. *NM* Tom - 26/01/2013 01:29:16 AM 315 Views
I like the series, but I wouldn't use "well-written" to describe the 1960s-1970s books Larry - 26/01/2013 02:40:07 AM 674 Views
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