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>>If you want a real hoot, pick up a copy of
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fford (not a typo). And then read the rest of the series. This guy is right up there with Douglas Adams and Tom Holt.
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>YESYESYEYESYESYES!!! What is not to love about a pet dodo named Pickwick!
>Also,
Lost in a Good Book and I am just about to start
First Among SequelsI just bought
First Among Sequels a few days ago, and I'm going to start it as soon as I finish what I'm reading now. I assume, though you only mentioned
Lost in a Good Book, that you have read all 4 books prior to 'Sequels'? I also assume you've read the two 'Nursery Crime Division' books -
The Big Over Easy and
The Fourth Bear? The LiteraTec series is better, but the other series is well worth reading if you haven't.
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>Would also interject that SM Stirling and Neil Stephenson are required reading. Stirling does brilliant alternate history ( better writer than Turtledove ) and Stephenson is one of those people who makes you realize how shallow most other writers are. I'm about half way through The Baroque Cycle and have read
The Difference Engine,
Diamond Age,
Snow Crash and
Cryptonomicron at least twice. Better than Gibson ( and I don't say that lightly as Gibson - who coined "The Web" is God. )
>If you don't know Stephenson - do yourself a favor
http://www.nealstephenson.com/Oh, yes. I read
Snow Crash and
Diamond Age a long time ago, and
Cryptonomicon is one of my favourite books. I haven't started the 'Baroque Cycle' yet, but I have all three; so soon... soon.
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>George RR Martin's
Song of Ice and Fire is great literature and a cracking good read.
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http://www.georgerrmartin.com/It's been many years since I read anything by Martin, and I really don't recall the titles, so I don't honestly know if I've read that one or not. I'll double check my library. Unfortunately, it's not really in any sort of order any more (unless you consider chaos, a sort of order). An awful lot of it is boxed up in the basement too. I may never know.
Here's another. If you haven't read Richard Morgan's series starting with
Altered Carbon, do yourself a favour...
