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JohnBem
Posted 2017-01-24 6:29 AM (#15166 - in reply to #15160)
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Location: Southeastern Pennsylvania		@Engelbrecht: I've encountered people who said they could not finish Worm because of the language. For me, the language is a big selling point, rich and dense and vivid and you can fall into it and be immersed in another world. The language of Worm is so dense that I'm surprised I read it as quickly as I did (11 days I think), but it was so gripping that I picked it up at every chance I got, even if only to read a paragraph or two. It also probably helped that there was a weekend in there where the wife was working, the temperature outside was in the 20s, and I did little more than curl up on the sofa with the dog and read for hours on end.

Thank you for the recommendations. I've not read any of them. I think I have a copy of The Once and Future King; I just looked and it's not where I thought it would be, but I'm pretty sure it's in the stacks somewhere. I have two omnibus volumes of Tanith Lee Flat Earth stories, and I have the Ballantine paperback of Lud-in-the-Mist. The rest I'll have to seek out. Many years ago (10+) I read Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun series (I think I have that right) and loved it, so I'm ready to give more Wolfe a try (and I should re-acquire New Sun and re-read it; I gave my copies to a then co-worker).

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