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dustydigger
Posted 2015-11-24 4:27 PM (#11893 - in reply to #11891)
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Location: UK		So far I have read Man in the High Castle,Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,and Galactic Pot Healer,and cant say I was really taken with any of them.His books appear many times on many WWEnd lists,so is it just me? lol. On the SF Masterworks list there are no less than 11 out of the 144 books by this one man. No one else comes near,I dont think.. I have to read A Scanner Darkly for the Defining Books of the 70s list.I will ration PKD to one book a year! lol
Finally completed David Eddings Queen of Sorcery,it took me nearly 3 weeks,I could never read more than a chapter at a time. I am not a fantasy fan. Lord of the Rings is so imprinted on my mind I find most high fantasy to be weak shadows. All these decades and Tolkiens shadow is still towering over the others! Ah well,the Eddings at least completed my 100th book read in SF/F this year.
At the moment I am really becoming fascinated with Robert Silverberg's Downward to the Earth. Damn,those old writers could undertake weighty themes,and clothe them in rivetting stories - often less than 200 pages long! I was a bit dubious about the 1970s,but all three of the books so far - Finneys Time and Again,this Silverberg book and the fast and furious adventure tale,Laumers Dinosaur Beach are all great reads.I am so enjoying the whole challenge,its great fun.

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