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2017 I Just Have To Read More of That Author
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spoltz
Posted 2017-01-02 10:57 AM (#14879)
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Location: Beaverton, Oregon, USA		Here's the forum for this year's challenge. Use this to let us know how you're doing in your challenge, books you've discovered, and so on. I've already got a book read. I started it in 2016, but didn't finish it until 2017. It's "The Lost Road and other Writings" by JRR Tolkien, the 5th book in the History of Middle-Earth series.
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Sable Aradia
Posted 2017-02-19 9:48 AM (#15316 - in reply to #14879)
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I have FINALLY finished The Shadow of Saganami. Fairly typical Weber fare except that this time he tries to do too damn much in one book. I know why it needs to happen, but there's got to be a better way to do this! The first half was like trying to cut through prose with a machete. The last half was an awesome action thriller. Worth it, ultimately, but only just this time. Hoping At All Costs will be better.
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devilinlaw
Posted 2017-04-03 1:35 PM (#15542 - in reply to #14879)
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Location: Las Vegas, NV		i have read The Scar by China Mieville & The Tombs of Atuan & The Farthest Shore, both Ursula K. Le Guin, for this challenge. i was disappointed in The Scar as i was hoping for something different. It's not a bad book, i was just hoping for something else. Fingers crossed that i get it in Iron Council, the final book of the New Crobuzon/Bas Lag series. The Tombs of Atuan has turned out to be my favorite Earthsea book.
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spoltz
Posted 2017-04-04 11:18 AM (#15556 - in reply to #15542)
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Location: Beaverton, Oregon, USA		Hey Devil, are you going to read the other stories of the Earthsea cycle? LeGuin wrote a few more books past the trilogy over the years and I was just wondering. I read the trilogy in college but nothing afterwards.
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jontlaw
Posted 2017-06-01 4:21 PM (#15798 - in reply to #14879)
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Location: Alief, TX		The other three Earthsea books are solid. I enjoyed them.

My authors for this challenge so far have been Jonathan Howard and Philip K. Dick, plus one Robert Silverberg novel. Eight down and four to go, this is my fastest challenge of the year thus far.
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jontlaw
Posted 2017-11-16 11:25 PM (#16467 - in reply to #14879)
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Location: Alief, TX		Finished! Three by Jonathan Howard, one by Robert Silverberg, one by Gail Carriger, and seven by Philip K. Dick. Guess I really really had to read more by him.
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ManyMoons
Posted 2017-12-31 2:51 PM (#16597 - in reply to #14879)
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Location: suburb of Minneapolis, MN		I didn't finish this challenge. I can only do audiobook now (vision loss) and Terry Pratchett's novels are so complex, you have to do NOTHING ELSE while listening or you get lost. I'll try again this year. I am only at book #26 now having done only 6 of them this year. There's 40 in the series.

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