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This is an excellent trilogy & series; it has strong characters - including some excellent female characters - an excellent narrative, terrific world-building and a compelling and original (and internally coherent) take on sorcery.
What Book Are You Reading?
Looking great so far! I'm glad the main protagonist is a female, we don't see a lot of strong female characters in books. If you haven't heard, there's a fourth book coming out in October titled Clariel and will be a prequel.
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This is a very good book. One of Christie's best.
Looking great so far! I'm glad the main protagonist is a female, we don't see a lot of strong female characters in books. If you haven't heard, there's a fourth book coming out in October titled Clariel and will be a prequel.
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This is a very good book. One of Christie's best.
Yes, one of Agatha Christie's very best books.
Agree completely re 'And The There Were None.'
Re the 'Abhorsen' books, the entire trilogy is excellent and well worth reading.
Thanks for the heads-up; actually, I had read that 'Clariel' is due out later this year, and Garth Nix has also indicated that he intends to write a sort of sequel to the 'Abhorsen' trilogy at some stage, as well.
Indeed, a few years ago, he wrote a 'long short story' which was almost a postscript to the Abhorsen trilogy. Called 'Across The Wall', it appears in one of those anthologies of short stories, and is regarded as part of the 'Abhorsen' 'canon'.
I read the series for the same reason when my older child was about to read it at age 11.
I decided that my younger child (9 at the time) wasn't ready for the book and had to watch the first movie on the small screen instead of in theaters. He ended up reading the trilogy shortly after his 10th birthday and having seen the movie at home.
Each kid is different...
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What Book Are You Reading?
Yes. I've read that the series will consist of a total of five books. I'm now very enthusiastic about the series after learning your opinion of it. Do you suggest that I also read the collection of short stories? Where do they fit in the series?
Between the last book and the upcoming one, there's an 11-year gap. He planned for it to be a trilogy but he recently decided to write more? Could this be the reason for the hiatus?
Yes. I've read that the series will consist of a total of five books. I'm now very enthusiastic about the series after learning your opinion of it. Do you suggest that I also read the collection of short stories? Where do they fit in the series?
Between the last book and the upcoming one, there's an 11-year gap. He planned for it to be a trilogy but he recently decided to write more? Could this be the reason for the hiatus?
My first attempt at a Russian Novel, in Russian, but I get safety wheels.
I just bought this Dual Translation Book.
I thought instead of jumping in at the deep part of the pool, I would just get my toes wet.
I just bought this Dual Translation Book.
I thought instead of jumping in at the deep part of the pool, I would just get my toes wet.
What Book Are You Reading?
Wow, seriously?? You can read Russian (I envy you) but have never read a Russian novel?! Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Bulgakov, Nabokov (he wrote English novels too, most famously Lolita), Gogol? I wish I knew how to read Russian, I would've loved to read some of their novels in the original language.
Edit: By the way, my post at the beginning may seem as though I'm surprised, because I take it Russian is not your main language, seeing that you're from the Netherlands?
My first attempt at a Russian Novel, in Russian, but I get safety wheels.
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I just bought this Dual Translation Book.
I thought instead of jumping in at the deep part of the pool, I would just get my toes wet.
Wow, seriously?? You can read Russian (I envy you) but have never read a Russian novel?! Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Bulgakov, Nabokov (he wrote English novels too, most famously Lolita), Gogol? I wish I knew how to read Russian, I would've loved to read some of their novels in the original language.
Edit: By the way, my post at the beginning may seem as though I'm surprised, because I take it Russian is not your main language, seeing that you're from the Netherlands?
I am a Dutch citizen, I read and write Dutch, German, French and English. I started to learn Russian, after I retired because of the same reasons you state, to read the classics in their original language.
Not sure what the reason for the hiatus is; possibly he thought that this particular story had been told, and then realised that there was a lot more to tell.
Personally, I think the 'Old Kingdom' series (Abhorsen and its world) are the best thing that Garth Nix has written (and I took a look at some of his other material). These are really well-written, compelling books, a sort of cross between a a version of our world, set around the time of WW1 (very timely with the centenary this year), and an extraordinary world of internally credible and plausible sorcery which overlap, but only slightly.
It is extremely interesting and very well written; economics, merged with philosophy, history and politics written in a prose that is engaging and thought provoking. Thus far, I find it fascinating.
My first attempt at a Russian Novel, in Russian, but I get safety wheels.
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I just bought this Dual Translation Book.
I thought instead of jumping in at the deep part of the pool, I would just get my toes wet.
if i remember correctly from my youthful readings (more than a couple decades have passed by, so i do not stand by the details, but it might have been from an old dusty copy of Ceram's "Gods, Graves and Scholars" i read as a teen, lent to me by some ancient great-aunt -why do I even remember this stuff?
).), this is how Heinrich Schliemann, the german archeologist who located Troy and "the mask of Agamennon" in Mycenae, used to teach himself a foreign language. he would take a book with a translation in front, especially a book he knew well like the Iliad, and read it in the new language, comparing words line by line.
he was a polyglot who supposedly spoke fluently over a dozen languages, and could learn a new one in a few weeks, by this approach
Viaje al otro Brasil by Javier Nart.
Javier went travelling with his daughter, Laia, back in 2002, to Brazil. Javier wrote about the other Brazil, the one we don't see in TV. It's a great reading!
Javier went travelling with his daughter, Laia, back in 2002, to Brazil. Javier wrote about the other Brazil, the one we don't see in TV. It's a great reading!
The Enormous Room by e. e. cummings. As we are coming up on the centenary of the outbreak of WWI, I thought I'd get this off my list--a very good read.
It was a quick read and its been many years since I last read it so I had forgotten about the details. I thoroughly enjoyed the book, it was definitely one that I had difficulty putting down. Now I need to figure out what to read next.
How about another Christie? The Murder of Roger Ackroyd?
Not a bad suggestion, I may snag that one. I think read that many years ago, but I don't recall. If I can't remember reading it, then it will be like new to me
I just finished reading the Wool series by Hugh Howey and loved it.
I'm looking for something good to read in the Sci-fi/Horror/Fantasy genre now that I'm done with school for the summer and have some free time.
I'm looking for something good to read in the Sci-fi/Horror/Fantasy genre now that I'm done with school for the summer and have some free time.
Thank you very much for that interesting piece of information.if i remember correctly from my youthful readings (more than a couple decades have passed by, so i do not stand by the details, but it might have been from an old dusty copy of Ceram's "Gods, Graves and Scholars" i read as a teen, lent to me by some ancient great-aunt -why do I even remember this stuff?
he would take a book with a translation in front, especially a book he knew well like the Iliad, and read it in the new language, comparing words line by line.
he was a polyglot who supposedly spoke fluently over a dozen languages, and could learn a new one in a few weeks, by this approach
Reading a dual translation book does have one major drawback, if I step over to the English text because I have had a difficulty with the Russian text. I tend to keep reading in English because I want to see how the story continues, before I know it I’m 5 or 6 pages further. I then have to retract my steps in Russian.
Not a bad suggestion, I may snag that one. I think read that many years ago, but I don't recall. If I can't remember reading it, then it will be like new to me
Yup and even so it's worth reading again and again ...
Yeah, turns out it was fairly tame. I guess the main thing that gives pause is the concept.
Not a bad suggestion, I may snag that one. I think read that many years ago, but I don't recall. If I can't remember reading it, then it will be like new to me
One of these years I should actually read Christie in English. For some reason, we had her entire oeuvre in French translation, as well as Conan Doyle, at home and that's how I read them many moons ago.
It'll be new to me that way too.
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