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[ex_pippin880]

Hi and welcome to fantasy!

Why don't we start off with introductions and favourite books and authors?

I am going to be disgustingly unoriginal and say I love the Discworld series to death. I also crush on Lieber's Lankhmar stories pretty hard.

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[nathaara.livejournal.com]

Aaah, gotta start with the hard questions, don't ya? ^_~

Current favorite series is The Second Apocalypse, by R. Scott Bakker. Thoroughly disturbing in a way that makes me want to both run away screaming, and keep reading forever. Simultaneousley. I haven't gotten to read the most recent one yet as I am currently in Japan, which is not very near to Canada, where it was published... sad. But I will get to read it in June! Happy!

Other favorites include pretty much any and all short stories by Neil Gaiman, as well as the Graveyard Book, and Good Omens. Mirrormask and Sandman too, if we're allowed to delve into non-novel fantasy here. ^_^"

Speaking of Good Omens, I love me some Pratchett. Discworld, gotta love it.

Favorite of all time though still stands as His Dark Materials, by Terry Pratchett. I like his newer spinoffs on the series too, especially Once Upon a Time in the North.

Oh, and like every unoriginal fan out there, I followed the Harry Potter series obsessively. Yay!

Recently I've also been into more magical realism type fantasy, like books by Haruki Murakami and Randy Taguchi. I guess maybe you could slip Wickett's Remedy into that category too, but it's only barely outside regular fiction. Still, good book!

I look forward to talking with everyone and eventually being able to make posts when I manage to get an invite. (^_^)v ::peace::

[ex_pippin880]

Good Omens! Now I want to reread it again. :D

Have you read the Lucifer comic?

(Are you on anyone's invite list yet?)

[nathaara.livejournal.com]

I haven't read Lucifer yet. I would like to, though!

(No, but apparently all us Open ID people get an invite on the 30th, so I should be good.)

[theironchocho.livejournal.com]

By Philip Pullman, not Terry Prachett! I found Once Upon a Time in the North hard to get through even though I love Lee and Hester. Nothing has ever been more satisfying for me than how their story ended in The Amber Spyglass. I'm really looking forward to The Book of Dust.

[nathaara.livejournal.com]

Waugh, you are absolutely right! I don't know how I managed that. I must have been writing too fast. T_T
Can Open ID people edit our comments?

[almadsfeika]

Lol! I love all the Philip Pullman books and Good Omens, too. Yay for people who like the same books as me.

[nathaara.livejournal.com]

EDIT:

So, I somehow managed to write Terry Pratchett instead of Phillip Pullman, even though I know who I meant. X_x

Sorry, was sleepy at the time and writing fast!