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Favorite authorsJohn Crowley, Alexandre Dumas, Rosemary Kirstein, George R. R. Martin, Garth Nix, Patrick O'Brian, Barbara Leonie Picard, Philip Pullman, Jessica Amanda Salmonson (Shared favorites)

About meI've been busy... Lord Mikable and I finally got married and we just got back from our honeymoon in beautiful Amsterdam! I love, well, Lord Mikable first of course, MMORPGs, reading, cooking and my new iPod Touch. And I'm going back to college this spring to finish my bachelor's degree in art. Things are ahappenin'.

Formerly a graphic designer (print production, packaging, licensed products, typographer, editor & sometime copywriter); Scottish Renaissance reenactor (costuming, ladies' cannon crew, weapons, fibers, cooking, drinking); art student (fiber arts, woodworking, drawing).

About my libraryMy library is currently in boxes. I have been on a decluttering campaign and managed to get the inside of the house painted. We have a plan to turn a wall in the living room into a built-in bookshelf to house the bulk of our books in style. Makes it hard to read tho... sniff I miss my books boo hoo!

Pet Subjects: women who kick ass, the Napoleonic wars, folkways and how things work, crows, some Sci-Fi/Fantasy.

I finally found a great complete set of Collier Dumas! Wheeeeee! Currently hunting a complete set of Rafael Sabatini.

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Currently readingMadame Bovary: A Story of Provincial Life by Gustave Flaubert
Dreaming the Eagle by Manda Scott
Color: A Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay

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I have to agree with you on everything you said. He is simply a masterful storyteller and great with character development. Like you said, every minute detail is important in some way to the plot line, but it's so complex, you could read it over and over and still catch something new.

I do feel A Feast for Crows is dragging a bit. I'm on about page 550, and nothing significant has really happened. The story lines with the secondary characters are not all that interesting. I like Brienne, but her story really hasn't progressed. She has been going around looking for Sansa the entire time. I've really grown to like Sansa's character. I didn't really start liking her character until the end of the third book, with the snow castle scene and Littlefinger shoving Lysa out the door.

Storm of Swords has been the best thus far in the series, in my opinion.

Steven
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posted by StevenTill at 5:15 pm (EST) on Sep 26, 2008

Always nice to find other fans of Martin. I still have A Feast for Crows left to read in ASOIF. I'm about half-way through it now. How did you like it?

Steven
http://steventill.com

posted by StevenTill at 3:02 pm (EST) on Sep 25, 2008

I noticed in the list of new books is "Perfume," which you reviewed favorably. Are you planning to purchase the Folio edition?

I was thinking about you last week while watching the Stewart Granger version of "Scaramouche." Did you ever find your set of Sabatini?

Robert

PS: How can I find your stuff on YouTube?

posted by Django6924 at 1:09 am (EST) on Jan 3, 2008

If you had second thoughts on the signed Sabatini set, you're too late. I just was back in B.C. last week and the set was gone. Oh to have invested more wisely back in the 90s!

Incidentally, are you also a fan of Samuel Shellabarger? I've been scouting around bookstores for a good copy of [The Captain from Castile]. I read it when I was 12 after seeing the Tyrone Power movie and remember thinking the movie was better, but I suspect such would not be the case were I to read it now.

posted by Django6924 at 7:10 pm (EST) on Jul 12, 2007

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