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... them:
Taran Wanderer by Lloyd Alexander
The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
Melusine by Sarah Monette
The Virtu by Sarah Monette
The Mirador by Sarah Monette ... This morning I finished the wonderful Sarantine Mosaic (Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay).
I am now going to read The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor. Finished the wonderful Sarantine Mosaic (Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay).
After seeing a recommendation of this in a thread on LT (and it actually being in the library) I am now reading The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor. ... it is the first in a series!)
Gillian Bradshaw Down the Wind (an omnibus of her Arthurian trilogy)
Guy Gavriel Kay Lord of Emperors (completing the Sarantine Mosaic)
Elizabeth Moon Sheepfarmer's Daughter
and Plato The Republic (thought I had a copy and couldn't find it!)
Now ... ... it is the first in a series!)
Gillian Bradshaw Down the Wind (an omnibus of her Arthurian trilogy)
Guy Gavriel Kay Lord of Emperors (completing the Sarantine Mosaic)
Elizabeth Moon Sheepfarmer's Daughter
and Plato The Republic (thought I had a copy and couldn't find it!)
Now ... ... ;-)
(My husband's latest favourite joke: "I burn CD's so why can't you burn books?!")
#13 - I had some troubles finding Lord of Emperors when I read the duology, apparently it was out of print (at least back then) but I did find a decent and inexpensive copy via Abe. ... the first book of the Sarantine Mosaic for 40p. The nice volunteer in the charity shop went down to the stockroom to see if Lord of Emperors was there but unfortunately she couldn't find it. ... and I couldn't deal with that. Loved Lions of al-Rassan, and thought the second book after Sailing to Sarantium , Lord of Emperors was much better. The first book was blah, but the second has a different POV and is much less limp.
I forget what I posted about. I have been having a ... Just finished Lord Of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay - a fantasy, but a good one.
I am currently reading Other Earths edited by Nick Gevers and Jay Lake which is an anthology of non-typical alternate history stories.
Next up might very well be The City And The City by China Mieville. I ... ... Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, trans. by Jack Zipes
And, wonder of wonders, a signed hardcover copy of Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay! It's one of my top five favourite books of all time. I also bought a signed hardcover of Kelley Armstong's Bitten for my ... ... it was such a challenge I have de-lurked to come up with my 10 favourites:
1. Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
2. The Lord Of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay
3. Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
4. Farewell, My lovely by Raymond Chandler
5. Fear and Loathing in Las ... While wildly unhistorical (and besides, I don't read historical fiction) Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors (a duology) renewed my curiosity about Byzantium, just like The Lions of Al-Rassan fed my interest for the moorish period on the Iberian peninsula. The last I already knew quite ... ... a couple of sequels, The Snake Stone and The Bellini Card
The Sarantine Mosaic novels (Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors) by Guy Gavriel Kay, fantasy novels set in a thinly disguised version of Byzantium
Count Belisarius by Robert Graves
One of my personal favourites is ... >106: Tad, thanks. I did read Lord of the Emperors and I agree. I just forgot to include it. Tigana is on my wishlist.
Fantasy lovers, what other authors are like Kay? ... and orc-like creatures"; they're more like Sailing to Sarantium. BTW, did you know that there's a sequel to the latter? Lord of Emperors It ties up the story nicely.
Try Tigana if you're of a mind for some more Kay. ... There are also only 2 of them, so no need to worry about dragging things on too long:
Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors Hi,
a few days ago I painstakingly removed all editions of Herr aller Herrscher from Lord of Emperors, because it's not the same work. Herr aller Herrscher is only the second half of Lord of Emperors because the book was split into two books in the German edition.
Now however, when I ... ... Not my usual fare - I'm hardcore into the character-based stuff - but GOD do I ever love what Maguire does with this book.
Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay. It's epic. It's personal. Every time I finish it I find myself sobbing wretchedly.
Other stuff that's made a huge impact on ... ... actually not bore me. I like royal intrigue type material however, and this book and its sequel do not disappoint.
5. Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay
The conclusion of the Sarantium series. This book was very good and much better than the first half. Packs an emotional wallop ... ... of publication: The Lions of Al-Rassan (Spain at the time of El Cid), the Sarantine Mosaic of Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors (Byzantium at the time of Justinian), and Last Light of the Sun (the British Isles at the time of Alfred the Great). All of them have really minor ... I finished Guy Gavriel Kay's Lord of Emperors tonight. Next up should be Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, since it needs to get back to the library, but I just read a pop-sci science of sex book, plus my ARC of J. Scott Savage's Farworld: Water Keep just came in the mail ... I don't mind multiple-part fantasy either, just make sure you've got easy access to Lord of Emperors once you finish Sailing to Sarantium, and don't expect much (if anything) to be wrapped up by the end of the first book.
And no, my name came from long before Firefly the show, back ... I'm getting into Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay, and unsurprisingly am really enjoying it, even though I haven't been able to put aside much time for reading.
I finally found a functioning pair of headphones, so I decided to restart listening to The Yiddish Policeman's Union yesterday; I ... ... because it's the first half of a duology, so on its own it feels unfinished (I'm only partway through the second book, Lord of Emperors, at the moment, so I can't really comment on it yet, except that I've heard that a lot of people love it.)
It's set in the same world as Lions of Al-Ras ... ... in the cottage right after Elaira and Arithon have performed the healing. :)
I'm being vague to avoid spoilers, but in Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay, when Valerius is in the corridor under the palace. The two paragraphs about dolphins get me every time.
Lions of Al-Rassan, the Car ... Lord of Emperors is the second half of The Sarantine Mosaic, his one duology. It's definitely best to start with Sailing to Sarantium; the two books are really more like one very long book in two volumes. ... now, and it will definitely be on my top ten list for 2008. On your recommendation, my next Kay will just have to be Lord of Emperors. Is it also a stand-alone? Now that I think of it, I can't remember ~ does Kay even do series? ... .
If I did count rereads, it'd be Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay, with some surprisingly stiff competition from Lord of Emperors, by the same author. ... The Politics of Pearl; Text and Matter: New Critical Perspectives of the Pearl-poet; oh, and in my spare time re-reading Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay.
Yay for research papers on obscure poems. > 18 - The Last Light of the Sun is the one you couldn't remember. Sailing to Sarantium and the sequel, Lord of Emperors, are the two that are set in Byzantium. There's also The Lions of Al-Rassan which is loosely set in Spain during the time of religious complications between Christians, Mu ... ... - KEEPER
51. Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus, vol. 1 - library
52. Midnight Days by Neil Gaiman - library
53. Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay - KEEPER
54. Buffy the Vampier Slayer Omnibus, vol. 2 - library
55. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield - keeper
56. ... 53. Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay - keeper
The first time I read this book, I had to enlarge my Top 3 list to a Top 4. I found, upon finishing it, that I was sobbing wretchedly. It was all so very, very perfect. And I missed it, now that it was done. I wanted to ... ... plan to return to some Guy Gavriel Kay over the next little bit. I figure I'll start with Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors, then move on to my absolute favourite book: Tigana. Once I've exhausted those, I plan to read Shogun by James Clavell. I've been meaning to read ... ...
What's Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies, about an art historian/restoration expert.
Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay, about a mosaicist living in an alternate version of the Byzantine Empire.
The Griffin & Sabine books by Nick Bantock, ... ... If I were going to re-read something of his, it would be the Sarantine Mosaic, which consists of Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors. Crispin is an arrogant ding-a-ling, but I like almost everything else. Another possibility is Ysabel, which just came out in trade paperback. It's ... 34. Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay
The bloody purple
serves as both mantle and shroud.
The queens mourn by night.
35. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman
The clown chalks problems
to be solved with samba bands,
laughter, and questions.
36. Silverwin ... ... set in Spain while the Catholics, Muslims, and Jews are there just before the reconquista, and Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors are set in Byzantium during the empire. ... by Guy Gavriel Kay
The Sarantine Mosaic by Guy Gavriel Kay. (A duology made up of Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors).
What's Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies. Definitely more magical realism than straight fantasy, but still a damned good look at the way the ... ... is limping... OK?
So I nominate Tigana, The Lions of Al-Rassan, and The Sarantine Mosaic (Sailing to Sarantium & Lord of Emperors).
Also, of course, Ursula K Le Guin. Nominating the Earthsea Cycle (5 books - Tales from Earthsea, A wizard from Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The ... ... Gavriel Kay. Always fun to read, this is the first of a series about a mosaicist in a Roman-like setting. Fun.
9. Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay. Second of series, the story of court intrigue in fictional Sarantium continues. ... how old a book have to be to count.
My 5 cents is on The Lions of Al-Rassan, or the duo Sailing to Sarantium & Lord of Emperors.
All same author as Tigana above.
And I think that as fantasy goes the original three Earthsea novels is a must-read. I think I have a definite Top 5 now:
Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay (2)
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay (2)
Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner (3)
Fool's Errand by Robin Hobb (3)
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch (4)
Honourable Mentions:
Thieves & Kings ... ... Guy Gavriel Kay, though. Tigana, A Song for Arbonne, The Lions of Al-Rassan and the duo Sailing to Sarantium + Lord of Emperors definitely fit the bill. ... disciples. Favourites are Tigana, and A Song for Arbonne, The Lions of Al-Rassan and the duo Sailing to Sarantium & Lord of Emperors.
Sometime very explicit and not always nice sex - some of his characters uses sex as a power tool.
Cherryh is more of a 'science fiction' kind of ... So far mine are:
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay (2)
Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay (2)
Fool's Errand by Robin Hobb (3)
and The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch (4)
I'd like to make it a nice, round five, but I'll wait until the end of the year to pick a final ... ... this question last night! I'd definitely bring my Top 5:
Tigana
The Vampire Lestat
Taran Wanderer
Wicked
Lord of Emperors
Only, I'd probably opt for the collective omnibus version of The Sarantine Mosaic, since I wouldn't want to be without the first volume in the duology. ... ... of Al-Rassan, A Song for Arbonne, Tigana and The Sarantine Mosaic (also as two books - Sailing to Sarantium & Lord of Emperors).
(Haven't read Ysabel so no comment on that one.) Oh, Sailing to Sarantium is good, but it's nothing without the sequel - Lord of Emperors. They really should have been ONE book, but maybe the publisher thought 800+ pages would be too much, or they thought they could make more money on two books than on one?
Anyway, I hope you enjoy it (I ... ... believe the story, and I just can't bring myself around to that.
I think The Sarantine Mosaic (Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors) is a good way to start. Or The Lions of Al-Rassan. But depending on your sensitivity levels that one could possibly contain too much explicit sex?
Same ... ... be a series even if it's not published as such?
I'm thinking of Guy Gavriel Kay and the books Sailing to Sarantium & Lord of Emperors. Those two are a duology - The Sarantine Mosaic.
Very good, I ordinarily don't enjoy all these swords'n'sorcery, dragons'n'fairladies and... swineherd ... ... Most books that mean something to me made me sob wretchedly, but the most recent ones have all been by Guy Gavriel Kay: Lord of Emperors, Tigana and The Lions of Al-Rassan. (Though with Lions, it was more weeping than sobbing).
A lot of Francesca Lia Block's books set me off, too. ... Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay
The High King by Lloyd Alexander
The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
The Citadel of the Autarch by Gene Wolfe
Project Pope by Clifford D. Simak ... four: The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice, Taran Wanderer by Lloyd Alexander, Wicked by Gregory Maguire and Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay. Just finished Sailing to Sarantium and last night started Lord of Emperors. Thoroughly enjoying Guy Gavriel Kay as an author, with only the tiniest amount of annoyance at his constantly leaving the reader hanging at a critical moment to switch character point of view. Perhaps this wouldn't ... Adventure and romance? And fantasy? I'd say almost anything by Guy Gavriel Kay. Top picks are Sailing to Sarantium + Lord of Emperors (equals The Sarantine Mosaic), Tigana, A Song for Arbonne and The Lions of Al-Rassan.
He's wicked on character/emotional driven plots, plus is ... I spoke too soon, it seems; I'm editing this as of the 23rd of June:
Elantris by Brandon Sanderson (4.5 stars)
Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay* (5 stars)
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson (4.5 stars)
Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb (4.5 stars)
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Ka ... King Lear by Shakespeare
The Return of the King by Tolkien
Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
No One Writes to the Colonel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez #247 - domeloki - I agree with xicanti, Sailing to Sarantium is a good start! Be sure to get your hands on the sequel,Lord of Emperors, though, because at least to my mind that's where the story really starts going :-) I've had a fantastic reading month. Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay was definitely the best thing I read; I loved it so much that I instantly expanded my Ultimate Favourites list from three titles to four.
Otherwise, Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson, House of Dreams by Pauline G ... ... Four:
The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
Taran Wanderer by Lloyd Alexander
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay
Picking a favourite author is even tougher, but I think I'd go with Mercedes Lackey.
xicanti, you realize that both those Guy Kay books are sequels, right? If you read Lord of Emperors first, go back and read Sailing to Sarantium, which introduces Crispin and the rest of the crew, including Zoticus, maker of interesting birds.
The Darkest Road is an entirely different ... ... of Time - Terry Pratchett
22. Knight Life - Peter David
23. Sailing to Sarantium - Guy Gavriel Kay
24. Lord of Emperors - Guy Gavriel Kay
25. Green Darkness - Anya Seton
26. Ex Libris : Confessions of a Common Reader - Anne Fadiman
27. The Master and Marga ... Inspired by my latest read, Lord of Emperors, I'd suggest Aliana, which I think sounds nice AND she's quite a strong character - dancer turned empress turned... well, no spoliers ;-)
Don't know about namecalling etc in US schools, don't know enough of the language for that, but in Sweden ... ... and Jewish characters and is set during the Spanish reconquista. His two Sarantium books Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors, set in declining Byzantium, are fantastic as well. ... them, as backdrops only to the vastly more compelling dramas of their own lives, and how could it be otherwise?
Lord of Emperors : the conclusion of the Sarantine mosaic by Guy Gavriel Kay
(amazingly the default touchstone was for LoTR!) The Darkest Road by Guy Gavriel Kay. I recently finished Lord of Emperors by the same author; it was such an amazing book that I figured anything I read next would be a let-down, so I thought it would be safest to stick to something else by Kay. Thus far it hasn't worked; I'm just pretty ... #167 - It could have been a draw between Lord of emperors & Invader but The Sarantine Mosaic is more of one book divided in two volumes than anything else so it felt more "right" to finish that one first. I intend to read Invader very soon now, so I don't think there's much of a difference, ... #159 - ...adding Mistborn to my list. As you'd expect I agree with you on Lord of emperors - fantastic, so far! ... longer to really get into it, but once I was hooked I was hooked. I can't wait for the sequel!
Now I'm reading Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay. Fantastic stuff so far, as I expected. Soo... I should read any of three other books BUT yesterday a packet carrying Lord of emperors and Invader arrived and I HAD to start with the previous right away!
When that one is finished I WILL read the ones put on hold before picking up Invader... I promise ;-) ... by Brandon Sanderson, (which was fantastic! I can't wait for the rest of the trilogy), and am prepared to start Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay. Today I bought a very pretty copy of Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay, (I love the new Penguin covers for his books!), and my voucher for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. My local bookstore is hosting a HUGE launch party at the city's main park, and the only way you can get a copy ... ... Fire by Guy Gavriel Kay
CR: Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
LF2: Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay and The Darkest Road by Guy Gavriel Kay
No YA planned for the next little bit. #165 - I think I'm going to have to buy Lord of Emperors this weekend. My mother offered to look for a used copy for me at Half Price Books when she goes to Minneapolis later this month, but I'd rather pay a bit more for a nice, (and brand new), Canadian cover. Plus I'm pretty sure I'll be ... ... for only half that sum... A communication error :-(
Anyway, I couldn't stay myself so yesterday I placed an order for Lord of Emperors (part 2/2 of the Sarantine Mosaic) and Invader (part 2/3 of the first sequence in the Foreigner series).
With delivery times that would allow me to ... ... - keeper
79. The Wandering Fire by Guy Gavriel Kay - keeper
80. Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson - library
81. Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay - KEEPER
82. The Darkest Road by Guy Gavriel Kay - keeper
83. Wasteland by Francesca Lia Block - keeper
84. The Shado ... ... .
Guy Gavriel Kay also has a couple of strong female characters in his Sarantium duology - Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors. I'd highly, highly recommend those. ... wonderful books. Not in order:
Ship of Destiny - Robin Hobb
Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
Lord of Emperors - Guy Gavriel Kay
Eleanor of Aquitaine - Alison Weir
Ex Libris : Confessions of a Common Reader - Anne Fadiman
I have too much trouble ... I have three favorites from this month - Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors, both by Guy Gavriel Kay, and also Eleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir. I loved Weir's no-nonsense interpretation of Eleanor's life and it was so readable, intelligent, and informative that it is one ... Received (very late due to being in a different country) for my birthday:
Lord of Emperors - Guy Gavriel Kay
1984 - George Orwell
The Bone Doll's Twin - Lynn Flewelling
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
The Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey
Ex Libris: ... 24. Lord of Emperors - Guy Gavriel Kay
The Sarantine Mosaic duology deserves a place among my favorite books. Highly recommended, as is the rest of Kay's work.
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