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| Topics | | messages | Last message | | | Book talk : Another Silly Game Part 37 | | 151 | rolandperkins, Today 5:16pm |  |
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| 75 Books Challenge for 2008 : Half-way Point of 2008: 87 and counting | | 188 | ronincats, December 2008 | |
| FantasyFans : Emma Bull | | 10 | jnwelch, December 2008 | |
| FantasyFans : Recommendations for Real World or Urban fantasy | | 16 | ronincats, August 2008 | |
War for the Oaks by Emma Bull ... akin to Bernard Cornwell's Richard Sharpe series, but was a disjointed anything but.
The other was Territory by Emma Bull, which was a not-bad fantasy set in the old West of the U.S. with the Earps and Doc Holliday, but wasn't anywhere near the level I'd come to expect from this ... ... Harry Dresden series, Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, and China Mieville's The City and the City.
I'd add ones by Emma Bull: War for the Oaks and Finder. Good Fairies of New York by Martin Millar wasn't as much my cup of tea as others, but some people love it.
While there ... ... fantasy out of Japan that I had high hopes for but was about twice as long (800 pp.) as it should have been, Territory by Emma Bull, an author I've enjoyed in the past but for me this supernatural western was sub-par, and Napoleon's Pyramid by William Dietrich, whose main character was ... War for the Oaks and Finder by Emma Bull. Seems like Emma Bull should be better known. War for the Oaks and Finder are my favorites of hers. ... that you knew him. ;-)
Tad, I have heard naught about a sequel to Territory. The two you mention are also my favorite Emma Bull books.
Bone Dance is subtitled "A Fantasy for Technophiles". It was a good read, interesting dystopian setting, crossed over almost into horror at one or ... #157 Bone Dance by Emma Bull. notes later! John Flanagan's Ranger's Apprentice series, and the urban fantasies by Emma Bull, including Finder and War for the Oaks, get my vote. I also just finished a very good new one, Graceling by Kristin Cashore. I don't read a lot of the urban fantasy in general, and faerie interfacing the modern world in particular. I really like Emma Bull's stuff, and really don't like Lackey and confederates in their treatment of it. I read this book for a discussion group. Nonetheless, I thought it was quite well ... ... loyalties stuff these days and so even though I haven't read all that much of it, seemed a lot of same old, same old. Emma Bull's War for the Oaks and Finder did the same thing a lot earlier a lot better. Of course, now I'm reading Elizabeth Bear's Blood and Iron which has even ... Emma Bull (Finder is a good one to start with) and Margaret Ball. Territory is a very good wild west/fantasy. Falcon would be the one book of hers that is more sci-fi than fantasy. I think her contributions to the Bordertown shared universe are the best of a generally good lot, and pretty much buy anything of hers that i come across. #93 Finder by Emma Bull Another novel set in the Borderlands between the mundane world and Faerie. I like Bull. She writes good stories.
#94 Ranger's Apprentice: Book 3 by John Flanagan This series is turning out to be an okay but nothing special children's series.
#95 Austenland by Shann ... #91 The War of the Oaks by Emma Bull is a re-read. I have a couple of books by Bull that are new to me coming in, and wanted to read the two I have to prepare. This was one of the first of the urban faerie books, and still one of the best. Good characterization, great setting, and a lot of ...
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