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Just finished Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson. Though the first two books of the series have been challenging and many of the characters are less than likable there is a constant pull to return to reading their tales. The action is at times brutal and yet there is a sense of reality that echoes within our world only too easily.
And I'm also almost 200 pages into Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson. It is a more traditional fantasy novel, but still has some surprises and fine characterizations.
 
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I just remembered something and thought I'd better blurt it out before it returns to the deep dark recesses of my mind.
The Angelus Trilogy by Jon Steele will be completed at some point this year and I very much enjoyed the first two volumes. It's a fresh mix of angels, demons and Robert Ludlum. With some very touching moments that give it something most thrillers don't have.
 
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I'm reading Elmore Leonard's Touch. If you're an Elmore Leonard fan, I'd say pick this one up as the foreword is interesting. Written by Leonard, he tells of this one not being published right away. I think he was already an established presence--late 70s when this one was finished--but one publisher who took it under their wing did not release it. He called them back about two years later--the time the signed contract required--and asked to buy the rights back or something like that. Sounds like he shopped it around again until it was published. There is a religious element to this one--a guy name of Juvenal heals a blind woman. Just getting into it...so the jury is still out from my p.o.v....but seems fitting what with Revival coming out in November (it was Mr Mercedes I was thinking about in the other thread...June there I believe). Glanced at a few reviews...I think it has an average between 3.5 and 4 at Goodreads but anymore 'reviews' don't mean much to me, nor do star-systems as there are so many readers and our tastes are so varied and even stories that blow me out of the water receive 1-star reviews. In the foreword...Leonard says this one is...something...forget the word he uses...a favorite?
 
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Walter Oobleck said:
I'm reading Elmore Leonard's Touch. If you're an Elmore Leonard fan, I'd say pick this one up as the foreword is interesting. Written by Leonard, he tells of this one not being published right away. I think he was already an established presence--late 70s when this one was finished--but one publisher who took it under their wing did not release it. He called them back about two years later--the time the signed contract required--and asked to buy the rights back or something like that. Sounds like he shopped it around again until it was published. There is a religious element to this one--a guy name of Juvenal heals a blind woman. Just getting into it...so the jury is still out from my p.o.v....but seems fitting what with Revival coming out in November (it was Mr Mercedes I was thinking about in the other thread...June there I believe). Glanced at a few reviews...I think it has an average between 3.5 and 4 at Goodreads but anymore 'reviews' don't mean much to me, nor do star-systems as there are so many readers and our tastes are so varied and even stories that blow me out of the water receive 1-star reviews. In the foreword...Leonard says this one is...something...forget the word he uses...a favorite?
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That was just about my favorite Leonard book. As tight as most of the rest of his books, but it stands out to me--something bright about it. I agree about reviews--inflated as hell for popular books (some people give 5 stars to anything that keeps their attention for more than 5 pages), while older (and often better) books struggle to get a 4 stars because their readers are more reasonable.

I'm feeling gross, so I settled down with Duma Key today. I've only read it once, so it should be a treat :)
 
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I'm finally finished with DT 7! It was amazing. Not sure what to read now - I've got both Desperation and The Regulators, so maybe one of those, unless I get lucky and find Wind Through the Key Hole. For all my whining about taking 4 months to finish DT, I'm still not ready to put those characters aside.
 
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