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[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

While we're waiting waiting waiting for another book, tell everyone:

What have you read lately that you would wholeheartedly recommend?

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[thnidu.livejournal.com]

I don't usually read historical novels, but my wife strongly recommended Wolf Hall (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0805080686/cracksandshar-20) by Hilary Mantel, and am I glad I read it! It won the Man Booker Prize (which is what the Booker Prize is now called). It's a historical novel about Thomas Cromwell; there'll be a sequel. I'll quote the Amazon review here:

No character in the canon has been writ larger than Henry VIII, but that didn't stop Hilary Mantel. She strides through centuries, past acres of novels, histories, biographies, and plays--even past Henry himself--confident in the knowledge that to recast history's most mercurial sovereign, it's not the King she needs to see, but one of the King's most mysterious agents. Enter Thomas Cromwell, a self-made man and remarkable polymath who ascends to the King's right hand. Rigorously pragmatic and forward-thinking, Cromwell has little interest in what motivates his Majesty, and although he makes way for Henry's marriage to the infamous Anne Boleyn, it's the future of a free England that he honors above all else and hopes to secure. Mantel plots with a sleight of hand, making full use of her masterful grasp on the facts without weighing down her prose. The opening cast of characters and family trees may give initial pause to some readers, but persevere: the witty, whip-smart lines volleying the action forward may convince you a short stay in the Tower of London might not be so bad... provided you could bring a copy of Wolf Hall along.

I've also just read Steven Brust's latest Vlad novel, Iorich (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0765312085/cracksandshar-20), but if you don't know that series I recommend you take them in publication order, starting with Jhereg (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0441385540/cracksandshar-20) or the omnibus of the first three books, The Book of Jhereg (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0441006159/cracksandshar-20) (comprising Jhereg, Yendi, and Teckla).

[ricardienne.livejournal.com]

Oh I really enjoyed Wolfe Hall

[emmaco.livejournal.com]

I loved Iorich! It felt like a classic Taltos book to me.

And I enjoyed Wolf Hall - it was interesting the whle way through - though not as much as everyone else seems to have done!