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Old 09-27-2006, 05:54 PM   #556
Oddwen
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This weekend, I read the Farseer trilogy by Robin Hobb, and am just halfway through the Tawny Man trilogy by the same. I picked them up because I think someone on this thread recommended them. Yes. Um.

I can also recommend them - it's a different kind of fantasy than I've encountered before. About a boy/man caught up in events long foretold, yet it doesn't get too preachy nor does the boy/man "come into his own" with ease or a sudden predictable showing-up of magic. If that makes sense.

I also read teh dreaded HP series a month or three ago. I was pleasantly surprised, I expected it to be more childish or "insidious" in some way. The main problem I had with it was that Harry's a stupid wilfull git.
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