Friday, October 15, 2010

Next up...

Ok, so the candidates for the next book are:

The Crystal Shard - R.A. Salvatore
The Monk - Matthew Gregory Lewis
Watership Down - Richards Adams
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse

Anything strike your fancy?

5 comments:

  1. you know what - they all scare me

    so, you name it and I'll just read it

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  2. I must confess that I've read all of them before.

    Perhaps a bit of additional information would be helpful in deciding:

    The Crystal Shard - I believe this was the first effort of the now notable R.A. Salvatore. The introduction of the legendary Drizzt Do'Urden to the world. It is a middle-earth type fantasy world where elves and dwarves roam. Salvatore writes amazing sword fight scenes

    The Monk - one of the very first 'gothic' novels. Anne Rice before there was an Anne Rice (but no vampires). Frankenstein before there was a Mary Shelley.

    Watership Down - Well, not much I can say that isn't already known.

    Siddhartha - Well-to-do famous dude gives it all up to discover the meaning of life. Travels around trying different things.

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  3. The monk please.
    Now I shall try and persuade blogger to accept my er, profile.

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  4. Here's a link to the text at Project Gutenberg

    http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/601

    Enjoy! We'll set a deadline for discussion pending everyone's input.

    And tell all your friends who you think would be interested.

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