Originally Posted by Karl
Half way through The Cold Six Thousand which is the last of this list I have to read and have just received the next batch which are:
The Silmarillion - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Children of Hurin - J. R. R. Tolkien
Black Man - Richard Morgan
Speaker For The Dead - Orson Scott Card
Xenocide - Orson Scott Card
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Absolutely loved
The Cold Six Thousand, it's a wonderful piece of writing and I was completely blown away by it. I'm not great with words, I don't always have the greatest means of explaining the way I react or feel about something and reading the work of somebody so talented is an absolute joy. I'm pretty sure it took me longer to read than any other book I've ever read but it was worth it.
I then quickly read through
Speaker For The Dead which I again loved and I'm half way through
Xenocide. A very different pair of novels to the first one I think although the tales of morality are pretty strong in both. I love the imagery that this creates in my head of the alien species and of the future, books like this are exactly why I love the genre. I fully intend to read the whole series now, although I've still got a lot of the Discworld series to finish off at some point. Just planning out my holiday reading, think I'll be finished with
Xenocide sometime next week and will then be looking at picking up
Black Man and taking
The Silmarillion away with me along with
White Jazz and
The Black Dahlia by Ellroy.