Life after Harry Potter

Thomas

Thomas

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OK, just for fun.

You, your family, your friends, whoever, have finished their last Harry Potter book. Assuming you/they have developed the taste for fantasy fiction, where do you/they go from here?

First port-of-call might be other books in a very similar vein. I can think of the The Wizard of Earthsea trilogy by Ursula K Le Guin, as well as the eponymous Lord of the Rings or The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe...

Personally, I like and return often to the (fantasy) literature of M John Harrison. Currently reading Nova Swing (right up your street, Flow).

Anybody read/remember Mervin Peake? Michael Moorcock? Gene Wolfe? Fritz Leiber? James Branch Cabell? Andre Norton? Lord Dunsaney? H.P. Lovecraft?
Or am I showing my age?

Thomas
 
What about [SIZE=-1]The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever by Stephen Donaldson? :rolleyes:

Tao
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I forgot them!

Did you get through the whole series? Did he? Wasn't there supposed to be nine books?

I heard that 14 publishing houses turned HP down — I bet a few people a kicking themselves now ... and being kicked.

I wonder if publishers are going through the back catalogue to see what they've got they can reprint?

Thomas
 
I have so far read the first and second but none of the third (final) series. Since getting a computer my reading of fiction has almost stopped :(

Tao
 
Thanks for the suggestion Thomas...I read the other day that Rowling is working on two new books, non-Harrystuff. I haven't indulged in Harry yet. Don't know why...on second thought, yes I do !

Tao...Fie upon computers for what they do to my reading and writing activities. I'm in the middle of three books, two non-fiction and one fiction, and stuck in the middle of chapter 7 of a book I'm working on, writing that is.

FIE ! Instant gratification...it's what computers provide all too easily and cheaply, and unfortunately what they're designed to provide. Scotty Peck would be so ashamed of what's happened to me !

FIE!!!!

flow....:eek::o
 
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