> > > If you're also into science fiction, you sould look out for Peter F. Hamilton and Jon Courtney Grimwood. Both excelent authors.
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> > > winter"avid reader of fantasy"mute
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> > Yes, I second that Peter F hamilton recommendation. I've just finished the Night's Dawn Trilogy and it is amazing. Read it!!!!
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> It's just occurred to me that this trilogy has the one quality that makes a book a good summer read: length.
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> I understand the paperback of each book is published in two volumes. I have the hardbacks and they easily average 1200 pages each.
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> I only wish the ending hadn't been so badly rushed. I can see his editor saying "A fourth book? If you do that, it'll never end!", so 500 or 600 pages of material got condensed down to 100.
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> winter"What's more, he's a British author :)"mute

Yes, I have to confess, I spent the first 7/8ths of the last book wondering how on earth he was going to finish it!

ding"likes long and engrossing books"dong