/lit/ - Literature

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I'm re-reading Sword Of The Lictor, which could be finished by the weekend. Frankly, it has a slower start than Shadow + Claw. After that, I have HG Wells' The Time Machine on the pile, a big gap in my reading that I'd like to correct, no excuses at 120 pages; alternatively, a volume of Robert E Howard's Solomon Kane short stories to begin reading between CAS. I think I will prefer it to Conan. Other reading choices; a Poul Anderson/Fritz Leiber TOR double (No Truce With Kings/Ship Of Shadows) , a bunch of Moorcock's Elric novels, Inferno by Jerry Pournelle. I only became aware of the last book by Brandon Sanderson's gushing recommendation and it promises to be at least diverting, a whimsical-sounding story about a science fiction author who lands in Dante's Inferno.

Gaps in my fantasy reading and my ?unfounded? prejudices against them:

1) The Last Unicorn, but if I read it then I would literally be a grown man reading a book about a unicorn, and I could be too old to get anything out of it

2) Howl's Moving Castle. I think this one might be too whimsical for my taste.

3) The Once and Future King. On the basis of a preview I read, it seems like it would be a slow paced book written in a dry and old fashioned prose.

4) Gormenghast. A thousand page trilogy is easy to put off, and the typeface of the Vintage print is tiny.

5) The Night Land. I enjoyed The House On The Borderland, but the prose and greater length of this is forbidding - but I hear there's an abridged version as well as rewrites out there.