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What Are You Reading (self.britishbooks)
submitted 1 year ago by Oneeightnine to c/britishbooks
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Okay so after a 12 year gap I've finally decided to start my A Song of Ice and Fire re-read. Only difference between now and 12 years ago is that I have two kids, so I imagine this might take a while.

So, I'm reading A Game of Thrones. I'm only a few chapters in, but I've already fallen in love with G.R.R's writing style. The first few chapters have so much work to do to set the world up, but he handles it so well it's almost unnoticeable when a character is delivering a lore dump.

What are you reading?

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[โ€“] Emperor 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just started The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman and it's everything I hoped it would be. I'd got tired of grimdark fantasy and, while this doesn't pull it's punches, it balances the violence with a tonne of black humour.

I'd been debating getting stuck into non-fiction next but I felt like I needed bumping out of my reading rut first and this looks to have done the trick.

[โ€“] Emperor 1 points 1 year ago

Thoroughly enjoyed that and bounced straight into Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames which has a similarish take on fantasy and was already in my to-read pile.