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getting old in mke

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29. Just finished a couple

Tue Dec 19, 2017, 02:44 PM

Dec 2017

1) The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie. Gritty, wonderfully flawed characters. Fully developed world and history. No real good guys and bad guys, just better guys and worse guys. And those may flip depending on the point of view.

2) Also finished the third (of proposed ten) massive book of The Stormlight Archives by Brandon Sanderson. This volume turns everything from the first two books on its head. I really like the series, but it has the drawback that he figures that at best he can turn the others out only every 2.5 years, since he has so many other series going. I'm 62, which makes it a race as to whether the archives will finish first, or me. Still, the same can be said of GRRM and SOIAF. First volume is The Way of Kings. (Also by Sanderson, but complete, at least for now, is the Mistborn trilogy.

Just started The Farseer Trilogoy as suggested in another reply. Good so far.

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