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The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, Book 1) God that was hard work but fantastic. Was just in a daze for ages after finishing, didn't start another book for about a week.

I've not read it but I have purchased it (although have free PDF copy). What interested me more than the book (I hate horror) and the reason I supported it, was the way it came to be published. It was first released as a PodCast and then the number of fans used to pressure a publisher to actually publish it. He did his first novel as a podcast after it fell through as a printed version. It was called Earth Core and was okay for a first book. BTW you may be interested to know they are talking of doing a movie about this book.

I read 20 of the 25 (better than I feared). Agreed not much Sci-Fi. THE STARS MY DESTINATION Legend - David Gemmell The Stand - Stephen king Riftwar series - Raymond E Feist I AM LEGEND and the other Gemmell one are now on my ever growing list.

Ender's Game is fantastic! I only found out about it through another best of list at Christmas and already on book 5 (but as always the first is the best). What hits me is how the tech the author uses which is still believable in todays world. It's also a fantastic comment on how pressure we put on kids and what responsibility children have for their actions in society (if you want to take it that way).

I loved the Assassin and The Tawny Man trilogies. Liveship traders was okay and I liked the general premise of the ships but didn't really grab me as much for some reason. Even so I would still recommend them to others. I think what Hobb manages to do better than most is make you feel genuinely sorry for the situation characters find themselves in, often by circumstance rather than their own design.

I know that feeling, I started reading them about a year ago and finished the last one a few weeks ago, started so I finished the series attitude. I did find them a bit heavy on the, ahem, 'romance' and I don't think that will ever go away. They do pick up a bit with the US Marshall side but they are a bit of a slog to get through. Don't bother buying Flirt, just go to the library/bookshop and spend a couple of hours reading it there (it's tiny at under 200 pages and so bad that this is the best part of it).