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[Alexander]

Right now I'm about to start a new book actually, but I'm a bit torn. I've got the Appeal from John Grisham, American gods by Neil Gaimann and the first Shannara books by Terry Brooks. All were acquired on my recent trip to Orlando, and I'm not sure which to begin with tbh as all are quite appealing

[canis216]

Heh, I don't read fantasy at all. A lot of Ed Abbey's awesome anarchistic wilderness-centered non-fiction and novels, a fair brace of "nature writing" non-fiction (Aldo Leopold, Craig Childs, Terry Tempest Williams, etc.), and a passel of Tony Hillerman's southwest-centered mysteries, but no fantasy (or sci-fi, for that matter). I think I'm a bit of an anachronism on TES-related forums.

Currently re-reading Abbey's Black Sun, by the way. As he writes in the Preface:

Black Sun is a novel about love. And about sex, and the forest, and love under the sun in the forest, and about disappearance. The vanishing of a loved one. About mystery, that is, and the bewildering grief of death. Like most honest novels, it is partly autobiographical, mostly invention, and entirely true. I wrote this book in four weeks, hacking away on a borrowed typrewriter, at night, after work, in a strange place in Arizona.

Yes, and I have spent many a summer in what the Forest Service calls a "fire lookout". A tower in the woods. Far away from all that sustains sanity. The voice that speaks in this book is the passionate voice of the forest, that sound the wind makes wailing through the yellow pines. You'll see what I mean. The madness of desire, and the joy of love, and the anguish of final loss--so much, and no more, was my modest ambition in the creation of the book Black Sun.