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[nike_ravus]

 FInished my last final today, with rather excellent Mandarin tones and a nice voiceless palatal fricative!  (Don't ask about the written, my hand is all cramped up still)  And now it is vacation!  (i.e. finish grad school app time).

So I need books to read.  I haven't read anything that made me want to jump up and hit some orcs in a while.  Any recs of good swashbuckling fare?  Or steampunk?

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[(Anonymous)]

Congrats!
I would recommend The Hodlfast Chronicles by Suzie McKee Charnas.

[morthel.livejournal.com]

Have you read Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson? Steampunk. Very decent steampunk to boot.

[nike-ravus.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that sounds good. I'll have to check it out!

The Kushiel Novels

[blackgrl71.livejournal.com]

i would recommend the Kushiel's Dart & subsequent novels by Jaqueline Carey:
Kusheil's Chosen
Kusheil's Avatar
Kusheil's Scion
Kushiel's Justice
Kushiel's Mercy

here's her website that provides excerpts for her novels
http://www.jacquelinecarey.com/books.htm


they're pretty swashbuckling, kinky, etc. so i think they should be right up your alley.

Re: The Kushiel Novels

[nike-ravus.livejournal.com]

I tried the first one, didn't get too far. I have a hard time reading adult fantasy. And I couldn't like the main character. She managed to be cynical and yet still expressing shock at the things that had happened to her and she hadn't even been molested yet! I was waiting and waiting, but nope. (That sounds weird. More that I was dreading and dreading and then it fell through.)

And it wasn't funny. I don't like fantasy that isn't funny.

Re: The Kushiel Novels

[blackgrl71.livejournal.com]

Ouch! well, no problem. besides when i'm not doing the adult fantasy thang, i tend to either go: international intrigue - Eric Lustbader is awesome (Angel Eyes, Jian, The Ninja, or The Miko are some of my favs & he's now been charged w/ continuing the Bourne Identity series), some Octavia Butler's Fledging or Parable of the Sower are also pretty awesome. As for Phaedra's character in the Kushiel's series she does get pretty 'molested'... it just takes a few chapters (lol).

Re: The Kushiel Novels

[nike-ravus.livejournal.com]

Ooh, international intrigue, that sounds good. Will check it out.

Of course, if she does get properly molested, i may have to continue on until I get there. :)

[elemental-light.livejournal.com]

How about 'Shriek: An Afterword', by Jeff Vandermeer. It's sort of steampunk-ish, a bit.