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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?

Comments

[(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.

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.

[elemental-light.livejournal.com]

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