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Our 12 common interests are: books, fantasy, ian mcdonald, internet, james white, neil gaiman, reading, sci-fi, science fiction, sf, tolkien, writing |
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There used to be a tool on lj that let you find whose interests were closest to yours. I guess it absorbed too much bandwidth. I might do a bit more adjusting to my own list based on the above…
It’s a difficult book to read, and I say this as a huge fan of the sword & sorcery sub-genre. Difficult to say why you should read it, although Gaiman’s blurb comment of ‘If you don’t read this book, you’ll have missed out on something important and wonderful and all the cool people will laugh at you’ does hold true. Well, not the bit about the laughing, or you not being cool… er, but the important and wonderful bit. But it’s a strange kind of wonder.
So, in short, I can’t give you a concrete reason to read it, and if you’ve hit a wall, then maybe you never will, but I know I’m glad I did, although I can’t see myself reading it again.