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Kajehase
Great Reader
Sweden
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 Posted - 09 Jan 2007 : 15:58:20
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Poll Question:
I figured I'd split this year up in two halves to make sure all novels can be fitted into the poll (which wasn't possiblein 2004 or 1005).
Might I suggest that anyone who votes also make a top-3-list, so that a novel that's everyone's second favourite doesn't miss out on recognition as well.
Oh...and if anyone want to comment on the books here, please stick to commenting on what was good with the book you voted for. There are other threads more suited for giving critique - in this one we only allow gushing praise
And finally, to avoid misunderstandings, I've only included novels originally published in January 2006 to June 2006 - so re-issues or paperback publications of novels published in hardback before are not included.
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There is a rumour going around that I have found god. I think is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.
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Kajehase
Great Reader
Sweden
2104 Posts |
Posted - 09 Jan 2007 : 15:59:35
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And my To-3 is
1. Vanity's Brood
2. The Ruin
3. Final Gate |
There is a rumour going around that I have found god. I think is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.
Terry Pratchett |
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Reefy
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
892 Posts |
Posted - 09 Jan 2007 : 22:24:39
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| Again, having only read one of the choices, I had to give Final Gate the nod. But I enjoyed it nonetheless. |
Life is either daring adventure or nothing. |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
7106 Posts |
Posted - 09 Jan 2007 : 23:51:27
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Can I vote for the worst?!
No, no...my vote went to The Ruin. |
"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31701 Posts |
Posted - 10 Jan 2007 : 00:42:24
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I can't really decide here. My growing dislike of RSE's immediately strikes both The Ruin and Final Gate from the listing.
I haven't read Bladesinger and I have yet to reach Vanity's Brood.
So, I'd say it's a tie with Son of Thunder and parts of Realms of the Elves.
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scererar
Master of Realmslore
USA
1618 Posts |
Posted - 10 Jan 2007 : 01:44:08
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The Final gate
Bladesinger
then realm of elves.
I have not had the chance to read the others on this list though, but her's my vote |
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Bluenose
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
134 Posts |
Posted - 10 Jan 2007 : 11:38:30
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| A much easier choice than your poll for the second half of the year, i was waiting for Vanity's Brood for a long time and it didn't disappoint me. The only one to come close was Realms of the Elves, but only parts of that really pleased me. |
These, in the day when heaven was falling,
The hour when earth's foundations fled,
Followed their mercenary calling
And took their wages and are dead.
Their shoulders held the sky suspended;
They stood, and earth's foundations stay;
What God abandoned, these defended,
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Ergdusch
Master of Realmslore
Germany
1720 Posts |
Posted - 10 Jan 2007 : 12:55:34
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I cannot believe how far behind I am with reading FR novels. The number of books I read last year where many, 10 or so and that is a whole bunch at least for me, but none of them are on the list for the second half and the only one that is on this list, Realms of the Elves, I have not finished yet.
$&%/, for Oghma's sake, I will never catch up! 
I did not vote, based on my lack of ability to compare these books. |
"Das Gras weht im Wind, wenn der Wind weht." |
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Marc
Senior Scribe
657 Posts |
Posted - 10 Jan 2007 : 15:38:07
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1. Vanity's Brood
Final Gate and the Ruin were spectacular in some other way |
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Lady Kazandra
Senior Scribe
Australia
921 Posts |
Posted - 21 Jan 2007 : 00:55:32
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Realms of the Elves is the only novel from this list that I've read. So that's my vote.
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"Once upon a time the plural of 'wizard' was 'war'." -- The Last Continent, by Terry Pratchett |
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MerrikCale
Senior Scribe
USA
947 Posts |
Posted - 21 Jan 2007 : 02:06:12
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1. The Ruin
2. Son of Thunder
3. Bladesinger |
When hinges creak in doorless chambers and strange and frightening sounds echo through the halls, whenever candlelights flicker where the air is deathly still, that is the time when ghosts are present, practicing their terror with ghoulish delight. |
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koz
Seeker
USA
68 Posts |
Posted - 21 Jan 2007 : 05:02:17
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| I have only read Son of Thunder and Bladesinger from the list. I enjoyed both but my vote went to Son of Thunder. ~sigh~ I really need to catch up on the newer stuff. |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
7106 Posts |
Posted - 21 Jan 2007 : 22:29:11
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| I'm reading Vanity's Brood right now, and in retrospect that book might have gotten my vote (I like it that much), but I'm not changing it now. Suffice it to say it's a worthwhile read. |
"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
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Chosen of Moradin
Master of Realmslore
Brazil
1120 Posts |
Posted - 22 Jan 2007 : 14:17:35
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| Bladesinger is my choice. I loved the story and the characters. |
Dwarf, DM, husband, and proud of this! :P
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quajack
Seeker
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Posted - 22 Jan 2007 : 17:54:02
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| I voted for Son of Thunder, but could have chosen Vanity's Brood just as easily. I guess I'll go Final Gate for my third. Did anyone else need like 20 minutes to choose? Jack Bauer I am not. |
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Best FR-Novel first half of 2006
