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Rage of a Demon King

ISBN: 0006482988
HarperVoyager (1998), Paperback, 656 pages
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I've been reading this book for ages, but finished it last night. It feels a bit trivial to be writing this now, but I tend to read more when I am stressed, and I finished this while waiting for the kids to go to bed last night, so I may as well quickly write it up.

This book is the Kingdom war promised in Shadow of a Dark Queen and Rise of a Merchant Prince. I was a lot more comfortable with this book, because its mostly not about Roo wanting to shag every woman on the planet. In fact, a lot of people get their comeuppance, which is nice. However, heaps of people who don't deserve it also die. Its almost like a A Hymn Before Battle or Legion of the Damned, which are both books which stick in my mind as being ones where most everyone dies. Overall a good book, which a good ending which I think is a little rare for large scale combat novels.

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Related posts: Shadow of a Dark Queen; Rise of a Merchant Prince; Daughter of the Empire; The King's Buccaneer; Servant of the Empire; The Riftwar Series; Silverthorn; A Darkness at Sethanon; Mistress of the Empire; Prince of the Blood; Magician: Master; Magician: Apprentice; Raymond E Feist's Empire Trilogy; Polar City Blues; Dawnspell: The Bristling Wood; Caves of Steel; Currency; Tipping point: windscreen washers; You Can Be The Stainless Steel Rat; Belgarath the Sorcerer; The Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat

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Old Man's War (2)

ISBN: 0765348276
Tor Science Fiction (2007), Mass Market Paperback, 320 pages
LibraryThing

I've been in a rut recently where I haven't really been enjoying the books I've been reading. The number of books I read has also dropped off a lot since I moved back to Australia. Some of the drop off is associated with living in a house instead of an apartment -- there is constant maintenance work to be done, and I might never finish painting this place. However, I was worried that perhaps I simply wasn't as into reading as I was a couple of years ago. So, I decided to go back and read a book I enjoyed before, and see if I still liked it. This was that book.

The answer is hells yes. This book is still fantastic, and I really enjoyed it. I also knocked it over in a time similar to when I was in the US. So, its not me that's broken -- its the books I'm reading. I need to find more books to be enthused about, instead of letting reading be a chore.

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Related posts: The Last Colony ; The Ghost Brigades ; The Ghost Brigades (2); Ender's Game; The Diamond Age ; Caves of Steel; Cyteen: The Vindication; Battlefields Beyond Tomorrow ; Zoe's Tale; Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom; Cyteen: The Betrayal; Rendezvous With Rama; The Forever War; Speaker For The Dead; Red Mars; The Sagan Diary ; Broken Angels; Cyteen: The Rebirth; Friday ; Cryptonomicon; Saturn's Children

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