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spoltz
Posted 2014-08-05 10:34 AM (#8272 - in reply to #5937)
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Location: Beaverton, Oregon, USA		Joining in the discussion late in the game. I've got one book to go to finish the challenge. I'm in a suburb of Portland, OR, and my county library system has a pretty extensive SF/F component, but I've been surprised at how few of the Masterworks and Grand Master titles they have. Even the other two counties in the Portland metro area are sorely lacking in these. I've had to get out-of area inter-library loans on quite a few. But they've been really good about getting them in from Washington, Idaho, and California, two week delivery, max.

I have a lot of overlap between this challenge and the Grand Master challenge, which has been nice. These challenges have been great for getting me to read some authors that I should have read long ago, as well as made me aware of more recent great books, like the early works of Elizabreth Hand, Nalo Hopkinson and Nicola Griffith.

Sorry you didn't enjoy Lord of Light, JKL. It is one of my favorite books, but I love books that play around with religions and mythologies. If it helps, the order of the chapters is 6,1,2,3,4,5,7. That really threw me off the first time I read it. I think my favorite part of the book was where the invention of indoor plumbing was looming and someone was saving up their personal waste to get a jump start on the good karma they'd get for having some much to flush.

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