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Originally Posted by HarryT
"Keeper of the King" by Nigel Bennett and P.N. Elrod. The first book in the "Ethical Vampires" series. Originally bought from Baen probably around 2000-ish, but seems no longer to be available from them, although later books in the series are.
I don't normally go in for vampire stories, but I really enjoyed this one. An excellent romp involving searching for the Holy Grail. Again highly recommended, but I don't know if or where it can still be bought.
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Available from
Amazon.com and
Barnes & Noble. Might be available from other stores.
Baen's web site says, "After a certain period, the rights to a book revert back to the author from the publisher. At that point, the author can choose the next step for his or her work, which sometimes means that Baen Ebooks can no longer offer it for sale. In most cases, any book that you have already purchased should remain accessible to you through your account."
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Originally Posted by DrNefario
More importantly, it was my 120th item read of the year, and I'm definitely not going to finish anything else today and ruin that. If I'm very strict, I count 39 items that could be considered short, which would give me 81 total books, which is a total that would have amazed me a couple of years ago.
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In my accounting, I'd combine the 39 short items into collections of no less than 140 pages, and then count each collection as a "book" toward the goal. Of course I only read short stories that are part of an established series and then usually in a collection of short stories. So this year, I read two books of Honor Harrington short stories. I also avoid novellas unless there are a series of related novellas which make up a work about the size of a novel. In this situation, I read the three novellas of
Shift series which were available individually or in a collected work and I counted them as a single book.