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Originally Posted by Dazrin
Guards! Guards! is still on hold and not available so I will need to find something else to read in the mean time.
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I didn't expect to have to wait 3+ weeks for
Guards! Guards! but I still haven't received it. In the mean time I have read
The Star Creature by Steven A. Lyons (MR member Cromag) and am just about to finish
Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton. They average out to about 500 pages each even though Cromag's work is only 750 words or so.
The Star Creature was a great little glimpse into a completely different world and was very well done.
Pandora's Star is also very good but much much much longer, especially since it is only the first half of the story. I am enjoying it very much and already have the next book,
Judas Unchained, on hold. If you don't care for highly detailed world building and some info dumps you should probably avoid this, but if they don't bother you the story is very interesting. Mystery, murder, conspiracy, first contact, battles and more.
In the 3 weeks that it has taken me to finish Pandora's Star I have received
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl and
The Kill Artist by Daniel Silva, book 1 of his Gabriel Allon series, from the library. I will read the Dahl first as both a palate cleanser and as a preview to see if my daughter might be interested.