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James Sundquist is 20% done with False Value (Rivers of London, #8)
I like the twisty timey narrative. Very nice.
Sep 05, 2023 02:02AM Add a comment
False Value (Rivers of London, #8)

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James Sundquist is on page 150 of 387 of The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
One of the great things about this so far, is that Le Guin doesn't reduce the clash of politics and culture to "four legs good, two legs bad", but shows the good and bad in each, and naturally, subtly...
Apr 16, 2023 12:39AM Add a comment
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

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James Sundquist is on page 200 of 270 of Making Wolf
A vibrantly unflattering portrayal of West Africa, full of sex and violence and corruption. Plot like a noir detective thriller but definitely in full colour...
Aug 29, 2022 12:22AM Add a comment
Making Wolf

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James Sundquist is 48% done with Moby-Dick or, The Whale
What a marvelous strange book.
Jun 23, 2021 03:54PM Add a comment
Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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James Sundquist is on page 170 of 230 of Blitzcat
This is really rather good. Haven't read a children's novel for years (unsurprisingly) but I'm struggling to see any childishness...
May 26, 2021 03:29PM Add a comment
Blitzcat

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James Sundquist is on page 96 of 592 of Lionheart and Lackland
Actually I'm on page 96, where the author has to strenuously deny that Richard could have possibly been gay.
May 22, 2021 11:50PM 4 comments
Lionheart and Lackland

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James Sundquist is on page 40 of 592 of Lionheart and Lackland
Dog ate the first 30 pages. Luckily I'd got past them. Very dense book but the history is riveting.
May 22, 2021 11:45PM Add a comment
Lionheart and Lackland

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James Sundquist is 76% done with Three Cheers for Me (The Bandy Papers, #1)
Reading both of these first two at the same time is slightly confusing, but then again I've read some split-timeline novels and it's not much different to that!
Apr 23, 2021 01:13AM Add a comment
Three Cheers for Me (The Bandy Papers, #1)

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James Sundquist is on page 145 of 608 of The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)
Years ago the choice seemed to be between this and Malazan. I may have chosen wrong at the time.
Aug 01, 2016 05:01PM Add a comment
The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)

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James Sundquist is on page 34 of 608 of The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)
Not one, but TWO prologues. Good ones though...
Jul 31, 2016 02:49AM Add a comment
The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)

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