George RR Martin thinks making his characters sound vaguely welsh and misspelling old french titles makes it sufficiently historical.
He is a strong contender for whatever award they give out that recognizes bad and amateurishly written sex scenes. And he resorted to deus ex machina to clean up some characters and resurrect others long before I thought he would have to do that. He's being called the next best thing since robert jordan, and that should have given me sufficient warning before I plunked down $17.95 to buy the first four books on my kindle. Lost steam somewhere around book 3 and didn't bother to finish it or buy the fifth book. -- srs (blackberry) -----Original Message----- From: Ashwin Kumar <ashwi...@gmail.com> Sender: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus....@lists.hserus.net Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 07:15:25 To: <silklist@lists.hserus.net> Reply-To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2011 On 5 December 2011 00:16, Thaths <tha...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Brij Blog <brij.bl...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello fellow members, >> >> I am a new member here and am excited to be part of this group. Thanks to >> Sankarshan for introducing me to this group and Udhay for adding me to it. >> > > Welcome, Brij. > > >> On 4 December 2011 23:35, Thaths <tha...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Has anyone read The Immortals Of Meluha by Amish Tripati: >>> >>> >>> http://www.landmarkonthenet.com/books/the-immortals-of-meluha/9789380658742 >>> >>> Welcome Brij. Sadly, my reading this year is at an all time low. The only ones I have read, and can recommend are - Drunkard's Walk - How Randomness Rules our Lives http://www.amazon.com/Drunkards-Walk-Randomness-Rules-Lives/dp/0375424040 And, this recommendation may not go well at all - A Song of Ice and Fire Series :) Thaths, please to be notifying dates of India visit, and if you will be visiting Bangalore. ~ashwin
