Stuff chunkking has read

The Books of 2000, too.

Dec 14 - Good Lord! I've read some things. Judging by the date, this part got interrupted after the move.
Am currently finishing up "Storm of Swords" the third book of George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones trilogy. It's more a Kings, knights, and plots and sub-plots kind of book, but there is magic and dragons thrown in for good measure. As a matter of fact, this book is dedicated to someone that made him put dragons in the story. While I enjoyed the first book, "A Game of Thrones" thoroughly, and the second book, too. This one is bigger, and slower to read. It'd probably been better if I'd gone back and re-read the others first.

Also read the Harry Potter "Goblet of Fire". Yes, it's a bit darker than the first three. One of the likeable characters gets killed in a gruesome manner. But overall a really good book to read, after you've read the other three.

Read Robin Hobb's "Ship of Destiny" which I think is the finaly book in her LiveShip saga. Unless she continues on with the dragons.

Tom Clancy's "The Bear and the Dragon". Okay, Clancy has redeemed himself after that Rainbow Six crap. We're back to President John Ryan. This time the bad guys are the Chinese and they're after newly discovered oil and mineral wealth in Russia. This is the kind of Clancy I like to read.

Some time in October - I actually got to meet Lady Dorothy Dunnett at a book signing. What a wonderful person! A tiny, soft-spoken Scots-woman that's had the most marvelous adventures whilst researching her books.

Sept 21, 2000 - Hmm, I think I've forgotten a book or two.

August 2000 - I read "Gemini" the final book in Dorothy Dunnett's The House of Niccolo. Month of July, 2000 - I read more of Stephen Donaldson's "Gap into...." Series. A long time ago I read the first one "The Real Story" - The Gap into Knowledge. And now that the rest of the series is out in paperback, I figured it was time to read the rest of them.

"The Real Story" - The Gap into Knowledge
"Forbidden Knowledge" - The Gap into Vision
"A Dark and Hungry God Arises" - The Gap into Power
"Chaos and Order" - The Gap into Madness
"This Day all Gods Die" - The Gap into Ruin (haven't actually read this one yet, though I have the book. It's next up to be read.

Space Cops, Space Pirates, Unfathomable Aliens intent on taking over, and industry rules Human Space. This is Pure Science Fiction or Speculative fiction, a different venue than the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. In typical Donaldson fashion, the main characters are sent through emotional and physical hell. And just when you think things can't get any worse, they do! But they are well written enough, you just can't put them down.

June 27, 2000 - Let's see, where to start...titles, no summaries, most recently finished first:

Tom Clancy's Op Center - "Divide and Conquer"

Sebastian Junger - "The Perfect Storm" - totally not what I expected, but a very good book! I doubt the movie will measure up at all.

Michael Moorcock - "Hawkmoon" trilogy in hardback. *bleah* awfully juvenile, compared to "The Airtight Garage of Jerry Cornelius".

Tom Clancy's Power Plays: "Shadow Watch" - Though these "off-shoot" books are very readable they just lack the depth and intrigue of his earlier Novels.

Terry Pratchett - "Good Omens" - not a Discworld novel, but a funny as hell look at Armageddon.

Jack Chalker - "Priam's Lens"

Jack Chalker - "The Sea is Full of Stars" and "Ghost of the Well of Souls" - two new Well of Souls books without Nathan Brazil, and they take place on the Southern Continent of the Well World.

Jack Chalker - "The Moreau Factor"

L.E. Modesitt, Jr. - "Colors of Chaos"

Terry Pratchett - "Equal Rites", "The Light Fantastic", and "The Color of Magic" - Re-releases of the first three books of the Discworld. Highly recommended reading if you've read some of the later ones, and especially if you plan to read the rest of them. Get to meet a lot of the characters and learn some of their idiosyncracies.

Terry Pratchett - "The Fifth Elephant" the newest Discworld novel.

Joanne Bertin - "Dragon and Phoenix"

Joanne Bertin - "The Last Dragon Lord"

Terry Pratchett - "The Last Continent"