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(From the last post of the reading a book thread)Marty Feldman huh? I'll always know him as Igor.

I've just recently read Margaret Atwood's "Handmaiden's Tale". I haven't read much from Atwood, only the Madaddam/Oryx & Crake trilogy, but so far everything she's put out has been excellent.

Another damned novel popped up Desolate Era... So that makes it 7 or so to read daily

I loved loved loved The Handmaid's Tale. I haven't got around to Oryx and Crake yet, but I read a review of her newest book today and it sounds great. Another one to add to the list...

On the subject of sci-fi/dystopian classics written by women, I've nearly finished The Left Hand of Darkness (okay, only a bit dystopian) and it's already one of my favourite books. Just keeps opening up new and interesting ideas with every chapter. And the whole way through I've been thinking that maybe the characters are maybe slightly flat and BAM! she hits us with the bonding session out on the ice and I fall in love with them. Awesome book.

Anyone else got experience with Ursula LeGuin? What's worth reading next?

At 1920 this evening I finished Bernard Cornwell's The Last Kingdom. I don't whether I'll return to The Last Plantagenets, resume A Game of Thrones, or begin something else. I don't currently own Cornwell's follow-up, ruling that out as a possibility.

It was a good read, though I feel Cornwell's Arthurian trilogy The Warlord Chronicles is a more solid recommendation.

what I am currently reading? Le Morte d'Arthur.. gotta say, i've always loved Arthurian literature

I had to read that book my senior year of high school, and i thought it was very well written, but I have always loved dystopian settings (what an ending though, i love it when a novels ending is left open to interpretation)...

though i remember a small group of parents complained saying it was just "soft core porm".. which made the entire class facepalm, since when everyone in the class is between 16 and 18, and are less than six months away from graduation and going to University's, is soft core porm really that much of an issue?

I've read Le Morte three times, most recently Nov 2010. Which version do you have? Mine is the Heith Baines modern prose rendition. I've read excerpts that stay closer to the original but find them hard to follow. I don't read enough older English writing to be good at it. Closest I came was reading some of the Shakespeare plays, but that was years ago and in any case Malory predates Shakespeare by a comfortable margin.

36 stories of the Foreign Legion by PC Wren. I consider myself to have a really good vocabulary but these early 20th century books have me looking up a word more than once!

The ending was very surprising and open-ended indeed! While it is dystopian, I personally felt it less as that, and more as a description of the current state of women in certain cultures, just veiled in our dystopian culture.