Good Books/ and NOT so good books

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Jamieson Villeneuve" 
<jamiesonwolf at ...> wrote:
>
> Hey all,
> 
> Speaking of favorite books: have any of you read *Septimus Heap 
Book One*: *
> Magyk*? I am constantly on the lookout for new and interesting 
fantasy
> novels what with the wait for HP book Seven. Last summer, I came 
across this
> book. It had a quote from Clive Barker on the back (one of my fave 
authors)
> and so I figured it couldn't be all bad. I was wrong. It was 
AMAZING!!
> 
> I've read Magyk three times and couldn't wait for the second book 
*Septimus
> Heap Book Two*: *Flyte*. I knew it was coming out soon, but had no 
idea
> when. Oh, the joys of working in a bookstore, I got the second 
book last
> night and it came out today! WOOHOO! I'm already a hundres pages 
into it,
> and it's just as good, if not better, than the first!
> 
> AND each book comes with a small CD Rom which is totally cool. 
It's really
> just the web site on a CD, but the Magyk is portable that way. 
Check them
> out, they're totally worth the read!!!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jamieson
> 


Alla:

Thanks for the recommendation. SO far I was not dissapointed in any 
of the recommendations on this list, so after I am done with several 
other books which I am reading now, I may grab this one. :)

Oh, I just wanted to voice my dissapointment about the fantasy 
writer I SO used to love few years back. Of course, this is totally 
my opinion and no offense to her fans, especially as I said I used 
to be a fan for the longest time.

I am talking about Mercedes Lackey books. I used to LOVE her Geralds 
of Valdemar series - all of them. Her retelling of the fairy tales - 
like Firebird for example I also found to be amazing and still do.

But boy, oh boy talk about commercialising success - I am of the 
very firm opinion that the writer can NOT publish high quality books 
every what three or four months, I think.

It is like high quality stories with the heart morphed into very low 
quality bookis. Gah!

Alla,

very dissapointed.