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So - I finished the Trollope and I did like it, for all its length and interminable slowness. As so little happened I can't really say anything about it, but the ending was a surprise. I'll probably try Trollope again, perhaps the Barchester Chronicles.

So "I went to the library and I got:"

English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
Eragon by Christopher Paolini (yeah, I know... I know... I said I wouldn't bother but you can't really spork if you haven't read...)
The Seventh Son by Reay Tannahill
Sharpe's Triumph by Bernard Cornwell
Web by John Wyndham
The Rules of Magic by Annie Dalton
Black Sheep by Georgette Heyer (cough... how did that get in there?)
The Algebraist by Iain M Banks

*giggles*

Rather amusing range.

Anyone read? Anyone want to comment?

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I'm honest: I have never read a book by Georgette Heyer. But I say it here and deny it soon after. Cause in Italy she is the old queen of romance, and cause a I have a romance blog, can't absolutely admit that I try, I really try to read her, but never been capable to finish a book...

from what i could see it was Mills and Boon style with a few non-explained Regency terms pasted on..

I've read (and still own) most of Heyer's Georgian and Regency novels. I think it's Mills and Boon copying her style. Heyer was influenced by Jeffrey Farnol, who gets lumped in with swashbuckling historicals, though I recall his works as more sedate than, say, Sabatini.

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