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#tuesdaytunes I asked AI generator to do me the following. Jimi Hendrix reading Wizard of Oz. Nina Simone reading Dune. Cal Tjader reading Foundation. Roy Ayers reading Marx. Rick Wakeman reading Legend and Donna Summer reading The Hobbit. ☺️ More shenanigans next week!

I enjoyed this for what it was a quick fantasy read based on the siege of a fortress. The blurb talks mostly about Druss the Legend an ageing warrior that defies the odds but in truth it's more a parallel story about Druss on the one hand and the rise of a man named Rek. This works perfectly as a standalone but there are other books written in the same world that are more series like.
#BuriedAliveChallenge

Doing some driveway reading because the porch is too sunny. I‘m six chapters in and still getting a feel for this world. There‘s a bit of instalove that kind of jarred me out of the story but I‘m slowly becoming okay with it.

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Welp I'm sort of in a mini slump as I've only managed to read 15% of the tagged this week. BUT I have also been reading a lot of cheesy harlequins which I don't track here or anywhere. So I have been reading, just nothing that counts lol.
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My goal if I can get out of the slump is to finish Legend and then get at least through Clay's Ark in the Patternmaster Omnibus edition. That would have me caught up on BookSpin pick

Got my #BookSpin book ready to start as well as a reading buddy so my evening plans are set.
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Feeling like a winner this week because I finally conquered Pandora‘s Star. All 988 pages.

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My plans this week are to catch up on my BookSpin with Legend and then hit the DoubleSpin list with the back half of Seed to Harvest.

Not for me. Still not feeling epic fantasy

#bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks
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I‘ll be honest: I was ready to hate this. It started off mentioning (often) how the Nadir barbarians have slanted eyes and I thought, “oh no...” But YA‘LL. This book is so good. This is high fantasy at👏🏻its👏🏻finest👏🏻 Gemmell even makes you like Ulric, the Nadir leader, which shows how, even in battles like this: each side believes they‘re right. DRUSS THE LEGEND!! Excellent find. Thanks, #1001Books 😄 182/1,001

Love this book and I'm really enjoying re-reading it.

Like how David Gemmell has created a beautiful picture without being overly descriptive.

I truly enjoyed this book more than I expected--I am not a fantasy reader, and I generally do not like war books. Now, 100 pages (1/3 of the book) of battle scenes, lost limbs, disemboweling, etc, is always too much for me. But there was a good story in here. I will not be moving on to the other two novels in this omnibus edition, though I am curious about what happens next! #1001books #192019 #1984

When you request a book from the library and get a signed copy! My next #1001books read--I'm only reading Legend, but my library only has this big heavy hardback 3-in-1!

Druss knows that his #fame has won him battles because his soldiers and his enemies alike perceive him as invincible. But he also knows that to perpetuate the legend he can never appear as anything but invincible, no matter how old, tired, or wounded he gets.
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It's not very day that you read an elder warrior in a fantasy story, but that's exactly Druss the Legend.
I liked the way Druss's past and present merge in a way, and in another way are so different. Druss became a hero as a young man. But many years have passed and if he's wiser and more experience he's also definitely older.

(And that's my senior kitty 😆)
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This is the first book l read by David Gemmell, the one l fell in love with him with. It's a hard fantasy story where a small band of soldiers fight against all hopes on the gate to their homeland against an overwhelming enemy. It was inspired by the Thermopylae historical event.