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If, like me, you are reading the Tolkien books one by one, before each movie, you may find a bit of a book gap during the rest of the year.

I recommend Michael Scott Rohan's "The Winter of the World" series: The Anvil of Ice, The Forge in the Forest and The Hammer of the Sun. I found it to be a very interesting mix of fantasy with elaborate discussion of the finer details of forging.

If your taste for escape lies more with SF, I suggest Mary Gentle's Golden Witchbreed and the sequel Ancient Light. Both are extremely well done and the second was I thought a spectacular exploration of "how does an author deal with the creation and destruction of a world she loves"?

If humor is what you seek, you can't do any better than the classic Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome. As a bonus, it is out of copyright (remember when books used to come out of copyright?) so it is available in lots of electronic forms, you can start at the Project Gutenburg edition. The sequel, Three Men on the Bummel is also good but (at least in my opinion) mainly during the trip preparations, not so much during the actual trip itself.

Erm, in case you're wondering, a bummel is like a sort of hiking trip. posted by Richard at 07:01 / permalink (post) | permalink (numeric)