Ta Da! The Fantasy List!

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I've been reading off this list from The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Ultimate Reading List and did a post on the Romance List--which is my least favorite genre. Now I just finished the list of my favorite genre, the Fantasy List. Naturally I'd read a lot more of these to begin with and I liked a lot more. I tried to rate the below on something of

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"Kamoj Argali is the young ruler of an impoverished province on a backward planet. To keep her people from starving, she has agreed to marry the boorish, brutal ruler of a neighboring province. But before the wedding takes place, a mysterious stranger from a distant planet sweeps in and unwittingly forces Kamoj into marriage, throwing her world into utter chaos."

*Face palm* Marriage Law ho! No, I very much doubt I'd like it. And the style of The Charmed Sphere isn't such that I'd ever think I'd click with the author.

I keep meaning to find an audiobook version of "The Once and Future King" so I can listen on my way to work. It sounds marvelous.

Stewart's focus is Merlin and Arthur--and Merlin is gone before Camelot comes into decline. So when it comes to the love triangle, and especially in creating a complex Lancelot, he's imo the best.

I also read somewhere that The Once and Future King was one of the influences on Rowling--and I can certainly see it. In its tone and whimsy The Sword and the Stone is very Potteresque--with a (good) Dumbledore and Harry.