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Originally Posted by Groundhog
I'm nearly done with A Game of Thrones and have enjoyed it very very much, even with having seen the TV series. Can't wait to start on book 2.
I also tried to read The Name of the Rose as I got a free copy. I made it roughly 25% through, but man, it was a slog. I actually enjoyed the story, but it was too much hard work, especially having to look up words in the dictionary on every second page, as apparently I don't know many medieval religious terms as I'd thought!
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Name of the Rose is such a great book. I tried Foucault's Pendulum and that's truly a slog. At least check out the movie for Rose. Sean Connery and a young Christian Slater. It's fairly loyal to the book.
Two books I've always liked more than that one are
An Instance of the Fingerpost and
The Eight. Both are much easier reads but just as good.