Lulu - there's a third trilogy by Hobb - the golden man? Something like that, anyway. It ties the previous two trilogies together quite nicely.

I read quite a bit of Gemmell when I was younger - an ex boyfriend loaned me quite a lot of books over the years, but I'd never actually bothered to pick anyo f them up later in life. They were actually really difficult to find, anyway.

I tried to read one of the Terrys - not sure if it was Goodkind or Brooks and absolutely hated it. In the same way as I can't stand protracted descriptive passages, there was also something vaguely disturbing about a journey across the plains taking a matter of hours. I'm fairly sure it was Brooks, but I've avoided both in case I'm mis-remembering.

Strangely, some of the usual culprits you find on a fantasy fanatic's bookshelves are missing from mine - I've never read any of Feist, I tend to avoid anything that gets a lot of hype. I guess you could say I stick to the more obscure authors at times.

Thoroughly enjoying Jennifer Fallon's work at the moment - all too easy to write it off as just another world with the usual stories about lords and heirs and inheritances and political intrigue, but it's actually really quite engrossing.

I did find Isobelle Carmody a little odd. I was reading Obernewtyn while I was in hospital (and fairly quickly got into the second book in the series while I was in there), and every single nurse that saw the book asked me what it was about and I just couldn't describe it!

I'm glad to know I'm not the only one "suffering" from this addiction.

BW