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You know, I've been reading endlessly massive books with small print and enough mass to work as a lethal weapon so long now that I'd forgotten the joys of a really quick, light read.
I just read Old Man's War in about a day. Compared to the other books I've been reading, such as A Song of Ice and Fire or The Kingkiller trilogy or Fate/stay night, it was really short.
It was nice.
So... anybody have some other recommendations? I also bought The Color of Magic, by Terry Pratchett on Monday at the same time as Old Man's War. But still! A Dance With Dragons doesn't come out for a few more days. Anybody else have any quick book recommendations that I can read between then (when I shall be utterly depressed by how much life in Westeros sucks even harder) and now?
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Old Man's War has a few sequels that are (iirc) more or less the same length. Another of Scalzi's books, The Android's Dream, might also be good for just before Dance. It's very light reading and pretty funny, which is probably a good thing before Dance.
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May Day, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is one of my favorite short works. You can read it in about two or three hours. It's outstanding.
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Ray Bradbury short story collections are the perfect filler for any little reading snack times.
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The Exile and the Kingdom by Albert Camus is a series of short stories each with a depressing and obtuse meaning of the story. All in all its not very long, even with several stories combined.
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