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That's pretty much my dream. To have my own little library at home. Yesterday (before I read your post) it hit me that there's no space in my room for another bookshelf. I bought one the other day so now I've got two but I'm not sure what I'll do when they're both completely filled with books. There's still quite a bit of space left in the shelves but I reckon that'll change pretty soon.
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Yes, we are running out of space, too.... but I can't stop buying books! (Nor can H.) Books give me a tremendous sense of security.
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I haven't read that much fantasy apart from Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings (+ The Hobbit) and A Song of Ice and Fire. If you could choose three fantasy books to recommend to me, which ones would you choose?
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(I'd classify some of Astrid Lindgren's books, and certainly the Moomin books, as fantasy, but that's by the by.) Hmmmmm. Three? Guy Gavriel Kay's
Tigana, Joe Abercrombie's
The Blade Itself (which is the first in a trilogy), and maybe
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. One author who is often mentioned as somebody to try if you like George RR Martin is Patrick Rothfuss, but I haven't read anything by him yet.
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Well, I guess I'm one of the other three people then. I haven't read Stieg Larsson either. I've been thinking about buying the Millennium Trilogy for a while but I always manage to buy other books instead. Most of the books I read are in English as well. Probably about 90 %, if not more. I pretty much only read Swedish books in Swedish (which I don't do very often). If the book is originally written in English then I really want to read it in English. If it's in Russian or some other language I can't speak then I might read it in English or in Swedish, though mostly in English.
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Ditto. I don't read English books in translation, at all - I do slightly prefer Swedish-language translations of books written in languages I can't read, but sometimes I read them in English. I keep meaning to read books in German to brush up my German... so many books, so little time.