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Why haven't I read this before?

One of the advantages to riding the bus to work every day is that it gives you a few uninterrupted minutes to read. I've made it a point to buy a new book every other month for my commuting pleasure. I was a voracious reader as a child - zipping my way through the stacks of the public library. But I'm astonished at the sheer number of great books that somehow have avoided my attention. Like Tolkein's, Lord of the Rings. Though I'd read The Hobbit several times, I'd never been able to get ahold of our library's only copy of Lord of the Rings. If my father hadn't given me a set as a Christmas gift, I'd likely have gone several more years without reading it. Then there's Orson Scott Card's, Ender's Game. I'd been hearing people mention it for years, but never got around to seeking it out until last year. Now it's one of my favourite reads.

Currently, I'm thoroughly engrossed in Larry Niven's Ringworld. A brilliant book so far. Why didn't anyone tell me this was floating about waiting to be read. If they did - why didn't they shove it under my nose and force me to read it? Really, it's not that it's taken me so long to get to these books that gulls me. It's that I might never have got to them. How many great novels are sitting out there that I've never heard of and will never encounter.

I've got about another week or two before I finish Ringworld. Any suggestions for what to read next are greatly appreciated. Send the name of your favourite reads or authors to tragiclad@theelusivefish.com

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