{"id":246,"date":"2008-09-03T17:42:44","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T01:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=246"},"modified":"2008-09-04T20:33:38","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T04:33:38","slug":"an-aisde-gentlemans-challenge-the-ten-thousand-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/news\/an-aisde-gentlemans-challenge-the-ten-thousand-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"An Aside | Gentleman’s Challenge: The Ten Thousand Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TheThe wily Jeff, scribe over at Fantasy Book News & Reviews<\/a>, has been preying on my noble spirit, issuing me a Gentleman’s Challenge with regards to my review of The Ten Thousand<\/strong> by Paul Kearney.<\/p>\n

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What I want to do is propose a challenge to Aidan: If you will read the rest of The Ten Thousand…I will read and review a book of your choice. I know you might not want to revisit that book, given the discussion around your review, and your recent comments about being burned out a bit on epic fantasy. But I thought I would try this gentlemen’s challenge anyway :)<\/p>\n

The reason I wanted to ask you to read the rest of it, is that i had the EXACT SAME opinion as you (seriously) for the first 1\/3 or so of the novel. The entire book changes right after the point where you left off reading.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Being a gentleman myself, there was no reasonable way to refuse! His opinion of the first half of The Ten Thousand<\/strong> was eerily similar to mine, but the second half was enough for him to name it his favourite novel so far this year. Big words indeed.<\/p>\n

In exchange for finishing The Ten Thousand<\/strong>, my novel of choice for Jeff to read (provided he hasn’t already) is Greg Keyes’ The Briar King<\/strong>. Keyes’ is, in my opinion, easily the most under-read author in Epic Fantasy and I’ll take any chance I can get to spread the word!<\/p>\n

Challenge accepted, Jeff! The Ten Thousand<\/strong> will make it into the pile of books I’ll be stuffing in my backpack next week and we’ll see if it holds more water with me this time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The wily Jeff, scribe over at Fantasy Book News & Reviews, has been preying on my noble spirit, issuing me a Gentleman’s Challenge with regards to my review of The Ten Thousand by Paul Kearney. What I want to do is propose a challenge to Aidan: If you will read the rest of The Ten… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n