Ok so I finished Before They Are Hanged on Monday. I really enjoyed this book, the pacing was great, the character development was believable, Abercrombies ever present dark British humour jumped from the page at me. Really, really enjoyable.
Now in the unenviable position of not owning the third book of a series (I was expecting it to take me a bit longer), so I will have to go and buy this - and soon.
So now not having the third book to read in the series I decided to take a different tact and rather than hit the last 3 books in Dune I decided to read Alfred Bester: The Stars My Destination, then onto Last Argument of Kings and then back onto the last 3 Dune books.
Making good progress through my list and hitting/finding a lot of the classics which I have been after.