|
Post by Night Ω Wolfe on Nov 28, 2006 9:16:51 GMT -5
Ok now I HAVE to check out Laurell K Hamilton. #woot# I generally love vampire stuff but she sounds particularly interesting. I want to check out Inferno too. As for Anne Rice I own just about all of her books. Strange though I didn't really get into Pandora as much as the others. My personal favorite is Memnoch the Devil. Her adult novels are insane. I own all those too. She goes to some wild places with them... but still very stimulating. If you enjoy those kinds of books you should check them out
|
|
|
Post by Cabranth on Dec 5, 2006 15:08:18 GMT -5
Howdy Anne Rice's "adult" novels. You mean like the "Beauty" series? Oh...My...Gawd! Kinky doesn't even begin to describe those books. I started the first, but quit shortly after. Not that I have a problem with them, it's just that I've never really gotten into B&D and S&M. Crazy stuff! ;D
|
|
|
Post by Night Ω Wolfe on Dec 5, 2006 17:00:55 GMT -5
ROFLOL ;D Yeah the Beauty series and Exit to Eden... totally kinky stuff.
|
|
|
Post by jereru on Dec 12, 2006 6:35:39 GMT -5
Right, a bit of everything...
As for my favourites, although I like many authors, these guys are the ones I wouldn´t mind reading once and again:
H.P. Lovecraft Frank Herbert Valerio M. Manfredi Noah Gordon Edgar A. Poe Peter Berling Jules Verne (the very first novel I read, when i was 7 or 8, "The Danube Pilot")
As for Dan Brown, I hate the idea that he made "quite original novels", when he only took ideas and theories from other books and novels and put it in his, got a lot of marketing, and a bit of luck... but nothing new, really. I read "Angels And Demons" and found "The DaVinci Code" is the same story again, with a different setting...
As for Shakespeare, I enjoy his plays... but be aware: "Romeo And Juliet" is not an original idea from Shakespeare; it is adapted from an old tale called "Pyramus et Thisbe", which I translated from Latin when I was at High School and found it a calque.
Although I like medieval fantasy, and I think "LOTR" is a good story, I don´t think Tolkien was a good writer. He got an obsolete and boring style, the reason I never read "LOTR". "The Silmarillion", on the other hand, being "short stories", is quite an easier reading, IMHO.
I will start to submerge in the worlds of Moorcock and Terry Pratchet, when I have the chance to borrow the books from someone, then I´ll give you my opinion.
|
|
|
Post by Night Ω Wolfe on Dec 12, 2006 9:01:12 GMT -5
Well you are definitely right.... Dan Brown got most of the info. for DaVinci Code from Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln. Which I actually attempted to read before Dan Brown wrote or at least released his book. And most of his books are just different conspiracy theories that tend to work themselves out in the same sort of fashion. But I have to say I enjoy his books anyway haha. Not to mention I was really really interested in all the info. in Holy Blood but I can't handle reading books that come across too text-bookish so Dan Brown gave me a sweet alternative when it came to learning the key points that interested me.
As for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet I will now have to check out Pyramus et Thisbe, do you happen to know if there are any English translations?
I'm not sure if you are just sharing interesting info. or if you are downing the various authors for not being so "original" as people make them out to be. I have one comment on this though.... Whether it be books, movies, TV Shows or any other type of entertainment media it has ALL pretty much been done before. It is very, very rare that you will ever come across an original idea these days. Especially in movies where it has gotten SO bad that two identical movies will even be released at the same time nearly!!! But anyway rather than thinking about how it has been done before try thinking about what makes this persons version different, interesting or in some ways better and you may find that you will enjoy it better. I personally don't care how many times and idea has been played out... if the person is a good author than they will always have something new to bring to the table.
|
|
|
Post by jereru on Dec 12, 2006 12:50:21 GMT -5
I agree, is good to see both versions and stick to the one you like the most, be it the original or not. But it is also good to know that someone who pretends to be the original while not being it is a cheater (I didn´t mean Shakespeare was a cheater, he didn´t pretend to, but is good to know that, although he was a genius and an innovator, he did pick some of his plots from old tales).
Dan Brown is much closer to a cheater. And there is PLENTY of books prior to Dan Brown which treat all these themes as a novel (see Peter Berling and his "Sons Of The Grail" saga, e.g.).
I didn´t down Tolkien for not being original. On the contrary, he indeed was. What he was not, in my honest opinion, was a good writer. See, the story is close to perfect, but is not written as it should be.
About all that, I just LOVE to give my opinion, especially if it is contrary to some other´s. If everybody agrees, there´s no chat, don´t you think so?
|
|
|
Post by Night Ω Wolfe on Dec 12, 2006 14:34:46 GMT -5
LOL I totally agree... debating a topic is soo much fun! #yay#
|
|
|
Post by jereru on Dec 13, 2006 8:00:30 GMT -5
LOL I totally agree... debating a topic is soo much fun! #yay# No, it is not... :laugh:
|
|
|
Post by Night Ω Wolfe on Dec 13, 2006 15:20:18 GMT -5
LOL! #lmao#
|
|
aule
Lone Wolf
[M0n:45]
[M0:74]Do you fear death? Do you fear that dark abyss?
Posts: 141
|
Post by aule on Jan 31, 2007 6:37:01 GMT -5
lol, there are so many different authors here, I think I know only a quarter of them maybe, but some of my favorites are J.R.R. Tolkien (you may have guessed if you read my sig) J.K. Rowling (I've read Harry Potter both in Dutch and English) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Dan Brown Scott Adams (Only read in Dutch though) Douglas Adams (Loved Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, read that in English) Max Allan Collins (I'm a fan of CSI on TV and he made some books about it, found those quite good)
Oh and about LoTR, I can understand why you feel it isn't written as it should be because there are indeed some parts that are going a bit too slow, but there are also some parts that I really like and that do go at a pace. As for the Silmarillion, I found that more difficult but that maybe because my mother tongue is not English.
|
|
|
Post by Night Ω Wolfe on Jan 31, 2007 6:55:18 GMT -5
Okay update in about a week and a half I have read 11 of Laurell K. Hamiliton books and I am totally addicted!!! I have been getting them at my library but they don't have the first 8 books of the Anita Blake series so I ordered them off e-bay and should be getting them soon and one more I had to order to be delivered to my library and I am picking it up tomorrow. She is such an amazing author and I am having sooo much fun reading her stuff. Yay!!! #yay#
|
|
|
Post by Ari’laftia on Jan 31, 2007 9:16:50 GMT -5
Well, I'm not a "deep" reader, I keep to the fantasy, its far more fun than the real life around me. I need my escape My books are taking over all our shelves, there are just too many to list, but I'll share my top ones: My horror phase: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Robert R. McGammon (Fav will always be Swan Song) Clive Barker- The Great and Secret Show (another fav), Michael Crichton. Robin Cook, The medical horror used to be fun until the events in real life. Not fantasy anymore Asst collections of : Caleb Carr, Thomas Harris, Patricia Cornwell Temeraire series by Naomi Novik (Wishing for more) Currently I have been sucked into forgotten realms, Finished the first 4 collectors editions of the Drizzt saga by R. A. Salvatore and am enjoying every bit of the most recent one Trying to to read it too fast. Oh Theres lots more but I think that will do it for now Ari
|
|
|
Post by griffman on Jul 5, 2007 19:22:28 GMT -5
I have a new favorite author I guess you could say. Although I used it as the latest hangman so I cannot say until after we've completed the game.
|
|
|
Post by Night Ω Wolfe on Jul 5, 2007 20:00:10 GMT -5
LOL well thanks for the heads up then
|
|
|
Post by griffman on Jul 5, 2007 21:13:52 GMT -5
Maybe it isn't a revelation for you, but I've hated reading for the longest time. I started again and I can't put the book(s) down. I blame this author mostly.
|
|