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Post by Night Ω Wolfe on Jul 5, 2007 21:51:47 GMT -5
Ohhh..... well then a huge congrats to the author Also now I am dieing of curiosity cause this must be a really good author to get a non-reader reading!! See I on the other hand started reading in Kindergarten and have not had a moment since that I wasn't in the middle of one book or another. I have probably read over a thousand books by now. I just love em! And the best thing is that I have such a horrible freakin' memory that I can read books over and over like they were brand new to me. Although in some circumstances it is a curse, like right now Alucard is reading the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton (loooove her!) and he keeps wanting to talk about interesting or confusing parts in the books with me and I'm all like "yeah I kinda remember that but um... not so much". Hehe Darn I wish I had started re-reading them just before him so I could chat with him about them more
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Post by griffman on Jul 11, 2007 20:02:43 GMT -5
My new favorite author is Kurt Vonnegut. Now that Becky revealed the hangman I can post it here. So far I've made it through 1 novel and 50% of his short stories collection Welcome to the Monkey House. I would suggest starting with the short stories, he can be kind of weird.
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Post by Night Ω Wolfe on Jul 11, 2007 20:30:11 GMT -5
You suck at reviews Griff LOL. Give me more info...... genre, who is he like, what is his style, why do you like him? Need more than the fact you like him hehe.
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Post by griffman on Jul 11, 2007 20:54:34 GMT -5
Hell I know nothing about books. I don't know what genre he'd be considered, I don't know what his style is.... I like him because he makes me think about the world around me, how he has everything portrayed is interesting and beautiful at the same time....
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Post by Belix on Jan 11, 2012 13:53:08 GMT -5
I see someone mentioned Terry Brooks. I more or less first got absorbed into reading books by his Shannara series when I was really young, and in hindsight I need to find effort to re-read them some day now that I can better appreciate them. Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series was enjoyable to read too, though I left off somewhere near the end waiting for the last books to come out. I guess it isn't surprising to see a lot of fantasy authors listed here, considering our affinity for Sacred! I don't read much any more, but some day I'm going back to it, especially with the list of recommendations I've included and how much easier it is to find a decent book now with the assistance of book ratings and reviews online. You were always taking a gamble just pulling something off a library shelf! Oh, Night Wolfe, you mentioned children's fantasy, based on the examples you listed you might enjoy the Redwall series by Brian Jacques. Could be worth scoping out sometime. Edit: Woops, missed someone mention Orson Scott Card. He wrote Ender's Game, which is one of the few non-fantasy books I read that I really enjoyed. I understand it became a series but I only ever read the first book.
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Post by Night Ω Wolfe on Jan 11, 2012 22:19:28 GMT -5
Cool! I will have to check it out!
I have a few more favs to add to this list too!
First one is kinda funny because I was bored one day and in desperate need of some tv show to zone into and I came across a show called The Dresden Files on hulu. It only lasted one season but I thought it was pretty darn good so was telling my brother about it. Turns out it was originally a series of books which he loves and owns and he had spare copies of the first 6 books. They are fantastic! They are by Jim Butcher and there are currently 13 books in the series with another expected in 2013. It is about a private investigator who is also a wizard and he uses magic to solve his cases which usually deal with the hidden paranormal world and he often gets called in to help of cases that are headed by a special investigations unit where all the weird cases go. Anyway he is a wicked smart ass which makes the books a great read just because of his personality, then you add it the awesome story line of each and it gets better and better.
There is also another series (3 books so far) called Nekropolis by Tim Waggoner which oddly enough is very similar to the Dresden series. This one though is about a private eye who is a 'self-willed zombie' in a different dimension that the monsters created to hide from the humans who were trying to wipe them out on earth. Very different stories and a really cool world but the main character is very Dresden like. So I love that series too.
Lastly is a series that I recently discovered... it is 3 books with another coming out in April. It is called the Iron Druid Chronicles by Kevin Hearne. This one is about a Druid who is over 2,000 years old and is on the run from a god that has it in for him. That is the first book anyway. But the character is very cool and it has a really interesting take on gods in general and the various pantheons of the world.
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