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cyperangel:
Raymond E Feist, The Riftwar Saga
Terry Goodkin, Sword of Truth series,
Terry Pratchet, Discworld series and
Douglas Adams, Hitchikers guide to the Galaxy
are all my favorite books. The sword of truth is one of my new favorites, and I am eagerly awaiting the next book to hit the shelves in this forsaken outback of the world
Liss:
ooooo Sword of Truth! My favorite books on earth! If I had to throw away all my books with the exception of those, I wouldn't be too upset.
Kitiara:
Quote from: Larita on 2005 August 09, 16:18:31
Quote from: witch on 2005 August 03, 09:25:24
I have been a science fiction fan since the age of nine, after the fairies and the myths and legends, there didn't seem any other logical place to go!
Why...then you go back to fairies & myths & legends, of course! ;D Read any Piers Anthony lately? Best author for tongue-in-cheek, satirical, double entendre I've read in decades. Actually, I've been a fan for decades...and have trouble keeping up, he's such a prolific writer. I can almost guarantee that when anyone (who even remotely enjoys SciFi/Fantasy) reads the first novel in his Xanth series, he/she will be hooked for the duration. I lost count at seven...or was it eight?...novels, and the series is still going strong.
I love Xanth! But I lost count in the mid-twenties. Last thing I read by him he claimed trilogies ought to be 33 instead of 3.
Although, personally, I think his best work was his Incarnations of Immortality series. That trilogy only had 7 books.
I am also a Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker) fan.
A few other favorites are: Anne McCaffrey, Laurell K, Hamilton, Jane Yolen (most of her stuff is YA at the oldest but still inciteful and well written), Robin McKinley, Tanith Lee, Isaac Asimov, Ayn Rand, Ray Bradbury, Dorothy Parker, Amy Tan, Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman, and Anne Rice. There are soooo many more. That is enough for now. My (tiny) living room in my (tiny) house is wall to wall with bookshelves. Most are doubl-stacked. There are also boxes of books I can't fit on the shelves (that kills me). But, whatever you do, do NOT put Danielle Steele on my shelf. I would have to bring out my katana.
Liss:
Ahhhh, I wondered if I detected the presence of another dragonlance fan when I saw your name :D I love those too.
I started reading the Xanth series when I was about 15, and kept up with like the first 5, and then all of a sudden there were too many of them and I gave up LOL...
I love the puns in the Xanth series...my favorites were the nickelpedes and the technicolor hailstorms.
SimsHost:
Piers Anthony's puns don't appeal to me, but that's the worst I can say for him! (After all, he has a string of best-selling novels and I've never tossed anything longer than a novella over the transom!)
I have that same impression of Heinlein's later works. If you're reading anything after Stranger it seems that the best thing to do is stop 3/4ths of the way through and close the book. Then just write the ending in your own mind. Nevertheless, Number of the Beast is one of my favorite Heinlein books.
I've been on a John Ringo kick lately. I think his war novels would appeal to JM; lots of murder and mayhem and heavyweight firepower. They're not for everybody, but I'm a closet history buff, and much of history is about military operations.
At the moment, my pleasure reading is 1776 by David McCullough. I recommend it highly, as well as his previous book, John Adams.
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