Clive custler - writes some really good advenure stuff. Sieg Larson (spelling) - unfortunate that he died after only writing the frsit 3 books in the millenium series
I'm a sucker for Michael Connolly's work. Good old cliched crime stuff. Excellent for some entertainment.
You've not noticed he's released the fourth in the wee free men series then. off to the shoppes with thee
I like Pratchett but havn't read him in a while because i've found his books all to follow the same plot. FIRST PAGES: SOMETHING OBSCURE HAPPENING THEN: There is a problem in Discword. How shall we solve it? I know, lets invent something that is very similar to something from the real world. Like a banking system or football or insurance. WHILE WE ARE AT IT: Lets gently satirise this modern thing but explain how its works at the same time OH HI I AM DEATH BTW FINALLY: Everyone starts running around, we realise what the SOMETHING OBSCURE HAPPENING was, there is more running and the book ends.
I was going to say: 3 pages, and no Asimov But then this: Classics! (apart from the two Baen-books guys at the end, they're too new...maybe they'll turn into classics yet) Thank god I thought I was the only one over 30 around here ...and Greg Bear ;-)
You could say the same thing about a lot of fantasy authors. The biggest culprit of them all was Eddings (RIP), who used the same plot 4 times in two universes. Yes, The Belgariad = The Mallorean = The Elenium = The Tamuli. 16 Books of the same story. Plot: Reluctant Hero with a Destiny needs to find magical doohicky to combat Evil Incarnate, so sets out with diverse band of companions on road-trip to find said artefact. After a long journey where everyone bickers (but deep down really care for one another deeply), Hero uses MacGuffin to rid world of Ulitmate Big Bad. Or so they thought, until the first book of the next series - when they find out they need to do it all over again, as the first Evil was actually only the diet-coke of Evil (just one calorie - not Evil Enough) and this time the Evil is really, really evil. Honest. Switch all the characters out between the universes, and there you go. EddingsBot 1.0. Full disclosure - I acctually quite like Eddings, and my copies of the Belgariad and Mallorean are so worn from re-reading they're just about falling apart...
Yeah to be honest all those crime novels I read are the same thing over and over. Hard bitten Vietnam met whos hooker mum was murdered when he was kid. Went through the system and now serves it. Doesn't quite play by the rules but gets stuff done. Has lots of broken relationships and loves jazz. In the end he might not be liked but damn it everyone respects him.
I really like Sir Terry Pratchett and Alistair Maclean. I have recently been enjoying books from James Patterson and Andy McNab. At the moment I'm reading A Brief History Of Time by Sir Steven Hawkings - some of it makes my brain hurt .
I think the books that i have enjoyed reading the most have been Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series.
I'm a big fan of Philip k. Dick. Time out of Joint and Dr. Bloodmoney would have to be my favourites (do androids dream of electric sheep comes close)
I mainly read True Crime, but the only author whose books iv'e read is John Grisham. Some of his books are great!
I've read a lot of different authors. I would really like to go back and read some of the classics now that I'm not in school and don't have to read them. I think I would enjoy reading the story rather than having to figure out what every single word is a symbol of. Some I have truly enjoyed: Tolkien Neal Stephenson H. P. Lovecraft Dean Koontz (I've read nearly every novel he has written) Some Stephen King...currently reading the Dark Tower series Clive Barker Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead) Max Brooks Eric Arthur Blair (Orwell) Mario Puzo Irwin Shaw What I'd really love is some good zombie novels. Most aren't all that exciting...sadly.
Very well said. I usually finished a book after the second hour it was it beeing subject in class...and then had to endure endless babbeling about it for four more months. Nooooooooo! So many books, so little time too read
Isaac Asimov Orson Scott Card Harry Mulisch Willem Elsschot J.R.R.Tolkien Goscinny Frank Herbert Arthur C. Clarke Hmm... That would be about everything that pops in my head right now...
Been waiting the whole thread for this one. Heard all sorts of amazing things about the author and the series and finally gave in to reading the first one of the series (Wizard's First Rule, I think?). One of the worst reading experiences of my life. I'm not a big fantasy person, mainly sci-fi, but had been reading Orson Scott Card's fantasy "Alvin Maker" series so I figured I'd give a more popular fantasy a shot. After reading the first 50 pages about the traveling travelers and their travels I shut the book and gave up. I can only take so much over-romanticized bull**** in one book. But the reason I bring that up (not to be a troll, honest) is that it's always funny to me how different two people's opinions can be. Most people love the series. Had to read Dostoyevesky's Crime and Punishment in school and loved it. Been meaning to try some other books of his but keep ending up pushing them back.
