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Post by ash on Jan 28, 2008 20:48:55 GMT 9.5
Some of you guys must read?
I have read much over the years and there are many more things to choose from. There are so many things that I sometimes find it hard to choose what to read next. Others must have this problem and maybe by telling us what you like to read you may inspire us to read and maybe enjoy those same titles.
So tell us what you have read, what you enjoyed (or hated) and why it is so.
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Post by steve on Jan 28, 2008 20:59:54 GMT 9.5
read anything by Reymond E Feist. they gd, bt most of you would a read them.
try the Anne Rice Vampire Lestat books. frickin awesome.
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Post by calicojack on Jan 28, 2008 21:18:55 GMT 9.5
i usually only get into books that really grab me.
i need realy good characters and character development to like a book, without them the story is usualy pretty boring.
i have to have character i love, hate and the characters that are ethicly androgenous until the very end.
agreed there mister steve.
another good series of books are the blood books by Tanya huffy. also about vampires.
only this one is working with a retired cop to hunt down other supernatural creatures. my favourite from that series was blood trail...the greatest part about those books was seeing the volving background of henry, the vampire, from his initial turning in the middle ages and his life leading up to present day including how he lived in victorian london and survived through ww2 ...i loved those books they are not as corny as they sound.
i tend to be a sucker for a supernatural thriller.
another 2 great boks ive read in my years (these ones might be for the younger guys . i read them in my early high school years) are "the messenger" and "evil genius".
the messenger was a realy beautiful story about a self centered man who is forced to help others and eventually is faced with ethical dillemas and in the end makes the right choices. its pretty good if you are looking for something a bit more inspirational...... trust me its much better than i described, its a shame i cant rememer the author.
the other one evil genius is far fetched but all in all a realy good book. its the story of a boy who learns that his father is an incarcerated evil genius bent on world domination and under the guidence of his fathers right hand man will grow up to follow in his footsteps. the part in which he is sent to a school for children with special gifts ( i.e pyrokinesis and psychic powers) to learn what he needs are great. there are some realy either love them or hate them characters in that book.
anyway im sure everyone is sick of my rant so ill stop now.
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Post by alex on Jan 28, 2008 21:28:10 GMT 9.5
Rarely do I find a book I really get into.
I've read all Raymond E Feist's stuff, give all the lastest ones a miss, go for the first dozen instead.
Lately I've been getting into audiobooks. I listened to all the harry potter books (because I so wastn't going to bother reading them), and that got me hooked on audiobooks.
Currently listening to Dune books by Frank Herbert.
Can recomend Isaac Asimov's stuff, great writer. All the lesser known Tolkien is good if you're into LOTR etc,
I often start a book and don't finish.
What I read also depends on what I can get on ebook for my palm.
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Post by ThePup on Jan 28, 2008 21:37:38 GMT 9.5
3/4 of the way through the latest Terry Pratchett at the moment ;D (Making Money). Love the discworld books, even the ones aimed at the younger audience (The Tiffany Aching trilogy - loved them, love the witches).
Aside from that, Raymond E Feist, Douglas Reeman (WWII / Cold war naval), Arthur C Clarke...
A book I really should read to get again, and is a must for anyone interested in the Viet Nam war - Gary McKay, "In Good Company". Great read, loved every minute of it.
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Post by ash on Jan 28, 2008 22:39:19 GMT 9.5
Well I have read pretty much all the Dragonlance books aside from the newer ones released within the last 6 years. The books are great and there are so many of them!
The main saga details the main adventurers/questers. Then there are books for each of the major characters on their own. Then theres a trilogy for two of the characters. Then it gets into the next generation... Then all the extra fluff books.... So many...
Also have read and really liked Wilbur Smith. His books are so real especially the ones set in Africa and Egypt (so pretty much all of them) it helps that he actually lives there. I would suggest them to anyone. Start off with Birds of Prey and go from there.
I like all books (and movies) set in the great crusades. The Tile Cutters Penny by Caiseal Mor is a great read.
There is also a great set of books of which the first one is titled Daggerspell by Katharine Kerr is just plain awesome. A great tale of 4 souls whose lives are entwined through the centuries all linked to one undying man called Nevyn (means noone). Find it, read it!
Also read all Harry Potter, a great set of books...
As for early Tolkein, you read Farmer Giles of Ham?
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Post by steve on Jan 29, 2008 12:40:08 GMT 9.5
ph, another series that is pretty cool is the "sum of all men" by dunno who. basically the attributes of a person can be transfered to another, so for instance a strongman gives his strength to another man. suddenly you have a man taht is twice as strong as a normal man, but you also have a man with so little strength that he may die from not being able to breath. basically one dude, a king is trying to gain teh attributes of EVRYONE. very cool. plus crazy gods and sht like that. get tehm.
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Post by ash on Jan 29, 2008 19:52:31 GMT 9.5
Does a person have to willingly give his attributes or can they be stolen?
More info!
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Post by steve on Jan 30, 2008 15:46:07 GMT 9.5
basicaly the more you want to give them to another, the more is transfered. blackmail and threats to family and friends are used to get tehm. it cool. read them.
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Post by FOWnut on Feb 2, 2008 7:48:51 GMT 9.5
Years ago I read 'the sleeping dragon' trilogy by Joel Rosenberg. Great story about a group of high school kid's who played RPG's on a regular basis where one of the professors was the DM. One day he literally sent them into his 'game world'! They found that they had the attributes that their game characters had (ie swordmanship etc). Great story. As late as last year I found out that there were two more books released but i've never seen them on the shelves??? bugger.  Also, there was the 'west of eden' trilogy by harry harrison which was a 'what if there was no ice age that killed off the dinosaurs?'. Interesting reading. The human race was at caveman stage, whereas a species of dino had evolved to walk upright, but also had much greater intelligence than us. Their technology was genetically modifying other creatures to achieve what we do with machines etc. Then there was the Deverry series by Katherine Kerr (as mentioned by Ash). There have been three 'acts' of four books each (12 so far!, with 2 more still being written to finish the entire story). Fantastic reading. Full credit to the author on keeping up with who relates to who and how! Almost forgot to mention the obvious...the Hobbit & LOTR! Another great series is the Belgariad by david eddings. It's another long series (12 books i think?  ) Once again, fantastic read. It's about a farm boy who turns out to have quite a history, and a fairly big future. Features Belgarath the sorcerer and his daughter Polgara (just as powerful...hmmm...woman with a temper...hmmm...lets make that ' much more powerful than her father' ;D I've read a standalone book by (i think ) raymond e fiest called (i think!!!  ) 'honoured enemy'. It's apparently a side story to a large series but is a story in its own right. Very well written. There are 3 armies warring, 1 is your typical 'good' race, another is 'neutral' while the last is pure evil. What sets this story aside from the mainstream, i thought, is that it's written from the perspective of the individual races. At one point you hear from the 'good' race why they consider the 'evil' guys that way. Later you here the same story from the 'evil' guys and begin to understand why they do the things they do. Well worth the read. I'm told that the underlying series is just as good. So go on, go and read em!!  |
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Post by ThePup on Feb 2, 2008 8:58:33 GMT 9.5
I've read a standalone book by (i think ) raymond e fiest called (i think!!! ) 'honoured enemy'. I really liked "Honoured Enemy". It's one of the "Tales (or legends) of the Riftwar" series from memory - There's 3 books, but each one is a standalone, they aren't joined in any way. Honoured Enemy Jimmy the Hand Murder in LaMut Honoured Enemy was by far my favourite, Jimmy the hand was OK too. Murder in LaMut didn't grab me as easily as the other two. Googling for the info, I find I've missed the last book in the Conclave of Shadows series!  'Darkwar Saga' - Time for a trip to the library I think. |
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Post by Antichrist wannabe on Feb 11, 2008 19:22:30 GMT 9.5
I really enjoyed eragon and eldest(sequel to eragon). eragon is way better then the movie as they have missed out alot as they did in the harry potter series which wasnt that bad to read either any way in eragon the main story line is the same to the book (obviosly) but some dramatic things have changed which could affect the sequel (if its ever released) but i have been waiting for the third book to eragon to come out so i can get it and i have heard rumour that it is out in september (just after my birthday) and that there is going to be 4 books instead of 3 yaay more reading  |
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Post by mitchell on Feb 11, 2008 20:03:15 GMT 9.5
i personly recommend a trilogy of books about a mischivous demon called bartimaeus. the first book is called the amulet of smarkand or something and is great and so is the rest of the series. wat daniel said about the eragon series is so trues suckie movie great friggin books. (did you say september sweet)
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Post by jacob on Feb 12, 2008 12:11:55 GMT 9.5
i personly recommend a trilogy of books about a mischivous demon called bartimaeus. the first book is called the amulet of smarkand or something and is great and so is the rest of the series. wat daniel said about the eragon series is so trues suckie movie great friggin books. (did you say september sweet) ahah! someone else who has read the bartimaeus trilogy! i loved it, very cleverly written and a good change to the other fantasy novels. At the moment im reading the wounded land, 1st of the second chronicles of thomas covenant. very wierd, very different, and heaps cool. the deltora quest series are great, even though they are for younguns, and of course the wizard of earthsea book and its sequals. theyre rather old, but still cool. as you can probably tell from that, i rather like to read fantasy novels. i also like manga, though i havent read much at all. |
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Post by ash on Feb 14, 2008 19:10:51 GMT 9.5
I once read part of this awesome book, it was called Wrens Flight. The author has done an excellent job on whatI have read so far.. Look it up and you may find it!
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Post by bigdave on Feb 14, 2008 21:36:43 GMT 9.5
He is a great author but takes way too long between releases  I don't seem to be able to find time to read much anymore but it was one of my favorite pastimes in my youth. these are some of the authors that I still have in my personal library Raymond E. Feist Janny Wurst David & Leigh Eddings Piers Anthony Robert Jordan Rob Grant & Doug Naylor Robin Hobb David Gemmell Gary Gygax Steven Donaldson Douglas Adams Jame's Bibby Terry Pratchet Andrew Harman Katherine Kerr |
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Post by ash on Feb 15, 2008 9:05:02 GMT 9.5
What!?!
You have no Margaret Weis and Tracey Hickman??
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Post by steve on Feb 15, 2008 16:41:21 GMT 9.5
haha. u up yourself bastard :-)
send us an updated copy cld ya?
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Post by bigdave on Feb 15, 2008 23:16:21 GMT 9.5
I think I might have "Time of the Twins" and "Test of the Twins" buried somewhere out in the shed.
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Post by ash on Feb 17, 2008 19:41:32 GMT 9.5
Ill upload some more when i can get it off my computer and upload it to one thats online in a format that it can be read...
Time and Test of the twins were some pretty good books, ahhh.... There were some awesome scenes in those books. War of the twins was perfect in its execution too...
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) Once again, fantastic read. It's about a farm boy who turns out to have quite a history, and a fairly big future. Features Belgarath the sorcerer and his daughter Polgara (just as powerful...hmmm...woman with a temper...hmmm...lets make that 'much more powerful than her father' ;D
) 'honoured enemy'. It's apparently a side story to a large series but is a story in its own right. Very well written. There are 3 armies warring, 1 is your typical 'good' race, another is 'neutral' while the last is pure evil. What sets this story aside from the mainstream, i thought, is that it's written from the perspective of the individual races. At one point you hear from the 'good' race why they consider the 'evil' guys that way. Later you here the same story from the 'evil' guys and begin to understand why they do the things they do. Well worth the read. I'm told that the underlying series is just as good.
'Darkwar Saga' - Time for a trip to the library I think.
