Best Book Thread Summary

[ozraven]

Re: Based on someone's recommendation in the previous thread...

I read Robin Hobb's Assassin's Apprentice on Saturday. It was excellent and I plan on reading the other's in that series.

I am about 90% finished with Sara Douglass's Wayfarer Redemption. Again, another excellent read.

It's great to find other Fantasy authors. I hesitate to just pick up a new one and start reading. I don't have the time to waste and most are series. I always have to start at the beginning.

It is a great series.......both of them are actually........

And I agree about the "new" authors, which is why I started this in the first place, jacket covers can be so full of shit...... and fantasy being my / our favourite genre means we are always looking for new ones........

If you haven't read it try Jean Auel's Clan series, and George RR Martins, as well as Katherine Kerr's Deverry series, along with Fiest's Magician they would definately be my favourites to date....(Along with both of Sarah Douglass's completed series).

Enjoy, my second favourote cock charmer........

 

[juicylips]

I forgot to mention the Coldfire Trilogy by C.S Freidman.

Black Sun Rising (1992), When True Night Falls (1993), and Crown of Shadows (1995)

Thanks for mentioning more authors. I'll check them out.

 

[ReadyMike]

How about the detective driven books for those of us drawn to the ocean? Authors like Carl Hiaasen, John D. MacDonald, and Larry Shames. Maybe not as high minded as some of the books on your list, but I think they make as deep insights into the diverse beach culture as Douglas Adams made about British society.

But that's just me, I could be wrong.

 

[ozraven]

How about the detective driven books for those of us drawn to the ocean? Authors like Carl Hiaasen, John D. MacDonald, and Larry Shames. Maybe not as high minded as some of the books on your list, but I think they make as deep insights into the diverse beach culture as Douglas Adams made about British society.

But that's just me, I could be wrong.

LMAO, mate, it aint my list........if you check the first post you will see what I mean....... don't blame the reporter.....

 

[crappie master]

bumping this

 

[ozraven]

Bit of a report back for anyone who gives a shit..........

I bought a dozen new books based on the recommendations here, read two so far, and not a good strike rate!!!!!!!

Slaughterhouse 5: A strong anti war message that was very easy to get, but poorly drawn characters I could not identify with and had little sympathy for, I guess it made me think but I didn't necessarily like the thoughts..........2 out of 5 for me.

Brave New World: Even sketchier characters, a message that was obtained in the first chapter and a story that wandered in and out of every corridor it could find without ever stopping long enough to involve the reader........I didn't feel sorrow when he hung himself, relief maybe......I get the message, but did not enjoy the story.....

I think my problem is that when I read I do it to escape to a place where fantasies are fun, characters are strong and where good triumphs over evil, if I need reality I can read the news instead.......

 

[juicylips]

My Update

I just fell in love with Robin Hobb. The Farseer/Assasin Trilogy was incredbile. She has continued it with the Tawny Man Trilogy. Only two have been released so far. Fool's Errand and Golden Fool. Both are very good.


I did also read the first three in the Wayfarer Redemption series by Sara Douglass. We can't get the last three here in the states, I'll have to order them in. I did read her first book in her new series...um...Hades something. (I forget the title) It was excellent although a little dark.

 

[aly*]

ok, just finished Perv -A Love Story by Jerry Stahl -good read.
A Secret History by Donna Tart- amazing characters.
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg -fucking brilliant imagery and reminded me of my insane family.

almost done with A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggars and I love it.

um, yeah, i'm no writer, but i thought i'd add a few..

 

[cookiejar]

"American Tabloid" and "The Black Dahlia"....James Ellroy


Hi Oz...ltns...

 

[VincentFloyd]

"Youth In Revolt" C.D. Payne, EASILY the best book I've ever read

 

[nasty1]

The Stand By Stephen King Bar none, the best book I ever read

The next are just in random order

Watchers By Dean Koontz
Without Remorse by Tom Clancy
Patriot Games By Tom Clancy
The Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling

Only a little over a month before book 5, but, I'm not keeping track.

 

[ozraven]

Re: My Update

I just fell in love with Robin Hobb. The Farseer/Assasin Trilogy was incredbile. She has continued it with the Tawny Man Trilogy. Only two have been released so far. Fool's Errand and Golden Fool. Both are very good.


I did also read the first three in the Wayfarer Redemption series by Sara Douglass. We can't get the last three here in the states, I'll have to order them in. I did read her first book in her new series...um...Hades something. (I forget the title) It was excellent although a little dark.

Hello again sexy........

Get hold of the Axis trilogy by Sara Douglass, they are her best.....a little lighter than the wayfarer books, but more fun.
Hades Daughter, I bought it but haven't read it yet.......I'll have to get hold of the two new Hobb books.........ta!

 

[ozraven]

ok, just finished Perv -A Love Story by Jerry Stahl -good read.
A Secret History by Donna Tart- amazing characters.
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg -fucking brilliant imagery and reminded me of my insane family.

almost done with A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggars and I love it.

um, yeah, i'm no writer, but i thought i'd add a few..

The more the merrier.....

 

[ozraven]

"American Tabloid" and "The Black Dahlia"....James Ellroy


Hi Oz...ltns...

Too long!!!!!!!

 

[ozraven]

"Youth In Revolt" C.D. Payne, EASILY the best book I've ever read

Why, it's a complicated "plot", what grabbed you?

 

[ozraven]

The Stand By Stephen King Bar none, the best book I ever read

It's on my list also............and yes, I am (along with my 14 year old daughter and 35 year old partner) eagerly awaiting book 5 too....

 

[DéjàNu]

Re: My Update

I just fell in love with Robin Hobb. The Farseer/Assasin Trilogy was incredbile. She has continued it with the Tawny Man Trilogy. Only two have been released so far. Fool's Errand and Golden Fool. Both are very good.

Everyone is falling in love with Hobb, she writes good fantasy, "litteracy" fantasy I should say. She have success with fantasy books readers but with those others too who read only "litteracy" books.

The 90's was a very low decade for fantasy books but Hobb just revived that genre.

Book three of Tawny Man is scheduled to come out in January of 2004.

And if you havent read it yet there is another trilogy The Liveship Traders not as good as the Assassin but a very good read.

 

[JerseyBoy]

i read Anne Rice for the first time (The Mummy: Ramses the Damned) thanks to a LovePotion69 review.

I really really liked it. She writes so, umm, velvety. It makes someone like James Patterson (whom i like) seem so clunky.

I was a little disappointed with the end. I guess it's difficult to make things turn out perfectly, in my eyes, without any 'hmmms'

 

[Sort_Of_My_Art]

Great list. I don't think i've ready anywhere near 50% of that list, but I love the fact that Zola is on the list!

Anyways, just wanted to add a few i think where un-fortunatly missed, in my very very humble opinion.

James Joyce seemed to be overlooked.
Albert Camus
Sylvia Plath (I know what some of you are thinking, but she puts words to feelings and ideas that I most certainly have been unable to put words too)
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jean-Paul Sartre
Friedrich Nietzsche
Lewis Carroll
Hermann Hesse
and last but not least Hunter S. Thompson

Just a short list of essentials in my collection.
Thought i'd share it with everyone.

I'll get back to my Tom Robbins now

S|O|M|A

 

[eagleyez]

Continental Drift

by Russell Banks....

 

[ozraven]

Another update......

"The Test of Twins" trilogy........

Excellent nomination by Xstatic.......

What can I say, I am a sucker for good SF/Fantasy!

 

[DéjàNu]

I just start the Tawny Man Trilogy by Robin Hobb even if the third book is not out yet, yes I will regret it!!! She wrote so incredibly well, the pages turn so fast and with so much ease but I want the pleasure to be longer, sometime I had to stop myself and read slower!

 

[ozraven]

I just start the Tawny Man Trilogy by Robin Hobb even if the third book is not out yet, yes I will regret it!!! She wrote so incredibly well, the pages turn so fast and with so much ease but I want the pleasure to be longer, sometime I had to stop myself and read slower!

I haven't started that one yet........

Robert Jordan has turned me off starting unfinished series for while........

 

[DéjàNu]

I haven't started that one yet........

Robert Jordan has turned me off starting unfinished series for while........

yeah me too. I stop reading after the 7th one. I will wait he finish writing them all and start over. Its a serie so vast and grand that it has to be read in one shot I think.

So you have finish The Test of Twins trilogy, what is your next book?