Reading list recommendations

[DG Hear]

I know you've read some of my stories and are nice enough to leave comments. I have over 300 stories on this site and would be hard to tell you where to start. I get my best comments from the Romance and no-erotic. If you really want me to pick out a few I'll try.
DG

 

[patientlee]

*Checking my messages.* Nada. Sigh.

I'm hunkered down with Waiting to Be His. I'll be in touch, if my daughter stops whining in my face, asking what she can do.

 

[patientlee]

I'm hunkered down with Waiting to Be His. I'll be in touch, if my daughter stops whining in my face, asking what she can do.

And now I'm sitting with puking boy with no reading light. Wouldn't be Christmas if someone wasn't sick.

 

[Handley_Page]

And now I'm sitting with puking boy with no reading light. Wouldn't be Christmas if someone wasn't sick.

To my certain knowledge, it's been that way since 1950.
Sympathy. . .

 

[pezzheaddazzler]

Abby Ch. 00 byKezza67

Abby Ch. 00
byKezza67

One of the best non erotic Novels I've read in years.

Kezza67

Please continue the writing's of this story.

Pezzheaddazzler

 

[patientlee]

Reviving this one, just in case I get a spare minute.

 

[LaRascasse]

Since you already read "How To Catch A Falling Star", I give you its sequel here. There are more in the series in case it catches your fancy.

 

[Jidoka]

Didn't see these on your favorites list...

Reviving this one, just in case I get a spare minute.

I didn't see a few of my favorites on your list. Most are fairly popular, so you may have read them but, if not, I think they are worth the read. I think they fit your criteria...I hope...maybe...

Nicole In Our Bed by JayWhett
Nothing Between Us by M-Y-Erotica
New Year’s Surprise by Lothario the Great
The Finite Beating Heart by DesmondAndromeda

 

[sethp]

What about...

Any good Heroic Fantasy not necessarily in the vain of Tolkien,

Did not like A Tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson...Beginning was to convoluted. Gave my books in that series away without even reading them.

Did not like Chronicles of the Black Company by Glen Cook...Couldn't get into it. Gave it through the first chapter but it just never caught my attention.

Loved The First Law by Joe Abercrombie...the whole series was great with wonderful characters. Highly recommended.

Enojoyed The Drenai Novels by David Gemmell.

Loved the The Sword of Shannara series. All of them were very good.

Loved the Hobbit and lord of the Rings ...loved the Harry Potter series.

Loved the Dragon bone chair series.

Any recommendations?

 

[LWulf]

Any good Heroic Fantasy not necessarily in the vain of Tolkien,

With all those readings, I'd be surprised if you haven't read any of my suggestions, because they aren't that new and I've read most of those you mentioned.

Unfortunately most are all in the vein of Tolkien.

By David Eddings: The Belgariad, The Mallorian, The Elenium and The Tamuli. I wouldn't bother with The Dreamers. He started fading when he wrote that series.

By Raymond Feist: The Riftwar Series (and all associated series after that)

By Stephen Donaldson: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. This is a bit of a dark dip into the deep end of the pool and revolves around the bad things good people do. Definitely a psychodrama of sorts that gives you a good look in the mind of a leper. It pivots between fantasy and reality which is what some lepers really experience.

I liked the Dragonrider series by Anne McCaffrey, but she tended to reiterate the same stories over and over again, but changed the POV's and how the story was interpreted from each perspective.

Dragon Prince by Melanie Rawn wasn't too bad, unless you like to like the main characters. She tends to Whedon-ize her stories a lot: "Kill the main character! Kill the main character! Kill the main character!"

On the lighter side of things, I wholeheartedly recommend Robert Asprin's Myth series and Phule Series. He lampoons a lot of tropes by overusing them.

I'm a little shocked that you liked the Elfstones series though. I liked it too until the series took a turn to making it all about how modern man was ruining the world. That's just a personal observation though.

 

[patientlee]

I'm not a fan of fantasy. Too much work to read, I think.

Any good Heroic Fantasy not necessarily in the vain of Tolkien,

Did not like A Tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson...Beginning was to convoluted. Gave my books in that series away without even reading them.

Did not like Chronicles of the Black Company by Glen Cook...Couldn't get into it. Gave it through the first chapter but it just never caught my attention.

Loved The First Law by Joe Abercrombie...the whole series was great with wonderful characters. Highly recommended.

Enojoyed The Drenai Novels by David Gemmell.

Loved the The Sword of Shannara series. All of them were very good.

Loved the Hobbit and lord of the Rings ...loved the Harry Potter series.

Loved the Dragon bone chair series.

Any recommendations?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

COOL HAND LUKE by Donn Pearce.

Pearce wrote the screen-play, too, but the book and movie are as similar as thoroughbreds and shetlamd ponies.

In the movie Luke is a swaggering wise-ass the cons idolize.

In the book Lloyd Jackson is an enthusiastic and hardworking and cooperative teamplayer who gets in trouble when he drinks too much. He gives the prison a pulse and improves the morale of all but the guards and bureaucrats who hate contented cons.

Anyway, things roll along until Luke/Lloyds mom dies. They lock Luke in the penalty box for a week, without food, water, or dumping his waste bucket. And they go crazy when they open the box and Luke's asleep. The guard kicks Luke's face. So they beat him and beat him every opportunity that comes along till he gets an attitude. Throwing a live rattlesnake at the Road Boss seals Luke's fate. All Luke's friends abandon him.

 

[lovecraft68]

With all those readings, I'd be surprised if you haven't read any of my suggestions, because they aren't that new and I've read most of those you mentioned.

Unfortunately most are all in the vein of Tolkien.

By David Eddings: The Belgariad, The Mallorian, The Elenium and The Tamuli. I wouldn't bother with The Dreamers. He started fading when he wrote that series.

By Raymond Feist: The Riftwar Series (and all associated series after that)

By Stephen Donaldson: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. This is a bit of a dark dip into the deep end of the pool and revolves around the bad things good people do. Definitely a psychodrama of sorts that gives you a good look in the mind of a leper. It pivots between fantasy and reality which is what some lepers really experience.

I liked the Dragonrider series by Anne McCaffrey, but she tended to reiterate the same stories over and over again, but changed the POV's and how the story was interpreted from each perspective.

Dragon Prince by Melanie Rawn wasn't too bad, unless you like to like the main characters. She tends to Whedon-ize her stories a lot: "Kill the main character! Kill the main character! Kill the main character!"

On the lighter side of things, I wholeheartedly recommend Robert Asprin's Myth series and Phule Series. He lampoons a lot of tropes by overusing them.

I'm a little shocked that you liked the Elfstones series though. I liked it too until the series took a turn to making it all about how modern man was ruining the world. That's just a personal observation though.

The Belgariad was fantastic! A lot of fun great characters, one of the best I've read.

The Mallorean destroyed everything that was good in Belgariad. The ultimate cash in "But, wait there was more.....those two weren't the true children of light and dark1" They ruined Silk and......it was so bad after investing time in the first four books I never read the fifth one I could care less at that point for me it all ended in Enchanter's End Game.

 

[robertreams]

Try mt story "Wishing" for a humorous twist.

 

[robertreams]

How about "Brothers in Arms" an historical gay novel set in the civil war.?

 

[LWulf]

The Belgariad was fantastic! A lot of fun great characters, one of the best I've read.

The Mallorean destroyed everything that was good in Belgariad. The ultimate cash in "But, wait there was more.....those two weren't the true children of light and dark1" They ruined Silk and......it was so bad after investing time in the first four books I never read the fifth one I could care less at that point for me it all ended in Enchanter's End Game.

Silk, well he and... I'm forgetting names, were both modeled after Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. And the "Dry Voice," you never learned that he was... hmm. Nor that Errand was... Hmpf! Okay.

I probably would agree that The Belgariad was the better story. For me, I was just hooked on the heavy foreshadowing Eddings used and wanted to see if all the rest of the story panned out as I predicted they would based on the foreshadowing.

A lot of the same characters were written again and again in each of the stories by Eddings. Half the fun was remembering all the characters idiosyncrasies and figuring out which was which, from series to series.

I bought all the books in hardcover as they came out. As soon as it was hot off the press, BOOM! Bought the hardcover! I was crazed to buy hardcovers back then. It's a shame Hurricane Andrew ruined all of those and more.

The Belgariad was the reason I learned sign language.

 

[lovecraft68]

Silk, well he and... I'm forgetting names, were both modeled after Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. And the "Dry Voice," you never learned that he was... hmm. Nor that Errand was... Hmpf! Okay.

I probably would agree that The Belgariad was the better story. For me, I was just hooked on the heavy foreshadowing Eddings used and wanted to see if all the rest of the story panned out as I predicted they would based on the foreshadowing.

A lot of the same characters were written again and again in each of the stories by Eddings. Half the fun was remembering all the characters idiosyncrasies and figuring out which was which, from series to series.

I bought all the books in hardcover as they came out. As soon as it was hot off the press, BOOM! Bought the hardcover! I was crazed to buy hardcovers back then. It's a shame Hurricane Andrew ruined all of those and more.

The Belgariad was the reason I learned sign language.

I bought the "solo" Belgareth and Polgara books, but still have not gotten around to them.

Did you read Chronicles of Thomas Covenant? The second trilogy was better than the first, but you talk about dark and depressing!

But same thing.....he came back later and is doing a third one that will be four books and.....after getting the first two I said screw it, too many new people and too much piecing together a new story out of what was a beautifully wrapped up masterpiece.

 

[LWulf]

I bought the "solo" Belgareth and Polgara books, but still have not gotten around to them.

Did you read Chronicles of Thomas Covenant? The second trilogy was better than the first, but you talk about dark and depressing!

Yup, I got them too. Pretty good reads.

meh. Arguable, but yes.

I heard about his revamp. I doubt I'll pursue that.