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#52 Jul 31 2007 at 6:37 PM Rating: Good
Brill wrote:
The Wizard's First Rule series was good up until like the sixth book. That's when Goodkind became Jordan and wouldn't let the series end. I won't read anymore of his books in that series as a result.


Eh, I'm going to have to disagree. I don't think any of the books are good. It's just a big Robert Jordan rip-off with pseudo-Ayn Rand political beliefs thrown in haphazardly. Oh yeah, loads of BDSM in there too. I liked them when I was about 15, but I grew out of that interest and now I can't stand the series.
#53 Jul 31 2007 at 6:41 PM Rating: Good
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I have to admit that I've enjoyed almost every book/author listed here. I was rather disappointed with Robert Jordan for not wrapping up the Wheel of Time with the same degree of writing the early books in the set had.

About the only series I could add would be John Jakes' "North and South" trilogy, and the books in James Clavell's Asia Saga.

Edit: Thought about one more author just about the time I hit the post message button; Stephen Donaldson with his First and Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.

Edited, Jul 31st 2007 9:44pm by TsumboUllu
#54 Aug 01 2007 at 5:00 PM Rating: Good
Everytime I read this I laugh my *** off. Wopple rocks.
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today i walk in tringi cnayon and i want kill cameles for mad gill and i see a camle EATING ANOTHER ONE!!?!??!
#55 Aug 01 2007 at 5:01 PM Rating: Good
If you want to read a blatant rip off of the Lord of the RIngs Trilogy go get the Iron Tower Trilogy by Dennis L. McKiernan. It is so pathetic how much he steals from LoTR.
#56 Aug 08 2007 at 3:19 PM Rating: Good
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Eh, I'm going to have to disagree. I don't think any of the books are good. It's just a big Robert Jordan rip-off with pseudo-Ayn Rand political beliefs thrown in haphazardly.


So true. It seems like the only way Goodkind knows to build tension is to keep Kahlan constantly on the verge of being raped and eaten by scruffy, unwashed men. When his books (over night) became about the evils of communism, I lost all interest. I liked book #1 purely for the mythos, but starting with book 2 he hasn't had an original thought.

I really liked Douglas Adams, and Neil Gaiman's American Gods books remind me a lot of the hitchhiker series.

One of the most recent books I enjoyed was Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. The villain in that book is one of the most frightening characters ever without being scary in the traditional sense.

The Source by James Michener. Awesome.
#57 Aug 08 2007 at 6:43 PM Rating: Default
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

The Pearl by John Stinebeck
#58 Aug 19 2007 at 8:33 AM Rating: Excellent
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Anything by Robert A. Heinlein.

The moon is a harsh mistress is prolly my favorite.

Dune is also way up there.

Don't let my name or Avatar fool you, I hate every Star Wars book ever published.
#59 Aug 19 2007 at 9:04 AM Rating: Good
Lies. Starship Troopers is still my favorite Heinlein book.
#60 Aug 19 2007 at 1:19 PM Rating: Excellent
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That's #2

Have Space Suit Will Travel is #3
#61 Aug 19 2007 at 3:03 PM Rating: Excellent
I really hate this, half the books you guys are talking about aren't available here in the shops or in dutch. You guys are making me spend quite some money in ordering online. I have some serious reading up to do.
#62 Aug 20 2007 at 5:54 AM Rating: Good
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The Pern series by Anne McCafferty.
The Shannara series by Terry Brooks.
Of course LoTR.
I'm a little ashamed to say it but the Drizzed series by R.A. Salvadore.
THe Jack Ryan Series by Tom Clancy.

Adding Graphic novles to the mix....

The Preacher series is a must read.
The Watchmen.
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#63 Aug 20 2007 at 1:01 PM Rating: Excellent
We should make a care package for GieG and send it to the Netherlands. Included with be Cami. Make sure they poke holes in the box though Smiley: grin
#64 Aug 20 2007 at 11:30 PM Rating: Excellent
Brill wrote:
We should make a care package for GieG and send it to the Netherlands. Included with be Cami. Make sure they poke holes in the box though Smiley: grin


Oh, yes please :) 2 weeks vacation tomorrow, so I need all the books I can find.
Euhm, about Cami? Is she housebroken? She doesn't have coodies(sp?) does she? :P
#65 Aug 21 2007 at 11:47 AM Rating: Excellent
Sadly, she is not housebroken. And yes she is chock full of cooties. So I wouldn't touch her or anything.
#66 Aug 21 2007 at 12:37 PM Rating: Good
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These are only the ones I can remember off the top of my head. I can add more when I get to my library at home. :P

Simon R. Green

The Nightside Series

This series is about The Nightside, a dark city within London where magic and horror are quite real. If you're a fan at all of Jim Butcher you'll absolutely love The Nightside books.

1) Something from the Nightside
2) Agents of Light and Darkness
3) Nightingale's Lament
4) Hex and the City
5) Paths Not Taken
6) Sharper than a Serpent's Tooth
7) Hell to Pay

Lynn Flewelling

The Nightrunner Series and The Tamir Trilogy
A series set in a Fantasy kingdom about a pair of 'nightrunners', aka thieves. Very well written, some homosexual love, but more along the lines of ancient Europe and the 'love who thall will' sort of thing. And nothing graphic at all. I include Tamir Trilogy in this because its in the same world but several hundred years before The Nightrunner Series.

1) Luck In The Shadows (NR)
2) Stalking Darkness (NR)
3) Traitor's Moon (NR)

1) The Bone Doll's Twin (TT)
2) Hidden Warrior (TT)
3) Oracle's Queen (TT)


And this last author I cannot believe I haven't seen on here! I might have actually and just don't remember. Either way:

David Gemmell

This man is one of the greatest fantasy and historical fiction authors I have ever had the pleasure of reading. He has several fantasy series out as well as historical fiction. Starting with fantasy:

Drenai Series*
1) Legend
2) The King Beyond the Gate
3) Waylander
4) Quest for Lost Heroes
5) Waylander II: In the Realm of the Wolf
6) The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend
7) The Legend of Deathwalker
8) Winter Warriors
9) Hero in the Shadows
10) White Wolf
11) The Swords of Night and Day

*These are by order of publication, NOT the chronological order of the series proper. That differs vastly.

Rigante Series

1) Sword in the Storm
2) Midnight Falcon
3) Ravenheart
4) Stormrider

Alas, David Gemmell was lost to us - and a great loss it was - on Friday Juy 28th 2006. He does, however, have many more books I did not list. If you're interested here is his Wikipedia entry with all of his works written out.

On a final note, Robert Jordan is apparently beating back amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy so we might actually one day see the end of the Wheel Of Time. Granted most of us will have forgotten the beginning by that point.


Edited, Aug 21st 2007 2:41:28pm by vyodar
#67 Aug 21 2007 at 2:37 PM Rating: Excellent
Brill wrote:
Sadly, she is not housebroken. And yes she is chock full of cooties. So I wouldn't touch her or anything.


I find it hard to believe, but I'll take my chances then :)









Cami is hot
#68 Aug 22 2007 at 7:48 AM Rating: Good
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I cannot BELIEVE I forgot this aurthor, one of my very favorites of all time. He takes a mix of... I can't put it into words, let's just say he's one of the funniest in history.

Jasper Fforde

Thursday Next

This series is more or less about a woman who works for SpecOps in Literary Crimes, set in an England that is vastly different from our own.

1) The Eyre Affair
2) Lost in a Good Book
3) The Well of Lost Plots
4) Something Rotten
5) First Among Sequels

Nursery Crimes

This series is set in a similar world to the Thursday Next books... sort of... oh just read it!

1) The Big Over Easy
2) The Fourth Bear



Edited, Aug 22nd 2007 9:48:54am by vyodar
#69 Aug 26 2007 at 3:49 AM Rating: Good
I need a cup of coffee. But my foot's asleep. What to do....
#70 Aug 26 2007 at 3:56 AM Rating: Good
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I need a cup of coffee. But my foot's asleep. What to do....


Starbuck doesn't deliver? Sure, doesn't solve the problem of opening the door, but perhaps you can throw out a key or so when the guy arrives with the coffee?
#71 Aug 26 2007 at 7:18 AM Rating: Good
Starbucks is actually right across the street. But the problem is that I work in the ghetto. So it's a ghetto Starbucks. I might get stabbed because I couldn't run fast enough since my foot is asleep.

Edited, Aug 26th 2007 11:18:42am by Brill
#72 Aug 26 2007 at 12:39 PM Rating: Good
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Starbucks is actually right across the street. But the problem is that I work in the ghetto. So it's a ghetto Starbucks. I might get stabbed because I couldn't run fast enough since my foot is asleep.



The magic word would be co-workers. Or in some cases, cannon fodder!

It's all a matter of how you look at it.
#73 Aug 27 2007 at 6:51 PM Rating: Good
Nah I would feel bad if I sent some of the hoodrats to their premature death. I sat in misery with no coffee for the day. Had a Dr. Pepper that was fantastic though Smiley: lol
#74 Aug 29 2007 at 2:47 PM Rating: Good
Brill wrote:
Sadly, she is not housebroken. And yes she is chock full of cooties. So I wouldn't touch her or anything.

Missed this before, just cause your jealous Brill doesn't mean you should keep happiness from others :)

/*kisses* @ GieG

Another series I really liked is:

Tamora Pierce
The Circle of Magic quartet:
  • Magic Circle: Sandry's Book
    Magic Circle: Tris's Book
    Magic Circle: Daja's Book
    Magic Circle: Briar's Book

  • &

    The Circle Opens quartet:
  • Magic Steps
    Street Magic
    Cold Fire
    Shatterglass

  • The books add an interesting twist to elemental based magic :)


    Edited, Aug 29th 2007 6:49pm by Cami
    #75 Aug 29 2007 at 5:01 PM Rating: Excellent
    Brill and Cami,
    Sitting in a tree,
    K-I-S-S-I-N-G
    :P
    #76 Sep 01 2007 at 9:15 AM Rating: Good
    You're both whores.
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