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12/24/2005 01:55:51 PM · #26 |
For great cop/detective stories starting in the year 2058, I like JD Robb (she has the 'In Death' series).
Micheal Connelley is another of my favourites.
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12/24/2005 01:56:35 PM · #27 |
Originally posted by sacredspirit:
OMG....Dean Koontz! I can't believe nobody has mentioned his name. |
Do you mean other than the two people who did? :P |
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12/24/2005 02:00:17 PM · #28 |
| Yeah, I seen that after I posted. I went back up, and caught it. Im a big dummy. I never saw him mentioned twice though.....Great...now Im going back to read it again. |
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12/24/2005 09:40:41 PM · #29 |
Originally posted by Travis99:
My Favorite is Clive Cussler. Any novel with Dirk Pitt. He is the man, always gets the girl, saves the day and kills lots of people, but they all deserve it.
I reccomend :
Raise the Titantic
Sahara
Atlantis Found
all are awsome books. |
All the Cussler novels are awesome. I own every one. For anyone else interested try James Rollins, Matthew Reilly, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child and Jack DuBrul for action/adventure/suspense.
For a good laugh try Tim Dorsey or Christopher Moore.
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12/24/2005 09:43:40 PM · #30 |
Originally posted by BobsterLobster:
I'm a big Stephen King fan. Recently, one of my favourite authors has been John Irving. |
John Irving? "Hotel New Hampshire" - isn't that his. I really liked it. How totally bizarre!
Love Stephen King as well. My fav - "The Green Mile."
Message edited by author 2005-12-24 21:45:27. |
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12/24/2005 09:46:49 PM · #31 |
Robert Jordan's Eye of the World series
Terry Goodkind's Wizard's Rule series
Melanie Rawn's Dragon Prince series
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12/24/2005 10:09:05 PM · #32 |
| Try to find some old Theodore Sturgeon -- wrote a lot of both humorous and disturbing "speculative fiction." And if you need a laugh look for a copy of Bored of the Rings by writers from the Harvard Lampoon. |
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12/24/2005 10:09:30 PM · #33 |
Originally posted by mavrik:
Robert Jordan's Eye of the World series
Terry Goodkind's Wizard's Rule series
Melanie Rawn's Dragon Prince series |
I'll second Robert Jordan and Terry Goodkind, top notch. Haven't read Melanie Rawn.
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12/24/2005 10:10:41 PM · #34 |
Also,
Tad Williams' Otherland series is freaking awesome. Never seen an author blend sci-fi and fantasy so well before.
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12/24/2005 10:19:32 PM · #35 |
Originally posted by wavelength:
Also,
Tad Williams' Otherland series is freaking awesome. Never seen an author blend sci-fi and fantasy so well before. |
And I'll second that.
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12/24/2005 11:08:24 PM · #36 |
Oh, and Robert B. Parker!!!
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12/24/2005 11:11:05 PM · #37 |
Just finished Edward Weston's Daybooks II. Great read and great insight into the creative mind.
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12/24/2005 11:42:30 PM · #38 |
scifi/history
Passage or Doomsday Book—Connie Willis
Message edited by author 2005-12-24 23:43:29. |
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12/25/2005 06:02:38 AM · #39 |
Originally posted by TooCool:
Originally posted by Azrifel:
Terry Pratchett, humoristic fantasy. |
Along the lines of Hitchhikers Guide or the Myth series by Asprin? |
I don't know about the Myth series, I find it hard to compare something to the HHG and it is difficult to properly describe Terry Pratchett's discworld series.
Here's an official site: Terrypratchettbooks.com
In the first books he used to write parodies on popular books/movies and popular themes in the world.
One of the first books I read from him was 'Strata' (essentialy the basis for the Discworld), a parody on Larry Niven's 'Ringworld'. "The dark side of the sun" has something to do with the part of Asimov's work where they go out to find the real earth.
"Pyramids" was the one that got me hooked to the discworld series. I love almost all those books and have all 30 of the series.
Some of my favourites are: Equal Rites, Sourcery, Eric, Moving Pictures, Small Gods, Interesting Times and Thief of Time.
Also a good one, but not Discworld, is 'Good Omens', I'd compare that one to the HHG because of the insane plots. That one is about the apocalyps where satan and god have ordered their angels to destroy the earth but they don't want to. Written with Neil Gaiman.
Message edited by author 2005-12-25 06:05:31.
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12/25/2005 08:34:16 AM · #40 |
| dan simmons' hyperion series, haruki murakami's hard boiled and wind-up bird, anything from ismail kadare. |
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