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Post by veritasseeker90 on Feb 24, 2009 21:26:54 GMT -5
Yes, we're all writers, but we must all start somewhere, correct? It just happens to be as readers. So what's y'alls favorite books to read?
Here's my favorite list:
-Anything by Ted Dekker...well, not anything. -Peril's Gate by Jannuy Wurts -Several of the Shannara books by Terry Brooks -The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss -Outriders by Kathyryn Mackel -Tahn by L.A Kelly -Most by Frank Perreti (that's not spelled right, is it?)
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Post by duchessashley on Feb 24, 2009 22:24:39 GMT -5
So glad you asked! - The Firebird Trilogy by Kathy Tyers
- The Sevenwaters Trilogy by Juliet Marillier
- Cordelia's Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold
- (as much as I hate to admit it...) The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
- The Door Within by Wayne Thomas Batson (haven't read the rest of the trilogy...)
- and the Oxford Essential Dictionary of Difficult Words
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Post by seraphim on Feb 24, 2009 23:04:47 GMT -5
LoTR set including Hobbit Goodbye Mr. Chips Till We Have Faces Narnia set Lewis SF set Book of the Dun Cow Pliocene Saga set Earthsea set Little Prince Potter Series
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Post by torainfor on Feb 24, 2009 23:58:48 GMT -5
I grew up on Anne McCaffrey, Terry Brooks, CS Lewis, and Tolkien. Right now, I'll pick up anything by Elizabeth Moon. I've also recently become addicted to the Kris Longknife series by Mike Shepherd.
But I've only come back to fiction in the last few years. I spent many inhaling non-fiction. Favorites there include John Eldredge, Eugene Peterson, and Sarah Susanka (I'm into architecture).
Oh, and I have to mention Donita K. Paul, of course! (If I don't, she'll hunt me down and sic her dragons on me!)
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Post by JenLenaMom on Feb 25, 2009 8:57:28 GMT -5
I love Narnia, Tolkien and Terry Brooks but my all time favorite has to be Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series.
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Post by koolteskip on Feb 25, 2009 12:43:07 GMT -5
Well, I'll read just about anything, but some of my favorites:
The Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit
The Harry Potter series, plus the Tales of Beedle the Bard
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Temeraire series, by Naomi Novik
Anything by Tamora Pierce set in Tortall
Gates of Fire, by Steven Pressfield
The Iliad and the Odessey
The Heir series
Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
And as much as I hate to admit it...Dan Brown's stuff.
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Post by Vaporwolf on Feb 25, 2009 15:17:32 GMT -5
R.A. Salvatore's Forgotten Realms books.
The Dragonlance Chronicles from Weis & Hickman
Out of the Silent Planet and Prelandria and The Great Divorce and The Screwtape letters by C.S. Lewis
Really loved Hero, Second Class by Mitchell Bonds
On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness by Andrew Peterson
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Post by mongoose on Feb 25, 2009 15:51:13 GMT -5
I don't suppose I'd be a spec. fic. fan if I didn't list Tolkien and Lewis. I've enjoyed all of the fiction written by both of them.
Ted Dekker. He has his better books, and his not as hot books, but they're all at least good, IMHO.
Karen Hancock and Stephen Lawhead are tied for close thirds
Back in the day before I quit reading secular fiction (got dissapointed in it) I had read most of the books by Robert Ludlum, Most of those by Tom Clancy in the Jack Ryan series, and most of the Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice. I used to think those three were the bomb, and no one could quite match them in quality of story and writing. Now Clancy and Rice bore me, and Ludlum is cookie cutter, too much sexuality, not enough explanation of how his characters got what they had, and he's dead. Those who took up his series' in his name aren't nearly as good at the craft as he was.
Ted Dekker filled the gap left when I stopped reading those three, except for the vamps, and I hear one of his books included them as well. So I'm good with that list.
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Post by tris on Feb 25, 2009 17:49:02 GMT -5
Mmmm...where to start? (running finger along bookshelves) The X-wing series by Aaron Allston and Michael Stackpole anything by Ray Bradbury, espec. Dark They Were and Golden Eyed The Vulcan Academy Murders Ismael (another Star Trek novel) Crisis on Centauri (another Trek novel) Starman Jones by Robert Heinlein Have Spacesuit Will Travel by Heinlein The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy The Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters (yes, I'm a closet archaeologist) Narnia series LoTR, plus the Hobbit
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Post by torainfor on Feb 25, 2009 23:04:07 GMT -5
Oh, I forgot to mention Kipling. Love Kipling.
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Post by metalikhan on Feb 26, 2009 3:31:43 GMT -5
Fun question! Beowulf LOTR and other Middle Earth books — Tolkein Any Discworld novel — Terry Pratchett Harry Potter series Bridge of Birds — Barry Hougart The Poetic EddaThe Liveship Traders trilogy — Robin Hobb Fear Nothing & Seize the Night — Dean Koontz The Dark Tower series — Stephen King The Indigo series; Mirage — Louise Cooper The War at Troy — Quintus of Smyrna The Firebrand — Marion Zimmer Bradley The Millennium Quartet (4 books); Raven; Jackals — Charles Grant A Tale of Two Cities — Charles Dickens Finnegan's Wake — James Joyce One for the Morning Glory — John Barnes The Book of the Dun Cow — Walter Wangerin, Jr. Anne McCaffrey's dragonrider/dragonsinger series and Crystalsinger trilogy Frank Herbert's Dune series The Bacchae, Medea — Euripides Shakespeare's tragedies & comedies (didn't care much for the histories except Julius Caesar) Anthologies include fairy tales, Oriental Lit, medieval lit. I also enjoy several poetry collections (Kipling fan here, too); and my non-fiction reading covers too many topics to list briefly.
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Post by metalikhan on Feb 26, 2009 3:33:55 GMT -5
I also have to confess an occasional yearning for a good Western.
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Post by Christian Soldier on Feb 26, 2009 5:44:31 GMT -5
<Cracks knuckles> Ah! Where to start?
CJ Cherryh, literally anything, but I especially like her Chanur Saga Heinland, but watch out which ones Asimov's fiction. Most of his "True" stuff was long and tedious, but his novels were amazing Ann McCaffery, of course Terry Goodkind Robert Jordon Frank Herbert and Son Philip K thingy for weird Sci-Fi Jose Farmer(See last) Ted Dekker David and Leieh Eddings, my first real Fantasy. Andrea Norton, she likes cats Mary Stewart, Her Merlin saga is amazing And many, many more
Of course, that isn't to negles Tolkien and CS Lewis, but that goes without saying
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Post by zedoghouse on Jul 14, 2009 12:19:06 GMT -5
And as much as I hate to admit it...Dan Brown's stuff. Yes I agree! His books are really good! My top 5. 1. Looking for Alaska by John Green 2. Feeling sorry for Celia by Jaclyn Moriarty 3. An Abundance of Katherines by John Green 4. The year of secret Assignments by Jaclyn Moriarty (Hilarious!!)
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Post by waldenwriter on Jul 19, 2009 2:11:38 GMT -5
1. Looking for Alaska by John Green 3. An Abundance of Katherines by John Green I must confess, though I am subscribed to the Vlog Brothers videos on YouTube (done by John Green and his brother Hank) and follow John Green's Twitter, I have not yet read one of John Green's books. I really ought to. His newest book is called Paper Towns. It won an Edgar Award recently. Anyway, moving on. My favorite books are: ~ Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë ~ The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis ~ Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine ~ Quest for Celestia: A Reimagining of The Pilgrim's Progress by Steven James ~ Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien ~ A.D. Chronicles series by Brock and Bodie Thoene ~ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling ~ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling ~Agatha Christie books (except the Miss Marple ones) ~ Anne of Green Gables series by L.M. Montgomery ~ An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott ~ Chateau of Echoes by Siri Mitchell Those are all the ones I can think of. There may be others.
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