What do Browncoats/Flans enjoy reading?
POSTED BY: StrangeBird
UPDATED: Sunday, April 6, 2008 21:46
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Howdy folks,
I've just been wondering what books/book series you all like to read. Feel free to post a top 10 or 20 or 5 or just recommend a few or list by author, give a premise or review... whatever you like. No rules just books and bookworms. Well also no flaming or being trolls but that goes without saying. 
Currently reading, and very highly recommended...
Naomi Novik's Temeraire series:
A reimagining of the epic events of the Napoleonic Wars with an air force... an air force of dragons, manned by crews of aviators. It follows the adventures and hardships of Captain William Laurence, former British Naval Captain and his newfound companion Temeraire who find themselves thrust into the dangerous, life-changing and culturally alarming world of His Majesties Royal Aerial Corps.
1 His Majesties Dragon
2 Throne of Jade
3 Black Powder War
4 Empire of Ivory
5 Victory of Eagles*out in early summer 2008*
A short list of other books I enjoy. Or rather the ones I can think of at the moment.
All the collected works of J.R.R. Tolkien
Including all published post-humorously.
The Word/Void series by Terry Brooks
The Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer
Tales from Margaritaville and A Salty Piece of Land by Jimmy Buffett
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Fourth Realm series by John Twelve Hawks
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
More to come...
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OOh one of my favorite topics...books
Ok I would highly reccomend
J.D. Robb - whole series of In Death books
Jim Butcher- Dresden Files
Kim Harrison- Rachel Morgan series
Alison Weir- Children of King Henry the VIII
John Douglas- any of his stuff ( FBI Profiler extraordinaire)
Robert Parker- Spencer for Hire series
Letters of the Bronte's ( can't remember the author)
Those are my top picks..but I could go on and on...
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Nice picks MSB.
Huh... I guess there aren't too many other Browncoats who are much for the read'n...
Has anyone read the official novelization of Serenity? Only person who I know who has said it was awful. Novelizations of films usually are about as bad as most book-to-film adaptations. I my previous experience, any road.
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Hello I mostly lurk here, but I have to speak up when it comes to books. I read basically anything put in front of me.
Currently reading:
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Adams
Jim Butchers Dresden Files series (I'm on Storm Front)
Dune Messiah by Herbert
Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson
The Crimson Sword by Eldon Thompson
and a few others, I swear I have ADD
Other than that I love Salvatore, Terry Brooks, Stephen Ambrose, Tracy Hickman's "The Immortals" is one of my favorite books. Hrmm pretty much anything Fantasy, Sci-Fi and History
This is just another sign of your tragic space dementia, all paranoid and crotchety...breaks the heart.
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You know I need to sit down and actually READ Douglas Adams' work.
Forge if you like Salvatore and Brooks you will absolutely love Novik. Naom Novik's Temeraire is the best series I've read in a very long time. Possibly better than most else I've read since the first time I read The Lord of the Rings when I was 8. The books are very original and have great action and adventure that reminds me a bit of Patrick O'brian. Who by the way I should also sit down and read all the works of, only read one book and it was ages ago in school.
Also adding to my list...
The Demon Wars Saga by R.A. Salvatore
Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card
Where is Joe Merchant? by Jimmy Buffett
Subterranean, Amazonia and nearly any other book by James Rollins
The Descent by Jeff Long
By the way. I've noticed a few folks who've tried to read Rollins Subterranean gave up after the first few paragraphs... do not fret those idiots die quickly and are by no means the main characters. Though if you give up reading a book because someone uses foul language you should stick to the children's section. Either way it's my favorite book of his and a fun read.
I've read many others. These are just a few that I particularly enjoyed or that stand out for one reason or another. Mainly that I remembered them.
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Books...yum. I've always been a sci-fi/fantasy genre buff.
Let's just get this out of the way, Harry Potter is good, but totally overrated IMO.
I'm currently reading David Weber's Honor Harrington Series (which I heard about here) and have been pleasantly surprised. I recommend highly.
Others:
- Geaorge RR Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" Series (The best...period.)(A++)
- David Brin's "Uplift" Series (A++)
- Dan Simmons "Hyperion" Series (A)
- Terry Brook's "Sword of Shannara" (His newer stuff is good also, but it's less gritty than his earlier work) (A)
- Kim Harrison's Rachel Morgan Series (some wierd stuff here and there, but overall decent)(B)
Plenty more...but my mind is blank at the moment :)
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Oh there are lots of browncoats into reading. We had our own informal flying library where somoen would read smething they liked and send it on and then the reciever would forward...it was great...kind of died off when everyone got so busy, but we could always do it again...
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That would be cool MSB. Though I'm afraid I'm emotionally attached to my latest book series and won't be able to let go of them for a few months at the least. I'll probably read them all again before the fifth book comes out in June/July. Let me know though if we do start that. My current email is adifferentnest AT yahoo.com. I'm always looking for new reads and I usually read good books in a couple sittings. I've been reading 150-200+ pages a night lately. Yeah, I even get to the point where I don't even notice the words anymore... doesn't happen with any but the best books.
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C J Cherryh 'Foreigner' sequence - I can't praise this enough. On the face of it, humans on an alien planet. But a much deeper tale of how language and where you live shape who you are.
William Gibson. The Godfather of Cyberpunk.
Neal Asher - 'The Skinner' is beyond mental. A planet with a leech-like lifeform that bestows immortality. Of a sort. Cracktastic. (The rest of his Polity stuff is pretty good, too.) Think Lewis Carroll on crack.
Otherwise - if you like 'Blade Runner' type noir, try Richard Morgan 'Altered Carbon'.
Anything by Neil Gaiman or Terry Pratchett.
I can also recommend a number of crime writers, whether you want Golden Age (Christie, Sayers, Marsh, Tey, Allingham), hard-boiled (Hammet, Chandler), historical (Ellis Peters, Lindsey Davis), psych (Frank Tallis, Caleb Carr) or classic 'tec (Conan Doyle). On the last one, anyone Sherlock fans should check out Laurie King's Mary Russell series.
As you might guess, I read a lot. (Last HP took me 5 hours straight) I also like the Temeraire series, though I thought the last book a little flabby. She wanted to go H Rider Haggard, but didn't quite pull it off. And I'm also with the Kim Harrison love - does anyone else see Alan Tudyk as Jenks?
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I like pretty much anything by Clive Cussler - esp. his classic Dirk Pitt series. That bein' the case, I'm very much into action and high adventure. In fact I like to write it as well as read it, and some of it will get posted here soon.
I also like Patrick O'Brian. Always have had a thing for sea warfare in general, but there's something special about Napoleonic sea warfare.
Speaking of which, Harry Homewood was the last guy to write a really, really good treatise of World War II U.S. submariners (being that he was one himself) - as was Lothaar-Gunther Buchheim for the German U-boaters. What I wouldn't give to read more of that genre on either side.
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