Reaver Reading Party

POSTED BY: EmmaRigby
UPDATED: Monday, June 2, 2008 08:24
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SISTER

Monday, June 2, 2008 1:01 AM

Forgot the Robin McKinley "Blue Sword" - it's about "Harry" a young "English" girl staying with an uncle in what you 'think' is India during the 'colonial period' - but turns out not to be India at ALL - unless there was magic - monsters - beautiful horses and hunting cats - and people that can do incredible things with their golden eyes - enough! I have bored you all to tears - these are some of my favorites, though.

STEAMER

Monday, June 2, 2008 1:45 AM

As far as fiction, I'm extremely partial to Alistair MacLean. His style strongly influenced the fanfic series I'm currently working on. As has the adventurous spirit of Clive Cussler (who himself has ripped MacLean off on a couple of occasions).

I'm also big into Tolkien, Timothy Zahn, Patrick O'Brian, Alexander Kent, Nelson DeMille, C.S. Forester....can ya tell I likes me some adventure thriller? ;)

Non-fiction always gets me with Jeremy Clarkson (of Top Gear fame) and Clay Blair and E.B. White, both of whom, IMHO, set the standard for naval historians.

Serenity has
Grace and class
She also has
A shiny....engine.
FIREFLY

Captain of the New England Browncoats
http://www.myspace.com/nebrowncoats

ZEROKIRYU

Monday, June 2, 2008 3:33 AM

I don't know how you feel about foreign books, but I'm gonna throw these out there anyway.

Boogiepop and others: I just finished this one, it's the first in a series of light novels, I loved it and I just ordered the next two. "There is an urban legend that children tell one another about a shinigami that can release people from the pain they are suffering. This "Angel of Death" has a name: Boogiepop. And the legends are true. Boogiepop is real. When a rash of disappearances involving female students breaks out at Shinyo Academy, the police and faculty assume they just have a bunch of runaways on their hands. Yet Nagi Kirima knows better. Something mysterious and foul is afoot. Is it Boogiepop, or something more sinister...?"

Battle Royale: Thrownig this in here because it's one of my favorites. "Koshun Takami's notorious high-octane thriller is based on an irresistible premise: a class of junior high school students is taken to a deserted island where, as part of a ruthless authoritarian program, they are provided arms and forced to kill one another until only one survivor is left standing."

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"No one would ever try to die on such a beautiful day. I know, you were trying to make yoursel taller, right? My father would often try to make himself taller. Whenever the debt collectors called and when the company went out of business he tried to make himself taller. And my mother also tried to make herself taller that one time when..."
"Uh...I believe you're slightly mistaken..."

SPACEANJL

Monday, June 2, 2008 8:24 AM

How demented to do you want to get?

For a long read, I would recommend the 'Foreigner' sequence. (9 books to date)

At first glance, humans stranded on alien planet, and the story takes up a century on...but there's so much stuff about assumptions you make with language and culture. (Plus some sort-of parallels with the first contact of West with Japan and China - but it's the sort-of's that get you killed.) Literate, thinking sci-fi.

Or...

For bonkers trippy crack fiction, try Neal Asher. The Skinner - what it is, what it does. A world where a strange immortality is gained through leech bites, and can become something else quite quickly. Sentient sails on the ships, big pink sea-worms with rhino heads, robotic war-machines that make Jayne sound cultured, man-eating crab-aliens...I have no idea what this bloke is on, but his stuff is fantastic.

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