Reaver Reading Party

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

Sunday, June 1, 2008 2:18 PM

I am currently bummed as I just finished a book and have no idea what to read next and thought, hey I bet others out there are in a similar pickle.

I hate finding new authors in case I find they've been a waste of time and rely heavily on recommendations from friends.

I thought that any avid readers out there could list their top 10 authors and anyone has similar tastes they could recommend someone to try next.

I'll start with:

Terry Pratchett (all of his are my most well thumbed!)
J.R.R. Tolkien (classics that I go back to time and again)
Robert Heinlein (again, never get bored of these)
Jim Butcher (the Dresden Files are a work of genius)
Anne McAffrey (a hold over from my teenage years)
Harry Harrison (love the Stainless Steel Rat series)
J.K.Rowling (I found her before she was famous!)
Eoin Colfer (too good to be just for children!)
Philip Pullman (ditto)
Val McDermid (psychological thrillers, a bit different from my regular fare but I fell in love with the TV adaptation 'Wire in the Blood')

Hhhm, on reflection a worrying amount of 'teenage' fiction on my bookshelf!

So, any suggestions?

Who else wants to join in?

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ALLIETHORN7

Sunday, June 1, 2008 3:51 PM

Brian Jacques- Redwall is just too good of a series, even if it is a bit more for the dibbuns
Kevin J. Anderson- He worked on Dune books, and he has his own series (Saga of the Seven Suns) which I found quite good
Frank Herbert-Dune. No other words needed.
Stephen King- Just 'cause. I still need to read Dark Tower, though

Just thought I'd add in my own hae-penny

-Danny

Late night, Brakes lock,
Hear the tires squeal,
Red light, can't stop, so I spin the wheel,
My world goes Black before I
Feel an Angel lift me up,
And I open Bloodshot eyes,
Into fluorescent White,
Flip the Siren, Hit the Lights,
Close the doors and I am Gone
The Band of the week is... Thrice

Gott weiß ich will kein Engel sein.
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PENGUIN

Sunday, June 1, 2008 4:11 PM

King of the Mythical Land that is Iowa

SPACEANJL

Sunday, June 1, 2008 4:30 PM

C J Cherryh 'Foreigner' sequence

Neil Gaiman

Terry Pratchett (of course)

Laurie King 'Mary Russell' books

Neal Asher (start with 'The Skinner')

Caroline Graham - the 'Midsomer' books are SO MUCH better than the series.

Richard Morgan

William Gibson

Arturo Perez-Reverte - again, 'The Dumas Club' (book) way outclasses 'The Ninth Gate' (film of)

Lisa Jewell - sort-of chick-lit

'Dune' and 'LoTR' are givens. Plus I can give a lot more crime recommends, from ancient world through Golden Age to modern forensic...

CHAPTERANDVERSE

Sunday, June 1, 2008 4:57 PM

Have you tried Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus trilogy?

Funny, smart fantasy that I loved.

SISTER

Sunday, June 1, 2008 6:40 PM

Robert R. McCammon - "A Boy's Life" - "Stinger" - "They Thirst" - "Swan Song"
Robin McKinley - "The Blue Sword"
Roderick MacLeish - "Prince Ombra"
Wilbur Smith - "River God" - "The Seventh Scroll"
Gary Jennings - "The Journeyer"

That's about all I can think of off the top of my head - good luck!

FLORALBUNNY

Sunday, June 1, 2008 9:51 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Penguin:

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This is why I love me some Penguin...

bun
Frisky Browncoat
...and if you're lucky they'll do it in that order...

NCBROWNCOAT

Sunday, June 1, 2008 11:43 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by FloralBunny:
Quote:
Originally posted by Penguin:

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This is why I love me some Penguin...

bun
Frisky Browncoat
...and if you're lucky they'll do it in that order...

I love Penguin too.

If you like sci fi/fantasy give The Virus on Orbis One by PJ Haarsma a look. It's intended for middle schoolers but is a fantastic read.

Full Disclosure: I'm a member of KidsNeedToRead, Nathan Fillion's and PJ Haarsma's effort to get books to under served libraries. Also, any book on the at the KidsNeedToRead donation list is very good. The list can be found at www.kidsneedtoread.org.

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EMMARIGBY

Sunday, June 1, 2008 11:58 PM

Oooh, loads of options! Now I have too much choice! Okay, could someone pick a fovorite and tell me a little about it?

Thanks!

I could give a quick hard sell to Jim Butcher for anyone who's not discovered him yet and is interested in fantasy/ comedy! But y'all are probably die hard fans already!

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SISTER

Monday, June 2, 2008 12:41 AM

Okay - Robert R. McCammon's "A Boy's Life" - is exactly that - a boy growing up in a small southern town in the 40's - there is a magical bicycle - a witch - a river monster that must be appeased every year - a boy with power enough to raise a dead dog back to life and the strength to give it away when he had to -a mystery involving a murder and a tiny green feather - oh, yes and a stegasauras. It was so good I wept when it ended!
"Stinger" - a dried up and dying desert town - a being fleeing from her galactic enemies takes up residence in the young daughter of the town's veterinarian - THEN the bad guys show up - fantastic!
"Swan Song" - total apocalyptic 'end of the world' 'good against evil' battle - wonderful.
"They Thirst" - vampires take over L.A. (or did that happen for real? hmmmm)
Roderick MacLeish - "Prince Ombra" - is just magic. Again bottom line is good-v-evil but the Chicago Sun Times describes it as "a combination of Tolkien and Stephen King."
For a bit of history
Gary Jennings "The Journeyer" - is a masterfully done epic (1100 pages!!) about the adventures of Marco Polo on the silk road and it is enthralling!! Honestly - it will haunt you!
and for some ancient Egyptian stuff;
"The River God" by Wilbur Smith is a rip roarer of a read - THEN - "The Seventh Scroll" takes place in 'modern' times but follows all sorts of clues, etc. from "The River God" so the two are wonderful together (River God first, of course). It's like something that Spielberg could have done wonders with (The Seventh Scroll thing - very Indiana Jones/adventure stuff with lots of action!

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