Ya know, I should have remembered where I stole my name from.Originally Posted by rainman
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Ya know, I should have remembered where I stole my name from.
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The most recent book that I have enjoyed would be Perdido st Station, Its good, certainly worth reading but not worthy of classic status.
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Very dark and twisted.
Bite me!
Hey.. they're GREAT books!! & for any age!!!(I've read them all too!!!!! )
I have read the "Clan of the Cavebear" (Jean M Auel) series, several times over.. and the same for the "Flowers in the Attic" (Virginia Andrews) series.
Re-reading "Tandia & The Power of One" (Bryce Courtenay) at the mo!
Other authors include: Catherine Cookson, Barbara Taylor Bradford & Wilbur Smith
GET ON
SIT DOWN
SHUT UP
HANG ON
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Steven Brust has to be at the top for me. Good long nearly continuous stories and even a few series in the same univers. Check the Vlad Taltos novels and the Khavreen Romances.
David Gemmell (obviously) The Drenai saga. Another long scoping story though not all of the novels are linked directly. Some you reallyhave to pay attention to to get the full connections and how they affect the others.
Glen Cook for the Annals of The Black Company. A long well thoughtout and detailed story following the same chractors throughout it's span. Very gritty descriptions of fighting and the emotions the author wants you to feel through the charactorsre well placed.
Dave Duncun is nother good one. The King's Blades Novels are intruiging and very hard to predict and very confusing if you read them out of order. though they can be read as one off novels. A few spin off series from this one aswell, Chronicals of the King's Blades nd the Kings Daggers sort of take place during the original story but don't affect it too much.
Sever
Now and forever
you're just another lost soul about to be mine again
see her, you'll never free her
you must surrender it all
And give life to me again
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Wilbur Smith. Those ones set in Egypt were good. Can not recall the names.Hey.. they're GREAT books!! & for any age!!!
I have read the "Clan of the Cavebear" (Jean M Auel) series, several times over.. and the same for the "Flowers in the Attic" (Virginia Andrews) series.
Re-reading "Tandia & The Power of One" (Bryce Courtenay) at the mo!
Other authors include: Catherine Cookson, Barbara Taylor Bradford & Wilbur Smith
Africa........ India?? Sorta reminds me of two books I read ages ago. Taj
http://www.timerimurari.com/reviewoftaj.htm Reccomended.
The other one was The Far Pavilions by MM Kaye.
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Free Scott Watson.
Stoke me a clipper!
I quite like these books although I think the first three were miles better than the last three.
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I read all of those that I could about 3 years ago... has there been a new one lately? Need to get back into it.
Come warm yourself by the fire
I dont read much actual books. But I just scored "Hiroshima" by John Hersey.....a fav of mine
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A little boy waits in the hope that this thread may uncover something new, non-formulaic, and intriguing........
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
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Guess that rules out my .vba code books then...
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Errr yes. My Windows Shell Scripting and Microsoft Exchange ones too.
Non-Fiction; The Rise Of The Creative Class, by Richard Florida, and Just A Geek by Wil Wheaton.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
In the riders seat
It falls into the category of absolute crap
Robert Heinlien, Adam Hall, Desmond Bagley, Colin Forbes, Larry Niven
Issac Asimov, David Drake, Raymond E Feist, Lee Childs, Sven Hassell
Eric Van Lustbader, Stephen Donalson, Clive Cussler, Phillip Jose Farmer
Terry Pratchett, Harry Harrison, Tad Williams, Gordon R Dickson
Jack Higgins
thats off the top of my head, I'll probably be back with some more later
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Yet another Pratchett fan here, but if you like your "fantasy" to be a bit more serious I'd recommend Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion series.
I don't usually do Sci-fi, but there's a book called "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card which is a stand out in that genre.
Where I seem to depart from the KB masses is a love of military history stuff, and Bernard Cornwell is, for me, the absolute master of this.
Only a homo puts an engine back together WITHOUT making it go faster.
Wearing Hi-Viz Black.
Just started "And it's goodnight from him" by Ronnie Corbett. Autobiography of the Two Ronnies.
I need a laugh.
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Deus ex ukulele
I used to read a lot of science fiction, but have latterly tired of this genre.
The Dune trilogy, before they got silly.
Greg Bear, with some notable exceptions (Queen of Angels is shit).
Lately I've read mostly motorcycling books: currently The Last Hoorah. Next is the Morgan's backroads of America.
Good Vibrations, The Long Way Round, Silkriders, Jupiter's Travels...
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
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