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[Eurypterid]

Maria13 wrote...


I'd say "Surface Detail" has a happy ending...  Have you read, "The Player of Games" and "Use of Weapons"? They are two of his best.

Two of my favorites by Banks. I've not read Surfacae Detail. Have to see about grabbing that one. A few others I found very enjoyable were Against a Dark Background, Excession, and Feersum Endjinn. The latter, once you get used to the way it's written, is pretty awesome.

[Rattleface]

I just read the Blade Itself then the next two books, along with his add-on 'Best Served Cold'.



I'm addicted.

[RuiZuZaKuro]

soignee wrote...

RuiZuZaKuro wrote...

Hmm... Right now I guess it's the Song of the Lioness Quartet by Tamora Pierce. Most be like the third or fourth time I'm reading them, I really like them. All of Tamora Pierce's books are good but I like this series the best.

And I also read The Gentleman Bastard Sequence by Scott Lynch (for the second time) not long ago, also good books.

My favourite out of her work is the Protector of the Small series. Really, really liked Kel. She had no magic to fall back on, you see. Alanna always had Convinent Magical Abilities that helped certain situations.  One of these days I'll play a Cousland based on my love of Tamora Pierce heroines, her writing really shaped my teenage years. 

Heh, wrong of me to say "all of her books" ...what I should have said was "all of her books that's available at our local library". I have only read The Song of the Lioness and The Immortals, even if I have heard of Protector of the Small as well as some other series of hers. I suppose I'll have to buy them myself if I want to read them... Guess it have to be in english, I'm not even sure some of them is translated into swedish... But it's not like that gonna be a problem though =P. And well, I'm still a teenager but I guess they having a certain impact on me as well. And now you're giving me ideas of starting a redhead female Cousland and name her Alanna... o_O

Modifié par RuiZuZaKuro, 23 octobre 2010 - 10:05 .

[Maria13]

Eurypterid wrote...

Maria13 wrote...


I'd say "Surface Detail" has a happy ending...  Have you read, "The Player of Games" and "Use of Weapons"? They are two of his best.

Two of my favorites by Banks. I've not read Surfacae Detail. Have to see about grabbing that one. A few others I found very enjoyable were Against a Dark Background, Excession, and Feersum Endjinn. The latter, once you get used to the way it's written, is pretty awesome.

Surface detail is pretty good.  Not the best but in the category of AaDB at least...

[Loerwyn]

OnlyShallow89 wrote...
Mogworld by Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw arrived this morning. Yesssssssssssssssss.

Got a good foothold in it today.

Absolutely corker of a book so far and I'm loving it.

[mousestalker]

Moxyland by Lauren Beukes. I've only just started. There are some interesting ideas. It's told from the perspectives of four separate characters. I'm curious to see how it all hangs together, if it does.

[mousestalker]

Barbarian Princess by Laura Buchanan



"Desiste! she cried". It may be a bodice ripper, but the Latin is perfectly conjugated.

[mopotter]

booke63 wrote...

For fiction for fantasy I'm currently reading:
R. Scott Bakker
-The Darkness That Comes Before
-The Warrior Prophet
-The Thousandfold Thought
Before that:
Glen Cook
- The Black Company
- Shadows Linger
- The White Rose

Other fantasy authors that come easily to mind...I would recommend:
Steven Erikson, George R.R. Martin, Jack Vance, Martha Wells, Roger Zelazny, Ursula K. Le Guin, Stephen R. Donaldson.

All of Glen Cooks book are good.  My husband and I both like his Garrett PI series.  It's not quite as dark at the Black Company, lot more humor.

[mopotter]

Darht Jayder wrote...

La Reine Margot - by Alexandre Dumas(best author ever)
(It's not in french despite the title)

I highly recommend the Count of Monte Cristo (it is possibly the best book I have ever read) especially if you like tales of vengeance.

This is one of my favorite books.  I go back and read it every few years.  Helped me go from a D to an A in an English class in '67.  

[RPGmom28]

Forbidden The Stars by Valmore Daniels.

[mopotter]

My favorite activity - 2nd is rpg video games. Connection? I think so.



Tanya Huff''s - Valor Confederation series and all of her older series.

Neil Gaiman - All of them.

Jim Butcher - Dresden Files

Jennifer Roberson - I enjoyed the sword dancer series and the Chronicles of Cheysuli series

Kelly Armstrong's Otherworld series



Older ones that I always go back to - anything by Andre Norton; The Brain and Brawn Series by Ann McCaffrey (and just about anything else she has done)



Really older ones and non Sci Fi/Fantasy would be

Elizabeth Peters/Barbara Michaels

Georgette Heyer (though I'm not sure they are still in print)

Dorothy Sayers

Dorothy Gilman - Mrs. Emily Pollifax series. - something about a 50+ recently widowed lady that starts working for the CIA really appeals to me.

Alistair MacLean



I'll stop. I've been keeping my books since I was a kid and my husband hates it when we move because I won't get rid of them.

[mopotter]

Capt. Obvious wrote...

Does anybody know any good historical books I can read? Just asking.

Romance, biography or western?  

Someone mentioned  Alexandre Dumas.  I've enjoyed his books a lot, 
My favorite biography were letters from John and Abigail Adams
Desieree by Annemarie Selinko was good.  About the Queen of Sweeden
I like any book by Louis Lamour mostly westerns, his female characters were not weak.  

[Nerevar-as]

Maria13 wrote...

Nerevar-as wrote...

Maria13 wrote...

Just finished Iain M Banks' "Surface Detail" on my new Kindle, great, great stuff.

Love The Culture, would apply for citizenship tomorrow...

I´ve read Consider Phlebas and Matter. Are the others in the same line, or are they a bit more cheerful?

I'd say "Surface Detail" has a happy ending...  Have you read, "The Player of Games" and "Use of Weapons"? They are two of his best.

Not yet. I´ll try those soon. I really liked the ones I´ve read, but there´s so much bittersweet towards downer endings I can take.

[Nerevar-as]

Capt. Obvious wrote...

Does anybody know any good historical books I can read? Just asking.

History books or novels? If the latter, have you tried Bernard Cornwell?

[mousestalker]

For actual history, try The Story of Civilization by Will and Ariel Durant. It is very readable, reasonably comprehensive, accurate and readily available. Most libraries should have it.

[Corker]

Capt. Obvious wrote...

Does anybody know any good historical books I can read? Just asking.

For a comprehensive tour of most of the major military actions of the Victorian era, with the most reprehensible narrator you will ever meet (but be enthralled with anyway) and a *whole* lot of sex, I recommend the Flashman series by George MacDonald Fraiser.

For nonfiction, can you be more specific? 

[Loerwyn]

I finished Yahtzee's Mogworld. Oh, what a disappointment.

[The Masked Rog]

Gospel according to Jesus Christ by José Saramago. Really good, if you can adjust to his style.

[Yana Montana]

"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" by Arthur Conan Doyle.

[Urrinor]

^^^^ªSherlock Holmes pwnz! ^

Recently, I read Joe Abercrombie's "The Blade Itself", then Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray", then the last one was Andrezj Sapkowski "The Last Wish".

I recommend them all. The first and the last one to fantasy readers, the middle one to everyone, it's a great book.

ps: Also, I'm currently reading  "The Name of the Rose", by Umberto Eco...

Modifié par Urrinor, 02 novembre 2010 - 05:59 .

[Nerevar-as]

Yana Montana wrote...

"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" by Arthur Conan Doyle.

I´m reading it too, in an omnibus edition.

Also reading The Complete Book of Amber.

[Addai]

Love Sherlock Holmes! The complete Conan Doyle was one of the first books I ever owned.