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hheath541 · Mar 30, 2010, 09:12 AM

Loved Brave New World. Had to read it the summer before my senior year for AP english.

I would also suggest another book I had to read for that class, A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving.

Synnen · Mar 30, 2010, 09:13 AM

I read the General's Daughter, but have never been a Grisham fan.

I like Dan Simmons, though, but I've not read Drood yet.

I go through 5-6 books a week, most weeks. I'm reading the "Tuesday Next" books right now by Jaspar Fforde. Good mysteries, very tongue in cheek.

Kitkat22 · Mar 30, 2010, 09:20 AM

Originally Posted by Synnen

I read the General's Daughter, but have never been a Grisham fan.

I like Dan Simmons, though, but I've not read Drood yet.

I go through 5-6 books a week, most weeks. I'm reading the "Tuesday Next" books right now by Jaspar Fforde. Good mysteries, very tongue in cheek.

Dean Koontz and Robin Cook. "The Hour I First Believed", by Wally Lamb about Columbine is a great book!

Wondergirl · Mar 30, 2010, 10:03 AM

Originally Posted by Synnen

I read the General's Daughter, but have never been a Grisham fan.

General's Daughter is by Nelson DeMille.

Thanks for getting me started on the Fforde books! They're amazing! I'm always looking for a new author.

Kitkat22 · Mar 30, 2010, 10:07 AM

Originally Posted by Wondergirl

General's Daughter is by Nelson DeMille.

Thanks for getting me started on the Fforde books! They're amazing! I'm always looking for a new author.

Wg have you read "Drood", I"d like to know what you think of it. It really gave an uneasy feeling.

Aurora_Bell · Mar 30, 2010, 10:07 AM

I'm going to have to check out Fford, this is the third time I have heard of him in 7 days! It's an omen.

Wondergirl · Mar 30, 2010, 10:15 AM

I'm hooked on Jodi Picoult and Anita Shreve.

Synnen · Mar 30, 2010, 10:15 AM

Any author that names characters slated to die Phodder and Kannon, along with a boss named Braxton Hicks has got my vote. Plus--they're really good mysteries, especially for people who love books.

Kitkat22 · Mar 30, 2010, 10:18 AM

Originally Posted by Wondergirl

I'm hooked on Jodi Picoult and Anita Shreve.

I have read all her books. The last was "Not Easily Broken". I cried my eyes out!

Wondergirl · Mar 30, 2010, 10:27 AM

Originally Posted by Kitkat22

I have read all her books. The last was "Not Easily Broken". I cried my eyes out!

Who wrote Not Easily Broken? I found that title by a Ruth Meyer and by a T. D. Jakes.

Aurora_Bell · Mar 30, 2010, 10:28 AM

Originally Posted by Synnen

Any author that names characters slated to die Phodder and Kannon, along with a boss named Braxton Hicks has got my vote. Plus--they're really good mysteries, especially for people who love books.

Is that Fford Syn?

Synnen · Mar 30, 2010, 10:32 AM

Yes, Fforde. Great stuff.

KBC · Mar 30, 2010, 03:27 PM

Geeze,can you discuss books in my genre please?

Sci-fi, Fantasy.

I've got hundreds of them.David Gemmell,Stephen R. Donaldson,Terry Goodkind, just a few with really interesting series.

Synnen · Mar 30, 2010, 03:35 PM

I'm not THAT big on Sci-Fi, though I like Card and Martin quite a bit.

My fantasy library puts a lot of peoples' to shame, though. There's not a lot of fantasy that I have not only read, but own.

Have to admit I'm partial to Martin, Jordan, Goodkind, Tad Williams, Patricia Wrede, Mercedes Lackey, Piers Anthony, Sara Douglass, Elizabeth Hayden, Eddings, Card, Scott Lynch, Hambley's "Time of the Dark" series, Susan Cooper, Robin McKinley, Feist, E.E. Knight (who's a crossover author), and Jim Butcher (both the Dresden Files and the Calderon books),

hheath541 · Mar 30, 2010, 03:36 PM

Originally Posted by KBC

Geeze,can you discuss books in my genre please??

Sci-fi,,Fantasy.

I've got hundreds of them.David Gemmell,Stephen R. Donaldson,Terry Goodkind,,just a few with really interesting series.

ANYTHING by piers anthony. I've read everything by him that I've come across, and have yet to not like one of his books.

The same goes for mercedes lackey.

Anne bishop, especially her black jewels series.

Anne rice.

Madeleine l'engle.

Anne mccaffrey.

Is that enough in the sci-fi/fantasy genre?

Edit: I forgot about david weber's honor harrington series.

KBC · Mar 30, 2010, 03:42 PM

NOW were getting somewhere, Both of you have good tastes,, I offer you to partake in Donaldson's 'Thomas Covenant:The Unbeliever' series,it started back in the early 80's and just now he has written the last of them,, it really drew me in, and nowadays you can get the original prints CHEEP!

Gemmell is into war, pre King Arthur,during some Roman,but not called as such,he was always skirting historical reference to those eras.

hheath541 · Mar 30, 2010, 03:46 PM

I'm getting into margaret weis' dragonvarld trilogy. It's REALLY good. Read the first book a week or two ago. The second just came into the library today, so I'm starting it tonight or tomorrow.

Synnen · Mar 30, 2010, 03:46 PM

I liked the Unbeliever books the FIRST time I read them. The first 6 books, anyway.

I think I was 13.

They're kind of "eh" to me now--it seems too simplistic, with characters that are too hard to empathize with.

Trying to think of an author's name here, driving me crazy. She wrote the "Tiger and Del" series, and the "Song of Homana" books--and I know her last name starts with an R because of where she is on my bookshelves, but I can't think of her name.

EDIT: Robeson! Jennifer Robeson!

KBC · Mar 30, 2010, 03:57 PM

Originally Posted by Synnen

EDIT: Robeson! Jennifer Robeson!

LOL, amazing how they are remembered when you go LOOK at them on the shelf... hehe:D

I hadn't read the series from Donaldson till I saw a new book in the series,then I was re-hooked, now there are 6 more to read:)(On the last one, haven't picked up a book in 9 months,though) :(

Robert Asprin collaborated years ago with many other writers to make a series ,I liked all those too(Thieves World)

Synnen · Mar 30, 2010, 03:59 PM

Actually, I'm not at home. Just hate how stuff slips my mind until AFTER I click on the "post quick answer" button.

I've dug my way through the Thieves' World books--some are absolutely outstanding. Some are boring to the point of tears.

Of course, I don't like Moorcock, so my taste is obviously lacking from the point of view of many fantasy lovers.