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Aurora_Bell · Mar 30, 2010, 04:00 PM

I'm not really into sci fi either, but I like Dr. Who..? Is that who I am thinking of?

Wondergirl · Mar 30, 2010, 04:03 PM

Originally Posted by Aurora_Bell

I'm not really into sci fi either, but I like Dr. Who...?? Is that who I am thinking of?

Start with the first book in the Disc World series (Terry Pratchett).

Or, better than that, read On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony. I promise you, you are in for a treat.

Synnen · Mar 30, 2010, 04:05 PM

I LOVE the "Incarnations of Immortality".

Never been a Pratchett fan, though. See my previous post on not having taste ;)

Wondergirl · Mar 30, 2010, 04:09 PM

Originally Posted by Synnen

I LOVE the "Incarnations of Immortality".

I'm sitting here at my computer looking at On a Pale Horse which is on top of my computer cabinet. Methinks I will reread that series, although I am still a bit dizzy from Bearing an Hourglass.

Aurora_Bell · Mar 30, 2010, 04:09 PM

I put it on my list.
First I am going to check out Fforde. Any recommendations for my first?

KBC · Mar 30, 2010, 04:11 PM

Originally Posted by Synnen

I've dug my way through the Thieves' World books--some are absolutely outstanding. Some are boring to the point of tears.
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I can totally relate to that idea, I think I learned what writers I liked by reading that series,and went forward from there.

And Roger Zelazny, I liked him too,he died too soon,like Gemmell did.:(

Synnen · Mar 30, 2010, 04:13 PM

Originally Posted by Aurora_Bell

I put it on my list.
First I am going to check out Fforde. Any recommendations for my first?

The Thursday Next books are a series--you'll want to read them in order. The first book is "The Eyre Affair"

Aurora_Bell · Mar 30, 2010, 04:15 PM

Got it. Thanks! Going to Coles tomorrow at lunch! I'm excited. It's been a while since I started a book or series that I haven't already read!

Wondergirl · Mar 30, 2010, 04:19 PM

Originally Posted by Aurora_Bell

Got it. Thanks! Going to Coles tomorow at lunch! I'm excited. It's been a while since I started a book or series that I haven't already read!

Get On a Pale Horse too while you're there.

Aurora_Bell · Mar 30, 2010, 04:28 PM

OK, I'll check it out!

Kitkat22 · Mar 30, 2010, 05:26 PM

Originally Posted by Synnen

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.

Nelson DeMille... Truman Capote... Stephen King..

Wondergirl · Mar 30, 2010, 05:37 PM

The Fraternity of the Stone - David Morrell

Kitkat22 · Mar 30, 2010, 05:41 PM

Originally Posted by Wondergirl

The Fraternity of the Stone - David Morrell

"She walks These Hills", "The Rosewood Casket"... Sharon McCrumb

Stringer · Mar 30, 2010, 05:52 PM

Originally Posted by Synnen

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),

Clive Cussler, I have all his books in hard back.

inauthor:Clive inauthor:Cussler - Google Search

Kitkat22 · Mar 30, 2010, 06:04 PM

Originally Posted by Stringer

Clive Cussler, I have all his books in hard back.

inauthor:Clive inauthor:Cussler - Google Search

Greg Ilses and John Sandford

Wondergirl · Mar 30, 2010, 06:31 PM

Originally Posted by Kitkat22

Greg Ilses and John Sandford

It's Greg Iles. Also William Coughlin.

Kitkat22 · Mar 30, 2010, 06:33 PM

Originally Posted by Wondergirl

It's Greg Iles. Also William Coughlin.

Thank you Wondergirl:)

Wondergirl · Mar 30, 2010, 06:37 PM

Originally Posted by Kitkat22

Thank you Wondergirl:)

Start reading. Now.

Catsmine · Mar 31, 2010, 01:29 AM

Fooey, I missed the sci-fi discussion. Let me jump in late:
Spider Robinson. He's one of the funniest authors around, and can tell a story at the same time.

Alan Dean Foster, if you can avoid his Star Wars juveniles.

David Weber's fantasy series are better than his sci-fi.

David Drake, Jacueline Carey, Issac Asimov, Anne McCaffrey's been mentioned, and my favorite preacher - Robert A. Heinlein.

KBC · Mar 31, 2010, 01:41 AM

I really liked the 'Into the Gap' series from Donaldson.

Robert Aspirin with Esther Friesner, E.Godz, really catchy,short novel.

Piers Anthony and Reberto Fuentes,Dead Morn.

Piers Anthony and Robert Kornwise,Through the Ice.

Ken Hood,Demon Rider

Jack McDevitt, he wrote a few,Eternity Road(post apocalypse)And Ancient Shores(good ideas for that one)