BooksWe love books. Tell us about your favourite books and authors, and why they are so good. And while you're at it - having dined out for years on the time I threw Dan Brown out of a train window - tell us who to avoid.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 13:40)
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I like books where stuff explodes. I know people who can only read a book once. Get to the end, that's it, done with it, give it to the charity shop. Whereas I can go back to a book time and time again. In fact, I have been known to finish a book then start reading it again.
Anyway, some books I like rather a lot:
Discworld - Obviously.
Simon R Green's Deathstalker books (Everything but the kitchen sink Fantasy/SF)
John Birmingham - The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco (Aussie flatmates get ripped off. Lunacy ensues)
David Gemmell - Most of his stuff but especially Legend and Knights of Dark Renown (One of my go-to authors for solid fantasy storytelling)
Tad Williams - Memory, Thorn and Sorrow series(Tolkienesque fantasy epic that avoids most of the usual pitfalls)
John Ringo - The Posleen War/Prince Roger series (Military SF)
S M Stirling - The Peshawar Lancers -(Alternate History-Has a swordfight on top of a zeppelin so you know it's cool)
Robert E Howard - The old Conan tales. His Kull and Bran Mak Morn stuff is worth a read too.
And I've been reading a lot of Matthew Reilly lately. Nobody in their right mind is going to call him a great writer but he writes the most bonkers action sequences you will ever read.
(, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 21:50, 1 reply)
Robert E HowardI was given an anthology of his Solomon Kane stories for my birthday and apart from a couple of early duffers where he's clearly still trying to get a feel for the character they're generally really good.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 22:20,
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