What are your favorite Authors and Boks

CloudStrifer · Post by **CloudStrifer** » Thu May 11, 2006 3:51 am

So I was thinking what favorite authors do you have?

Recently I have read the Bronze Canticles series by Tracy & Laura Hickman. It was very good and makes me want to read the Dragonlance Series by Tracy. I will have to pick that one up soon.

David Gremmell is also my favorite, especially since I read his book "Swords of Night and Day". It inspired me to go and get his other works especially the Drenai series. Skilgannon is such a good name.

Raymod E. Feist and his Kondor series are brilliantly done as is his other series. I especially like the current series I am reading, the Conclave of Shadows.

Fantasy is not the only type of books I like. Historical fiction is also one of my favorite types of books and Gore Vidal and his book "Creation" is the best read I have read in this genre. I should read more, but most have been spectacular failures.

AngelOfDeath124 · Post by **AngelOfDeath124** » Thu May 11, 2006 4:14 am

I have a lot of favorite books, so listing them all would take a lot of time, so I'll simply list my favorite authors and their series, unless specific books from that series are ones I like more than others.

Mercedes Lackey's Heralds of Valdemar series(around 30 books); Anne Rice's Vampire books, but mostly Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned, as well as The Mummy; Stephen King's Gunslinger and Drawing of the Three; Frank Herbert's Dune; Anne Bishop's Black Jewel trilogy and its related books Invisible Ring and Dreams Made Flesh; Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's Legends trilogy and War of the Lance trilogy; Tolkein's(sorry if I spelled that wrong) Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.

I think thats it....

CloudStrifer · Post by **CloudStrifer** » Thu May 11, 2006 4:26 am

What is the Difference between Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's Legends and War of the Lance series? Are both a part of Dragonlance series or is this something different?

AngelOfDeath124 · Post by **AngelOfDeath124** » Thu May 11, 2006 4:28 am

both are dragonlance, but Legends is about Raistlin's attempt to kill Takhisis and take her place, where the War of the Lance is the precurser to those books

Post by **Denyer** » Thu May 11, 2006 4:33 am

I like the original Bochs in Alpha Flight.

Fantasy is a favourite genre of yours and you've not read Dragonlance? Well, it's an opportunity to keep the experience a good one -- I'd suggest reading the Chronicles, the Legends and then being extremely selective about anything else you pick up. Many of the concepts that made the series and world distinctive fell by the wayside as other authors got involved and TSR started milking the franchise.

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edit:

Your initial reading list for Dragonlance should be --

Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Dragons of Winter Night
Dragons of Spring Dawning
Time of the Twins
War of the Twins
Test of the Twins

Avoid the huge annotated collected versions, as the notes in the margin contain a number of spoilers and are really intended for people who've read the series.

Cliffjumper · Post by **Cliffjumper** » Thu May 11, 2006 12:25 pm

The Gargoyle from "The Daemons" wins the narrow second field.

Dalek'll get it

Vin Ghostal · Post by **Vin Ghostal** » Thu May 11, 2006 2:04 pm

The Importance of Being Earnest
Eric Alterman's What Liberal Media?
Othello
Romeo & Juliet
Primary Colors
Candide
Ric Flair's To Be The Man
The Island of Dr. Moreau
1984
Yevgeny Zamyatin's "We"

Prowl1984 · Post by **Prowl1984** » Thu May 11, 2006 3:51 pm

The best thing i've read recently was Stephen Kings Dark Tower saga, it was so epic and different from the rest of his work, i loved it. Frank Herberts Dune series was a good read, i've only read the first 5 books though. Neil Gaiman always delivers, i loved American Gods and Neverwhere, i'm currently in the process of reading my way through Terry Pratchetts Discworld series too.

Wildrider · Post by **Wildrider** » Thu May 11, 2006 4:48 pm

Originally posted by CloudStrifer

Raymod E. Feist and his Kondor series are brilliantly done as is his other series. I especially like the current series I am reading, the Conclave of Shadows.

I read alot of his Riftwar stuff, right up to the beginning of the Serpentwar saga stuff but lost interest mid way through. Riftwar stuff is pretty much grade fantasy stuff. Midkemia right?

Regarding authors and sticking to one in particular or a select few as personalfavourites is something I find difficult, I've read a lot of Orwell and Doystoevsky recently favourite authors at the moment.

For a nice break I picked up copies of Neil Gaiman's 'Neverwhere' and 'American Gods' and they are a nice change although I haven't finished 'Gods' yet.

In my recent travels I read a copy of 'Life of Pi' by Yann Martel, that was an absolutely cracking read as well as a quality book by Matthew Collin called 'This is Serbia Calling' about the youth movement and role of a particular radio station during the Milosovic years and the way the Serbs especially the Belgrade citizens suffered under his regime, but got through by playing Primal Scream alot.

Also has a great anecdote about how the leader of the opposition stormed the parliamentary square with the hooligan arm of Red Star Belgrade and beat the crap out of the army and held the square for 24 hours before getting bored or something.

Ace.

Bouncelot · Post by **Bouncelot** » Thu May 11, 2006 5:07 pm

Originally posted by Cliffjumper
The Gargoyle from "The Daemons" wins the narrow second field.

Hey! That's what I was going to say!

CloudStrifer · Post by **CloudStrifer** » Thu May 11, 2006 8:50 pm

Originally posted by Wildrider
I read alot of his Riftwar stuff, right up to the beginning of the Serpentwar saga stuff but lost interest mid way through. Riftwar stuff is pretty much grade fantasy stuff. Midkemia right?

Yep, and thats what I like about him and David Gemmell. Both have the same worlds in which either times does not change things or wipes the memory from thier minds. Appearently the Conclaves of Shadows is a better read than the Riftwar saga, though I haven't started reading his Serpent War Saga yet.

David Gemmell however is an entirely different matter. His books are 2 or 5 years after one series [talking his world time] and most notablly, a 1000+ years. The Swords of Night and Day is set after the hero Skilgannon the Damned has died. Druss is constantly mentioned as others are even though its likewise anywhere from 100 to a 1000+ years since they died.

Aardvark · Post by **Aardvark** » Thu May 11, 2006 9:08 pm

My favourite book/author was and still is Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland/Lewis Carroll. As a kid it was simply a fun, quirky, strange, tale with unforgettably imaginative characters, dialogue and poems. It suited my personality even at such an early age and as the years have gone by I'm merely able to appreciate it a lot more. There are just so many jokes, in-jokes, riddles and hidden meanings that even in the years to come I'm sure I'll find some new ones. Oh and the original illustrations are simply breathtakingly marvellous.

In terms of comedy, you can't beat any of Spike Milligan's books and some of them are actually wonderfully poignant.

Hawkeye · Post by **Hawkeye** » Thu May 11, 2006 9:26 pm

bochs was the little parapeligic guy in alpha flight wasnt he? yeah the dragonlance core books are great but as denyer said be waery of the 45 million books that revolve around it.

Getaway · Post by **Getaway** » Thu May 11, 2006 9:40 pm

One non-core book for Dragon Lance that is definitly worth the read as it as good as or indeed surpasses some of Weiss and Hickmans corew books is the Legend of Huma by Knaak.

I personally prefer the Serpentwar (2nd Riftwar) series for Feist, although the majority of his fans prefer the first Riftwar series particularly the first book or the co-written Empire series set on Kelewan which is superb. Conclave is the trilogy with Talon in I think and is not as good as either of them.

I just finished reading the His Dark Materials trilogy which I heartily reccomend to everyone.

Aardvark · Post by **Aardvark** » Thu May 11, 2006 9:45 pm

Originally posted by Hawkeye
bochs was the little parapeligic guy in alpha flight wasnt he?

I was wondering when that pun was going to be made.

Sixswitch · Post by **Sixswitch** » Thu May 11, 2006 10:01 pm

I like the following:

Lee Child's Jack Reacher books
Ian Rankin's John Rebus books
Robert Crais' Elvis Cole books
The Discworld novels with the City Guard (how many are there with the Guard central to the plot? I've read Guards! Guards!, Men At Arms and Night Watch)
The Deep Space 9 Relaunch series (although the latest one is a bit convaluted, and Not That Good).

-Ss

Blitzwing · Post by **Blitzwing** » Fri May 12, 2006 1:03 am

My favorite book series by far is 'A Song of Ice and Fire' by George R. R. Martin. I've read many of the 'major fantasy epics', and this one is hands down the best one.

As far as non-fantasy goes... Chuck Palahniuk would have to be my favorite Fictional author. 'Fight Club', 'Survivor' and 'Choke' are some of my favorites by him. George Orwell is also up there. '1984' is still my favorite single standing book.

Hawkeye · Post by **Hawkeye** » Fri May 12, 2006 1:30 am

I was wondering when that pun was going to be made.

well denyer made it i was just wondering as I own like one issue of alpha flight.

Aardvark · Post by **Aardvark** » Fri May 12, 2006 6:44 am

Oh your right. Sorry Denyer for depunning (A brilliant phrase if ever I saw one;) ) you.

Moving on...I also read a lot of auto/Biographies (Of people I'm interested in of coarse), Rommel is one interesting guy. I recommend his autobiography to anyone who likes biographies and whatnot.

Post by **Denyer** » Fri May 12, 2006 7:00 am

Originally posted by Sixswitch
The Discworld novels with the City Guard (how many are there with the Guard central to the plot? I've read Guards! Guards!, Men At Arms and Night Watch)

Feet Of Clay and Jingo are two more, both pretty good. Monstrous Regiment was the last I read, which wasn't bad but certainly wasn't a keeper...

Breakdown of the series here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld

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