2006-12-01 15:08:37 · 18 answers · asked by namso141 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Frankenstein: Prodigal Son.... and Frankenstein: City of Night..... both by Dean Koontz and Jack the Ripper: Case Closed... by Patricia Cornwell. Still awaiting the third and final book in the Koontz Frankenstein series.
2006-12-01 15:14:05 · answer #1 · answered by Enigma®Ragnarökin' 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm reading the Fionavar Tapestry trilogy by Guy Gavriel Kay now, and it isn't too bad, though it's not what I'd call great, either.
Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos series (nine or ten short novels) is good.
Tad Williams' series Memory, Sorrow and Thorn is quite good.
L.E. Modesitt's Saga of Recluce series is great. Thirteen books in all.
Ed Greenwood's Elminster stuff was pretty good, and so was R.A. Salvatore's first pair of Drizzt trilogies (Dark Elf and Icewind Dale).
David Eddings' two related pentologies, Belgariad and Malloreon, were excellent.
Raymond E. Feist's novels set in the Midkemia/Riftwar universe are super great. More than 20 books in this setting have been published, and they're all great.
Robin Hobb's three related trilogies: Farseer, Liveship Traders, and Tawny Man, are excellent.
Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series is quite good - even when the plot gets mired down in details it's still kind of fun to read.
I've heard good things about George R.R. Martin's books, especially the Song of Ice and Fire series. However, I haven't read this yet.
I've heard other good things about R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing trilogy, but I haven't read this yet, either.
Other fantasy writers whose books have been recommended to me, but of which I've so far read nothing, are:
Lois McMaster Bujold (Vorkosigan, Chalion)
Katharine Kerr (Deverry)
Steven Erikson (Malazan Book of the Fallen)
Jean M. Auel (Earth's Children)
Marion Zimmer Bradley (Darkover)
Orson Scott Card (Ender Wiggin Saga)
Glen Cook (Black Company, Dread Empire)
Stephen R. Donaldson
Kate Elliott (Crown of Stars)
Melanie Rawn
Jennifer Fallon
Lynn Flewelling
Kate Forsyth
David Gemmell
Barbara Hambly (Darwath,
Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Legacy)
J.V. Jones
Holly Lisle
Morgan Llywelyn
Patricia Kennealy-Morrison
Eric van Lustbader
Juliet Marillier
Irene Radford
Jennifer Roberson
Sean Russell
Jack Vance (Lyonesse)
Patricia Wrede
J.R.R. Tolkien's book The Hobbit is still the very best standalone novel in the fantasy genre. The only thing Tolkien ever wrote that surpassed it is the short story relating the lives of Aragorn and Arwen in the Appendix that follows the Lord of the Rings. If you skipped the appendix, go back and read it. It's time you found that particular gold nugget. And... bring a hanky. It's a story that will make a grown man cry.
If you want a really FUN book to read after that, get a copy of Clifford D. Simak's short novel: The Goblin Reservation.
If you like "family values" type science fiction, try The Rolling Stones, by Robert A. Heinlein. Not everything Heinlein writes is "family values" stuff, but this book is clean, fun read. If you have a rebellious nature, you might also like Heinlein's other book The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress. If you feel rebellious toward religion, pick up a copy of JOB: A Comedy of Justice. If you want a science fiction book that is equal parts good story and philosophical treatise and sexual fantasies, your book is Heinlein's Time Enough For Love.
If you like "light" fantasy (kid stuff), then try Brian Jacques' REDWALL, Piers Anthony's XANTH, Robert Asprin's MYTH, INC., Terry Pratchett's DISCWORLD, or J.K. Rowling's HARRY POTTER.
2006-12-01 23:19:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
King Dork by Frank Portman
Skin by Adrienne Maria Vrettos
Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
Born to Rock by Gordon Korman
2006-12-02 11:35:15 · answer #3 · answered by laney_po 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Zahir by Paulo Coelho
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The African Dream Che Guevara
2006-12-01 23:35:31 · answer #4 · answered by Amelia_18 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good books I've read lately were:
Vanish by Tess Gerritsen, Harvest by Tess Gerritsen,
Elephant Song by Wilbur Smith,
The Burning Shore by Wilbur Smith,
Crossed Bones by Kathy Reichs,
Eragon by Christopher Paolini,
Ages of Chaos Omnibus: Stormqueen! Hawkmistress! by Marion Zimmer Bradley,
Mr. Norrel and Johnathon Strange by Susanna Clarke
and I am currently reading over Eldest by Christopher Paolini
2006-12-01 23:20:44 · answer #5 · answered by latterlycool 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Currently, I'm reading Lisey's Story by Stephen King (good!) and a book on making Gingerbread Houses, I'm also reading 'On Writing' by Stephen King, and an Art History book. I can't just read one book at time!
2006-12-01 23:50:49 · answer #6 · answered by kewte_kewpie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was sheltering from the rain on the seafront in Weymouth(uk)recently, and an old man was occupying the same shelter. We struck up conversation , the usual thing with the English , the weather.I could see he had a stick and had difficulty breathing.I said to him" terrible weather I might as well have my head in a book ". He said read mine and gave me a book. He got up and started out of the shelter, "Enjoy it ", he said," I wrote it." I did enjoy the book, it was called "Visitors". Thank you Mr Bob Chapman
2006-12-02 06:54:46 · answer #7 · answered by burtbb0912 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A really good book I just finished was Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs. It made me laugh at all this really bad stuff that was happening to the main character and since then I've sort of been able to apply that to my own life. Pretty cool.
2006-12-02 03:26:15 · answer #8 · answered by doubledoubleplain 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The New Pearl Harbor - very interesting details about the 9/11 Saga.
2006-12-01 23:11:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm in the middle of reading The Davinci Code right now and about a year ago I read the Five People you Meet in Heaven which was absolutely AMAZING.
2006-12-01 23:24:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋