What should I read from this list? (long ass list)

[Varaj]

Too Damn big as a list attaching file.

[tleilaxu]

seriously?

[Varaj]

seriously?

Yup. What do people think are good books from the list.

[there_is_no_bob]

First I didn't see no attachment.

Now I don't see no list.

[Varaj]

First I didn't see no attachment.

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Refresh and see if you see the attachment. Pretty small text document.

[tleilaxu]

Yup. What do people think are good books from the list.

queue the bill cosby pic

[there_is_no_bob]

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I see the attachment - I don't see the list. Opening the file reveals ÿþ (it looks like a little square, really, but that's the c&p of the whole thing).

Edit: Ah, nevermind. Fucked up text viewer! I curse you!

Right then:
Berg,Carol ---Rai-Kirah 1 - Transformation I think I read this one, and possibly one of the others. Not bad, not great. I would not spend money on it, but I would take it out of the library if I was already there.
Brooks,Terry A wee bit formulaic. They were good when I was a teenager; they haven't aged all that well.

Brust,Steven
---Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille
---Dragaera Timeline
---Vlad Taltod SS,01,02,03,04,05,06,07,08,09,10 Good stuff, generally. Entertaining. I liked Brokedown Palace as well.

Butcher,Jim
---Codex Alera 01,02
---Dresden Files 00,01,02,03,04,05,06,07,08Codex is fairly good; definitely wouldn't put it on a required reading list, though. Dresden is all kinds of fun (though running out of room power-wise).

DeLint,Charles All good.

Donaldson,Stephen R.
---Gap 01,02,03,04,05Good. I think. Been a while.

Feist,Raymond E. I liked Riftwar 1 and 2, I think it was. Then it got a little silly.

Gemmell,David Like most of his stuff. Can't remember what was good and not so good from that list. Waylander 1 was the best of the lot (i.e. 1,2,3,4). Lion of Macedon was good. Sequel was less interesting, IMO.

Goodkin,Terry That's some fucked up shit right there.

Heinlein,Robert A.
---Stranger in a Strange Land
---The Moon is Harsh Mistress I liked these more when I knew less.

Hobb,Robin
---Farseer 01,02,03
---Tawny Man 01,02,03
---Soldier Son 01,02Liked all these well enough.

Kay, Guy Gavriel
---A Song For Arbonne
---Fionavarr Tapestry 01,02,03
---Last Light of the Sun
---Sarantine Mosaic 01,02
---The Lions of AL-Rassan
---TiganaAll good.

Kerr,Katherine
---Deverry 01,02,03,04,05,06,07,08,09,10,11Some of these were good. Some were not. Been a while, they might all suck now.

Kurtz,Kathrine
---Deryni 01,02,03I think I liked these.

LeGuin,Ursula K. Haven't read all of those, but I've liked everything I've ever read from her.

Modesitt,L.E.
---Recluce 01
---Timegod's WorldLiked Recluce one. The ones that follow tend to be a little formulaic. Just a tad. A tiny wee bit. Timegod was pretty good. I think. Might have gotten a bit silly; follows some of the same pattern as recluce.

Russell,Sean Everything I've read by him has been good. Can't remember what those things were entirely, though.

Williams,Tad
---Memory,Sorrow & Thorn 00,01,02,03,04
---Otherland 01,02,03,04
---Shadowmarch
---The War of the FlowersAll good.

Think I've read more of those, but I ain't looking it over too carefully.

[Varaj]

queue the bill cosby pic

Afraid I don't catch the reference. I am the slow.

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It's flat ascii text. :)

[there_is_no_bob]

Afraid I don't catch the reference. I am the slow.
Maybe he meant Powell?
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[Varaj]

Maybe he meant Powell?
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Ahhhh. I can't say I blame him and if nobody bothers I won't blame them either. :)

A lot of good books in there I've read many on the list but there is a bunch of authors and books I don't recognize and was hoping somebody would go "damn read x, will be well worth your time"

[there_is_no_bob]

Ahhhh. I can't say I blame him and if nobody bothers I won't blame them either. :)

A lot of good books in there I've read many on the list but there is a bunch of authors and books I don't recognize and was hoping somebody would go "damn read x, will be well worth your time"

Read one of Charles DeLint's books and, if you like it, you'll probably like everything.

Read Ursula K LeGuin. It will all be well worth your time.

Guy Gavriel Kay is also well worth it. I re-read pretty much everything I've got of his on a semi-regular basis. Song for Arbonne is probably my favourite.

Tad Williams is well worth it, IMO. Others have disagreed. Vehemently. Often over the enormity of the texts.

[Varaj]

Read one of Charles DeLint's books and, if you like it, you'll probably like everything.

Read Ursula K LeGuin. It will all be well worth your time.

Guy Gavriel Kay is also well worth it. I re-read pretty much everything I've got of his on a semi-regular basis. Song for Arbonne is probably my favourite.

Tad Williams is well worth it, IMO. Others have disagreed. Vehemently. Often over the enormity of the texts.

Thank you very much for this and your more detailed post!

[Dacke]

The ones on the list I have read and can recommend:

Adams,Douglas
---Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
---The Long Dark Tea-TimeOf The Soul

These two are about Dirk Gently, a "holistic" detective which means he doesn't go about mucking around with clues and such, but just meanders around hoping that the universe will show him how to solve his cases. Both books are quite weird, almost Gaimanesque in a way, touching on a supernatural layer to the "real" world.

---Hitchhacker's Guide To The Galaxy
---Reatautant At The End Of The Universe
---Life,The Universe,And Everything
---So Long,And Thanks For All The Fish

Classical sci-fi humor. They're about the adventures of Arthur Dent, one of the two last surviving human beings after the Earth gets demolished in order to make room for a hyperspace bypass. They're fairly short on plot and long on absurdity - the plot is mostly there as something to hang the various absurdities from.

Alexander,Lloyd
---Chronicles Of Prydain 1 - The Book Of Three
---Chronicles Of Prydain 2 - The Black Cauldron
---Chronicles Of Prydain 3 - The Castle Of Llyr
---Chronicles Of Prydain 4 - Taran Wanderer
---Chronicles Of Prydain 5 - The High King

I liked these when I read them, but they're more "Young adult" or even children's fantasy. It's also been a very long while since, so I wouldn't put too much stock in the tastes of 12-year old me.

Asimov,Isaac

One of the old-school sci-fi greats. You should at least give some of his books a chance, starting with I, Robot, and The Foundation.

Blake,Anita
---Vampire Hunter 01,02,03,04,05,06,07,08,09,10,11,12,13,14

Fairly thrashy modern urban fantasy/horror/romance, bordering on erotica. I understand the later books have more sex in them, but I haven't gotten that far. Also, "Anita Blake" is the main character, not the writer (her name is Lauren K Hamilton). The main character is a necromancer who moonlights as a vampire killer (being able to raise and command zombies gives her a measure of protection against vampiric powers), but who gets involved with a vampire and eventually a werewolf too.

Butcher,Jim
---Dresden Files 00,01,02,03,04,05,06,07,08
Again, fairly thrasy urban fantasy, this time with a wizard private investigator as the main character. Sort of Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Philip Marlowe. Lots of geeky pop-culture references abound (in one book, the main character remarks that the villain must have read the Evil Overlord List), doomed romantic entanglements, and a great supporting cast that floats in and out from book to book. BTW, the series is up to book 10 now, with #11 coming in a month or so.

---Codex Alera 01,02
More traditional fantasy by the same author. Well, I say traditional, but it's not exactly sword & sorcery. It's set in Alera, a different world that has a bunch of roman descendants living in it, except they've learned to harness the powers of various elemental spirits (six elements, the traditional plus wood and metal). The main character is Tavi, who's a young man and fairly unique in that he can't command any furies at all (and of course there's more than meets the eye there). The first book is about Tavi helping a Cursor (gov't spy) fend off an invasion by the neighbouring nation of near-humans.

Cooper,Susan
---Dark Is Rising 1 - Over Sea,Under Stone
---Dark Is Rising 2 - The Dark Is Rising
---Dark Is Rising 3 - Greenwitch
---Dark Is Rising 4 - The Grey King
---Dark Is Rising 5 - Silver On The Tree
---King Of Shadows

Another great young adult fantasy series.

Donaldson,Stephen R.
---Land 01,02,2.5,03,04,05,06,07

A twist on the old "man from the real world gets transported to a fantasy world and saves it." The twist being that the man in question has leprosy and is bitter as hell, and refuses to believe that the fantasy world is real, and that pretty much the first thing he does is rape a 14-year old girl who then becomes fairly nuts about the whole thing. Not a book series for everyone, but it was one of the first ones that looked at fantasy from a darker perspective.

Gaiman,Neil

A writer of tales that somehow mix the mundane with the fantastical. In a way, his novels tend to be a bit like "man gets transported to fantasy-land", except that fantasy-land was there all along, you just never looked in the right direction. You should give American Gods and Neverwhere a read.

Hamilton,Peter F.
---Night's Dawn - Complete Series

Set in a far future where humanity has colonized lots and lots of planets, as well as split into two factions: Transhumanistic Edenists who generally use biotech and have a kind of telepathic connection to one another and to their tech (especially their ships and habitats), and Adamists who think the biotech is creepy and blasphemous. The books follow plenty of plot threads, but the main plot is that somehow, the spirits of the dead suddenly start returning and take possession of living bodies (they need permission to do so, but given that they usually torture people into accepting the spirit, that's not much of a problem). These spirits can channel energy from the realm of the dead in order to create illusions, hurt people, and rearrange matter. Notably, one of the main villains in the books are Al Capone.

Harrison,Harry

I vaguely remember some books I read by this guy being lots of fun, but not much more than that.

Herbert,Frank
---Dune 00,01,02,03,04,05,06

The first and second Dune books are classics and awesome. After that, I understand that the series dropped a lot in quality, and Frank Herbert dying and his son taking over probably didn't help.

Martin,George R.R.
---Ice and Fire 00,01,02,03,04,4.1

A Song of Ice and Fire (starting with A Game of Thrones) is a super-epic series that at least start out as low-fantasy (though the scale goes up a little as the series moves on) mostly chronicling the fortunes of the house of Stark, one of the seven major noble families in the kingdom of Westeros, and how that kingdom, and the family, gets torn apart by civil war. Unfortunately, the author seems to have either gotten a case of writer's block or somehow written himself into a corner - it's been five years since the last book was released, and the release date keeps getting pushed forward.

Pratchett,Terry
---Discworld 01,02,03,04,05,06,07,08,09,10,11,12,13,14,15,
---16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32 ,33,34,35

Humorous fantasy series that started out as a parody of fantasy in the same way the Hitch-hiker books are a parody of sci-fi, but that have since morphed more into a satire of our world using the fantasy setting as a medium. Don't let the huge number of books scare you off, they're split into several sub-series of books, and with the exception of the first book each individual novel is a finished work (e.g. Guards! Guards! is the first book about the Ankh-Morpork Night Watch, and works perfectly well on its own, but the same characters show up again in Men At Arms, Feet of Clay, and a few others, and they have pretty much nothing to do with the sub-series about Death that starts with Mort other than a few cameos here and there).

Rowling,J.K.
---Harry Potter 01,02,03,04,05,06,07

Very good young adult series that works just fine for adults as well. The main character is a down-trodden boy who learns that his parents were wizards, and who gets to go to the Hogwarts School of Wizardry to learn magic, and who has a destiny to defeat the Evil Overlord that's about to rise again. This one's been quite the media sensation :)

[shiningbrow]

My reading in these genres is sort of spotty, but I've read several books by some of those authors and have edited the list to indicate favorites. That list is so extensive and at times a bit repetitive, but it seems to have covered many of the major writers. I'm sure there are people at the Space Station who could better advise you, but here are some I've enjoyed particularly. As you can see, I'm partial to Philip K. Dick.


Bradbury,Ray
-Fahrenheit 451

Card,Orson Scott
He's usually very good.
---Ender
---Songmaster



Dick,Philip K.
It wouldn't hurt for you to read everything on this list but there's some repetition in it. I've listed some of the essentials, or at least my favorites here. Not every book he wrote is stellar, but he had a great weird imagination, and you could do a whole lot worse!
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Bladerunner was adapted from this)
Clans of the Alphane Moon (not in the list, but very good)
---Flow My Tears,the Policman Said
---Now Wait For Last Year
---The Man in the High Castle
---The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich
---Ubik



Heinlein,Robert A.
---Stranger in a Strange Land
---The Door into Summer


Tolkien,J.R.R.
---Lord of the Rings 01,02,03,04
---The Hobbit



Zelazny,Roger
---Amber - Complete
---Jack Of Shadow
---The Dream Master (sad and creepy but very good)

[SpikeyFreak]

If you haven't read Dune, you have to read it. It's really, really good. How many SciFi books or movies do you know of that have techno songs about them? Or grammy award winning music videos for songs that feature quotes from them? Seriously, stop what you're doin, cause I'm about to ruin, er, I mean, nevermind. Fucking read it already. He who controls the spice, controls the universe.

I had more written about other books on the list, but fuck man, read Dune.

--Weirding Spikey

[Varaj]

If you haven't read Dune, you have to read it. It's really, really good. How many SciFi books or movies do you know of that have techno songs about them? Or grammy award winning music videos for songs that feature quotes from them? Seriously, stop what you're doin, cause I'm about to ruin, er, I mean, nevermind. Fucking read it already. He who controls the spice, controls the universe.

I had more written about other books on the list, but fuck man, read Dune.

--Weirding Spikey

I agree with you 100%.

[Limper]

I like Robert Adams Horse Clans books but the last couple are from when he was dying and aren't as good.

Still its a very good series.

I need to download that library myself.

[SpikeyFreak]

I agree with you 100%.
Cool.

Okay, Peter F. Hamilton. The Commonwealth books are really good. He's in the process of writing the last book of a new trilogy written in the same setting, and I'm REALLY digging it. I'm not a fan of the hand-waving "it just magically works" sci-fi of Star Trek and Star Wars, and this is very much not that.

--One at a Time Spikey

[Dr_Avalanche]

Tad Williams is well worth it, IMO. Others have disagreed. Vehemently. Often over the enormity of the texts.

Yes. I grew increasingly pissed off that someone would need to use so many words to get to the point. Drove me to start reading poetry.

[Cat of Ulthar]

Adams,Douglas
---Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
---The Long Dark Tea-TimeOf The Soul

These two are about Dirk Gently, a "holistic" detective which means he doesn't go about mucking around with clues and such, but just meanders around hoping that the universe will show him how to solve his cases. Both books are quite weird, almost Gaimanesque in a way, touching on a supernatural layer to the "real" world.
What Dacke does not say, and which is most important in my opinion, is that the books are immensely funny. Better than the better-known Hitch Hiker's Guide. Go read them, now, if you haven't done so yet.

Donaldson,Stephen R.
---Land 01,02,2.5,03,04,05,06,07

A twist on the old "man from the real world gets transported to a fantasy world and saves it." The twist being that the man in question has leprosy and is bitter as hell, and refuses to believe that the fantasy world is real, and that pretty much the first thing he does is rape a 14-year old girl who then becomes fairly nuts about the whole thing. Not a book series for everyone, but it was one of the first ones that looked at fantasy from a darker perspective.
I could not get through this. I don't care that the protagonist is a wanker, the books are just so god-damned boring.

Hamilton,Peter F.
---Night's Dawn - Complete Series

Set in a far future where humanity has colonized lots and lots of planets, as well as split into two factions: Transhumanistic Edenists who generally use biotech and have a kind of telepathic connection to one another and to their tech (especially their ships and habitats), and Adamists who think the biotech is creepy and blasphemous. The books follow plenty of plot threads, but the main plot is that somehow, the spirits of the dead suddenly start returning and take possession of living bodies (they need permission to do so, but given that they usually torture people into accepting the spirit, that's not much of a problem). These spirits can channel energy from the realm of the dead in order to create illusions, hurt people, and rearrange matter. Notably, one of the main villains in the books are Al Capone.
Brilliant books. Shit ending. Fuck you mr. Hamilton, I read through your 4000-odd pages of plot twist and you resolve it like *this*?

If you haven't read Dune, you have to read it. It's really, really good. How many SciFi books or movies do you know of that have techno songs about them?
Not to mention Iron Maiden tracks.

[doc]

I liked most of the books listed but since I'm haveing touble with the file myself I'm not sure whats on the list. So I'll sugges a few that I enjoyed

Zelazny's Last Exit to Babylon and Kim Harrison's witch books Dead Witch Walking is the first

[Cat of Ulthar]

I really enjoyed Martin Caidin's "The Messiah Stone" and "Dark Messiah", both not on the list, but a good read; he keeps twisting the plot around to go in a different direction than you expected. Definitely recommended.

Heinlein's Job: A Comedy of Justice I also really liked. Funny and original.

[doc]

Forgot to add Heinlein's Glory Road, that was a good read

[there_is_no_bob]

Brilliant books. Shit ending. Fuck you mr. Hamilton, I read through your 4000-odd pages of plot twist and you resolve it like *this*?Hey, I think I remember these now. Read the first three, then stop, or don't read them at all.

[doc]

Harry Turtledove's books, I got the first two Worldwar books today at tthe library

[Cat of Ulthar]

Hey, I think I remember these now. Read the first three, then stop, or don't read them at all.

That didn't make any sense until I remembered that your edition consisted of six instead of three books.

[shiningbrow]

Brilliant books. Shit ending. Fuck you mr. Hamilton, I read through your 4000-odd pages of plot twist and you resolve it like *this*?
.

I hate investing tons of time in a book that's over 1k pages to have it degenerate into a bloated poorly edited mess. Sometimes it's as if the authors are getting paid by the word, not the book. ;)

[tleilaxu]

i didn't read the list

i recommend two russian short stories:

dostoevsky - white nights
chekov - ward 6

[Schizm]

from Joan D. Vinge:
Catspaw.

Fucking awesome. the other cat books are fairly meh, but this one is very well understood and put together cyberpunk. I highly recommend it.

From Vernor Vinge: Whichever of the two Deep books you have listed there - deepness in the sky or fire upon the deep, can't remember. both are awesome.

From A.A. Attanasio.
Radix. Oh yes. In other worlds, also good. and finally, though it's not listed there, Last Legends of Earth - fucking amazing work.

From David Brin:
The uplift cycle, as well as Earth. Love the conceptualization of the uplift works, and Earth is just plain good. the postman? also good.

Jim Butcher:
All good. total pulp fun. Dresden files are low fantasy noir with nerd cred, and the codex alera, though somewhat predictable on the major plot point, is a nicely put together action packed fantasy series.

Jaqueline Carey:
Kushiel 1-3 are excellent. The place of real evil in 3 is pretty damn nightmareish, and left even me a little creeped out. Hold off on 4-6 until the sixth comes out in paperback. I'm enjoying the two sundering books so far - they're very well written and a very nice twist on the evil/good dichotomy.

Samuel R. Delany:
NOVA - science fiction deconstructional analysis of grail mythology. I love it to death.

Charles De Lint:
All of it. And you should add in the short story collection Dreams Underfoot, while you're at it.

Diane Duane:
The young wizards. I can't stress this enough. It's like harry potter, but without separating the real world and the world of magic, and with kids who are actually a lot more interesting than the potter kids. No, there isn't an epic storyline, per se, but there's a lot better writing involved. oh, and I think there's like 8 of them, now.

Neil Gaiman:
The complete sandman. American gods.

Robert Heinlein:
All of it. pay close attention to Glory Road, Door into summer, and the Moon is a Harsh Mistress. though, you do have some short stories listed there as books - you can find a bunch of them tied up in The Menace from Earth and The Green Hills of Earth (both amazing collections, btw). Also, Citizen of the Galaxy is one of my favorite young adult novels ever.

J. Gregory Keys:
fuck the ones you've got. go pick up The Waterborn and Blackgod.

Ursula K. Leguin:
The Left hand of Darkness is a great read.

Holly Lisle:
I have a special place in my heart for Minerva Wakes. It's awesome -- and I think Bella would really enjoy it too. Also, an earlier trilogy of hers: Fire in the Mist, Bones of the Past, and Mind of the Magic is really quite good. I prefer it to secret texts.

Vonda McIntyre:
Not only should you read starfarers, but you should finish out that quartet with Transition, Metaphase, and Nautilus.

Elizabeth Moon:
I'm a total nut for the Herris & Esmay stuff. the vatta books weren't bad. I really, really love Remnant Population.

Tamora Pierce:
Song of the Lioness Quartet, The Immortals. Wonderful stuff for young girls, very empowering, and a good story overall. One of the things to be read to my daughter.

Terry Pratchett:
All of discworld. Really.

Kim Stanley Robinson:
I'm a huge fan of the mars Trilogy, and the followup book filled with short stories (the martians). It presents to me the possibility of a beautiful future - though certainly not a utopian one.

Christopher Rowley:
The Bazil Broketail series is fun, but no where near high art. Read if you want silly action about a boy and his giant lizard.

Dan Simmons:
Ilium/Olympos, The Hyperion Cantos. Love both. they've been raved about enough though at this point.

Neal Stephenson:
Snow Crash and The Diamond Age. I've tried his later work, and couldn't make it through either cryptonomicon or the baroque cycle.

Bruce Sterling:
Another all of it. And you should add Distraction to the list here, also.

Sherri S. Tepper:
always hot and cold with her.. but I really well and truly loved Grass. another book which is not on your list.

Harry Turtledove:
The worldwar/colonization cycle is fun silly alternate history written by a MASTER. In the presence of mine enemy? touching to me on a personal level. Ruled britannia is total silly fun. The tale of the fox (and a few others in that series) are fun. and the case of the toxic spell dump? really, really silly good time.

David Weber:
Honor Harrington is silly awesome pulp fun. In Fury Born is pretty damn good overall too.

Patricia C. Wrede:
The Enchanted Forest chronicles are a totally wicked good time. Shrek (and it's sequels) wished it could be this kind of brilliant farie tale deconstruction for kids.



ok, that's enough of perusing that list for now - lots of stuff there, and while I've read a lot, there's a lot there I haven't that I'll look up later and throw into my to read pile. Thanks for the fun Dethe!

[doc]

Try David Weber's War God series is good as well

Patrica Brigg's Mercedes Thompson Series is a good Urban Fantasy,Moon Called is the first one

[there_is_no_bob]

I figure I should say this at some point or another - I thought American Gods was not good. Spent most of the book thinking it was internally inconsistent, which is what I dislike most in pretty much any setting.

[Black Angel]

Tad Williams is well worth it, IMO. Others have disagreed. Vehemently. Often over the enormity of the texts.

I highly agree with the Otherland series. By far his best (IMO), so if you want to enjoy the others, you might want to read them first...! I did it the other way around, and was disappointed.

[Brynja]

Varaj-

I have picked and chose the authors I did like or thought you might like that I have read. I put the selections down then my take on things. I hope this helps.

Adams,Douglas
---Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
---The Long Dark Tea-TimeOf The Soul
---Hitchhacker's Guide To The Galaxy
---Reatautant At The End Of The Universe
---Life,The Universe,And Everything
---So Long,And Thanks For All The Fish


Loved these, I found them to be dryly funny, with wry little observations intersperced with some seriously retarded (in a good way) shit.



Barker,Clive
---Coldheart Canyon
---Imajca 01,02
---Book of Blood 01,02,03,04,05,06
---The Great and Secret Show
---The Hellbound Heart
---The Inhuman Condition
---The Thief of Always
---Weaveworld


These books were wonderful, if a bit stilted in some places. I read them as a young girl and teenage and they sparked my imagination like no other. I credit Weaveworld
and Imagica with some early steampunk overtones.

B


Baum,L.Frank
---Oz 01 - The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz

I use this in my classes. It is a fable about shifting from the gold to silver standard. In the book they are silver slippers :)



DeLint,Charles
---A Pattern of Silver Strings
---Big City Littles
---Coyote Stories
---Forests of the Heart
---Green Mantel
---Jack,the Giant-Killer
---Moonheart
---Mulengro
---Pixel Pixies
---Sign Here
---Someplace to be Flying
---Spirits in the Wires
---Spiritwalk
---The Little Country
---The Moon is DrowningbWhile I Sleep

DeLint is another underrated and great writer in my opinion. He has created his own world with interconnected tales and these tales often deal with
celtic and Native American mythos. He enjoys writing about the real or imagined spaces inbetween the world we know and see. There is a strong element
of fear and wonder to it, in many ways he reminds me of Gaimans American Gods in that. The Onion Girl which is not on there, nor is Yarrow is excellent too. The list
here for DeLint is hardly comprehensive. I recommend you try him.



Ellison,Harlan
---Alone Against Tomorrow
---Approaching Oblivion
---Count the Clock That Tells the Time
---Deathbird Stories
---Ellison Wonderland
---I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
---In Lonely Lands
---Love Ain't Nothing but Sex Misspelled
---Midnight in the Sunken Cathedral
---No Doors,No Windows
---Paingod & Other Delusions
---Paladin of the Lost Hour
---Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes
---Pulling Hard
---Repent,Harlequin Said Ticktockman
---Sensible City
---Shatterday
---Spider Kiss
---Susan
---The End of the Time of Leinard
---The Essential Ellison-50 Year Retrospective
---Toward the Light
---Troublemakers
---Partners in Wonder

A writer in my opinion of such excellence that few compare. He is the crankiest motherfucker I have ever had the pleasure of meeting
but boy can he write. I have read all of his works, and re-read them. This is at times hard to read, even cutting but the
truths revealed are well done and not schlocky.

Gaiman,Neil
---A Complete Guide to the Sandman
---Sandman 01,02,03,04,05,06,07,08,09,10,11,12,13,14,15
---16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,27,28,29,30,31,32,33 ,34,35,
---36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52 ,53,
---54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,64,65,66,67,68,69 ,70,
---71,72,73,74,75
---Extra Sandman
---A Study in Emerald
---American Gods
---Anansi Boys
---Books Have Sexes
---Coraline
---Don't Panic-The OfficialGuide to the Hitchiker's Guide to Galaxy
---Dream Hunter
---Goliath
---Harlequin Valentine
---Murder Mysteries
---Nessun Dove
---Neverwhere
---Snow,Glass,Apples
---Tales in the Sand
---Stardust

I have read all of his works, some are better than others for sure (I am looking at you Nessun Dove. Try harder)
but all in all they are smart, well written, I felt subtle and they use wonderful imagination to tell age old stories.
I adore Gaiman as a writing. I got into him with Sandman by accident and never left.


Herbert,Frank
---Dune
-read the first one only enjoyed it alot. Havent read the others but not because I wasnt interested.
Dune was an interesting story world I liked, it was alien to me and therefore interesting but I could still
identify with things. Some of it really I felt was like space opera with historical references -
the Harkonen as the debauched Roman elite, the Fremen as a spectre of a more austere empire etc.



Rice,Anne
---Beauty 01,02,03
---Mayfair Witches 01,02,03
---Vampire Chronicles 01,02,03,04,05,06,07,08,09,10
---The Mummy or Ramses The Damned

Oh this was high school reading for me. Not bad in the moment, some of it is thougthful- or so I felt at 17.
I am not sure how it holds up but I did find them to be enjoyable reads.


Rowling,J.K.
---Harry Potter 01,02,03,04,05,06,07
---Harry Potter Encyclopedia
---Harry Potter 00,05,06,07a,07b-FanFic

Enough said- awesome sauce.




Snicket,Lemony
---A Series of Unfortunate Events 01,02,03,04,05,06,07,08,09,10,11

Loved the books with a passion, got into them in college and never left them. They are dry, macabre and just wonderful.



Tolkien,J.R.R.
---Lord of the Rings 01,02,03,04
---The History of Middle Earth Series
---The Hobbit
---The Silmarillion


Yes I read them. I felt they sucked, but there are avid fans. His obsession for detail borders on fatbeardom.




Weis,Margaret & Hickman
---Dragonlance Novels
Great for a beach read. How they did Tannis was unforgivable to me. Die in a fire you two.

[Cat of Ulthar]

Some of it really I felt was like space opera with historical references -
the Harkonen as the debauched Roman elite, the Fremen as a spectre of a more austere empire etc.

The Fremen are Bedouins. Many of the words they use are Arabic.

[Limper]

The Fremen are Bedouins. Many of the words they use are Arabic.

Zensunni is another clue.

[doc]

Zensunni is another clue.

Whats the sound of one Shite blowing up ?

[Brynja]

The Fremen are Bedouins. Many of the words they use are Arabic.

I know who they are meant to be but I was drawing a seperate metaphor.

[Name Lips]

Whats the sound of one Shite blowing up ?

"Holy Shiite!!"

[doc]

It's not on the list but try Michael Bergey's New Coyote and Coyote Season