One world: Discworld. Forget 2016, I'm still mad at 2015 for taking Terry away from us. At least I still have some unread books (nobody spoil the Tiffany novels please!)
In general I'm a fantasy lover, though I have to be honest and say I haven't read much fantasy lately. I write it plenty, though. I absolutely love the His Dark Materials trilogy too, reading it got me out of some bad places and I'm forever grateful to it. Plus, I'm a daemon addict now. Hello MFS daemon AU how are you today...
Pratchett's death really did take away one of the few authors I could always turn to when feeling down...hard to read them now and not just think about how he's gone. T___T
I think I'm the only person on the planet who feels like this (and sometimes I feel kind of bad about it) but I could never get into Terry Pratchett. I tried a couple of times but it just wasn't my thing. That goes for a lot of fantasy. I can't even begin to list how many times I gave up on the Lord of the Rings and my attempts to read A Song of Ice and Fire weren't that successful either. I just forgot I was reading it and realized months later that I'd never finished it. That's a whole new level of indifference for me.
I have read the first His Dark Materials novel but it's been over a decade. I don't remember it very clearly.
Discworld will probably always be my favourite thing on the planet. It's accompanied me through good times and held me up through the bad times. When Pterry died, it was gut-wrenching because I had always wanted to thank him for everything he's given me, and he passed away just a few months before I was actually moving to the UK orz. When it happened, I pretty much automatically picked up Making Money to cheer myself up ... until the irony of doing that hit me. At least I can still enjoy his books. I seem to find something new to cherish in The Truth every time I read it, and I've read it so many times it's falling apart at the seams.
Gosh, when was the last time I got to read fiction...
Terry Pratchett, obviously. His ability to combine humor and seriousness is amazing. Ray Bradbury, more his creepy stories like Something Wicked This Way Comes. Speaking of creepy: Lovecraft. I wish I could write something even half as unsettling as his. Johnathan Howard is awesome. He writes a combo of dark humor and just plain dark that has probably inspired me a bit too much.
Isaac Asimov, Patrick O'Brian, Douglas Adams, Stephen King (his older stuff, mostly), all the miserable Russian greats like Dostoyevsky and Chekov...
African American literature all the way. I'm especially interested in books that are about navigating identity both of the individual and within a community and I think black authors do that in ways more interesting than anyone else. I can go very long stretches of time without reading anything but academic texts and African American literature. I think the last book I really read that didn't belong to that category was one of Sophia Kinsella's Confessions of a Shopaholic series last May (my sister loves them) or Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, which is amazing, in late 2014. It's not that I make a point to only read AfAm lit but it's easy to stay in that small world
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In general I'm a fantasy lover, though I have to be honest and say I haven't read much fantasy lately. I write it plenty, though. I absolutely love the His Dark Materials trilogy too, reading it got me out of some bad places and I'm forever grateful to it. Plus, I'm a daemon addict now. Hello MFS daemon AU how are you today...
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I have read the first His Dark Materials novel but it's been over a decade. I don't remember it very clearly.
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Terry Pratchett, obviously. His ability to combine humor and seriousness is amazing. Ray Bradbury, more his creepy stories like Something Wicked This Way Comes. Speaking of creepy: Lovecraft. I wish I could write something even half as unsettling as his. Johnathan Howard is awesome. He writes a combo of dark humor and just plain dark that has probably inspired me a bit too much.
Isaac Asimov, Patrick O'Brian, Douglas Adams, Stephen King (his older stuff, mostly), all the miserable Russian greats like Dostoyevsky and Chekov...
...I really miss reading fiction.
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I think Something Wicked is the only Bradbury I've read and it was so good, kind of innocent but still creepy.
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