me .. and book obsessions
I swear I'm not dead. and wow, like, LJ has changed quite a bit since my last post.
I need book/author/series suggestions. to help you understand what I like (and how much I read) think I'll list (some of) the books/authors I've been reading lately, all under the cut so this post isn't like, 100 pages long.
I welcome any suggestions if you think I would like something. I read really fast so dont be like, "omg", or something. its like a movie in my brain! heh. (i just pictured/heard Ralph from the Simpsons saying that)
One thing, does anyone remember a book that came out in mid to late 90s, funny, hard to get into because the first couple chapters are sort of dry, written by two authors, NOT GOOD OMENS (which isn't hard to get into..)
well, two things - does anyone remember a book about a store (basically) that only appears when you really need something, funny funny book..
those two have been bugging me and I can't find either.
BTW, we went to the library about a month ago and between us both got about 15 books.. and I only read at night at home.. I went again last saturday and (only) got 5 books and ive already read one - I started last night. would have probably finished 2 by now but, I was halfway thru the 2nd wheel of time. turns out one I checked out, we already own (durh, when you have too many books, its nearly impossible to find stuff)
it’s ok if the author’s books aren’t a series. I like sci-fi, fantasy, cyberpunk, horror, chick-lit, classic literature (loved Jane Eyre), non-fiction (like memoirs, true stories)... I read a book recently called Halting State by Charles Stross which was really cool.
Anyway here we go:
Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan (read first two, yeah so i started late!)
Ender/Bean books by Orson Scott Card
Wild Card Series by George R. R. Martin (got kind of old after a while, tho)
Cassandra Palmer series by Karen Chance (just started)
Merry Gentry series by Laurell K Hamilton (just started)
Ravirn series by Kelly McCullough (read first two)
Master of the Five Magics series by Lyndon Hardy
Lord of the Isles trilogy by David Drake
Xanth series (I don’t know where I left off, but I was starting to get bored); Incarnations of Immortality series, (need to find Under a Velvet Cloak); Apprentice Adept series; Tarot series (just started); all by Piers Anthony
The Belgariad series by David Eddings
Septimus Heap series (sort of a kids series like Harry Potter) by Angie Sage
Thursday Next books by Jasper Fforde
Nursery Crimes books by Jasper Fforde
Myth series, and Phule series by Robert Asprin (punny, like Piers Anthony, but very good)
Bartimaeus trilogy by Jonathan Stroud (also sort of a kids series)
His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman (they just made the first one, The Golden Compass, into a movie)
Discworld series (also the Tiffany Aching books, which are more geared towards younger readers, and the Bromeliad trilogy (think the Borrowers)) by Terry Pratchett
Black Jewel series by Anne Bishop (Linda: A new one just came out in March!!)
Nearly all of the Forgotton Realms books by R. A Salvatore, particularly all of the Drizzt/dark elf/sellwords/hunters blades books (including the War of the Spider Queen)
The Chronicles of Prydain books by Lloyd Alexander
The Hitchhikers books by Douglas Adams
Fafhrd and Grey Mouser books by Fritz Leiber
Vald Taltos series by Steven Brust
Dresden series by Jim Butcher, and just got the first Codex Alera Codex at library
Stephanie Plum books by Janet Evanovich (may be on the third?)
couple of the Kay Scarpetta series by Patricia Cornwell
bunch of the Alex Cross books by James Patterson, sort of interested in Women's Murder Club
Some authors I really like are Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Anne Rice, Christopher Rice (Anne Rice’s son), Bentley Little (great horror), Clive Barker..
sort of interested in Laurell K Hamilton's vampire hunter series, the Spellman Files series by Lisa Lutz (have heard it is similar to Stephanie Plum series), the Dead End Job and Mystery Shopper series by Elaine Viets (heard they were amusing, too), Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber, maybe The Company series by Kage Baker, and maybe the Kinsey Milhone series by Sue Grafton (those A is for Alibi, etc, books).
ideas ideas ideas?
I need book/author/series suggestions. to help you understand what I like (and how much I read) think I'll list (some of) the books/authors I've been reading lately, all under the cut so this post isn't like, 100 pages long.
I welcome any suggestions if you think I would like something. I read really fast so dont be like, "omg", or something. its like a movie in my brain! heh. (i just pictured/heard Ralph from the Simpsons saying that)
One thing, does anyone remember a book that came out in mid to late 90s, funny, hard to get into because the first couple chapters are sort of dry, written by two authors, NOT GOOD OMENS (which isn't hard to get into..)
well, two things - does anyone remember a book about a store (basically) that only appears when you really need something, funny funny book..
those two have been bugging me and I can't find either.
BTW, we went to the library about a month ago and between us both got about 15 books.. and I only read at night at home.. I went again last saturday and (only) got 5 books and ive already read one - I started last night. would have probably finished 2 by now but, I was halfway thru the 2nd wheel of time. turns out one I checked out, we already own (durh, when you have too many books, its nearly impossible to find stuff)
it’s ok if the author’s books aren’t a series. I like sci-fi, fantasy, cyberpunk, horror, chick-lit, classic literature (loved Jane Eyre), non-fiction (like memoirs, true stories)... I read a book recently called Halting State by Charles Stross which was really cool.
Anyway here we go:
Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan (read first two, yeah so i started late!)
Ender/Bean books by Orson Scott Card
Wild Card Series by George R. R. Martin (got kind of old after a while, tho)
Cassandra Palmer series by Karen Chance (just started)
Merry Gentry series by Laurell K Hamilton (just started)
Ravirn series by Kelly McCullough (read first two)
Master of the Five Magics series by Lyndon Hardy
Lord of the Isles trilogy by David Drake
Xanth series (I don’t know where I left off, but I was starting to get bored); Incarnations of Immortality series, (need to find Under a Velvet Cloak); Apprentice Adept series; Tarot series (just started); all by Piers Anthony
The Belgariad series by David Eddings
Septimus Heap series (sort of a kids series like Harry Potter) by Angie Sage
Thursday Next books by Jasper Fforde
Nursery Crimes books by Jasper Fforde
Myth series, and Phule series by Robert Asprin (punny, like Piers Anthony, but very good)
Bartimaeus trilogy by Jonathan Stroud (also sort of a kids series)
His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman (they just made the first one, The Golden Compass, into a movie)
Discworld series (also the Tiffany Aching books, which are more geared towards younger readers, and the Bromeliad trilogy (think the Borrowers)) by Terry Pratchett
Black Jewel series by Anne Bishop (Linda: A new one just came out in March!!)
Nearly all of the Forgotton Realms books by R. A Salvatore, particularly all of the Drizzt/dark elf/sellwords/hunters blades books (including the War of the Spider Queen)
The Chronicles of Prydain books by Lloyd Alexander
The Hitchhikers books by Douglas Adams
Fafhrd and Grey Mouser books by Fritz Leiber
Vald Taltos series by Steven Brust
Dresden series by Jim Butcher, and just got the first Codex Alera Codex at library
Stephanie Plum books by Janet Evanovich (may be on the third?)
couple of the Kay Scarpetta series by Patricia Cornwell
bunch of the Alex Cross books by James Patterson, sort of interested in Women's Murder Club
Some authors I really like are Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Anne Rice, Christopher Rice (Anne Rice’s son), Bentley Little (great horror), Clive Barker..
sort of interested in Laurell K Hamilton's vampire hunter series, the Spellman Files series by Lisa Lutz (have heard it is similar to Stephanie Plum series), the Dead End Job and Mystery Shopper series by Elaine Viets (heard they were amusing, too), Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber, maybe The Company series by Kage Baker, and maybe the Kinsey Milhone series by Sue Grafton (those A is for Alibi, etc, books).
ideas ideas ideas?