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RE: Novels- favorite authors/ books/ series? - 10/16/2010 4:49:28 PM   
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This was before I knew what kink was, but there was definitely a d/s dynamic between Steve and Ginny.
I am currently reading Callings, by Greg Levoy, but am more likely to be found enjoying a random
volume from my encyclopedia collection or some similar fact filled book.

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RE: Novels- favorite authors/ books/ series? - 10/16/2010 4:56:51 PM   
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I just finished the second of Steig Larsson's trilogy (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, etc). I am shocked that I can't stop reading these books! I am not a fan of intrigue and violence, and these books have plenty of both. I just love Lisbeth Salander, though. Can't get enough of her!


I read a book a couple of months ago called The Zookeepers Wife that was about hiding Jews in Poland during WW II. Non fiction that read like a good novel.



Hey there peaceful -
I just finished the two Steig Larson books as well.  They actually had a profound effect on my writing.  I realized that my heroine doesn't have to change a whole lot.  She's allowed to be quirky.  She's allowed to continue struggling forever.  She doesn't have to become normal.  I realized it from Lisbeth.  I actually sat up in bed and said, "I don't have to change her."

I totally dig that Lisbeth girl (but then I have a real affinity with people with asperger's).  I love her mind and her ethics and her innocence in the midst of great street smart wisdom.  It's really a beautiful character portrayal. 

I heard the NPR program about the Zookeeper's Wife.  Really an amazing story.  I've not read the book, but gosh!

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p.s.  Peppermint - I'm with you.  I read all the John Jakes novels in high school.  I credit him for making me love historical fiction.  It was how history came to life for me - through the characters of his novels. 

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RE: Novels- favorite authors/ books/ series? - 10/17/2010 5:57:13 AM   
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I read a lot, so my favorites are the ones I re-read...
  - the Dune series by Frank Herbert (but only up to God Emperor - after that they're not worth it, and anything by Brian Herbert is disqualified)
  - the Earth's Children series by Jean M. Auel
  - Otherland by Tad Williams
  - Anne Rice's vampire series and the Sleeping Beauty trilogy
  - the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy by Douglas Adams (even though the trilogy is really five books, that's part of its' charm)
  - Ender's Game and all the sequels/spinoffs by Orson Scott Card
  - Lord of the Rings by J.R. Tolkein
Off the top of my head, that's about it... Nerd swagger!

ETA: I used to adore the Redwall series by Brian Jacques as well, but I outgrew it and gave the complete series away (or what had been published at the time) to free up space for more books


Have you read any of Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Comte de Saint Germaine novels? Those might appeal if you like Anne Rice's vampire fiction.

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RE: Novels- favorite authors/ books/ series? - 10/17/2010 6:49:13 AM   
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Terry Pratchitt!! YAY!!!

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RE: Novels- favorite authors/ books/ series? - 10/17/2010 3:15:40 PM   
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Status: offline 		Not much into series' in general with one exception: James Lee Burke's "Dave Robicheaux" novels. I've read every one and re-read some. Best series ever, imho.

I also like Greg Iles, Chelsea Cain, Linwood Barclay, Harlan Coben, Gillian Flynn, Jonathan Nasaw, Blake Crouch, Mark Nykanen and many other mystery/suspense writers.

I just finished "Pretty Little Things" by Jilliane Hoffman and "Still Missing" by Chevy Stevens. I enjoyed them both alot. I'm currently reading "Last Night At The Lobster" by Stewart O'Nan.

And PS....I'm the biggest book lover in the world and I love my Kindle too. You can have both, ya know

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RE: Novels- favorite authors/ books/ series? - 10/17/2010 4:08:45 PM   
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RE: Novels- favorite authors/ books/ series? - 10/17/2010 4:13:13 PM   
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Not much into series' in general with one exception: James Lee Burke's "Dave Robicheaux" novels. I've read every one and re-read some. Best series ever, imho.



Yay!!!

I used to like John McDonald's Travis McGee series.  Violent, dark, with a sad morality in each one, and plots that shambled instead of going in a straight line like an Agatha Christie.  Burke has all that, with real, damaged people that tug at your heart and some mindblowing descriptive abilities.


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RE: Novels- favorite authors/ books/ series? - 10/17/2010 7:37:18 PM   
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Status: offline 		I like the Trav McGee series a lot too. Sounds like I've got to try some Burke.

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RE: Novels- favorite authors/ books/ series? - 10/18/2010 5:19:13 AM   
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RE: Novels- favorite authors/ books/ series? - 10/18/2010 5:33:23 AM   
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RE: Novels- favorite authors/ books/ series? - 10/18/2010 6:28:53 AM   
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Isn't it Ross MacDonald, Steven?


Nope.  It gets confusing.  I like the MacDonald detective stories:

John, who wrote about Travis McGee
Ross, who wrote about Lew Archer
Gregory, who wrote about Fletch (the books are excellent. Ignore the crappy Chevy Chase movies).


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RE: Novels- favorite authors/ books/ series? - 10/18/2010 7:44:08 AM   
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I just finished Antony and Cleopatra by Colleen McCullough.  It was something I just happened to pick up and I will certainly be going back and reading the rest of her Modern Rome series.  Why did I have to start with the last one, lol.

I've read the entire set by Terry Brooks starting with the "Sword of Shannara" all the way to "The Gypsy Morph" and enjoyed everyone of them.

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RE: Novels- favorite authors/ books/ series? - 10/18/2010 8:13:00 AM   
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Isn't it Ross MacDonald, Steven?


Nope.  It gets confusing.  I like the MacDonald detective stories:

John, who wrote about Travis McGee
Ross, who wrote about Lew Archer
Gregory, who wrote about Fletch (the books are excellent. Ignore the crappy Chevy Chase movies).


Right, a different MacDonald, then. Thanks for setting me straight on that.

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RE: Novels- favorite authors/ books/ series? - 10/18/2010 12:34:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		I love to read series of books and have so many different authors, but then I've always been a bookworm.

Jonathan Kellerman - Dr Alex Delaware series
his wife Faye Kellerman - Peter & Rina Decker series
Ed McBain - 87th Precinct mysteries
Patricia Cornwell - Kay Scarpetta
Susan Wittig Albert - China Bayle Mysteries
Clive Cussler - Dirk Pitt series, NUMA files, Oregon Files
Robert B. Parker - anything by him (but last book came out a few months ago, passed away in January I think)
Kim Harrison - Rachel Morgan series
Colin Forbes - Tweed & Co. series

O hell, I could go on, but if I don't stop, I won't have time to read the books I have from the small but plentiful public library in town.  Just started reading modern "otherworldy" books, vamps, weres, the whole shebang and I'm having fun getting lost in them. 

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RE: Novels- favorite authors/ books/ series? - 10/18/2010 12:50:15 PM   
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I love to read series of books and have so many different authors, but then I've always been a bookworm.

Jonathan Kellerman - Dr Alex Delaware series
his wife Faye Kellerman - Peter & Rina Decker series
Ed McBain - 87th Precinct mysteries
Patricia Cornwell - Kay Scarpetta
Susan Wittig Albert - China Bayle Mysteries
Clive Cussler - Dirk Pitt series, NUMA files, Oregon Files
Robert B. Parker - anything by him (but last book came out a few months ago, passed away in January I think)
Kim Harrison - Rachel Morgan series
Colin Forbes - Tweed & Co. series

O hell, I could go on, but if I don't stop, I won't have time to read the books I have from the small but plentiful public library in town.  Just started reading modern "otherworldy" books, vamps, weres, the whole shebang and I'm having fun getting lost in them. 


54 posts before someone mentions Clive Cussler?? Can we say blasphemy?  How can this be, his novels have all been best sellers.  I have read/own just about every Cussler novel ever issued.

What  I don't get is, he has sold nearly as many books as JK Rowling, but he can not get script approval on the movies made from his novels, even though she does.   Something is not right with that picture.

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RE: Novels- favorite authors/ books/ series? - 10/18/2010 1:14:10 PM   
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RE: Novels- favorite authors/ books/ series? - 10/18/2010 1:22:53 PM   
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The Dresden files  (series)-Jim Butcher
Chuck Palahniuk - most of the shit he writes is amazing. Seriously.
Neil Gaiman - Most of his stuff is similarly amazing. Also awesome guy, marrying another of my favorite people. Albeit one from music, instead of writing.
Tad Williams (memory sorrow and thorn series, and otherland)
Dune- most of it
A few miscellaneous ones from rpgs
Dragonlance, Dark Sun, Shadowrun, some of the Forgotten Realms books, Ravenloft books, etc.

In terms of nonfiction, Michio Kaku is the fucking man.


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RE: Novels- favorite authors/ books/ series? - 10/18/2010 5:05:19 PM   
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Raise The Titanic was made into a movie, but it wasn't all that great.  I've also got most of his books and have re-read them countless times. 


Raise the Titanic was terrible, Richard Jordan was NOT Dirk Pitt. Sahara was worse with McConaughey as Pitt, and Steve Zahn as Al Giordino, in two of the more egregious casting decisions ever made. 


Cinematically,
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RE: Novels- favorite authors/ books/ series? - 10/18/2010 5:28:39 PM   
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Quick reads: the Dresden Files, Sookie Stackhouse, the Cadfael mysteries [medieval herbologist monk] and the dragon series by Naomi Novik [sorta like a poor man's Patrick O'Brian+Anne McCaffrey]
Really disappointed in the Stieg Larsson books; thought I'd like, but they're as impersonal as a Dan Brown book.

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RE: Novels- favorite authors/ books/ series? - 10/18/2010 6:02:12 PM   
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Yay!!!.....

Burke has all that, with real, damaged people that tug at your heart and some mindblowing descriptive abilities.


Yes he does. That man touches my heart with his prose in a way no other contemporary fiction author ever has. I have been known to laugh out loud (usually at Clete) and have a hearty cry when reading these. His non-Robicheaux fiction is kick-ass too. Hearing Will Patton read the audiobooks always floors me and I picture Burke himself when I picture Dave. I'm gonnna miss him when he's gone

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