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Heroic Knight
 
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| see, I just tend to tell people to leave me the hell alone if they try to criticise books i'm reading. I'm old enough and well-read enough to make up my own mind, thank you! Anything you suggest as good, there are a hundred people to tell you that you're wrong, and it all comes down to personal taste anyway. So read around, make up your own mind, and don't try to tell others what they should or shouldn't be reading. The only people whose reading advice I take are the authors I know I like - find their websites, blogs or whatever, there's usually books and writers that they enjoy and admire, and the chances are you'll agree because you'll be looking for the same stuff as the author you already know.
Maelstrom - Elspeth Grigori - Holy Martyr
Lilith Sartia - I see weird people!
EOS - Maram-amma Suran - The Very Important Wife
Reality - Rebecca Willatts
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Heroic Knight
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I remember feeling, at 17, that Starship Troopers was the most disturbing book I'd ever read.
I avoid fantasy, it does nothing for me. Though, in recent years I found Rowling, Pullman and Sachar all very satisfying reads. I quite enjoyed Dan Brown, although I await the day he discovers a second plot. I'm tending to read more factual stuff, these days, in particular those books with a rye or dark humour.
I don't see myself going back to Pratchett, I reread Lords and Ladies last year for the first time in a decade, but I didn't really laugh. It had some nice memories of reading it at uni, but that was it.
These days I go for Palahniuk, Ken Macleod, Chris Sagan, and Kipling, on the fiction front. I remember trying to read Hassel when I was in my early teens. I believe he's French, but I might be wrong.
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CP - Kjell Larssen, Iron Wolves
PD - The L-plate Ref
SG - JT van Horne
Bristol Vampire - Julius Linnett, Tremere
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| I feel I have to chime in on behalf of Alastair Reynolds. Brilliantly written sci-fi books, particularily century rain (The "picture in your head" will run in black and white...). I've yet to meet anyone who's read one of his novels and not liked it, and he definetely rates as my favorite author. For fantasy I've heard good things about the ice and fire books from several independant sources. To answer the main question I'm not a King fan (The books start well, then just sort of flap aimlessly.) and I can see why people would find Tolkien objectionable, even though I didn't. I haven't read enough of the other authors stuff to really comment. Still not read dead famous, should probably either do so or give it back really... J~
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Anything by Robert Rankin is sheer genious, i am also quite partial to a little Raymond E Feist
_____________________________________________________________________________After saying goodbye to sanity, you throw it off the edge and watch it tumble into the fierce furnace below... The Volcano rumbles, and then the Volcano God himself suddenly manifests in front of you. In response to your offering he curses you with a sarcastic god queue pass.
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| Phillip Reeve's Traction sequence (Mortal Engines, Predators' Gold, Infernal Devices and A Darkling Plain) are astonishing. You might need to go shopping for them in the kids' (or "young adults'") section of Waterstones, but fuck that - there's nothing immature about the stories at all. On a side-note, I think describing Gaiman as a "nice easy read" is a little unnecessarily patronising. There are flashier authors, but he's a phenomenal story-teller, and that should never be undervalued.
No spoken or written word can ever be a substitute for one's own practical experience. No-one too can convince another who does not wish to believe what he is told - only the doubter loses by his incredulity - T.C. Lethbridge
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Heroic Knight
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Depends what you want in a book I guess... I hate narrative written in the first person, but it doesn't mean someone else will find the same book as crap as I do.
Can I recommend John Fowles as being a really interesting read. Especially The French Leiutenants Woman, The Collector and The Magus...
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