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post #81 of 133
6/4/08 at 5:25pm
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Originally Posted by abimommy View Post
He finished at book 11

They are just too graphic for me but I started then AFTER I got pregnant. There is just too much raping and gruesome violence.
There is a lot. For some reason, it doesn't get to me as much as in some other books - although there are definitely some really freaky scenes. I find them almost children's books compared to something like George R.R. Martin, though.

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Deathgate cycle, I couldn't get into that either the first time I tried it. I might give it another go.
That's it! I've been thinking the same...

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IMO Gaiman+Pratchett is even better than Pratchett or Gaiman alone . Pratchett keeps Gaiman from taking it too seriously or overdoing things and Gaiman keeps the story from wandering all over the place.

I wish they would do something else together. I think Good Omens is one of the most frequently recommended books on this forum.
Yes. They're a brilliant combo. Without the gross scene with the telemarketers, that would be a perfect books...and it's close, just as it is.
post #82 of 133
6/4/08 at 5:30pm
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There is a lot. For some reason, it doesn't get to me as much as in some other books - although there are definitely some really freaky scenes. I find them almost children's books compared to something like George R.R. Martin, though.
That's funny They bother me WORSE than in other things. I was surprised I even found them to just be "too much" as that hasn't ever happened to me before. Maybe it is the "reading them while pregnant" thing. I will try and pick them up after the baby is born.

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Yes. They're a brilliant combo. Without the gross scene with the telemarketers, that would be a perfect books...and it's close, just as it is.
post #83 of 133
6/4/08 at 6:00pm
I had to go back and check to make sure, but I had a feeling you all were referring to Terry Goodkind's stuff.

I read the first several and they were meh, but I hated the main character with a fiery passion and wanted something really terrible to happen to him.

And I LOVE LOVE LOVE Good Omens! One of my favorite books of all time.

I can not for anything get into Terry Pratchett, not sure why. But I generally love Neil Gaiman. American Gods is a fantastic book! Also one of my favorites.

I think we're leaving the realm of sci fi and going into more fantasy type stuff, but there's so much that is a bit of both, though.

Another really wonderful series I would like to recommend would be David Eddings' The Belgariad. And also the Mallorean after The Belgariad, then the two supplementals, Belgarath the Sorcerer and Polgara the Sorceress. I really enjoyed the whole dang thing. It's not very heavy stuff, and a very fun and entertaining read all the way through.
post #84 of 133
6/4/08 at 7:31pm
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Originally Posted by abimommy View Post
I am fond of Steven Brust's Phoenix Guard and the following books that go with it.
Gary keeps recommending those to me. We haven't found the first one yet, though. (Sure, I could go get it from the library, but that would be cheating!)
post #85 of 133
6/4/08 at 10:34pm
I love Steven Barnes and his wife Tananarive Due's works......I think its cool how they are both great sci fi writers with their own following and married..
post #86 of 133
6/4/08 at 10:39pm
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And I LOVE LOVE LOVE Good Omens! One of my favorite books of all time.
I got the "Crowley" scent from the Black Phoenix people. Such a nice scent on a man.
post #87 of 133
6/4/08 at 10:40pm
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Gary keeps recommending those to me. We haven't found the first one yet, though. (Sure, I could go get it from the library, but that would be cheating!)
A lot of authors write from a historian's perspective but he actually wrote that trilogy from a snooty prissy pants historian's perspective. They aren't "humor" like Terry Pratchett but there are quite a few times reading those I crack up completely.
post #88 of 133
6/4/08 at 11:29pm
I never could get into Steven Brust's solo stuff, but I really loved Freedom and Necessity, which he co-authored with Emma Bull. Early steampunk, kinda.

Those of you that love Bujold (like me!) may also like Sharon Lee & Steve Miller's Liaden series. Space opera, with a bit of romance. I wish they would write more of them. They're serializing a new one now online and they haven't posted in the last three weeks and it's driving me crazy.
post #89 of 133
6/5/08 at 1:01am
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Originally Posted by abimommy View Post
That's funny They bother me WORSE than in other things. I was surprised I even found them to just be "too much" as that hasn't ever happened to me before. Maybe it is the "reading them while pregnant" thing. I will try and pick them up after the baby is born.
I can't imagine reading those when pregnant - simply cannot imagine.
post #90 of 133
6/5/08 at 1:07am
I enjoyed Phoenix Guard, but haven't read anything else by the author.

I really enjoyed The Belgariad, and have read all the rest (The Mallorean, The Elenium, The...Tamuli(?) and Polgara and Belgarath). I found that his style became a bit tedious after a while, but The Belgariad was a lot of fun. I used to think I'd love to see it made into a series of movies.
post #91 of 133
6/5/08 at 1:17am
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I enjoyed Phoenix Guard, but haven't read anything else by the author.
He also did Vlad Taltos series which is about an assassin in the same setting as the Phoenix Guard, but a different time period.
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I really enjoyed The Belgariad, and have read all the rest (The Mallorean, The Elenium, The...Tamuli(?) and Polgara and Belgarath). I found that his style became a bit tedious after a while, but The Belgariad was a lot of fun. I used to think I'd love to see it made into a series of movies.
I read the Belgariad and the Mallorean but not the rest. It's been awhile though, but I enjoyed them. I should read them again because I really don't remember much about them.
post #92 of 133
6/5/08 at 3:17am
My copy of Good Omens is signed by both Gaiman and Pratchett.
post #93 of 133
6/5/08 at 5:45am
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My copy of Good Omens is signed by both Gaiman and Pratchett.
Ok, now that's just mean
So sad Pratchett is sick

Oh!!! Kurt Vonnegut, Jr's stuff would fit in here well. Slaughterhouse 5 is one of my favorites. His stuff has sci fi thrown in with fantastical situations based sometimes on autobiographical events, and a brilliant, biting sociopolitical bent to it. I think it works well enough to put it on this thread.
post #94 of 133
6/5/08 at 5:57am
i like Tunnel in the Sky and Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert A. Heinlein. they are YA books but i still like them.

Kiz
post #95 of 133
6/5/08 at 11:58am
ok, maybe someone can jog my memory? THis is a fantasy book where the main character is a singer- she ends up on another planet where singing has magical implications.. she kind of becomes a magician through music? There are three or four books in the series..
post #96 of 133
6/5/08 at 2:38pm
Is it definitely fantasy?

My first thought was Anne McCaffrey's Crystal Singer, but maybe you're thinking of The Spellsong Cycle, by L.E. Modesitt? The first book is The Soprano Sorceress. I love the first book, and the others are decent.
post #97 of 133
6/5/08 at 3:49pm
Speaking of L.E. Modesitt, he's done some neat stuff in terms of world and society building with his science fiction books, which I like better than his fantasy books.
post #98 of 133
6/5/08 at 3:57pm
Help me out with a title here: I read this book around the same time that I read Gate to Women's Country, but it is NOT that, although the premise is somewhat similar.

Women live in walled dome cities and outside is the wilderness. Men are reputed to be lurking out there. Inside the cities the women have everything they need and life is peachy now that men are out of the picture.

A woman gets exiled from the city/dome because she kills someone (a lover?) It might have been an accident, but the law's the law. She goes, and I think her mother or her daughter decides to go into exile with her. The book is about what happens to them out in the wilderness.

Ring any bells?
post #99 of 133
6/5/08 at 10:51pm
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Originally Posted by Storm Bride View Post
Is it definitely fantasy?

maybe you're thinking of The Spellsong Cycle, by L.E. Modesitt? The first book is The Soprano Sorceress. I love the first book, and the others are decent.
That's the one! My gf is a trained singer (opera, et al) and she introduced me to the books- which SHE LOVED! I am NOT musically trained, and I still liked them- but yeah, very much fantasy realm. Thanks for kick starting my brain!
post #100 of 133
6/6/08 at 12:17am
Bone Dance by Emma Bull. I love this book!

Sherri Tepper is definitely worth another chance. I tried The Gates to Women's Country several times because I love everything else she has written but I just couldn't get into it. I really like Raising the Stones.

I have read most of Henlein because he has good ideas but usually end up tossing it across the room because of the sexism. Same with McCaffrey.

What about Elizabeth Moon's other works, the Once a Hero series is great.

How about Gillian Bradshaw's forey into SF? What was the name of that book about music and the human brain?
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