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Post by werepyrezeke on Jan 4, 2012 16:02:48 GMT -5
Nobody made a thread like this yet sooo.... talk about your fav authors, books etc. And if, like me, you're writing a book or six yourself (yes six, dont ask) then blab about it. Have fun.
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Post by Noven on Jan 4, 2012 16:29:47 GMT -5
Oh? Hm. Well, I kinda have to admit I don't do that much reading. But from the little I have read, the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik has been one that I've loved, every single installment of the series so far. Set in the early 1800s, injecting dragons as a real, intelligent, species that has evolved on Earth up to that point, and it follows someone acquiring such a dragon and going through the war and various other adventures. It hits me up on my love of history, and the different take it goes about with that. Historical-fantasy would be the genre, I suppose?
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Post by Sairahiniel on Jan 5, 2012 21:19:35 GMT -5
Sounds like an interesting read. I don't know if anyone else has read it, but I'm currently reading the Age of Misrule series by Mark Chadbourn. Basically, the gods and creatures of Celtic mythology are coming back to Earth, signalling the end of the age of Science and the beginning of a new Dark Ages. BTW, if anyone wants to (please???) can you look at my writing on booksie.com? I'm Sairahiniel there too... ;D Edit-Noven: You can link freely here xD I'll even embed them all for you into hyperlinks, no worries on that.
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Post by bennyhong on Jan 6, 2012 20:39:20 GMT -5
Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon is one of my favorites. It's a mix of world war 2 novel, treasure hunting and 90's hacker story.
Also, A Good and Happy Child by Justin Evans tells of an interesting conflict between religion and psychology.
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Post by werepyrezeke on Jan 8, 2012 16:32:50 GMT -5
Wow... i never thought i'd be so easily outread on a forum... i feel silly but... anyone els read the Swor dof Truth series? Terry Goodkind? Basis for the nothing at a ll like it tv series legends of the seeker (which sucked)? Anyone?
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Post by zombiecammie on Jan 8, 2012 18:10:27 GMT -5
Funny story. I heard Moogle do a review of Wuthering Heights and so I read it. It turned out to be my favorite book evar. Lawl. X3 But yeah I recommend it to anyone who doesn't really need a lot of happiness in their reads.
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Post by Seamus on Jan 26, 2012 0:46:26 GMT -5
Alright, let's get started, here. How about, just as a beginning, the Left Hand of God series, by Paul Hoffman? It's about some pretty effed-up versions of Christianity, warrior monks, and the Wrath of God personified. Worried about too much religion? Don't be; I'm not a religious man at all, and I loved the series.
Of course, there will always be the best science fiction novel ever written. EVAR. Ender's Game, by... shite. 'And on a minute.
Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card. I have a battered old second-hand paperbook edition, and it may be one of my most prized possesions.
Last but not least, there is that all-time-great, the comedy to end all comedies, the satire of satires, the diamond amongst other less-precious stones, Joseph Heller's Catch-22. I would even go so far as to call it... the Lord... of the Dance. In book form. It's that badass.
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actionhero112
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That fire hydrant is on fire! Call the irony squad
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Post by actionhero112 on Feb 10, 2012 23:30:40 GMT -5
Looking for Alaska is pretty morbid. Summerland is pretty sweet. When Nietzsche Wept, is a pretty good asylum novel. One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest is Legendairy. Moo.
"Wait, Ender's Game, Ima let you finish, but Dune is the best science fiction novel of all time! OF ALL TIME!"
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Post by (´・ω・`) on Feb 10, 2012 23:53:02 GMT -5
Easily one of the best series I have ever read has to be The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher.
It's a series about a modern day wizard who just barely makes it by as a private detective that's willing to take.....odd cases. He gets beaten, shot, broken, sleep deprived, bitten, and possessed, but he still manages to kick ass and crack some wise(yes, I really just said that). It's a really good mystery series, with a really good twist at the end of each book, but it's also an amazing fantasy, what with all the magic and paranormal.
If you're still not convinced.....
He reanimates a T-Rex skeleton.
And rides it.
Yippee ki-yay, mother fucker.
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Post by Baconetheus on Mar 25, 2012 18:05:40 GMT -5
I actually just finished up writing a book. I'm going through some hardcore editing right now though because all of my work tends to rush towards the end, and I definitely don't want to be remembered like Collins was with Mockingjay. It's Sci-Fi, I guess. It's like... You could almost call it a Post Zombie-Apocalypse Sci-Fi. It can get pretty complicated and I don't want to get into it unless someone's genuinely interested. Being a bother is at the bottom of my priority list.
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Post by Noven on Mar 29, 2012 19:22:06 GMT -5
Nah, you should go more into it. I'm interested at least xD Sorry for a late reply too >.>
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Post by Nyx on Mar 30, 2012 21:30:14 GMT -5
The Deverry Cycle by Katherine Kerr. In short the entire story revolves around reincarnation, and is told in a non-linear style, with flashbacks going back centuries which concern the character's earlier incarnations and how they are connected to each other. The genre is "celtic fantasy". The series is divided into different acts, focusing on different times and characters and stuff. It's a very complicated series...
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Sleix
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The guy who finished the song.
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Post by Sleix on Apr 1, 2012 4:00:12 GMT -5
i love dancing jax by robin jarvis, awsome book it's about a coastal town in england where nothing much happens, until a group of dodgy black market dealers raid an abbandoned house and find a book that sends people bat-shit. They read it and start thinking they are characters from the book, and as more people read it, the whole town starts worshipping dark gods and doing things they normaly wouldn't. great open ending with lots of twists in the story.
I'm also writing three books myself, one about a post apocalyptic russian civil war, one inspired by tolkiens lord of the rings, and a humerous one about two wizards trying to save the world, which was inspired by the discworld series. I wont say anything about the books im writing though because this post has gone on long enough...
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Post by Baconetheus on Jun 7, 2012 13:59:46 GMT -5
Yes I know how severely late this is but I've been VERY busy lately, and I would like to reply to Noven's question about my book.
So I'm putting it aside for a long while to try out a different writing style and setting, with similar (perhaps the same in some cases) characters. The original book, however, is called Adept Spark, and in the future I plan on cutting out the zombies and having it just be a virus, which honestly wouldn't change much of the flow of the book. In base concept... (here's where it gets wordy) there's a company called Adept Spark that originally manufactured weapons. Eventually the government hires them to get into genetic modification and design first a human being that would not age and would not die of natural causes, and then to amplify them by way of special abilities. Eternity was the first "superhuman" that was stronger, faster, and smarter than most humans. After awhile they tested themselves and started to make humans that had special abilities. These were divided into the Aquatics, who could control water, the Thinkers, who learned concepts just by looking at things, the Healers, who could heal wounds by touch, and the Electrics, who could release bolts of pure energy. As a byproduct, some were born Berserkers, who were a genetic mutation with bright red hair and eyes and with such uncontrollable strength that a single punch could separate you at a molecular level. Eventually, they tried to make a subject that could utilize fire as an ability, but every single one they designed would ignite the flame prematurely and incinerate themselves from the inside. Then they made the Deity amplification, which was applied to a small three man squad (They were designed as weapons, and thereby to be sold in squads) consisting of a female Electric named Navitus, a male Aquatic named Maris, and the sole man who could control the fire, named Sol. The story takes place some 20 years after they were designed, after Sol and Navitus have attempted to flee the facility once before to prevent their own executions on the charge of feeling human emotions and falling in love with each other. Blah blah cheesy blah. Now, however, they have a larger group of people and when they run away, they find out that the entire world has been decimated. After Sol's first escape, Adept Spark bombed the planet and released EMPs around the globe, shutting down all electricity, and devastating cities and destroying society as a whole. Then, a virus was released to accelerate the decay of humanity so its creations could step forth and take control of what was left of the Earth, becoming the next dominant race. Story picks up when everyone has died, leaving only Sol, as he is found by a group of struggling humans. They bring him to a town where he finds out that in the seven years he's been away from the facility, an entire resistance group has been escaping and training to control the abilities that lie dormant within them, so they can mount an attack and take down the facility once and for all.
The book is a tragedy, and is copyrighted. Because my father wanted to be extra safe that none of the people I told about it would steal the idea.
Edit: Forgot to mention, there's a flashback at the end of every chapter, which is how all that backstory I mentioned gets explained.
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Post by othone250 on Jul 22, 2012 22:57:27 GMT -5
Hmm...my favorite authors are Dan Simmons, RA Salvatore, Timothy Zahn, and David Weber. If you know any of those authors, you can probably deduce that I like sci-fi and fantasy.
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