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Post by virgo_shelly on Nov 17, 2009 19:33:32 GMT -8
So there is a lot of people dissing or standing up for the twilight series. I figured I could make a thread and see who likes what. I personally LOVE to read. If I get a chance, my nose is in a book. Since I've moved to Minnesota I've read more books then I can remember and its only been a little over a year.
Anyway! So Go head and give me suggestions on Good Books. Anything that you loved reading. I'm down to read pretty much anything besides Bios and I'm looking for a series [ok..another series..] to get into.
What I've read recently that I liked...
Heaven and Earth - Nora Roberts Finished the Cirque Du Freak series - Darren Shan Finished Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling Finished Twilight series - Stephanie Mayer The Three Fates - Nora Roberts Real Vampires series - Gerry Bartlett The Unseen - Alexandra Sokoloff Once Bitten Twice Shy [Jaz Parks series] - Jennifer Rardin Gladiatrix [currently reading] - Russell Whitfield
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Post by Volt on Nov 17, 2009 19:47:49 GMT -8
Let's see... There are five books in this series.. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: 1) The Lighning Thief, 2) The Sea of Monsters, 3) The Titans Curse, 4) Battle of the Labrynth, and 5) The Last Olympian....
There is also James Byron Huggins : Nightbringer, Sorcerer, Levaithan, The Reckoning, Rora, A Wolf Story, Hunter, Cain, The Scam.. That's all he's written, they're amazing, I've read all but Rora.
Frank E. Peretti: The Oath, This Present Darkness, Piercing the Darkness
I'm not reading anything right now, sadly
I'll find more later if you're nterested, Donnie
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Post by virgo_shelly on Nov 17, 2009 20:10:10 GMT -8
The First series seems right up my ally. I love books like that. If you got any more suggestions go ahead and post them. With how much I read...I wouldn't be surprised if this thread got 300 replys with 10 books each and I was done with it in a year and a half. >.>
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Post by Volt on Nov 17, 2009 20:25:36 GMT -8
I'll check my library, you should try Huggins' books as well, granted they may have an 'inspirational' theme, they make you think, and they made me do alot of research on the subject matter, especially Hunter, Nightbringer, and Levaithan... I would try The Oath as well, slow start, but once the plot kicks in it's a very good book
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Post by Acer Kygnosti on Nov 18, 2009 1:18:45 GMT -8
Well, I can honestly suggest quite a few books. Anything that follows Steam, Bio, or Cyberpunk is usually damned good, though perhaps a bit messed up due to the idea behind those three groupings. Another I can suggest is "Vamped" by David Sosnowski. Interesting premise, but I'm not gonna say it because if I do someone will deduce what happens and say it. Anyway, moving on. If you like parody things, there's the Zombie Survival Guide, and at the moment my brain is still kaput until I am properly awake.
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Post by virgo_shelly on Nov 18, 2009 11:11:41 GMT -8
lol. Hmm. I'll look em up at the library and see if they look like my cup of tea.
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Post by Damiana Jones on Nov 18, 2009 11:51:38 GMT -8
Well....I just hate Twilight. >.>
Anyway. I got a few authors to suggest.
Keith Ablow, he is a wonderful six book series about a forensic psychologist named Frank Clevenger. Dean R. Koontz is just amazing. He does have a series about a man named Odd Thomas. But his other books are awesome. Jodi Picoult is an -amazing- writer. Read her. Especially Tenth Circle. Amazing book.
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Post by Promethius on Nov 18, 2009 11:59:34 GMT -8
I dunno, there's generally a crapload of terrible books for every good one, in any given genre. I can't imagine steampunk makes it out of that bag.
It should be mentioned that Peretti's stuff is "inspirational" (read: Christian) as well. I haven't read them since I left the religion, but a lot of things I didn't think looked too churchy back then were more obvious from the outside.
Anyway, my standard slew of recommendations:
Simon R. Green's Nightside series and Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series are both excellent series based around the idea of paranormal PIs. I personally think Dresden is better than Nightside, but they're both worth a read. Nightside's protagonist is a PI in a hidden world of London full of evil and magic. Dresden is a wizard who takes up with the Chicago PD from time to time, when he's not screwing things up on his own.
Butcher's other series Codex Alera, and the Weis/Hickman Darksword Trilogy follow main characters who are born without magic in a world full of it. Codex Alera is a bit slow on the pickup because you're hit with so many different people and such an expansive world right off the bat, but once you get a handle on it, it's excellent. Darksword is a bit older trilogy, but it's classic Weis/Hickman if you're into that.
Anne McCaffrey's Pern series and Sharon Shinn's Samaria series are both about exploring a world and discovering its origins. Samaria is actually a romance, but there's no way it's heavier on the ridiculous moony fawning than Twilight is. It's about a world where angels exist as some combination of royalty and priest avowed to help humans, and how that all comes tumbling down. Pern is this gigantic series about a world where dragonriders fight an ongoing natural disaster called Thread. You can actually start on it from either of two different angles - the Harper Hall trilogy, which was written for young adults and follows the adventures of a fisher's daughter who wants to become a singer, or the Dragonriders of Pern trilogy, which was written for adults and follows the adventures and politics of the dragonriders more closely. Either trilogy will drop you off in the main "pool" of books.
Raymond E. Feist's Riftwar Saga and Brian Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy are both about main characters who start as common people and progress to something epic. Mistborn is about a street thief who Fights The Man, and Riftwar's about this orphan named Pug who becomes a magician's apprentice. I'd tell you where they go, but that's part of the whole thing.
Lastly, Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series starts off really good and ends up a trainwreck, but at least each book can be picked up on its own without having to know anything from the previous ones. They follow different mortal human characters as each takes up the mantle of some abstract concept. The first five books are awesome, and follow Death, Time, War, Nature, and Fate. Then it starts getting a little wacky as the last three follow God, Satan, and Night. I'd warn you just to stop after the first five, but if you pick them up and actually like them, you're going to want to finish the series, and you're just destined to be incredibly disappointed.
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Post by Volt on Nov 18, 2009 12:12:50 GMT -8
Peretti's stuff is inspirational, yes, and so are Huggins' books. Personally I don't see a problem with that unless it's overly so, ie: forcing said religion down your gullet. Most of it is more of a good v. evil type of setting
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Post by Lameth on Nov 18, 2009 12:32:23 GMT -8
It's not a series, but the book is "Heart shaped box" by Joe Hill which is the pen name for Joseph Hillstrom King, Stephen King's son. Which, really made sense once I found out after I read it.
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Post by virgo_shelly on Nov 18, 2009 13:08:06 GMT -8
I'm totally biased but I would read that book just because its named after a damn good song Lameth. lol.
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Post by Promethius on Nov 18, 2009 13:20:19 GMT -8
Peretti's stuff is inspirational, yes, and so are Huggins' books. Personally I don't see a problem with that unless it's overly so, ie: forcing said religion down your gullet. Most of it is more of a good v. evil type of setting That's what I thought about some of Bill Meyer's stuff when I was still a Christian (Eli, Blood of Heaven trilogy), and a few other authors. It's certainly not the Left Behind series, but they ain't exactly CS Lewis either. Again, not saying anything directly about Peretti or Huggins' stuff, just commenting on the subject.
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Post by Jett on Nov 18, 2009 13:37:01 GMT -8
If you're into unconventional vamp books, read the Strain by Guillermo Del Toro (The guy who made Pan's Labyrinth) and Chuck Hogan. That's brill. Really interesting use of not-so-common vampire myths coupled with a brilliant plot; you can tell GDT is a film writer in the way that it's done, because once you get into the turning bit you can just see the scene changes like he'd probably play them out.
My favourite author everrrr is Ian Banks (Not Ian M Banks - same person, different genre) but he's like Marmite. He tends to swap person/tense in a lot of his books, and it takes a while to get used to. Once you do, though, it's amazing, allbeit very Scotland oriented. He doesn't do a series though, not on this side of the genre (I believe he does Sci-Fi ones mainly - I can only stand it if they don't talk about the future at all, which never happens lol). I've spent the last year or so reading all his material so the other stuff I'd normally recommend is out the window right now. I'll probably remember them in due course and come back to add to this. >.>
Oh, also, gotta agree with Matt on the Dresden Files, they're awesome.
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Post by Promethius on Nov 18, 2009 14:22:33 GMT -8
YOU READ DRESDEN?! edit: I wrote a bunch of gushy nice stuff like I've always done before, and then read your "OOC Interactions" CS section, so I edited them out.
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Post by Jett on Nov 18, 2009 14:36:23 GMT -8
You're silly.
And you recommended Dresden to me.
So of course I read it.
I worry about your memory.
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