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How could I forget Katherine Kerr's Deverry series?!?! A truly epic adventure that is neither cliche nor boring and in which the mythology isn't just background, it truly integrates with the story.

Read it or no-one will be angry with you.

Why, yes, that statement does make sense.

And I just finished a book called 'Lord Darcy', a bunch of short stories written by Randall Garrett, now dead and compiled and edited by Eric Flint. Has a Sherlock Holmes feel, with some humor. Very good. Kept me up 2:30 hours more than normal. Finished the rest the next day.

* Humor example: Naming the head of the sorcerer's guide 'Gandolphus Gray'.

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[ July 10, 2004, 07:44: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

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Originally posted by dumbluck:
/me worships before the alter of Tad Williams.

"All hail Tad! All hail Tad!"

Seriously, check out his Otherland series. And I liked his Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series even better!

edit: he is, however, NOT a light read...... We still joke with him about how he wrote a book that was so big, the publishers physically couldn't fit it into a paperback. They had to split it up into 2 parts...

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I finished the Otherland series not too long ago, and although I loved his Memory, Sorry and Thorn trilogy (quadrology if you bought it in paperback), I just couldn't like this series. Maybe it was too long, maybe it was because the explanations were too long in coming, I don't know. I just didn't enjoy it as much as I did his other previous books. I just can't recommend it.

Another series of books I wouldn't recommend is the Skylark books by E.E. "Doc" Smith. I think mostly it's because of the language and grammer being used. The books were written mostly in the 40's and 50's, and it's very hard to read compared to today's fiction. I'm into the fourth and Last book, and I'm contemplating about whether I should finish it or not. I got a whole bunch of other books I could read, and in faster time too.

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Originally posted by Starhawk:
Another good sci-fi series thus far is "The Fleet", each book is a series of short stories written by many different authors some of the stories are less than entertaining but most are addictive:

Books in the series are:
The Fleet
The Fleet: Counter Attack
The Fleet: Breakthrough
The Fleet: Sworn Allies
The Fleet: Total War
The Fleet: Crisis

I've read the first two and have put the rest on order so I can't wait for em to come.

Anyway those are the books I'd recommend of the books I've read lately and found most entertaining.

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Don't forget there is another following series called "Battlestation" of which I have found the first two books. There might be only two. It is the same format and Universe as the Fleet books, just a little later in time after "Crisis".

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For a peice of very entertaining fluff, I recommend 'The Doomsday Brunette', by John Zakour & Lawrence Ganem. It's full of all sorts of pop culture references, most of which went right over my head. You know a book is good when, as a joke, it starts with 'It was a dark and stormy night...' and you don't groan. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

I recommend listening to Weird Al while reading it. Wee! My brain feels weird.er.

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George RR Martin's
A song of ice and fire.... Good series...

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has anyone read robin hobb ?

Or

Vernor Vinge

I hear a fire upon the deep and A deepness in the sky is very good...

[ July 12, 2004, 23:52: Message edited by: tesco samoa ]

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just to give a little sample of the Martin series

Bronn - "Who'd want to kill the likes of you?"
Tyrion - "My lord father, for one. He's put me in the van"
Bronn - "I'd do the same. A small man wit a big sheild. You'll give the archers fits."

....

Cotter Pike: We will fight to the Last man
Dolorous Edd: Probably me.

...

Eddard: Did he run?
The Hound: Yeah, though not very fast.

Little boy, armed with a crossbow: �Why are you in chains?�
Jaime: Killed a crossbowman.

and

"I seldom fling small children from tall towers to improve their health." Jaime Lannister

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Robin Hobb is an author I really enjoy. Great series of Magical ship books and another series as well. They are a little depressing in places (3/4 of the places http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif ), but a GREAT read.