Question from a reader

[rolanni]

From deep in the comment thread of the last post, we have the following question:

If you're willing to share, I'm just curious -- how many of the favorites/current reading listed by other folks have you already read?

Well, let's see...

Poison Study, Maria V. Snyder
Definitely Dead, Charlaine Harris
Storm Front, Jim Butcher
entire eight books of the wizard series by Diane Duane
Sorcery and Cecilia, Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer
Arabella, Georgette Heyer
Downbelow Station, CJ Cherryh
These Old Shades, Georgette Heyer
The Masqueraders, Georgette Heyer
Niccolo Rising, Dorothy Dunnett
the Brother Caedfael mysteries, Ellis Peters
Uglies and Pretties, Scott Westerfield
Smoke And Ashes, Tanya Huff
the Kencyr books by P.C. Hodgell
The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis
Lord Valentine's Castle, Robert Silverberg
Summers at Castle Auburn, The Shape-Changer's Wife, Wrapt in Crystal, Sharon Shinn
The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
Hellspark, Janet Kagan
Nine Princes in Amber, The Guns of Avalon,Sign of the Unicorn, The Hand of Oberon, The Courts of Chaos, Roger Zelazny
Memory, Lois McMaster Bujold
Space Cadet, Robert A. Heinlein
Farmer in the Sky, Robert A. Heinlein
The Threads that Binds the Bones, Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Summer Country, James Hetley
Alien Taste, Wen Spencer
Rats, Bats & Vats, Eric Flint, Dave Freer
the Anthony Villiers series, Alexei Panshin
On Basilisk Station, David Weber
the Telzey Amberdon stories, James A. Schmitz
Agent of Vega, James A. Schmitz
the Joe stories, Murray Leinster
Skeen's Leap, Jo Clayton

I have tried random Pratchetts -- and, I'm sorry, but I Just Don't Get It.  No sense of humor, me.

Ditto, Gaiman.

And, having read the first Niccolo, after which I was depressed for a month, I have strong doubts that I'll ever seek out the Lymond books, though many people whose taste I respect adore them.

Comments

gaiman and pratchett....

[(Anonymous)]

are clearly a matter of personal preference. I like mythology, which is why I liked American Gods and Anansi Boys so much. I can't read the first Pratchett's... but do like his more recent work.

In the same vein, I really like Jane Lindskold's books about immortals/ legends/ gods (the athanor) living in the the everyday world... Changer and Legends Walking. Her most recent Child of a Rainless World was strange but rather bewitching. good concepts, good characters, strange plot. I'm NOT fond the wolf-y books.

I recommend reading more Jim Butcher... he's defintely learning the writerly craft as he goes. The last four books have been leagues above the first few.

Have you read Sharon Shinn's Samaria/Angel books? very romantic... very similar plot lines among all of them. but fun.

Have you tried Lynn Flewelling? The Nightrunner books are adventure, intrigue, darkish but fun. The Tamir books are just weird! glad I borrowed those from the Library.

I like Catherine Asaro for romantic/sci-fi. The Skolian universe has good science and good characters. Some of the books are little too sex-ish (not sexy)... but the books about Soz are great!

KB