What do you like to read?

Wednesday, June 26, 2002 by Chef Garry | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk

The crap thread has evolved into a thread about books so I got to thinking about what y'all like to read.

For myself, I read a fair bit of SF. Currently I'm re-reading a bunch of Heinlein - certainly the master. Terry Prachett's stuff is great and sometimes I read Piers Anthony although I like his older stuff better.

Len Deighton (I think I read all his stuff) and MacDonald's Travis Magee books (started on that re a reference from Calahan's (sp) saloon). Ludlum is good as well - Bourne Identity was great but I'm leery of the movie as I expect too much will be lost.

What do you read?

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moshi
Reply #1 Wednesday, June 26, 2002 11:06 AM
my favorite writers are Thomas Pynchon, Robert Anton Wilson and Umberto Eco.

craeonics
Reply #2 Wednesday, June 26, 2002 11:23 AM
Fantasy (any) and stuff on ancient civilisations. And comics, loads of those.

Chris
Reply #3 Wednesday, June 26, 2002 11:26 AM
Usually fantasy and sci-fi.Stuff that I enjoy and think is a cut about the rest (off the top of my head):

JRR Tolkien. Have a collection of hundreds of Tolkien/Tolkien related books.
George RR Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series
Tad Williams' Memory, Thorn, and Sorrow series
Ursula K. LeGuin's great.
Phillip K. Dick
Heinlein's juvenille books (he lost me with everying including and after Stranger in a Strange Land)
Guy Gavriel Kay
Roger Zelazny
Jack Vance
Gene Wolfe
Stephen Donaldson
Paul Park
Lucius Shepard
Orson Scott Card
Raymond Feist (lightweight but fun)
Eddings' Belgariad. Everything after those first 5 books, let's pretend it didn't happen ok?
Now, don't get me started with the ever popular Robert Jordan. First few books were great. Then right into the toilet he went.

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Doreen
Reply #4 Wednesday, June 26, 2002 11:34 AM
hate to read, don't even know why I read the msg boards so much! hehe

alright if and when I do rarely read it usually is some grusome book something scarey

craeonics
Reply #5 Wednesday, June 26, 2002 11:35 AM
Jordan seems to recycle the same topics in every book. In that sense it's even flatter than Eddings. Luckily it's still entertaining, unlike Orson Scott Card. I almost fall asleep if I read his stuff. *yawn*

Memory, Sorrow & Thorn is very good. But my fave will probably always be Musashi by Yoshikawa

Chris
Reply #6 Wednesday, June 26, 2002 11:42 AM
Crae is that a Japanese historical novel about a Samurai? It sounds vaguely familiar. I think I remember seeing an English translation in the book store a few years back.

As for Jordan, I got tired of reading about every side-character's minion's lackey's best friend's evil man servant's struggle with the some distant toady's underlings' warrior's inn keeper's wive's best-friend's prostitute's evil henchman.

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craeonics
Reply #7 Wednesday, June 26, 2002 11:53 AM
Okay, but I read rather fast (60-100 pages/hour), so I skim over the excessive bits.

craeonics
Reply #8 Wednesday, June 26, 2002 11:58 AM
As for Musashi, it is indeed a historical novel. Deals with the story of Minamoto Musashi and his continuing fued with the Yoshioka school, the swordsman Kijiro and his aunt (or was it his mother in law?). 1300 or so pages, biggest book I ever read (that is: biggest single volume book).

mormegil
Reply #9 Wednesday, June 26, 2002 11:58 AM
Love Fantacy, and si-fi, but best book ever is Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.

werewolf
Reply #10 Wednesday, June 26, 2002 12:00 PM
SF, horror and fantasy mostly. Asimov, Tolkein, Heinlein, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, James Herbert, Frank Herbert, Robin Cook, Anne McCaffrey, etc.

For grins...Doonesbury, Calvin & Hobbes, For Better or Worse, Bloom County, Outland (Berkley, please come back), Foxtrot, Dilbert.


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Chris
Reply #11 Wednesday, June 26, 2002 12:09 PM
Yep Musashi is definitely the book then. I remember it was huge. It looked intriguing and intimidating.

Chris
Reply #12 Wednesday, June 26, 2002 12:11 PM
For grins, Bloom Country is great. I just had to chuck my ancient Bill and Opus stuffed figures as they were looking mighty sad. Billy and the Boingers anyone? DeathTongue?

As for comics, SandMan, Ultimate Spider-Man, and J. Michael Strazinksi's Rising Stars.

Ogre66
Reply #13 Wednesday, June 26, 2002 1:22 PM
The orginal Grisham's were good, but it is getting a bit repetitive so I've skipped the last 3 or 4. Mostly I read action adventure stuff like Ludlum, Clive Cussler, Stephen Coonts, Clancy. But, like my music taste, my library is quite varied with some SciFi and Fantasy, as well as several non-fiction books and interesting biographies.

Griffinme
Reply #14 Wednesday, June 26, 2002 1:38 PM
Shelby Foote-"Civil War" (a fantastic history series)
James Burke-"Day the Universe Changed" (a fascinating book about how western civ/tech got to where it is today)
George Orwell "1984" "Animal Farm" (imo, two of the most important books about society ever written)



Tolkien (c'mon the man practically created the fantasy genre)
Heinlein
Asimov
Donaldson's early works (everything else he has done has been the same stories in different settings)
Steven Brust (I started reading him when I was young and as I grew up so did his main character)
Fiest
Larry Niven
Fred Saberhagen






Caylynn
Reply #15 Wednesday, June 26, 2002 2:22 PM
I read mostly historical fiction and fantasy. My favourite authors include:

L.E. Modesitt, Jr., Chaz Brenchley, Anne Bishop, Mercedes Lackey, Katherine Kurtz, Anne McCaffrey, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Sara Douglass, Terry Goodkind, George R.R. Martin, Jack Whyte, Bernard Cornwell, JRR Tolkien, Guy Gavrial Kay (he's Canadian! ), Pauline Gedge, David Eddings The Belgariad (as someone above said, forget everything that came after), Robert Jordan (except I'm going to have to start re-reading all the books, I'm totally lost), David Gemmell, Robin Hobb, and the list goes on and on...

My fiance introduced me recently to Asimov, and I quite enjoyed his books as well.

I love reading - I read on the bus on the way to and from work, and I read for at least half an hour every night before going to bed - it's how I unwind and get ready to sleep.

Caylynn
Reply #16 Wednesday, June 26, 2002 2:24 PM
Oh, I forgot the comics:

Artesia, Age of Bronze, Knights of the Dinner Table (hilarious if you've ever role-played), Sojourn, Scion, Meridian, Queen & Country, The Red Star

Koasati
Reply #17 Wednesday, June 26, 2002 2:35 PM
I love SciFi............some of my favorite authors;

Peter F. Hamilton
Orson Scott Card
Jack Chaulker
W. Micheal Gear
Issac Asimov
Charles Sheffield
Aurthur C Clarke
Cordwainer Smith
Friedrick Pohl



Elwin
Reply #18 Wednesday, June 26, 2002 3:16 PM
Bob Heinlein
Larry Niven (until his publisher turned him into a "sequel machine")
King's Dark Tower series
Koontz
C. S. Lewis' fantasy and SF
Mark Twain
E.A. Poe

To name a few...

KenLin
Reply #19 Wednesday, June 26, 2002 3:20 PM
Robert Ludlum
Jeffrey Archer
Robert Jordan

Chef Garry
Reply #20 Wednesday, June 26, 2002 4:59 PM
Now I got a whole bunch of new stuff to read - just in time for camping season. Sun, a good book and a beer or 2, or maybe more

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