lol well I reckon he'd know then! Was looking on this site list, and this is what was shown.

 

*writes down list*

 

Seems Dreamlands might have to fight Feist for the honors..lol Although I am already into Hero of Dreams.

I just finished reading Guilty Pleasures, the first book in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K Hamilton as recommended by Goth Girl. Thanks for the tip, I really enjoyed it and am about to get started on The Laughing Corpse, book 2 in the series.

Just got done reading "The Passion" and "The promise" which were two werwolf novels by Donna Boyd.

Was meaning to read them for quite some time. I'm very glad I finally got around to them Great Reads!

Sounds good might delve into them myself as I love the werewolf more than any thing else...

Earthworm Gods by Brian Keene

 

I'm reading it, I like it, I'm telling you.

It's about worms.

Nice!

The Great Book of Amber by Roger Zelazny. (a Szgany name if I ever heard one)

 

Anyway, it's doing ok for now. Methinks it'll get more interesting later. At least I hope so.

I've just finished reading Hive by Tim Curran and it was really good.

 

It's a sequal to Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness, not written at all in Lovecraft's style, it's modern with lots of colourful language but the setting and story is a direct follow up.

hey Silver,

 

is it any good?? I a big fan of the original... some followups don't work for me... heh!

Tops

I really liked it. As I said it doesn't sound like Lovecraft at all, or should that be it doesn't read like him! It's in a conversational style with modern references and lots of swearing, (it's set at a science station at the south pole so as well as the scientists there are of course maintenance who as you might expect swear all the time, some of their comments are really funny) totally unlike the man himself but the story is quite true to the original.

 

There are one or two little discrepancies I thought but nothing major and I haven't read the original for a long time so I might be wrong about them anyway and it still didn't spoil it for me.

 

If you're unsure and don't want to risk buying it you can borrow it if you want

Really enjoyed the first 3 Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter books by Laurell K Hamilton and will certainly be buying more of the series. I'm actually quite dissapointed that I've finished them and don't have the next one yet!

King Rat by China Mieville

 

Saul Garamond is a young Londoner wrongly imprisoned for the murder of his father. Saul is snatched from the authorities by a mysterious savior named King Rat, who claims to be both the deposed leader of the rodent army driven out of Hamelin 700 years before and Saul's real father. Raised as a human, Saul has much to unlearn before King can teach him to become a worthy opponent of the Rat Catcher. The Pied Piper of Hamelin.

I'm reading the Stand by Stephen King. I'll come back in a year or so.

I don't know what it is about Stephen King books but I can only get into the thinner ones....like 'Thinner'. I've tried three times to read 'It' and always stick at page 118...maybe I should try again, Paul seems to read them very easily

I'm not actually a huge King fan but I really enjoyed 'It'

Read The Stand and It, both great books, but prefered The Stand one hell of a story (film soso). After i get my copy of The Touch and read it i think i'll have a go at The Stand again.

I have to say about 250 pages into the stand, and I've got it like a really bad dose of the flu:) It's totally amazing. I used to hate king too... but before I hated him I like him. Then I was forced to read the Dark Tower Roland is the best:) When I finished that whole series I missed all the characters... so when I have eventually finished all the books that link into DT, I'll read it again! Plenty og books in between!

I don't hate King, I just think he's really over-rated and though he has some great ideas I don't think that he can always translate them into great stories. A lot of people say that his books often reads like he's rushed the end and I agree.

 

The Stand has been recommended to me before so I'll probably give it a go at some point.

There is the potential he's over rated... I can't see that anymore. I used to be able to, I am now very glad I got the opportunity to be proved wrong with the dark tower...

 

There's a very big chance that DT is the most important story (imho) since LOTR, but if you don't like that (you'd be a heathen), then there's no point in continuing this conversation

 

[ June 17, 2006, 02:44 AM: Message edited by: Tops ]

I'm sure you'll all be totally ashamed of me here but I've never actually read LOTR! Keep meaning to, have seen the films and read The Hobbit as a kid but never got round to reading the books.

 

[ June 17, 2006, 08:35 AM: Message edited by: Silver ]

Read The Hobbit and LOTR, has anyone read the Silmarillion?

My Eyes Are Nail But Still I see

 

Johnson Milhone's mine is a world unto itself-maybe several worlds. Therapy doesn't penetrate, but nails do. Leather doesn't sew easily, and pigs don't talk-but don't tell Johnson that.

I've read it Kenny, I did enjoy it but that was due to me being a LOTR geek and loving everything to do with Middle-Earth and it's histories, but to be honest it's not exactly a great book as it lasts for thousands of years and some times it feels like it as well...

I'm still reading THe Stand...

 

Helm are you a hobbit?