@Xander My favourite fantasy books, excluding LOTR,
The Demon trilogy by Terry Brooks
The Many Coloured Land, 4 book series, by Julian May
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the unbeliever by Stephen Donaldson
G of T seems pretty good - I’ve not made up my mind as to whether I can still get through this type of book anymore or if I lost the knack at 18 when I finished the last Covenant book. When he brought out the last couple of books rounding the Covenant series off I just felt like I had wasted my time.
I read the LOTR so many times, and was in the Tolkien Society at 11 that all I can do these days is read my favourite bits, I just can’t get through it from cover to cover again.
Halfway through Walden…or life in the woods but im really struggling with it now and i picked up Richards Laymon’s Travelling vampyre show yesterday so i may start it later and return to Walden when its done.
The Lyonesse trilogy by Jack Vance. Also wading through a geology textbook, because I’ve always felt that when you stop learning, your mind starts dying.
@simongrant I’m only about a quarter of the way through 63 and so far so good. The Traveling Vampire Show looks like it would be a good book. Who else do you read? I’ve been thinking about giving the new Koontz book a try some time right off.
@googlebomb The travelling vampyre show is a blast,only the 2nd Laymon book i have read the other being midnight tour which is part of the beast house trilogy. As for who i read it is mostly Mr King. I have read the first three Odd Thomas books by Koontz and all three were great. Have you tried anything by Brett Easton ellis? I have read American Psycho and Less than Zero,what a very talented man indeed,both books had me gripped but i can’t say why,very very weird but brilliant with it.I need to buy more Ellis titles although there arent that many.
yeah but you realize all these stories are just rip offs of the first story told around fires when people lived in caves. (sorry had to make fun of haters for a second).
that is true. When I saw Game of Thrones and Hunger Games and remembered people saying they’re both already been done. And I thought wow people can’t you tell that a plot outline is not a story and that the same plot outlines have been in use forever. It’s like saying that all rocks bands that write love songs are not orginal because look someone else already wrote a song about being in love and played it with guitars bass and drums.
@simongrant No, I haven’t had a chance to check out Brett Ellis until just now. I looked him up and read an excerpt from Imperial Bedrooms. I’m hoping to find a copy of his American Psycho at my local book store this coming Friday. Have you read anything by James Patterson?
Finished 11/22/63 and loved it. I’ve read some reviews that were critical of the ending (which is typical with King’s books), but I thought the ending was very well done.