Books in need of new books

[chipper]

well ive finally made my way through all the discworld books and im out of reading material thing is im not very adventurous when it comes to buyin something i aint familiar with so im askin you lot cos frankly if you dont know there's no hope

books ive loved and enjoyed all the discworld books unparalled

random titles ive enjoyed include
orcs
the war of the flowers
some of hte magic the gathering books
some of the star wars books
any of the dan brown books

hope that gives you some idea of the type of literature i enjoy i love sci fi and fantasy but theres so much crap out there im hesitant to buy

so if anyone can give me some good titles to try be very much appreciated

 

[nicole]

try harry poter ^_^

 

[Deebs]

Have you read any of the Lensman series of books?

 

[Edmond]

Have you tried any of the Paul Raymond series, i always find them great, they always get me going on a dark night

 

[Sockstuff]

1 word - Robert Twigger*













*may be two words.

 

[Lazarus]

David Gemmell

 

[throdgrain]

I just finished reading Point Of Impact by Stephen Hunter, best book I've read for a while.

(It's not as fantasy or sci-fi book though, I'm not 17 )






























(I know this is going to irritate you )

 

[PLightstar]

Grey Knights Novel

Its a Warhammer 40K book but I really loved it.

Have you read any of the new Star wars books like the Dark Nest series?

 

[DaGaffer]

Read some proper SF - Alastair Reynolds. That is all.

 

[Wij]

Read some proper SF - Alastair Reynolds. That is all.

Oooh - Nealy finished The Prefect. Don't think there's anythng left to read now.

 

[taB]

If you liked Reynolds (am up to date with his stuff too) try The Hyperion Omnibus from Dan Simmons. Pretty damn good books. The follow-up Endymion is good too; just don't touch his futuristic Greek Gods stuff, I thought they were awful.

On a Fantasy front, a recent good read (2nd book in the to-do pile) was The Lies of Locke Lamora - good story about a bunch of theives looking out for each other but generally trying to screw everyone else.

Other authors where I reckon I've read all (or maybe most) of their stuff:

Robert Rankin - Funny as fuck. Books based mostly around the suburb of Brentford (I've never been there myself but I've heard it's a nice place).
Tom Holt - Again amusing real world fantasy.
Gemmell - RIP As said above - classic ripping yarns and disembowlment.
Feist - Magician is still a stand out genre classic - shame all his recent stuff is formulaic wank.
Hobb - You can tell Robin's a chick from the character development stuff but the Assassin books are very good.
Banks - Sci-fi awesomeness.
Martin - Fantasy on a grand scale - he doesn't like his protagonists much and they don't often last too long
Howard - The Conan books are short and brutal - great reading.

 

[taB]

random titles ive enjoyed include
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any of the dan brown books

Holy shit! Are you ok?

 

[Gemma the Dog]

a couple of my favouorites...

are Ender's Game Amazon.co.uk: Ender's Game (The Ender Saga): Orson Scott Card: Books
a brilliant book - and the start of a series of books. What is nice is a few years back he re-visited this story by writing a book from the pov of one of the other characters - was nice to see how it interwove the two. (Enders' Shadow)

and Footfall Amazon.co.uk: Footfall: Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle: Books

 

[TdC]

George RR Martin - fantasyesque set with horses, swords, strange beings. Damn good story and sub plots though imo.
And I recently read Dragon and the Unicorn by A. A. Attanasio. It's an alternative take on the Arthurian legend(s) and the language is nice imo. I'll be getting more of the series.

 

[DaGaffer]

Oooh - Nealy finished The Prefect. Don't think there's anythng left to read now.

Just finished it myself. Excellent. His latest one is "House of Suns", which isn't set in Revelation Space. Only in hardback at the mo.

As for Dan Simmons, yeah, read the Hyperion Omnibus last year; takes a bit of getting into but I did enjoy it. I'd also add Charles Stross to the list, does proper hard SF but also more quirky stuff, Halting State is very good, could almost have been written for the FH audience, and particularly those north of the border

 

[Wij]

Don't buy hardbacks myself. I'll keep an eye out.

 

[chipper]

the george RR martin books look good TDC you reccomend which one i should pick up first?

 

[Chilly]

baroque cycle - absolutely amazing.

 

[xane]

Death Gate Cycle (7 books) by Weis & Hickman, old but still good
Swords (lankhmar) series by Fritz Lieber, much older but one of the originals

 

[TdC]

the george RR martin books look good TDC you reccomend which one i should pick up first?

well if you want to read the Song of Ice and Fire series I'd say start at the beginning:

Amazon.com: A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1): George R.R. Martin: Books

 

[Ch3tan]

Highly recommend that series too. I was hooked on them, been waiting nearly a year for the next instalment, it's out in september.

 

[cog]

The Night's Dawn trilogy and the Commonwealth Saga books by Peter F. Hamilton, good SF.

 

[chipper]

thxs TDC ordered

 

[Jimmy]

just started reading the hornblower set by C.S foster great books if you have read them and enjoyed them try the Sharpe set also good books.

on the fantasy side try an autor called robert rankin great random books

 

[Tom]

Only Forward - by Michael Marshall Smith

Amazon.co.uk: Only Forward: Michael Marshall Smith: Books

It is utterly fuckign brilliant. Totally mad, crazy ideas, odd plot, but instantly readable and one of those books you will not put down.

I have all his stuff. I'm amazed none of it is on celluloid tbh.

 

[throdgrain]

just started reading the hornblower set by C.S foster great books if you have read them and enjoyed them try the Sharpe set also good books.

on the fantasy side try an autor called robert rankin great random books

I've read them they are good, though not a patch on the Patrick O'Brian novels. If you like Hornblower and Sharpe, read Patrick OBrian. And prepare to be impressed!

 

[Deebs]

just started reading the hornblower set by C.S foster great books if you have read them and enjoyed them try the Sharpe set also good books.

on the fantasy side try an autor called robert rankin great random books

Jimmy you can read? WOW!!

Um, BarrysWorld and FreddysHouse have their roots in the Robert Rankin books

 

[ECA]

Idd, still remember penge vs whatever it was on the tribes public servers

 

[nath]

Only Forward - by Michael Marshall Smith

Amazon.co.uk: Only Forward: Michael Marshall Smith: Books

It is utterly fuckign brilliant. Totally mad, crazy ideas, odd plot, but instantly readable and one of those books you will not put down.

I have all his stuff. I'm amazed none of it is on celluloid tbh.

I thought Spares was better, but both are top stuff. Also, Spares was going to be made in to a film, but around the time it was being planned The Island comes out and screws up all those plans. It's a shame because Spares was great and The Island looks like total bollocks :/