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I have ploughed through 'lord of the rings' even though I can only rtead a little at one sitting, and I would love to read the Chronicles of Narnia; but it would have to be a book borrowed from the library. My 'stong' woman (from another thread) tells me I have enough reference books, without adding any more to the collection................Which is a fair point.NetDoc said:
I can't stand any of that sort of writing, personally, It doesn't appeal at all. I do like fiction of course, anything from Martin Cruz Smith to Christopher Pike ( Adult Fiction), and Zola, Flaubert, Balzac, Maupassent, Gide, Camus etc so much more an exploration of human nature than any fantasy. Hmm, yes, I like French Literature...Ormiston said:
I think I'm so attatched to her because she was the first author I'd read from that had gay/lesbian characters for a reason other than having gay/lesbian characters in a book.
What do you mean by both Tolkiens? If, which is all I can imagine, you are referring to Christopher Tolkien as the other one, then all he has done is edit his father's unpublished writings for publication. I don't know of any other author called Tolkien and it's not exactly a common surname.Luke Wolf said:
Yes, I am refering to Christopher Tolkien. I thought I read somewhere that he wrote a few books based in the LOTR world.
In one of her books, the gay one was in there for the explicit purpose of giving a rather slimy magician the heebie jeebies. It wasn't one of her better books, though, and she needs to have a long talk with her editor over it. Personally, I think that she and Larry Dixon made a great team in The Black Gryphon and its sequels. Personally, I rather liked Maggie Furey's Aurian and sequels quite a bit, at least partly because of the rather unique love triangle involved. "I've been a father to her, and I've been her husband. I'm not going to be her brat as well." Uhum, long story behind that (mis)quote. Let's see, I've like Christopher Rowley's books since I was ten, though it took me a while to understand what Bazil Broketail meant when he teased his dragonboy over his obsession with "fertilizing the eggs," Terry Goodkind's Wizard's First Rule and its sequels were good until a few pages into Faith of the Fallen, at which point I lost my patience with them, I might have ended up reading all of the Xanth books, though my interest in them has waned and waxed for so long that I forget even when I started on them. I was enamored with some of Bruce Coville's work when I was very young, I think my peak of interest being when I was around seven or eight. Actually, I think I finally set my teeth to finishing the Xanth books when I read the Incarnations of Immortality and realized the author still existed sometime during my mid to late teens. Of course, I ended up reading a few of Madeline L'Engle's books when I was a lad. In fact, it was her writing that kept me interested in Christianity during my teens, though this was mainly an historical and new age spiritual interest. Hey, I was a kid. My all time favorite fantasy book, however, was a collaboration between Mercedes Lackey and Andre Norton, The Elvenbane. I know, it's pretty lightweight for a fellow my age, but I like how the protagonist ends up becoming a leader of a sort of magical renaissance. When I first read the book, I was a bit younger and still had that youthful enthusiasm for invention, revolution, and all that stuffing. My second favorite book would have to be Belgarath the Sorcerer, and this is for practically no other reason than that the authors had the audacity to get the main character romantically involved with a she-wolf. Oh, I did, of course, read the series it was born from and found much of the writing fairly well-done but not particularly remarkable, begging the pardon of the co-authors' fans. One of the best fantasy books I've read lately, by the way, was The Redemption of Althalus.Jensa said:I'm a fan of Mercedes Lackey... other than that I don't have any specific authors I like.
