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11-15-2002, 08:19 PM | #1 |
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In the past month I have read:
Piers Anthony
Orson Scott card Jack McDevitt Daniel Weber Any names on this list you recognize?
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11-17-2002, 02:21 AM | #2 |
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I recognize the first author, Piers Anthony, but I've only read one book by him. It was pretty good, though.
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11-17-2002, 08:12 PM | #3 |
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What did you read?
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11-17-2002, 08:31 PM | #4 |
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The Dastard.
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11-17-2002, 11:12 PM | #5 |
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Yeah, me too.
That was one of his relatively recent Xanth novels. It was ok... I liked some of the other xanth novels better, but every time I think about pie-trees my mout starts to water (no joke!)
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11-18-2002, 12:54 AM | #6 |
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The first few xanth novels were quite clever, but it got tiresome as the series wore on. I would quite like to read some of his "serious" stuff, but I've only read Dead Morn. Any recommendations?
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11-18-2002, 01:17 AM | #7 |
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I agree with you that the xanth books are a bit worn. He also changes his mind on items like the names of minor characters(Dana or Dara? Stacy or Stella?)
Piers anthony writes serious stuff? Let me think... The only serious (If you mean 'not humour') stuff I really remember of his was the battle circle 'trilogy' (which comes in one book, as opposed to none for his first xanth trilogy). It was moderately decent post-apocolyptic scifi, if a bit depressing. His space-tyrant series looked good, but I'm holding of on reading that unitl I can read the entire set at once. THe incarnations of immorality-eh, immortality, might be something that would interest you, but maybe not. They feature plotlines such as 'satan takes control of hell'
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11-20-2002, 09:44 PM | #8 |
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12-03-2002, 09:25 PM | #9 | |
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Re: In the past month I have read:
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I agree with the previous comments: Piers Anthony is fun to read, but his series go downhill after the first few books.
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12-04-2002, 01:11 AM | #10 |
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Forgot to mention this, but I've started on the Ender series. I've finished the first one (enders game), and I will start the second one right after I've finished 2nd Foundation by Asimov.
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12-05-2002, 05:37 PM | #11 |
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I read Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card a few years back and I don't remember being very impressed. Does he get better after this?
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12-15-2002, 02:46 PM | #12 |
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You DIDN'T like Ender's Game??????
Actually, IMO, the books get even better from there, since Card wrote Ender's Game when he was relatively young and his writing style matures. They'd also probably appeal to non-sci-fi fans more because of the extensive character-centric plot threads. Still, I can't imagine not liking Ender's Game. I love the plot and the themes. And Ender's a great character. Some of the other characters have less developed characterization, but that's simply because the story is being told mostly through Ender's eyes and, being a child, he's not able to see the depths of their personalities.
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12-15-2002, 03:41 PM | #13 |
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In the past couple of months i have read :
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03-08-2003, 03:41 PM | #15 |
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03-09-2003, 01:54 AM | #16 |
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03-10-2003, 09:02 PM | #18 |
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Tolkien (my sister stole my copy of the Silmarillion, though)
Orson Scott Card (I REALLY NEED TO FIND A COPY OF CHILDREN OF THE MIND!!!) Jack Kerouac (sp?) Jaclyn Moriarty Eireann Corrigan (I tend to gravitate toward authors of depressive melodramatic poetry...) Pagan Kennedy (...and books on seventies junk culture.) Ray Bradbury Frank Herbert Sylvia Plath (for school, urgh) Pearl S. Buck (again, school. I want to burn every existing copy of The Good Earth and laugh maniacally while watching the bonfire devour them) Charlotte Bronte Edith Head & Yves St. Laurent (don't ask)
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03-14-2003, 11:42 AM | #19 |
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In the past month I've:
finished off Kim Stanley Robinson's Green Mars. |
03-16-2003, 10:52 AM | #20 |
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hmmmmm the past month...
The Hobbit Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (for like the 5th time) Tales from The Perilous Realm Last edited by Varda Oiolosseo : 03-16-2003 at 10:55 AM. |
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