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Re: Great Books To Read
DIR By: Lady Merianne
Date: January 3, 2014, 5:51 pm
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I don't know as I am a good judge of that, Jon. First, I am
somewhat of an Anglophile (i.e. looking forward to the season
premiere of Downton Abbey on Sunday!), and I also love classics,
particularly 19th century British novels, not that Christie is
that old, but basically anachronisms wouldn't bother me much.
But if you like a good mystery, there is none better. I guess
you'd just have to try it and see what you think! Her
popularity has certainly stood the test of time.
A few of my other favorite fantasy series that I didn't mention
before are the Shannara series by Terry Brooks, and the Pern
series by the late Anne McCaffrey (dragons!!!).
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Re: Great Books To Read
DIR By: Jon The Devout
Date: January 3, 2014, 6:18 pm
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>
> I don't know as I am a good judge of that, Jon. First, I am
somewhat of an Anglophile (i.e. looking forward to the season
premiere of Downton Abbey on Sunday!), and I also love classics,
particularly 19th century British novels, not that Christie is
that old, but basically anachronisms wouldn't bother me much.
But if you like a good mystery, there is none better. I guess
you'd just have to try it and see what you think! Her
popularity has certainly stood the test of time.
>
> A few of my other favorite fantasy series that I didn't
mention before are the Shannara series by Terry Brooks, and the
Pern series by the late Anne McCaffrey (dragons!!!).
>
> I'm reading The Sword Of Shannara right now!
>
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Re: Great Books To Read
DIR By: Lady Merianne
Date: January 4, 2014, 2:50 am
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Is this the first time you're reading it? A lot of people say
it's a rip-off of Tolkien, and it does follow kind of the same
formula, but I think Brooks does a good job of creating his own
characters and situarions. And it's only the first book that is
most like the LotR trilogy; the others go on to different
stories. Also, if you really like LotR, and want more, there
isn't a lot by Tolkien, so the Shannara series fills that void.
I read the first eight books, but there are still more that I
should get around to someday.
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Re: Great Books To Read
DIR By: Jon The Devout
Date: January 8, 2014, 10:42 am
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--- Quote from: Lady Merianne link ---
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> Is this the first time you're reading it? A lot of people say
it's a rip-off of Tolkien, and it does follow kind of the same
formula, but I think Brooks does a good job of creating his own
characters and situarions. And it's only the first book that is
most like the LotR trilogy; the others go on to different
stories. Also, if you really like LotR, and want more, there
isn't a lot by Tolkien, so the Shannara series fills that void.
I read the first eight books, but there are still more that I
should get around to someday.
>
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I've never read LoTR, but it is the first time i'm reading
Shannara. It does however seem a bit like the LoTR movies, but
thats fine, its not too bad
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Re: Great Books To Read
DIR By: AlexisColn
Date: January 24, 2014, 6:52 pm
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You could try the latest book series of Star Trek Titan. They
follow the story of Captain William T. Rikker after Star Trek
Nemesis. Here is the list of the books that follow the Next
Generation Captain:
Taking Wing
Written by Michael A. Martin and Andy Mangels (April 2005)
The Red King
Written by Andy Mangels and Michael A. Martin (September 2005)
Orion's Hounds
Written by Christopher L. Bennett (January 2006)
Sword of Damocles
Written by Geoffrey Thorne (December 2007)
Over a Torrent Sea
Written by Christopher L. Bennett (March 2009)
Synthesis
Written by James Swallow (November 2009)
Typhon Pact - Seize the Fire
Written by Michael A. Martin (November 2010)
Fallen Gods
Written by Michael A. Martin (July 2012)
The Fall - The Poisoned Chalice
Written by James Swallow (November 2013)
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Re: Great Books To Read
DIR By: Kith Eaglestryke
Date: January 25, 2014, 11:45 am
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The Complete book of Swords series by Fred Saberhagen
The Dragonbone Chair Trilogy by Tad Williams (Does use the
saying mooncalf entirely too much)
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Re: Great Books To Read
DIR By: Xargash
Date: February 21, 2014, 3:58 pm
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I have only read one book by Agatha Christie. The book was
called "Ten Little Niggers", but it seems to be renamed since as
"And Then There Were None". Anyway I think that was a very good
mystery story.
Does anyone here like The Wheel of Time books? I think they are
pretty good fantasy, but if you are not a fan of many side plots
and lots of characters (I think I read somewhere that there is
about 2700 distinct named characters in the series!), maybe it
is not for you. The story is quite massive and long, 13 books if
I remember correctly.
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Re: Great Books To Read
DIR By: Lady Merianne
Date: February 21, 2014, 4:57 pm
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And Then There Were None is often mentioned by people as their
favorite Agatha Christie novel. It has been published under
three different titles; in addition to the one that I assume you
are referring to, it is also known as Ten Little Indians. There
have been movies under both this title and the most common
title. Christie also wrote the story as a play, but with a
different ending; some of the movies use the novel ending, and
some use the play ending. Christie enjoyed using nursery rhyme
references in some of her titles and novels.
This is one of the ones that I consider have really unusual
twists (of course, all mysteries have some kind of twist!). Two
others that have different unusual twists are Murder on the
Orient Express (aka Murder on the Calais Coach) and The Murder
of Roger Ackroyd. Some critics actually called foul on Roger
Ackroyd, as they considered the way she turned convention on its
head unfair.
One of the reasons a lot of Christie novels have multiple titles
is that the American publishers chose to use a different title
than the British publisher. In some cases, they thought there
was a cultural reference that American readers wouldn't
understand. These days, most are published using the original
British titles. My guess is that this is a result of the global
economy and the ease of online shopping, so there wasn't much
point any more. I have a lot with the American titles, since I
bought most of them back in the 70s and 80s.
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