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Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:43 am
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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:15 am
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Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 9:36 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 9:58 pm
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Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 4:55 pm
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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:35 pm
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Hiyo! I'm Turtle Sensei and I've got a few spiffy books to recommend!
Charles de Lint's Svaha - (description from Powells.com and the back of the book hehe) Out beyond the Enclaves, in the desolation between the cities, an Indian flyer has been downed. A chip encoded with vital secrets is missing. Only Gahzee can venture forth to find it--walking the line between the Dreamtime and the Realtime, bringing his people's ancient magic to bear on the poisoned world of tomorrow.Bringing hope, perhaps, for a new dawn. . .
Charles de Lint - he's such an amazing writer. I've been devouring his books since I was 9 yrs (I'm 22yrs, almost 23 now) His books combine Celtic and Native American mythology into a seamless masterpiece.
Theodore Judson's Fitzpatrick's War - amazing book about a crazy lord who wanted to conquer the world, and the one soldier who saw him for the monster he truly was; and was brave enough to tell the tale. It's written like a soldier's journal that has been edited by a college professor it has lots of neat foot notes and such from the professor. The history in this book is so amazingly thought out! Powell's has this to say on this book "An inspired first science fiction novel set several hundred years in the future when the world's population has been decimated by biological weapons, this book chronicles the Alexander-like rise and fall of Fitzpatrick the Younger, as told by one of his close companions."
Eric Flint's 1632 - (description from Powells.com) FREEDOM AND JUSTICE — AMERICAN STYLE 1632 And in northern Germany things couldn't get much worse. Famine. Disease. Religous war laying waste the cities. Only the aristocrats remained relatively unscathed; for the peasants, death was a mercy. 2000 Things are going OK in Grantville, West Virginia, and everybody attending the wedding of Mike Stearn's sister (including the entire local chapter of the United Mine Workers of America, which Mike leads) is having a good time. THEN, EVERYTHING CHANGED.... When the dust settles, Mike leads a group of armed miners to find out what happened and finds the road into town is cut, as with a sword. On the other side, a scene out of Hell: a man nailed to a farmhouse door, his wife and daughter attacked by men in steel vests. Faced with this, Mike and his friends don't have to ask who to shoot. At that moment Freedom and Justice, American style, are introduced to the middle of the Thirty Years' War.
And last bu certainly not least
Jacqueline Carrey's Kushiel's Dart, Kushiel's Chosen, Kushiel's Avatar, and Kushiel's Legacy (description from Powells.com again!) The land of Terre d'Ange is a place of unsurpassing beauty and grace. It is said that angels found the land and saw it was good...and the ensuing race that rose from the seed of angels and men live by one simple rule: Love as thou wilt.
Phèdre nó Delaunay is a young woman who was born with a scarlet mote in her left eye. Sold into indentured servitude as a child, her bond is purchased by Anafiel Delaunay, a nobleman with very a special mission...and the first one to recognize who and what she is: one pricked by Kushiel's Dart, chosen to forever experience pain and pleasure as one.
Phèdre is trained equally in the courtly arts and the talents of the bedchamber, but, above all, the ability to observe, remember, and analyze. Almost as talented a spy as she is courtesan, Phèdre stumbles upon a plot that threatens the very foundations of her homeland. Treachery sets her on her path; love and honor goad her further. And in the doing, it will take her to the edge of despair...and beyond. Hateful friend, loving enemy, beloved assassin; they can all wear the same glittering mask in this world, and Phèdre will get but one chance to save all that she holds dear.
Set in a world of cunning poets, deadly courtiers, heroic traitors, and a truly Machiavellian villainess, this is a novel of grandeur, luxuriance, sacrifice, betrayal, and deeply laid conspiracies. Not since Dune has there been an epic on the scale of Kushiel's Dart — a massive tale about the violent death of an old age, and the birth of a new.
I hope that you guys can pick up and enjoy these authors. They're all a really amazing bunch! You won't be able to put the books down!
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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 9:51 am
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Ok, here are some really good books that I think more people should definitely know about. They were kind of hidden in the bookstores.
Angie Sage is a pretty good author. She wrote the Septimus Heap series. There's Magyk, Flyte, Physik, and the newest one is Queste (and yes, I am spelling those correctly.
They're about this boy who is taken away from his mother after birth by the midwife who is really in cahoots with this evil necromancer named DomDaniel. He grows up in the Young Army and later finds out that he is a wizard. Meanwhile, his father finds a baby in the snow, and takes it home for he and his wife to raise along with their other six sons. Things start to get complicated when many things threathen the baby's life.
There's also these books by Ted Dekker: Black, Red, and White. It's a trilogy. Now, I found these in the religious section of Borders, but I think if you are into the action thriller, parallel universe thing, you could read them just as a book. They're really good.
They're about this guy named Thomas Hunter who travels in between two worlds in his sleep. He lives in Denver, Colorado while trying to protect his sister from a mob that he took a $250,000 loan out from. The weird thing is that the world aside from our world is several centuries ahead of our time.
They're both really good authors to check out. I'll put more on later.
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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 7:19 pm
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kuddlykoalakrazy Ok, here are some really good books that I think more people should definitely know about. They were kind of hidden in the bookstores.
Angie Sage is a pretty good author. She wrote the Septimus Heap series. There's Magyk, Flyte, Physik, and the newest one is Queste (and yes, I am spelling those correctly.
They're about this boy who is taken away from his mother after birth by the midwife who is really in cahoots with this evil necromancer named DomDaniel. He grows up in the Young Army and later finds out that he is a wizard. Meanwhile, his father finds a baby in the snow, and takes it home for he and his wife to raise along with their other six sons. Things start to get complicated when many things threathen the baby's life.
There's also these books by Ted Dekker: Black, Red, and White. It's a trilogy. Now, I found these in the religious section of Borders, but I think if you are into the action thriller, parallel universe thing, you could read them just as a book. They're really good.
They're about this guy named Thomas Hunter who travels in between two worlds in his sleep. He lives in Denver, Colorado while trying to protect his sister from a mob that he took a $250,000 loan out from. The weird thing is that the world aside from our world is several centuries ahead of our time.
They're both really good authors to check out. I'll put more on later.
Ooohh! Those sound spiffy! I'll have to check em out! |
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Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 9:04 pm
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Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 9:45 pm
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Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 9:46 pm
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Turtle Sensei kuddlykoalakrazy Ok, here are some really good books that I think more people should definitely know about. They were kind of hidden in the bookstores.
Angie Sage is a pretty good author. She wrote the Septimus Heap series. There's Magyk, Flyte, Physik, and the newest one is Queste (and yes, I am spelling those correctly.
They're about this boy who is taken away from his mother after birth by the midwife who is really in cahoots with this evil necromancer named DomDaniel. He grows up in the Young Army and later finds out that he is a wizard. Meanwhile, his father finds a baby in the snow, and takes it home for he and his wife to raise along with their other six sons. Things start to get complicated when many things threathen the baby's life.
There's also these books by Ted Dekker: Black, Red, and White. It's a trilogy. Now, I found these in the religious section of Borders, but I think if you are into the action thriller, parallel universe thing, you could read them just as a book. They're really good.
They're about this guy named Thomas Hunter who travels in between two worlds in his sleep. He lives in Denver, Colorado while trying to protect his sister from a mob that he took a $250,000 loan out from. The weird thing is that the world aside from our world is several centuries ahead of our time.
They're both really good authors to check out. I'll put more on later.
I find them intersting too, I'll see if I can find more about them, and check them out. |
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 6:33 pm
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:16 pm
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Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 7:14 pm
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