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Let's see, what don't I read? I prefer high quality literature (mostly of the modern novel variety) I like Hemingway, Faulkner, Joyce, David Eggers, David Foster Wallace, Don Delillo, Henry Miller, John Updike and J.D. Salinger. I also like a good fantasy or sci-fi novel now and again (I like to think of them as brain candy biggrin ). In that genre, I like Robert Silverberg, Neil Gaiman (though he fits in the just plain good literature category too), Terry Pratchett, Anne Rice, all the Forgotten Realms novels, Stephen R. Lawhead (some of his old stuff) and of course, Tolkien and Harry Potter.

I like Sci-Fi and Fantasy Series, all kinds, I just like having a nice string of books to read. I've read the Eye of the World Series, the Narnia Series, going through the Song of Fire and Ice series right now by George R.R. Martin, I've read Dune and am considering continueing the series.

Questions:
What do people think of the Sword of Truth series? I'm considering reading them. Also, does anyone have suggestions for other series to try? You can PM me if you don't want to get this thread off its course.

Of course, those I've also read and failed to mention in my post above. sweatdrop

Almost anything I can get my hands on. Preferbly, sci-fi or fantasty.

Series wise? I like Patrica c. wrede's only series, and I love tamora peirce. She writes such great books. Of course Jk rowling, people who diss harry potter, litatlry get a good kicking from me, and Tolkien. Though a bit young for me, i still occasionally enjoy reading c.s. lewis's Narnia series. some things never die.

Currently, the one author I love the most, is amelia atwater rhodes. I love that she is writing such great novels at such a young age (she is only 20!). Plus, vampires.

Hi, I'm new here...
I read a lot of fantasy and historical fiction. I love Tolkien, Susan Cooper ("The Dark is Rising" sequence is amazing, whether you're ten years old or 100), C.S. Lewis, etc. I would disagree that the Narnia books are too young for anybody! There's a lot of meaning hidden in them that you don't notice when you're a kid -- which I guess goes for "The Hobbit" too. Oh, and anything by Noam Chomsky is good. I recommend "Hegemony or Survival" to anyone; just trust me. It will really make you think! And Dickens and Jane Austen and J.K. Rowling and Shakespeare...Okay, I"ll read pretty much anything.

And if you want a good satire, read "Gulliver's Travels." Preferably an edition with notes, so that you'll understand all the eighteenth-century political and social references.

Oo, lemme see...
John Steinbeck, J. K. Rowling, J. R. R. Tolkien, Brian Jacques, Luis Sepulveda, K.A. Applegate, Plato, er..... Those are the authors I remember. My tastes, however, run from realistic fiction to romance to alternate universes to suspense to manga to whatever book someone hands me. I'm that type of person. You give me anything with more than a word, and I'll read it. I read all the fortune cookie notes in my friend's collection, and she has a bit more than 200. xd
Er....To put it simply, I live in a mental library.

Currently working on

Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five (3rd reading)
Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls
Palanuik's Choke
Burgess' A Clockwork Orange


I HATE Scifi/fantasy with a passion