|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 5:58 pm
Things are way too serious in here. I thought I would make a spot to talk about the film and fiction that moves us....our stories are very important, too, sometimes more so than all the 'how-to' books....
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 6:08 pm
I am fond of a certain kind of book....Dark Urban Fantasy. I have read most of the Harry Dresden series (and own the DVDs of the one and only season of the TV show), Simon Green's "Nightside" series, the works of Patricia Briggs, Kelly Armstrong, C.E. Murphy. I have picked up the first few books by Lilith Saintcrow, Ilona Andrews, MaryJanice Davidson and Charlaine Harris.
Okay, that's quite a list, and there's others in the genre.
Anyone else read stories with wizards, vampires, werewolves and the like?
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 6:49 pm
lol, does twilight count?
I love twilight, the books only though
I HATE the movie. They messed it up so bad>.< lol
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 7:52 pm
I haven't read Twilight yet - I probably will, sometime soon, since I like a good story as much as anyone and I give most popular things a try.
I've read all of Harry Potter, of course, and the first couple southern vampire books that the HBO series is based on. Perhaps I understand the motivations differently, hehehe, given my background!
So the movie isn't as good as the book? It can be tough to fit an entire novel into a film.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:07 pm
its not even close
they got the characters all wrong, they made edward look stoned the whole time, i've seen better production on youtube, yeah. I hate that movie, i could rant about it all day
but the books, i could talk about all day. Total difference. I love twilight.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:27 pm
I'll have to borrow Twilight from someone, then. I just finished the Circle Trilogy by Nora Roberts this evening (vampires and witchery and interdimensional travel; save the world from the vampire horde kind of story) so I guess I need to pick up some new entertainment reading.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 9:15 am
{X} i like the artemis fowl series ^^ leprechauns and pixies and demons going all undercover secret agent on humans is pretty funny ^^ plus its kinda nice to see a little boy outsmart all the other people in the world
my favorite one so far would be the 4th one i think with the pixie girl Opal who tries to ruin the world and i havent read the 6th one yet... >>
pixies arent tiny right? they can be 'human-ish' heights as well? {X}
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 9:49 am
According to Wikipedia, pixies suffer from Victorian-era romanticization, much like fairies have. Quite possibly pixies were closer to human height than six inches tall though folklore is sketchy. The Wiki article is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PixieI went looking for Rachael de Vienne's book "Pixie Warrior", as mentioned in the article as being 'true' to pixie folklore but it seems to only be available on Amazon Kindle? But, I digress. I'll have to see if I have any of the Artemis Fowl series when I'm home - I've heard of them. Anybody read any of the Septimus Heap books? I've read the first two, "Magyk" and "Flyte."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:06 am
{X} ive read.. part.. of the first one >>" i read books about as fast as a snail can run
my mom has the first two and she wont buy the third until i read the first two ^^" kinda weird but eh, gotta love her for it {X}
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 3:59 pm
I love the fantasy/horror genre; it makes up probably 3/4 of my bookshelf!
I just recently read Twilight, and I have to agree, it's nothing like the movie, which was a piece of Hollywood crap! I'd heard a ton of anti rants about Twilight, so I actually started the book preparing to hate it, and ended up devouring it! I've been on my friend's case to bring me the other books, since I can't afford to go buy them right now, and they're always out at the library ...
As for the Circle trilogy, I read that almost two years ago, and absolutely loved it! Nora Roberts has a number of more fantasy-style series, such as the Key trilogy, but she's also borderline trashy romance ... but she's a respected author, so I don't feel so bad buying her books, versus say Silhouette ... >.<
My ab fave fantasy author of all time is Anne McCaffrey, though, although her books aren't so much the witchery, wizards, etc. Her Pern books are all about dragons, though, and her Talent series is about telepaths, telekinetics, etc ... talents! lol They border on sci-fi at points, especially in some of her other works, but still ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 4:33 pm
I think I've read almost all the Anne McCaffrey Dragonriders books and all the Talent ones, also, but it has been awhile. I haven't read any of her son Todd's books which continue the Dragonriders series.
Horror and Fantasy and Science Fiction all seem to overlap.....so why can't our witchy tastes stray over to, say, romance? Definitely some lol's to be had there. Maggie Shayne, Wiccan romance author, came to the local pagan-leaning bookstore awhile back (I'm not sure if her books have Wiccan themes, just that she, herself, is Wiccan).
I looked around the bookshelves....no Artemis Fowl. I'll go looking for that one, too.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 4:56 pm
I've seen the Artemis Fowl books many a time at my local bookstore, but I tend to pass over them in favor of a series I'm already neck-deep in, or something that's been on my wishlist for a day past forever. lol
As for Todd McCaffrey, I have an autographed copy of his book, Dragon Harper; it's one of the books he and his mother collaborated on. One of my friends worked at a con last summer that he was at, and got to hang out with him. She then went out to school in California, not far from where he lives, and they've gotten kinda tight. Odd thing is, she's never read any of the Pern books!!! She's heard me talk about them 50,000,000 times, she knows that that's where the name of my youngest daughter, Lessa, comes from, but she's never gotten around to reading the books ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 6:51 pm
I'll try to get to book-shop this weekend. I owe myself a trip down to this great used book place.
Until then, I picked up Rob Thurman's "Nightlife", another Dark Urban Fantasy. The unusual thing about this one, right at the start, is that the protagonist is male. Perhaps I just tend to pick up ones with female leads but I get the feeling that a lot of this sort of book is written by women with a feminine slant.
I wonder if there are any well-known male pagan fiction authors?
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 7:25 pm
My taste is books have nothing to do with my path, because, as strange as it might sound, I love hard sci-fi, the one that needs a solid scientific base to exist sweatdrop But I do read fantasy... in mangas xp I like fantasy manga and anime, I devoured Alice 19th (and I even used some ideas to make amulets), Escaflowne and X-1999 heart
But I'm a huge fan of Anne Rice and maybe because I love her style I'm not fond of Twilight, sorry sweatdrop
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 5:32 pm
I expect the vampires of Twilight to be a little different from Anne Rice's vampires. It has been awhile since I read "Interview with the Vampire." I think I read the book after it but didn't read any more in the series.
Hard Science Fiction can be a great read, also. I think the last ones I read were Greg Bear's "Darwin's Radio" and "Darwin's Children." The 'Science' in that case was Biology and the evolution of humans.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reply
