Reader's Corner

freeboy · Post by **freeboy** » 24 Jan 2006, 14:11

Aren't geeks just the coolest people on earth?
We're technology slaves, otaku, etc.
So I wanna know what everybody reads.
I read Stephen King, James Herbert, CS Lewis, Terry Goodkind

, Dean Koontz, JRR Tolkien, etc.

Knightman · Post by **Knightman** » 24 Jan 2006, 15:12

Me reads JRR Tolkien, Stephen King etc...

muffinman · Post by **muffinman** » 24 Jan 2006, 15:13

Any book on world war 2!

Post by **Kronos** » 24 Jan 2006, 15:20

freeboy wrote:... otaku...

What is Otaku?

I read so many different authors' works, it's impossible to list them all, but to fall into allignment with you guys, I like Stephen King, Tolkien, Terry Pratchet, and Douglas Adams.

jee · Post by **jee** » 24 Jan 2006, 15:47

Kronos wrote:
freeboy wrote:... otaku...
What is Otaku?

I read so many different authors' works, it's impossible to list them all, but to fall into allignment with you guys, I like Stephen King, Tolkien, Terry Pratchet, and Douglas Adams.

otaku is the geekspeek for anime and manga nutters.. You are just a nutter so we will forgive you for not knowing.

rustypup · Post by **rustypup** » 24 Jan 2006, 15:48

list is way too long...

Terry Pratchett, ,Robert Rankin, Robert A. Heinlein, Frank Herbert, Victor Hugo, Joseph Conrad, ....

err... i read way too much ...

Law · Post by **Law** » 24 Jan 2006, 16:03

im busy reading "The google story". I dont really have any favourite authors,

jee · Post by **jee** » 24 Jan 2006, 16:19

Puppi, do you read Ben Elton and Carl Hiaasen?

SHL3B1B · Post by **SHL3B1B** » 24 Jan 2006, 16:46

rustypup wrote:list is way too long...

Terry Pratchett, ,Robert Rankin, Robert A. Heinlein, Frank Herbert, Victor Hugo, Joseph Conrad, ....

err... i read way too much ...

Have u read the dune series?

Post by **ryanrich** » 24 Jan 2006, 17:08

Dean Koontz, Jeffrey Deaver, Robert Ludlum, Greg Iles, John Grisham.

rustypup · Post by **rustypup** » 24 Jan 2006, 17:16

@jee... absolutely... although as choice would pick elton... I suspect i'm addicted to brit humour...

@rabb1 - first read the series way back in high school. prefer the earlier books as his later works became a little ... strange...

if you enjoyed them, try "The Cat who walked through Walls", (Robert A. Heinlein)... weird but funny...

SHL3B1B · Post by **SHL3B1B** » 24 Jan 2006, 17:20

rustypup wrote: @rabb1 - first read the series way back in high school. prefer the earlier books as his later works became a little ... strange...

alot of people find the jumps in the series strange, but if u reread them (alot of times....) it makes perfect sense for the series to be like that... i actually prefer the later books...

jee · Post by **jee** » 24 Jan 2006, 17:34

Puppi, I see Elton's new book is set in 1917 dealing with war and its casualties. Will be interesting to see what he makes of it.

Must also admit that I got bored with Dune towards the end. Am reading the new Frank Peretti atm, David Hewson, and two of the newest Kathy Reichs.

StarPhoenix · Post by **StarPhoenix** » 24 Jan 2006, 17:48

Oh.....Stephen Baxter, J.R.R. Tolkien, Guy Gavriel Kay, I. Asimov, Terry Pratchett, Robert Jordan, Terry Goodkind,
Robert Heinlen, Orson Scott Card, Iain Banks and a couple more I cannot think of right now.

SHL3B1B · Post by **SHL3B1B** » 24 Jan 2006, 17:58

jee wrote: Must also admit that I got bored with Dune towards the end.

8O how can anyone get bored with dune, iv read each of them umm....ALOT OF TIMES..... ( im a dune addict)

Ihsahn · Post by **Ihsahn** » 24 Jan 2006, 18:04

supertwit wrote:Oh.....Stephen Baxter, J.R.R. Tolkien, Guy Gavriel Kay, I. Asimov, Terry Pratchett, Robert Jordan, Terry Goodkind,
Robert Heinlen, Orson Scott Card, Iain Banks and a couple more I cannot think of right now.

yeah my kind of reading exept Terry Pratchet, the only book i enjoed by him was Good Omens

StarPhoenix · Post by **StarPhoenix** » 25 Jan 2006, 07:30

Hehe.....Rabb1, it's not The Spice that has you hooked is it?

rustypup · Post by **rustypup** » 25 Jan 2006, 07:34

Ihsahn wrote: the only book i enjoed by him was Good Omens

co-auth'd with Neil Gaiman... but brilliant read all the same...

I'd be interested to discover how many here read non-fiction as well...

freeboy · Post by **freeboy** » 25 Jan 2006, 10:28

I come with hail and fire 'cos my time's short....
Massive response, we need to have an in-depth discussion very soon.

I'm out!

Belix · Post by **Belix** » 25 Jan 2006, 11:27

Terry Pratchet is good! Also, Robert Rankin and Clive Cussler. Still gotta read latest Parry Hotter...

freeboy · Post by **freeboy** » 26 Jan 2006, 11:22

Has anyone read any books from The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind? I love those books and think every fantasy fan should read them.

If anyone's interested here are the tiltles in reading order:
Wizard's First Rule
Stone Of Tears
Blood Of The Fold
Temple Of The Winds
Soul Of The Fire
Faith Of The Fallen
Pillars Of Creation
Naked Empire
Chainfire
Phantom (due sometime this year)

Debt of Bones (one of those side book thingies, explains about the main character's, Richard Rahl, grandfather)

I finnished Naked Empire around September last year and I'm still waiting for Chainfire *sigh* from the library - I can't afford to buy books.

ArmatageShanks · Post by **ArmatageShanks** » 06 Feb 2006, 12:42

Douglas Adams, Robert Rankin, JD Salinger, Ray Bradbury, James Hertbert, John Saul...

Does anyone know of more humorists? I have a need for laughter...

GreyWolf · Post by **GreyWolf** » 06 Feb 2006, 13:08

what you huys think of Iain Banks?
I have read 3 of his books and yesterday bought another one. I think he writes awesome SciFi. Other authors I dig: Pratchett, King, Asimov, Clancy, Agatha Christie.

StarPhoenix · Post by **StarPhoenix** » 06 Feb 2006, 13:15

Iain Banks? Not bad at all.......I took "The Algebraist" out of the library on Saturday

@RustyPup: Yes, I do also read non fiction......mostly Pop science...

Macphisto · Post by **Macphisto** » 06 Feb 2006, 15:34

DeMille, Grisham, Crichton, Richard North Patterson, Archer.

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