Have you heard of Philip Reeve Ive just bought a book of his because it looked good its called Mortal Engines heres the introduction:London is on the move again.The city has been lying low,skulking in the hills to avoid the bigger,faster,hungrier cities loose in the Great Hunting Ground.The great town moves off after its quarry as events within the walls begin to take a sinister turn...
I'm going to read it after I read all the Darren Shan books.
Ive read some of his books.........cant say I was impressed but thats just my opinion.
Role playing books can be cool, but im guesing that died years ago. I had a couple of sonic the hog role play books.
At 10/26/04 04:07 PM, Frozen_Fox wrote:At 10/26/04 03:09 PM, LordSkeletor wrote:Yeah I love the Fantasy/Fiction genre.So far my favourite author is between J.R.R Toliken and Terry PratchetPratchet is the god of comedy writing. Rincewind is by far the greatest character ive ever read about in a book.
Terry pratchet is one of the best writers i know of there being 25 discworld novel and i think even a game for PCs i just finished reading Sourcery and are begining Mort the whole fantasy sci-fi genre is great especially like Terry Pratchets becasue of the slight comedy
At 10/26/04 05:21 PM, Fireman-21XX wrote: Role playing books can be cool, but im guesing that died years ago. I had a couple of sonic the hog role play books.
Roleplaying books are not dead :P I ahev shit load sof them lol well they are my stepdads but I still read them
At 10/26/04 05:23 PM, Frozen_Fox wrote:At 10/26/04 05:21 PM, Fireman-21XX wrote: Role playing books can be cool, but im guesing that died years ago. I had a couple of sonic the hog role play books.Roleplaying books are not dead :P I ahev shit load sof them lol well they are my stepdads but I still read them
Like Dungeon & Dragon roleplaying books are good
they were all the rage in the retro console days. There was a entire section for them, but i see them no longer...
At 10/26/04 05:26 PM, Fireman-21XX wrote: they were all the rage in the retro console days. There was a entire section for them, but i see them no longer...
Yeah....I've seen a few warhammer ones but they dont look that fun.Anyone here like/heard The Darren Shan books?
At 10/26/04 04:24 PM, LordSkeletor wrote: I know you might find this a bit "weird" but I quite like the Harry Potter books I mean you have got to respect J.KRowling for writing so many.
I don't mind the Harry Potter books, but why do you say we have to respect J K Rowling for writing so many of them? Terry Pratchett is up to 29 on the same thread, whilst Rowling's new one makes it 6.
My favourite authors are Terry Pratchett, Anne McCaffrey (Dragons of Pern, Tower and Hive sequence), Julian May (Saga of the Exiles series), Tolkien and Robert Rankin (Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse)
I also enjoy dipping into the Star Wars novels and I do a lot of RPing so the Dungeons and Dragons stuff and White Wolf game studio things (Vampire, Werewolf, Mage, Exalted etc) get some time.
I'm also trying to write my own stuff at the moment, though I've just completed the one chapter.
Same I have just started witing a book too its called The runes of courage:Jyscaals tale ive just finished the introduction.
Jyscaal? did you 'borrow' that name from final fantasy X? ;)
I haven't got a title for my novel yet, but given enough time, I can come up with one as the story progresses.
My brave party of heroes aren't really heroes yet, they've just left town on their first 'quest' walk 50 miles and deliver a caravan of merchants to another city. It shouldn't prove to be the most exiting of trials, but I can examine the characters in a little more detail during this
At 10/27/04 03:26 PM, Coop83 wrote: Jyscaal? did you 'borrow' that name from final fantasy X? ;)
I haven't got a title for my novel yet, but given enough time, I can come up with one as the story progresses.
My brave party of heroes aren't really heroes yet, they've just left town on their first 'quest' walk 50 miles and deliver a caravan of merchants to another city. It shouldn't prove to be the most exiting of trials, but I can examine the characters in a little more detail during this
Sounds interesting and i asked my friends what a good mythical name was and he said Jyscaal ad I thought it sounded cool
It all depends on what sort of Mythology you are after. I've taken the Roman background and basically turned it into a 'Dungeons and Dragons' style cosmology to base the gods and some basic myths around. Maybe it's a plot hook for later, I just don't know yet.
Hey great first chaper...(read my e-mail) You heard of the Darren Shan Saga?
I read sci-fi, mostly Star Wars, but also read a bit of fantasy (A lot of it gets kinda lame once you have read a few novels though). Other series I liked were:
Plague (dark, philosophical books about a plague that wipes out most of humanity, and the aftermath)
Aliens
Predator
AvP
The Dark Tower
His Dark Materials
I have also read stuff like Day of the Triffids, Brother in the land, and a bit of discworld (Some I enjoy, some I find amazingly tedious).
I dont much like the Harry Potter series, the first couple were enjoyable, but they just started getting so repetitive and dismally shallow. Plus I absolutely hate JK Rowling. She has to be one of the biggest rip-off artists I have ever known of, and she has the nerve to sue people for stealing "her" ideas.
Failgrounds.
I'll have to agree on that one.Nice selection,and yes the first three of the harry potter seires are the best and Sci-Fi is my second faveourite genre.
wow this group is actually starting to catch on ..... has any one ever heard of piers anthony
At 10/27/04 05:10 PM, wrestlemaniac wrote: wow this group is actually starting to catch on ..... has any one ever heard of piers anthony
Doesnt ring a bell name some books hes wrote
Feel Harry Potter is too childish?
Do you need a more grown up fantasy novel?
Do you deeply enjoy The Lord of the Ring?
Do you like to read 600+ page books?
Do you enjoy reading series books?
If you've answered yes to all of the above questions, then I can tell you the perfect series for you: The Wheel of Time, By Robert Jordan.
I've been reading the series for almost a year now and I am on book 7 of the series about to go to book 8. The series is so engrossing you'll end up feeling like you're living another life while you're reading. At first the series starts of confusing and a bit slow, but as you start to learn what everything is you'll be hooked, which of course is by the end of the first book. You can read the first book and like it, but once you read the second you better be sure you have money for the other books, because you'll be hooked, HOOKED. I know i am. The series is 10 books long, it has a prequel, a role-playing book, and book 11 is slated for release during the upcoming summer. Each book is 600+ pages, giving you a story of over 6,000 pages. The story is very well written. You can actually feel the raw emotions from the characters as they experience them, you can smell the smells, hear the chatter of crowded cities, feel the fatigue of the characters. I may sound a nerd when I say this, but I am obssesed with the series, literally. I think I'll fall into a depression when I finish the series, that's how much I love the books. I used to not be one for reading, but this summer I completed 6 books, 4 of them being from The Wheel of Time series. Robert Jordan is trully a genius and deserves ranks with such writers as Homer, Chaucer, Tolkien, Salvatore, and all the other great epic fantasy novel writers. The series is trully amazing. Plus, if you don't want to tread through the book learning the meanings of different words as you go, each book has a glossary. I'd give the series a 15/10 :)
Sorry for the long post, I don't mean to bore you, but I've got a great passion towards these books. They are trully each a work of art.
Hey deathcon that sounds freat Im surley going to buy the first book as soon as I can and your not a nerd for liking book it shows that you have some moral intellect.
*great**books*
Well I have to go now,bye everyone
Keep reading!
At 10/27/04 05:39 PM, LordSkeletor wrote: Hey deathcon that sounds freat Im surley going to buy the first book as soon as I can and your not a nerd for liking book it shows that you have some moral intellect.
Thanks lol.
Thats freaking awesome though. If there's anything I like besides reading the books, is talking about them. My Pre-Calc teacher read the series and I talk to her about them from time to time. I know you'll fall in love with the books too Skeletor.
I cant be reading anything new for a while, I have almost finished the New Jedi Order series (18 Books, been reading since last Christmas) and after that I have to get through The Dark Tower, which should take me a fair while.
Failgrounds.
At 10/27/04 05:32 PM, Deathcon7 wrote: Feel Harry Potter is too childish?
Do you need a more grown up fantasy novel?
Do you deeply enjoy The Lord of the Ring?
Do you like to read 600+ page books?
Do you enjoy reading series books?
If you've answered yes to all of the above questions, then I can tell you the perfect series for you: The Wheel of Time, By Robert Jordan.
Ive read the wheel of time books....well some of them. I lost interest after a while I dont know why but I couldnt quite work out who the good guys were and the only things that I knew were the bad guys were the trollocs.......it really confused me........>i really should try and read them again I suppose to see if I can actually get past the 6th book.
It's simple, the good guys are from the Two Rivers (Manetheren) and the bad guys are from everywhere else pretty much. If you really did get that confused though you should try starting back from book one. The book is pretty much straight forward in that aspect if you exclude plot twists and such.
At 10/27/04 05:13 PM, LordSkeletor wrote:At 10/27/04 05:10 PM, wrestlemaniac wrote: wow this group is actually starting to catch on ..... has any one ever heard of piers anthonyDoesnt ring a bell name some books hes wrote
he wrote the Xanth book series
Im back everyone and I was browsing the local library and I noticed that there was a Terry Pratchett book I havnt read yet its called "Mort" I read the back and it sounds really good.
Anyone else read/heard-of it?
At 10/28/04 11:39 AM, LordSkeletor wrote: Im back everyone and I was browsing the local library and I noticed that there was a Terry Pratchett book I havnt read yet its called "Mort" I read the back and it sounds really good.
Anyone else read/heard-of it?
Ive read Mort it isnt one of pratchetts best books but its still good read.
Back again.I really like the illustrations on the Terry Pratchett books like this one of "Mort"
