| 13 FEB 2003 at 2:20am |
ValGuild Master
Posts : 3472
Joined: 2 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | Fantasy, horror, and sci-fi are my favorites. Forgot Mysteries! I love Hercule, too!!
I'm currently reading Anne McCaffrey (Dragonriders series) and have just begun reading the Dragonlance series.
We can be heroes, just for one day.
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| 13 FEB 2003 at 2:32am |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7277
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | well i like detective mystery mostly (HUGE hercule poirot fan! ) and also horror, but generally i don't read a lot of books... i'm mostly a comic-books lover! (absolutely NOT marvel/dc comics though)
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
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| 13 FEB 2003 at 2:35am |
GayleSchattenjger
Posts : 2544
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Horror, Sci-Fi, Mysteries and Historical books.
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| 13 FEB 2003 at 5:36am |
STooGE4444, EastCoastDoom...Schattenjger
Posts : 2099
Joined: 15 OCT 2002
Status : Online | SCiFi, humor/satires, mystery, suspense/thriller....
finished Terry P.s Discworld's "The Light Fantastic" last week...right now I'm reading "A Study in Scarlet," which is Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. oyle was an awesome writer...I really love reading Holmes' adventures...
Soon, I'll start reading "JP: Lost World" and continue reading Holmes...
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| 13 FEB 2003 at 11:31am |
Agustín CordesGuild Master
Posts : 5696
Joined: 23 OCT 2002
Location: AR, Buenos Aires
Status : Offline | Horror and Sci-fi mainly but I love humorous fantasy. I'm about to finish Pratchett's The Colour Of Magic and I'm LOVING it! I'll but every single book from this guy Also, I loved Hitchhicker's Guide To The Galaxy (similar style).
But my favorite author, hands down, is H.P. Lovecraft. I also like E.A. Poe (of course), Harlan Ellison (second favorite!), Philip Di.ck, Richard Matheson, Isaac Asimov, Arthur Clarke, Theodore Sturgeon and Jules Verne among many others.
Stooge, I recommend you to read the short stories by A.C. Doyle. Great stuff.
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| 13 FEB 2003 at 12:05pm |
| Deleted User | Mysteries, thrillers, detective stories, horror, comedy... Mostly. A little sci-fi and fantasy now and then.
Read every Discworld book... They're all fantastic. Been a while since I read any Agatha Christie... I'd read almost all her books before my 16th birthday.
Some of my favourite authors: Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Stephen King, Carl Hiaasen, Dennis Lehane, Chuck Palahniuk, Jan Guillou, Jo Nesbř, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jeffery Deaver, J.K. Rowling, Arthur C. Clarke, Agatha Christie... And many more.
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| 13 FEB 2003 at 1:32pm |
| Deleted User | Mostly sci-fi and fantasy I have to say. I'm an escapist when it comes to books. I also love the occational crime or mystery novel. I'm currently reading Starship Titanic and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, as a result of a christmas present and a friend who pursuaded me into reading the HP series.
Waiting on my bookshelf are a lot of books in the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan (I'm halfway through) and the Discworld novels. Very funny stuff! I'm also going to brush up on my Return of the King knowledge by reading it again before the movie is released. I've done the same with the two previous LOTR books.
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| 13 FEB 2003 at 4:57pm |
Friday the 14thSchattenjger
Posts : 2908
Joined: 5 NOV 2002
Status : Online | Sci-Fi and hard boiled detective stories, like Terry Pratchget's books too.
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| 13 FEB 2003 at 5:28pm |
STooGE4444, EastCoastDoom...Schattenjger
Posts : 2099
Joined: 15 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Yea, Rael, I got the complete Sherlock Holmes, which has all four novels and 56 short stories. It's in hardback and was on 20 bucks...
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| 13 FEB 2003 at 6:04pm |
ElfstoneGuild Master
Posts : 5892
Joined: 4 NOV 2002
Status : Online | Detective stories, horror, mysteries, fantasy.
For the last one especially Tolkien, as you may have guessed. :
[b]playing[/b]: Destination Treasure Island (done in two sittings, but it's nice), Syberia (ho-hum), Dracula: Last Sanctuary (on hold)&&[b]reading[/b]: even more study papers&&[b]listening to[/b]: [url=http://www.last.fm/user/Brax82/]this and that[/url], plus [url=http://www.musicovery.com/]Musicovery[/url]&&[b]TV favorites[/b]: (currently) Pushing Daisies, Chuck, Journeyman (cancelled! grrr...), Heroes&& all-time) 24, Stargate SG1, X-Files, Lost, House
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| 13 FEB 2003 at 6:06pm |
Agustín CordesGuild Master
Posts : 5696
Joined: 23 OCT 2002
Location: AR, Buenos Aires
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By StooGE4444 22-90 (13 FEB 2003 5:27pm)
Yea, Rael, I got the complete Sherlock Holmes, which has all four novels and 56 short stories. It's in hardback and was on 20 bucks...
I meant the sci-fi/horror stories from Doyle. Specially Panic In The Heights.
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| 13 FEB 2003 at 6:38pm |
STooGE4444, EastCoastDoom...Schattenjger
Posts : 2099
Joined: 15 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Oh yea...I'll look at them too...
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| 13 FEB 2003 at 9:10pm |
lakerzPrivate Detective
Posts : 654
Joined: 11 OCT 2002
Status : Online | I read a ton. Mysteries, horror, political thriller, action.
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas...
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| 13 FEB 2003 at 9:26pm |
InieJourneyman
Posts : 856
Joined: 27 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Mainly detectives, thrillers and horror. O yeah, and comics of course .
Absolute favourite: Sherlock Holmes and almost everything by Frederick Forsyth and Ridley Pearson.
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| 13 FEB 2003 at 10:23pm |
JoGuild Master
Posts : 3313
Joined: 3 NOV 2002
Location: AU, Qld.
Status : Offline | Mainly mysteries, detective, thriller, adventure used to read historical but not so much now. Read all the Sherlock Homes when about 13 or 14 years of age and used to love some of the "classics" like books by Rafael Sabatini and (how silly the author escapes me) Master of Ballantray (don't even think that's how it's spelt but you probably now what I mean). Oh there's a whole heap of them but haven't read them for years.
Gosh Lovecroft! I haven't read anything by him for many years either.
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| 14 FEB 2003 at 12:54am |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7277
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Inie (13 FEB 2003 9:26pm)
O yeah, and comics of course .
i was wondering if i'm the only one!
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
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| 14 FEB 2003 at 3:11am |
scoutPrivate Detective
Posts : 736
Joined: 2 NOV 2002
Status : Online | Genres are okay but I think its the authors you read that tell the tale.
Off the top of my head....
David Foster Wallace, Donald Westlake, Neil Gailman, Clive Barker, Dennis Lehane, Peter Straub, Arturo Perez Reverte, Donna Tartt, Mark Helprin, Carl Hiaasen, Greg Rucka, Robert Crais, James Ellroy, George Pelecanos, Dan Simmons, Carol O'Connell, Ed McBain, Elmore Leonard, Ruth Rendell.
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| 14 FEB 2003 at 4:41am |
StammerGuild Master
Posts : 3894
Joined: 5 JAN 2003
Status : Online | J.R.R Tolkien............... the best author EVER..............
(btw what's your opinion about dune series....)
Resistance is not futile, we're gonna win this thing, humankind is too good, we're not a bunch of under-achievers! We're gonna stand up, and we're gonna be human beings. We're going to get fired up about the real things, the things that matter! Creativity, and the dynamic human spirit that refuses to submit.
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| 14 FEB 2003 at 11:25pm |
AndromusGuild Master
Posts : 5538
Joined: 6 NOV 2002
Status : Offline | Science fiction and fantasy (J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, Steven R. Lawhead, the ocassional Edgar Rice Burroughs) mysteries (Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ellis Peters, Dashiell Hammett) history and historical fiction. Also, I like humor writers like Robert Benchley, James Thurber, Jerome K. Jerome and P.G. Wodehouse.
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| 14 FEB 2003 at 11:44pm |
AndromusGuild Master
Posts : 5538
Joined: 6 NOV 2002
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Godfather (14 FEB 2003 4:40am)
J.R.R Tolkien............... the best author EVER..............
(btw what's your opinion about dune series....)
Dune is one of favorite science fiction novels . I enjoyed the second and third books in the series, although they weren't as good as the first book. The last three books seemed to change so much in tone (or maybe I was just reacting to the amount of time that had passed between the first three and last three books). I liked them the least of the entire series. Herbert's writing seemed less coherent as the series went on, with ever increasingly longer and odder philosophical ramblings. I found myself wondering if he had any kind of resolution for the series. Perhaps not, as Dune was orginally going to be a stand alone book.
I can't comment on the prequels, I haven't read them yet.
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| 15 FEB 2003 at 4:44am |
| Deleted User | Fantasies(only focuses on magical world),mysteries, horror, thriller.
fav. Authorean Koontz,Stephen King,J.K Rowling.
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| 15 FEB 2003 at 5:59pm |
karemanSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 321
Joined: 10 JAN 2003
Status : Online | Love "society fiction" like "Brave, new world", "1984", "Animal Farm", "Atlas Shrugged" and "Niels Klims strange journey" (not sure if that is the correct english title, have only read the norwegian text).
Also "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy", "own and out in Paris and London" (George Orwell), Jules Verne, Roald Dahl, Jack London.
Feel free to ignore this post.
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| 3 MAR 2003 at 11:41pm |
JPSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 217
Joined: 24 NOV 2002
Status : Online | I find it very interesting that the majority of people on this forum who are mainly into adventure games, read mainly sci-fi/fantasy/horror + some mystery.
Most of my friends play computer games, but I find that the ones who play FPS or RTS games do not read books, or if they do they tend to be shallow thrillers
i.e. stuff by Andy McNab/Chris Ryan etc;
but - my friends who are into adventure games all read similar things to me - sci-fi/fantasy/horror and more intelligent fiction
I am wondering if this is a trend which occurs all over the world?
As a bookshop owner it is a subject close to my heart and I like to pride myself on being able to tell what kind of books people who come into my shop like to read - I am sometimes wrong, but usually I have sussed someone out by the time they have reached the counter.
Bow down before the one you serve&&You're going to get what you deserve !
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| 4 MAR 2003 at 11:45pm |
dombrewerGuild Master
Posts : 3103
Joined: 19 JAN 2003
Status : Offline | I read more than I game and I'm into my meaty contemporary fiction -
Anthony Burgess, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Peter Ackroyd, Graham Swift, Jeanette Winterson, (scout: i love Perez-Reverte too, real adventurers books!)
Classics - Hardy, Lawrence, Dickens, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Kafka, Conrad, Orwell, Nabokov, HG Wells
Have read my Tolkien, Rowling, Pratchett, like Clive Barker, Stephen King, Poe on the horror front.
Interesting that no one mentions Phillip Pullman much - all you Harry Potterites take note - the next big thing, with good reason.
Aya - I'm a comics reader as well. Have a huge collection but don't collect much anymore - just fill in the gaps. I am into my DC but Marvel just annoy me. Began in 1988 with The Dark Knight Returns and The Killing Joke and never looked back. Best GN? Watchmen. Someone film this book!!
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