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[Kevin]

Sharon wrote: "Maybe I should do some research and find what most people think is her 'best' work ... and try that!

Oh, well ... I've got a month to figure that out."

Many people including me whould recommand that you should start with her first book and trilogy, Assassin's Apprentice.

[Sharon]

Thanks ... if this one is the one that switched me off on the author, will try that one.

[Kevin]

Sharon wrote: "Thanks ... if this one is the one that switched me off on the author, will try that one."

I promise after you read Assassin's Apprentice you will want to read all her other books other than the Soldier Son Trilogy.

[Kevin]

Sharon wrote: "Library run yesterday and I did decide to try Robin Hobb again. They had all three books in the "Soldier Son" trilogy so they all came home with me. I'm only a couple of chapters into the first one..."

I loved the first two books in the Soldier and Son trilogy. I thought they were down to earth, nice to see a fantasy these days without any magic. But she had saved most of the magic for the third book, which made the main character passive and more of a supporting character, which I hated a lot.

[Valerie]

C. wrote: "Love Left Hand of Darkness. You're right, it improves with rereading. I've read it several times over the years."

Finished it and loved it. :D I'm actually looking forward to re-reading it to catch everything I missed/didn't get the first time around.

Also, on a long train ride, I finally got around to reading Ill Wind. The storms MAKE that book - the way Caine described the weather as predatory was... eeee. I thought the ending was kind of "wtf," but I still want more. <3

Today I'll catch up on Archangel's Consort, and I'll start Territory after that.

[Mina]

Lady Danielle "The Book Huntress" wrote: "I'm reading ."

I love Rachel Caine's Weather Warden series! How are you liking it?

[Mina]

Denae wrote: "I started Boneshaker earlier. It is not doing anything to change my passive dislike of the steampunk genre."

I enjoy steampunk, but didn't get into Boneshaker. I enjoyed Clockwork Heart a whole lot more.

[[deleted user]]

Read Jason Dark - Ghost Hunter: Demon's Night the other day. It was ok.

Started Black Lung Captain late last night, so far so good.

[Danielle The Book Huntress]

I have finished Blinded by the Night by LA Kane (4 *), and Rise of the Darklings by Paul Crilley (4 *), and I'm currently reading A Hundred Words for Hate by Thomas E. Sniegoski. I'm enjoying it a lot.

[whimsicalmeerkat]

Not even remotely fantasy, but I read The Year of Magical Thinking and was highly impressed.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Revenge of the Witch, Dark of the Gods, Rain Fall...and a couple of others. :)

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, *good karma*]

Daemons Are Forever, 1984, Assassin's Apprentice

[Sonja]

I'm currently reading Fool Moon after finishing a couple books that I'd been working on forever...

[Bill]

Last night I started Janny's Stormed Fortress. It is good to be back in Athera.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, *good karma*]

Sonja wrote: "I'm currently reading Fool Moon after finishing a couple books that I'd been working on forever..."

I never finished that one. Harry made me so MAD I just moved on to the next book. The Dread Pirate told me I was being bad. :(

[Sharon]

You know, that's why I quit reading the Dresden books ... I just got so mad at Harry as a character, it was quit reading the books or start throwing the books ... and they were library books!

I did like the recently published Dresden book of short stories and think I may try the series again ... but I'm a bit wary.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

STOPPED READING THEM?!?!....(grabs heart, staggers about)....

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, *good karma*]

I enjoyed the next one in the series. A lot of the things Harry did in the first two books wasn't present in the 3rd book. I plan on reading the 4th one soon...not too sure about finishing Fool Moon though.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Nitroglycerin, Nitroglycerin, got to find Nitroglycerin... (pops several aspirin into mouth). I think I need to lay down, back later.

Dizzy, I'm so dizzy...

[Cheryl]

Quick, someone get Mike a defibrillator!!

[Sharon]

Mike (the Paladin) wrote: "STOPPED READING THEM?!?!....(grabs heart, staggers about)...."

I'm sorry, I'm sorry! Forgive me! (prostrating myself abjectly at the feet and presenting nitroglycerin tablets)

But the librarians get really testy when I return books that have obviously been thrown against walls or through windows!

[Sonja]

Yeah... I'm not gonna say that I hate the books or that I would stop reading them but there are many things that I would classify as "growing pains" for the series. I'm hoping that the books get better, as I've heard they do, from here on out.

[Sonja]

MrsJoseph wrote: "Sonja wrote: "I'm currently reading Fool Moon after finishing a couple books that I'd been working on forever..."

I never finished that one. Harry made me so MAD I just moved on to..."

I can see how Harry would make you mad, MrsJ, but given all the good publicity for this series I'm glad you stuck with it overall. I'll let you know if I think this one is worth going back for in the end.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, *good karma*]

Sensei!!! Can you hear us?

Seeeennnnssseeeeeiiii!!!

Somebody get this man a Dresden novel and some Simon R Green, quick!

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Okay, I'm back. Went to the "Y". Heart's back to normal rhythm, I think...(takes deep breath). I realize everyone can't agree on what books are best (I try but sometimes...). Anyway, I've said that if the series has a "weakest" book it's Fool Moon. And the series does take a serious upswing about book 3 or 4 depending on who you ask. I'm a serious Dresden fan (read "fan-atic" or "fan-addict") and I think if I had to pick a favorite volume it would be Dead Beat, I think it would anyway A lot "starts" there and things open up a lot more.

Just me though.

Okay I think I went on too long...I need to sit down. For a few minutes there I was getting glimpses of Red Fox as Fred Sanford...I think it was a hallucination though.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, *good karma*]

Tracey wrote: "LOL - "I'm coming, Elizabeth, I'm coming!"

*starts another list*
Do not diss _____ in front of _____

Robin Hobb / The Dread Pirate Grant
Dresden / Sensei Mike *
Mercedes Lackey / MrsJos..."

Tracey, we might have to make that a sticky! :-)

[[deleted user]]

Hobb and Rothfuss :) and agreed that should totally be a sticky in it's own thread. Add Twelfth Night to the Tracey list :p

[Maggie]

<<I recently caught up on buying ALL the Dresdens..I now am all set for the upcoming release!

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon]

Tracey wrote: "Pfft. As if anyone would diss Shakespeare.

*ponders*

*adds to list*"

Are we talking language... or are we talking the alleged originality of his plotlines?

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Thank you....have a cookie.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

It was original when he wrote it...

[Tracey]

Mike (the Paladin) wrote: "It was original when he wrote it..."

Heh - same question: the language, or the plotlines?

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon]

Tracey wrote: "LOL - there's nothing remotely original about Shakespeare except the language."

Ok then. I can get behind digging the language. (But only when performed. I can't read it. Besides, it's not meant to be read.)

Anyway, I do like Twelfth Night. I played Feste in a production we did in college. There was much fun to be had.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, *good karma*]

I refuse to read any additional Shakespeare for pleasure...other than The Tempest.

:-P

[Sharon]

I had ALL of the Shakespeare I wanted in my 'required reading' in high school and college.

[whimsicalmeerkat]

Who's been dissing Shakespeare? *bounces pitchfork from palm to palm*

[Maggie]

Apparently...nobody! :)

[[deleted user]]

Finished Black Lung Captain last night. I rather enjoy this motley crew of miscreants and their adventures.

I'm staring at a couple of BotM books and debating if I should start one of them or something else...

[whimsicalmeerkat]

I'm still working on The Pickwick Papers, but starting to enjoy it more. Much more than when I was in the seventh grade, for sure.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

I can take Shakespeare, especially Much Ado About Nothing...but I usually choose not to inflict much Dickens on anyone...though I suppose he's not ALL bad.

[[deleted user]]

I barely even remember the books I was forced to read in school. Stuff I read on my own during the same time period I have no trouble recalling.

So, agreed: Stupid English Teachers.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Ya high school and college lit teachers have scarred a lot of people and ruined a lot of classics. Not all lit. teachers of course...but it only takes one each.

[Sharon]

Required reading in high school and college, even things I did not find particularly entertaining wasn't a terrible chore for me. I enjoyed the discussions and 'dissection' ... I liked learning. Most of the so-called classics and those that were classics of a particular type (I was a literature major in college so there were a lot of those) are not books that I would re-read simply because I found them enjoyable or entertaining to me personally.

On the other hand, I was never required to read a book I disliked as much as I disliked algebra, which was, in fact, a required class as well!

[Mike (the Paladin)]

It wasn't the required reading...I didn't mind that, I always read ahead. It was the teachers who were so dogmatic about what "the book or story meant" and their insistence on "what I was supposed to think about it". The teachers who could take a wonderful piece of prose and rip it's heart out a line at a time.

Maybe you've been lucky enough to get all good instructors.

My lit.101 instructor was...well there were problems.

[Sharon]

They weren't all 'great' but most of them were quite good, personally enthusiastic about at least some of what they taught and were able to transmit that love of literature to the students who were willing to absorb some of it at least. I also had an advantage having a teacher as my mother, who managed to help make things interesting when the teachers might not have.

It's odd, in some ways, as the high school I attended was an Indian reservation school, certainly not a school one would expect to attract the 'best and brightest' of high school teachers.

However, my English/literature teacher at that school ... and one I had several years later in college (a smallish western college) for a comparative mythology class ... are the two teachers that stand out vividly in my memory 45 or 50 years later.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

I had a great lit. teacher in high school... but as I said, then there was college.

[James]

Dead Men's Boots by Mike Carey
Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris

[Mike (the Paladin)]

For all the D&D players...I knew a guy who played a bard named "Bic Pentameter" so he could introduce himself..."I am Bic Pentameter".

Ya, he never paid me for the metal figure I painted for him either.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

My grandmother used to say that...

Really, not a joke. Back in the 50s.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

The phrase used by "country folks" was "Good Lord willin' and the creek don't rise"...close.