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What is your preferred format for reading?

  • Kindle

    Votes: 7 22.6%

  • Phone

    Votes: 2 6.5%

  • Tablet

    Votes: 2 6.5%

  • Hard/soft cover

    Votes: 20 64.5%
  • Total voters
    31
Stosta said:
Sometimes I read the classifieds at the back of porno mags when I'm bored, does that count? :-D

But seriously very little Sci-Fi of Fantasy for me apart from the Dune series. I tried to read Terry Pratchett once and it was like a bad acid trip and made my head hurt a lot!
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reading is reading :) so I guess the porno ads also qualify
LMAO
 
Stosta said:
Oh! I suppose the Redwall series by Brian Jacques is also fantasy, but I would never admit to reading that on a public forum :rolleyes:
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BUSTED

lets just leave it at young adult fiction :)
 
What about Douglas Adams?

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For mind-blowing science fiction Iain M Banks is the greatest imo. His Culture novels in particular are epic in scale and imagination. He's such a great story teller, his normal fiction is great too.

Neil Stephenson also does some amazing work, from sci-fi to historical to just great fiction.

Terry Pratchett is wickedly good, but you've gotta see past his oddness first. Then you glimpse his genius! Unfortunately for me his later books lacked that edge, guess he was getting sick so maybe that's why.

My classics growing up were the rift war saga and Robert Jordan's massive Wheel of Time series. Sadly I found the Wheel of Time books got better after Jordan's death.
 
Huffapuff said:
For mind-blowing science fiction Iain M Banks is the greatest imo. His Culture novels in particular are epic in scale and imagination. He's such a great story teller, his normal fiction is great too.

Neil Stephenson also does some amazing work, from sci-fi to historical to just great fiction.

Terry Pratchett is wickedly good, but you've gotta see past his oddness first. Then you glimpse his genius! Unfortunately for me his later books lacked that edge, guess he was getting sick so maybe that's why.

My classics growing up were the rift war saga and Robert Jordan's massive Wheel of Time series. Sadly I found the Wheel of Time books got better after Jordan's death.
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Awesome books dude

Banks is very good. Very vivid storytelling.

You should have a look at Neal Asher

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craigb said:
I must have made it to about book 6 or 7 of wheel of time before I gave up. It just got too long winded
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That series is on the back burner currently. Had to make space for sanderson's stormlight archive

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craigb said:
I must have made it to about book 6 or 7 of wheel of time before I gave up. It just got too long winded
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Oh yeah, he almost ruined it for me because of that. But Brandon Sanderson took over after he died and did a much better job.
 
I've read most of the authors mentioned here, but still enjoy the old masters - Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, Herbert, et al - even HG Wells....
 
If you like fantasy, here are some awesome lists to help find good books.

Patrick Rothfuss's Kingkiller Chronicles are number 2 on their top 25 list, @Steyn777. Brilliant.

Just finished Nation by Terry Pratchett - absolutely worth your while.
 
My most recent books:
Altered Carbon - Morgan, Richard K.
An Unwelcome Quest - Meyer, Scott
Artemis - Weir, Andy
Catharsis - Bagwell, Travis
Change Agent - Suarez, Daniel
Dark Matter - Crouch, Blake
Earth's Gambit - Yap, Cosimo
Fight and Flight - Meyer, Scott
Magician: Apprentice - Feist, Raymond E.
Off to Be the Wizard - Meyer, Scott
Opening Moves - Yap, Cosimo
Origin - Brown, Dan
Precipice - Bagwell, Travis
Ready Player One - Cline, Ernest
Red Rising - Brown, Pierce
Retribution - Bagwell, Travis
Spell or High Water - Meyer, Scott
The Land: Alliances - Kong, Aleron
The Land: Catacombs - Kong, Aleron
The Land: Forging - Kong, Aleron
The Land: Founding - Kong, Aleron
The Land: Raiders - Kong, Aleron
The Land: Swarm - Kong, Aleron
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Thoroughly enjoyed everything except Magician: Apprentice
 
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excellent story !
From a local reviewer: The narrative mostly follows Arial, a young queen upon whose shoulders lies the “future of freethinkers everywhere” (to quote the blurb on the back), but often switches between a variety of characters on both sides of the conflict and often in vastly different locations on distant planets. So it tells a story of grand scale and brings together many actors as events unfold. It could have been very scattered, but the writing is superb, being evocative and gripping without losing composition, and for the most part I was able to keep all the threads together.
 
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In the time after the second shadow, a Saumanese Moon Runner clan harbours a great secret, powerful enough to bring the Worlds to their knees. Who will be the first to fall?

It has been twenty years since the war against the shadow. The Malachi nation stands on the brink of civil war, immortal Cleya warriors burn upon the funeral pyres and the Daemons grow restless. Kieran, the young and ambitious Elvin King, tries to restore civility amongst the dark and brutal Worlds but succeeds only in opening the gate for something far more sinister...
 
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