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[tigriswolf]

Request the first: I've grown bored with the kind of books I've read for years. What are some books you think I should read and why?

Request the second: leave me a one word prompt and a fandom you like(or just the word, leaving the fandom up to me).

Comments

[cattraine.livejournal.com]

Naomi Novik's Temeraire series (dragons).

Wings--SPN

[tigriswolf]

I've actually read the first two. I got distracted a little ways into the third and have yet to pick it up again.

[irnan.livejournal.com]

1) Have you read John Connolly's Charlie Parker books?

2) reboot!trek, inevitable.

[tigriswolf]

No, I haven't. What's it about?

[noybusiness.livejournal.com]

The Bartimaeus Trilogy, because it's awesome and hilarious.

angels, Battlestar Galactica

[tigriswolf]

What's it about?

Also, I know nothing of "Battlestar Galactica" except what the reboot!Trek crossover told me. Would you like to request another fandom?

[dreamlittleyo.livejournal.com]

Star Trek: misapprehension

I wish you well in your book search. I barely seem to read anymore unless it's online, so I don't have much to suggest. But good luck!

[tigriswolf]

Thank you! I did pick up six books recently that I'd have never gotten before, so I hope they're as interesting as they sound.

[blcwriter.livejournal.com]

Elizabeth Moon's Paksennarion Series-- tolkeinish kick ass lady hero, the first one is Sheepfarmer's Daughter.

Robin McKinley's The Blue Sword and the Hero & the Crown, as well as Deerskin. More ladies who kick ass in their ways (although Deerskin has SERIOUS trigger material.)

Lois McMaster Bujold's The Curse of Chalion. Fantastic theology & worldbuilding, a broken male hero who kind of reminds me of Leonard McCoy.

Reboot!Trek-- inevitable.

[tigriswolf]

I've read Deerskin; it was years and years ago, and I'm pretty sure I was much too young. It disturbed me then. I also gave The Blue Sword a try, but didn't finish it.

I'll check out those others.

Someone already requested inevitable and the reboot; would you like something else?

[caffienekitty]

Lois McMaster Bujold's The Curse of Chalion.

I second this rec with great loudness and enthusiasm. *nods*

[siluria]

I read mostly non-fiction so I'm probably not best placed to recommend books, but what do you like to read normally?

Word: Unease, fandom is entirely your choice :)

[tigriswolf]

I've spent the last several years reading fantasy/scifi with little sidesteps for a couple westerns. I also enjoy history texts and the odd science book.

But I've grown bored with scifi/fantasy. I was in the bookstore earlier today and none of the options available caught my fancy.

[lynzibell.livejournal.com]

Word:Banana

If you like snarky chick lit-ish fantasy-ish stuff there's The Mediator series by Meg Cabot.

[tigriswolf]

Is it better than The Princess Diaries?

[lynzibell.livejournal.com]

Kind of. She's not as annoying as Mia. But it kind of is the same premises. Girl is a mediator for ghosts helping them go to the other side (like ghost whisperer and medium) and there's a cute ghost who was killed in her house and she kind of falls for him.

[tigriswolf]

The first book's been added to my hold's list.

[sgt-psycho.livejournal.com]

Kappa Child by Hiromi Goto

--Cucumbers, sumo wrestling, alien abduction, and pajamas.

Totally worth it.

The Terror by Dan Simmons

Supernatural take on the Franklin Expedition

The Lesser Blessed by Richard Van Camp

Smalltown north with birds and eighties slang.

Oh, prompt...um...widget!

[tigriswolf]

Those all seem fairly interesting.

[cats-eye78.livejournal.com]

Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar series. There's over a dozen books in the series and they are all amazing! The characterization is so awesome that you expect them to pop off the page and talk to you. It is a fantasy genera with magic and telepathic not-horses.

[tigriswolf]

I think I tried to read a short story in that 'verse once. I'll give the first book a try.

[dairwendan.livejournal.com]

Jim Butcher's Dresden Files. I don't know if you caught the short lived series, or not. I did, and it was okay, but the books are much better. He's a wizard in contemporary Chicago. And there are a lot of other things in contemporary Chicago you might not have been aware of! *LOL* Very funny as well. This is the first one (http://www.amazon.com/Storm-Front-Dresden-Files-Book/dp/0451457811/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246935905&sr=1-7).

SERRAted Edge Books by Larry Dixon and Mercedes Lackey Stock car racing elves! This is the first one. Better synopsis there! (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Born-to-Run/Mercedes-Lackey/e/9780671721107/?itm=6)

The Morgaine Saga by CJ Cherryh A man, Vanye, finds himself enslaved (or maybe honor bound is a better word) to a time traveling woman warrior, Morgaine. Here are the first three books (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Morgaine-Saga/C-J-Cherryh/e/9780886778774/?itm=1) and here is the fourth (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?WRD=Exile%27s+Gate+cj+cherryh&box=Exile%27s%20Gate%20cj%20cherryh&pos=-1).

PN Elrod's The Vampire Files Jack Fleming is a Chicago PI in the post-prohibition 30s. He's also a vampire. Very film noir! Here are the first three books (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Vampire-Files/P-N-Elrod/e/9780441010905/?itm=1)

I don't know just how different you want to go from what you've been reading, but here are two other series I like.

The Benjamin January Books by Barbara Hambly Benjamin January was an educated, trained and practicing physician in Paris. After he loses his wife he decides to return to him home, New Orleans, where he is simply a 'free man of color'. These are historical mysteries and Benjamin has to walk the line between being the most educated, most intelligent person in the investigation, yet often the one with the least access to facts, clues and scenes of the crime. And if he pisses off the wrong person he could be whipped, hanged, or worse. I'm always like "Ben, dude, wtf is wrong with you? Go back to Paris!" But I keep reading them anyway. *LOL* This is the first book (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/A-Free-Man-of-Color/Barbara-Hambly/e/9780553575262/?itm=1).

Peter Tremayne's Sister Fidelma Mysteries. Fidelma is the sister of a king, a 'daleigh' (detective/lawyer) and a religious sister of the Irish Catholic Church in the 600s. The Roman Catholic Church is just beginning to move in and try to impose it's rules on the more liberal Irish church. When a murder occurs, she is teamed up with Brother Eadulf, of the Roman Catholic Church, to investigate. They remain paired throughout the series. This synopsis sounds dry but the books are good! *LOL* Absolution by Murder is the first book (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Absolution-by-Murder/Peter-Tremayne/e/9780451192998/?itm=4).

Prompt - Murder
Fandom - Gilmore Girls

[tigriswolf]

I'll check those out.

[acarbonatedgirl.livejournal.com]

All of S.E. Hinton. But you saw that coming.

Haunted [thirteen writers. no excuses, no way out.], Invisible Monsters [i want to be pretty again. no i don't.], Fight Club [i like myself, i like myself.]. All by Chuck Palahnuik.

King of the Wind. Margurite Henry. I am a sucker for this book and I don't even like most horse books.

The Sandman graphic novels by Neil Gaiman. Fucks you threeways into tomorrow.

Coraline [that is not my mother!] , American Gods [what happens when you stop worshipping your gods?]. Neil Gaiman.

Anything by Laurie Halse Anderson.

I heard Terry Pratchett is full of awesome.

Prompt: suspension. Riddick.

[tigriswolf]

Is Haunted about ghosts?

[caffienekitty]

Hm. You don't want sci-fi or fantasy, hm? I'm not going to be much use then. Normally I'd rec the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold, which are sci-fi, but also military, political thriller, quasi-piracy, spy, loads of mystery, romance, and quite a lot of humor and angst of varying sorts. You don't need to start at the beginning, but there are things in later books that spoil the earlier ones. If you read the books and like them, I suspect you will start writing fic for it. One of the early short stories is available as a free download from the Baen Free Library here, and any public library worth its salt should have some of the novels if not all.

As for non-sci-fi/fantasy fiction... hm. Nothing springs to mind off-hand.

ETA Second request response - Supernatural, discombobulated.

[tigriswolf]

I'll check it out.

[lostinpsychosis.livejournal.com]

Books:
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (young adult book, but very fun)
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Anything Neil Gaiman really
Most things by Laurell K Hamiliton if you life fantasy smut
Mister B Gone by Clive barker (just all around neat)

Second Request:
Rosier/Supernatural

[tigriswolf]

I've actually read most of those. Good Omens is one of the best books ever.

[tigremere.livejournal.com]

1. I am a fan of mystery without the gore. Classics include Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Nero Wolfe by Rex Stout. Agatha Christie is good too.

More recent favorites include Janet Evanovich's numbers series. I laughed at one of her books so hard I nearly fell off the treadmill at the Y.

I currently prefer female to male protagonists and prefer female writers as well. It is hard to find a man who writes about women in a way I find plausible and enjoyable.

Another favorite of mine who does write women well except they do not appear often in his books is Ross Thomas. He books usually involve political intrigue,spy vs spy and other double cross action. You may not have the background to understand some of the undercurrents and the history but I really enjoy Thomas's witty writing with multiple twists and subplots. Some of his titles: " The Fools in Town are on Our Side", "Briarpatch" and "Missionary Stew"

2. Saddle-sore
My Little Pony

[tigriswolf]

I do wish I'd witnessed the almost-fall.

C'mon, give me another fandom. I know nothing of My Little Pony!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_teldra_/]

1. Rob Thurman's (http://www.robthurman.net/) Cal Leandros series starting with Nightlife. It's an urban fantasy that focuses on two brothers...and one isn't completely human. It's also a bit slashy, which I have to say tickles me. Plus, she has an Lj: robgoodfella if you want to keep track of her ramblings :D

There's Steven Brust's (http://dreamcafe.com/) Taltos series as well. Vlad is a snarky human assassin in a world of "elves". And of course he has a sidekick--it's a wise-cracking flying lizardJhereg who pulls double duty as his familiar--because he's also a witch.


2. Doom/Star Trek Reboot "breathless" :D

[tigriswolf]

I think I started Nightlife a while back. I don't remember why I didn't finish it.

Taltos! I adored that series for awhile. I've been thinking about rereading it.

[(Anonymous)]

Do you know the "Sten Chronicles" from Allan Cole and Christ Bunch. A very good Sci-Fi Series. It's in the future of the earth. Very good characters, good writing. One of the best series I know.
By the way, I love your stories. First time I comment.

[tigriswolf]

Thank you so much!

I'll check those books out.