APOLYTON! I need *ALOT* of recreational books, recommend me lots!

[Vesayen]

In two days I go to college..... there are, strangley enough no big bookstores near the school. I need to go buy several months(i.e thousands upon thousands) of reading material. I need your recommendations! Please give at LEAST a brief description along with the author or titles


*HUGE* fan of Orson Scott Card-i've read every book hes written several times.

David Brin is amazing too.

Isac Asimovs, also known as God is tied with the highest place in my heart, with the next author....

Robin Hobb-AMAZING! Author of the farseer/liveship books. Absolutley incredible. Her books are very "low" fantasty.

S.M. Stirling(ISland in a sea of time), Jack McDevitt(Postman). Terry Patchett is AMAZING-read every one of her books, Terry Goodkind is great too when he does not have a character give 300 page syloquies on the evils of socialism.

I mostly read sci fi but as you can tell I read some fantasy too.

I can't *STAND* Tolkein. I like "low" fantasy, as in the worlds are close to ours and they don't have 10,000 strange proper nouns I can't keep track of(I HATE Tolkein)

Recommend me some!

[Guynemer]

Buy all of Christopher Moore's books.

[Vesayen]

Originally posted by Vesayen
Please give at LEAST a brief description along with the author or titles.

I plan on buying upwards of a hundred dollars of books in the next day or two.....

[Eli]

Damn you Americans and your cheap book prices... 100$ gets me 5 books over here.

[Seeker]

I forget the author, but get Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion. Especially Hyperion. Great SF.

The rest of the series is moneymaking ****e.

[Kuciwalker]

Isn't this you're 3rd thread of the day?

[Eli]

Originally posted by Seeker
I forget the author, but get Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion. Especially Hyperion. Great SF.

The rest of the series is moneymaking ****e.

Dan Simmons.

[child of Thor]

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0020425651/qid=1124829296/sr=2-2/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2/104-0769062-3555942?v=glance&s=books

The Dark is Rising series.

Low fantasy, kind of for kids; but much more adult than harry potter imho. Read them as a youngster, and again a few years back - susan cooper is a very good author.

Sci-fi try Phillip K.Dick - lite but philosophical sci-fi.

[lord of the mark]

Re: APOLYTON! I need *ALOT* of recreational books, recommend me lots!

Originally posted by Vesayen

I can't *STAND* Tolkein. I like "low" fantasy, as in the worlds are close to ours and they don't have 10,000 strange proper nouns I can't keep track of(I HATE Tolkein)

Heretic

[Seeker]

You think Phillip K. Dick is lite???!

Who the heck is heavy if Dick is lite?

Or do you mean in terms of 'realistic' science a la Bear, Clarke, & co?

[child of Thor]

yeah lite in the real science like those guys(also good recomends ).

[Nostromo]

I haven't read it myself, but judging by your tastes, you should definitively try out

Powerful. Sensual. Seductive. He is all that is shamelessly erotic in a man. In her sexiest Highlander novel yet, New York Times bestselling author Karen Moning stirs up a sizzling brew of ancient mystery and modern passion as she brings together a devilishly handsome Celtic warrior trapped in time . . . and the woman who’s about to pay the ultimate price for freeing him. Age-old secrets haunt them. Deadly danger and irresistible desire shadow their every move. It’s a relationship for the ages. And all that separates them is a mere thirteen hundred years. . . .

Jessi St. James has got to get a life. Too many hours studying ancient artifacts has given the hardworking archaeology student a bad case of sex on the brain. So she figures she must be dreaming when she spies a gorgeous half-naked man staring out at her from inside the silvery glass of an ancient mirror. But when a split-second decision saves her from a terrifying attempt on her life, Jessi suddenly finds herself confronting six and a half feet of smoldering, insatiable alpha male.

Heir to the arcane magic of his Druid ancestors, eleven centuries ago Cian MacKeltar was trapped inside the Dark Glass, one of four coveted Unseelie Hallows, objects of unspeakable power. When the Dark Glass is stolen, an ancient enemy will stop at nothing to reclaim it, destroying everything in his path–including the one woman who may just hold the key to breaking the ninth-century Highlander’s dark spell. For Jessi, the muscle-bound sex god in the mirror is not only tantalizingly real, he’s offering his protection–from exactly what, Jessi doesn’t know. And all he wants in exchange is the exquisite pleasure of sharing her bed.

Yet even as Cian’s insatiable hunger begins to work its dark magic on Jessi, his ancient enemy is about to obtain the final and most dangerous of the Unseelie Hallows–and the ninth-century Highlander must stop him from getting it. Nothing less than the very fabric of the universe and two passionately entwined lives are at stake–as Cian and Jessi fight to claim the kind of love that comes along but once in an ice age. . . .

[Caligastia]

[child of Thor]

Wow! that sounds like my kinda book - seriously

edit: ok maybe not after i read the whole thing still it has potential........must look it up.

[Guynemer]

Christopher Moore:

Brief, humorous novels putting ordinary people in bizarre, supernatural circumstances, similar in scope and sensibilities to Kurt Vonnegut.

I highly recommend Lamb: The Gospel According To Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, Coyote Blue, and Bloodsucking Fiends.