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Fantastic Fiction

katydidthat — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 21:01:21 GMT

Anything relating to novels, short stories or other kinds of fiction.

Recommendations on books to read.

Requests for recommendations on books to read.

Reviews of books.

Types of fiction YOU like to read.

The ANYTHING FICTION THREAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: Fantastic Fiction

purplecarrot-top — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 21:21:07 GMT

Hi Katy. I read just about anything. Always have been a reader.

Reading the latest Jack Reacher book. Feel it is not as good as previous ones. Taking me a while to get through it.

Re: Fantastic Fiction

katydidthat — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 21:24:54 GMT

Hi PCT.

I was just thinking of saying I don't read "romance" ... then I thought of my big love affair with Jane Austen. I also read most things ... I'm not as adventurous as I should be about reading new authors ... I just buy the latest from my old favourites.

What sort of novels does Jack Reacher write?

Re: Fantastic Fiction

dwilke33 — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 21:35:30 GMT

Hi Katy,

I'm usually a pushover for a mystery or thriller (who done it) story, but just recently I finished reading Until Tuesday, a true story about a wounded warrior and the golden retriever who saved him. It was so good and I would highly recommend.

Re: Fantastic Fiction

sineaterdoodah — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 21:37:20 GMT

right now i'm reading a short story collection called" queen victoria,s book of spells",edited by terri windling and ellen datlow.

they have several collections as editors,most are fantastic fiction,love them!

Re: Fantastic Fiction

purplecarrot-top — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 21:38:05 GMT

I should have said Lee Child. Jack Reacher is the character in the books. They are thrillers.

I must admit to reading romances as well. Good for when I want to relax without much effort.

Re: Fantastic Fiction

katydidthat — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 21:51:15 GMT

Thanks, PCT.

Hi there, Dwilke. Thanks for the link. Looks like a tear jerker.

I'm a fan of John Grisham and Richard North Patterson ... both write what you might call "legal fiction", but not exclusively.

Re: Fantastic Fiction

purplecarrot-top — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 22:03:03 GMT

I like John Grisham. Never read any of Richard North Patterson. Will have to put him on my to read list.

Re: Fantastic Fiction

icyfroth — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 22:19:47 GMT

I like thrillers, loved the Jack Reacher series and Stig Larssens "Girl That Kicked The Hornet's Nest".

Horror, the most recent one that got me in was "Skull Session" by Daniel Hecht and of course, Stephen King.

Fantasy, like Gene Wolfe "Shadow of the Torturer" series and Stephen Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series.

Re: Fantastic Fiction

katydidthat — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 22:22:06 GMT

Patterson's good with everything ... plots, characters, and most of all, he's an excellent writer. Try and read him in order as he has a few repeat characters, and a trilogy. I started in the middle and that was fine, but next time I read the books in order and that was better.

Possibly the book of his I like best is Protect and Defend, about a young girl who gets pregnant and wants an abortion as there is a high chance that the baby will not live after the birth, and the girl might not be able to have any more children after the pregnancy. BUT, her parents are high up in a right to life organisation. And, they want their grandchild, so they take their daughter to court.

Re: Fantastic Fiction

purplecarrot-top — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 22:23:30 GMT

Have just bought my first Richard North Patterson. I love my kindle.

Re: Fantastic Fiction

katydidthat — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 22:29:37 GMT

Ooooohhhhhhhh, which one?

Re: Fantastic Fiction

icyfroth — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 23:24:29 GMT

@icyfroth wrote:
I like thrillers, loved the Jack Reacher series and Stig Larssens "Girl That Kicked The Hornet's Nest".

Horror, the most recent one that got me in was "Skull Session" by Daniel Hecht and of course, Stephen King.

Fantasy, like Gene Wolfe "Shadow of the Torturer" series and Stephen Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series.

Also classics. Read all the Dickens books, some of Jane Austen, George Eliot (currently have "The Mill On The Floss" on the backburner), D.H Lawrence.

Re: Fantastic Fiction

purplecarrot-top — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 23:43:00 GMT

Katy I bought Conviction. Was the earliest one listed.

Re: Fantastic Fiction

ruloinfovoter — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 23:50:37 GMT

Oh for short stories and the best humor it is Guy Gilpatric and Mr. Glencannon!!!!

The absolute best I've read for those categories if you can handle bits of the writing written in a very Scottish accent or brogue or whatever. Hilarious and beautifully written.

Re: Fantastic Fiction

katydidthat — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 00:45:02 GMT

Love most of them, Icy. My favourite Austen has to be P and P, but I also liked Northanger Abbey. My fave Dickens is Tale of Two Cities.

That's a good one, PCT, and some of the characters come up in other books.

Got to mention the Harry Potter books. I bought the first one for my son, and I got HOOKED.

Re: Fantastic Fiction

lloydslights — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 01:12:44 GMT

As maybe mentioned elsewhere in the past, I am slowing discarding my library which I inherited from the family home. (My Dad's father was a prolific reader and instilled the love of the written word to later generations.) With English/History teachers amongst the family throng, there is quite a collection of books. And I don't think I will finish reading them all.

Some are a little too heavy for my ageing brain and I don't think they are good for my late night contemplation. Philosophy abounds with Bertrand Russell, Karl Marx. Friedrich Nietzche and Jean Piaget and the bookend is "The Thinker".

I am currently reading Aldous Huxley.

To Icy, I recently re-read The Mill on the Floss. Appreciated it so much more than when we had to read it for our Reading List at High School.

DEB

Re: Fantastic Fiction

katydidthat — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 02:04:03 GMT

I always feel dreadful about discarding books. But, when I was leaving Darwin, I severely downsized. Not sure how many of those books I've bought again since then, LOL.

My Dad got a lot of old books (much the same collection) from his father ... in a way, I wish I'd kept a few of them ...

I've been meaning to re-read Brave New World ... and 1984 and Animal Farm. Never enough time ...

DEB, have you thought of listing them on eBay?

Re: Fantastic Fiction

purplecarrot-top — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 02:08:24 GMT

My daughters keep telling me I should read Harry Potter. Maybe one day.

I had to get rid of my books when we started travelling. Had well over three hundred. Mainly gave them to friends and family.

Re: Fantastic Fiction

lloydslights — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 02:22:53 GMT

The respect for books instilled causes acute pain when I box them up for the Op Shop, Wiill they be for another library? Will they be used as decor for a coffee shop? I'm going through the plastic covered (by teachers) paperbacks first. The hardbacks will need someone else (after I'm gone) to decide what to do.

The hardbacks with inscriptions (especially pre-1920), I hope will go down the family line for our offspring to associate with the ancestors' mindsets. (Especially in regard to the Socialist philosophies pored over by my Grandfather.)

DEB