Edgewriter
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You can read it on your desktop with a Free Download Kindle for Desktop.
I hope to get hardcopies available eventually.
Finally took the plunge and published my book
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You can read it on your desktop with a Free Download Kindle for Desktop.
I hope to get hardcopies available eventually.
I am right there with you. I have substituted Stephen King (mostly, The Mist is kick *** and should have been a full on book) with Dean Koontz though. I had about 150ish books that a tornado took from me. Damn tornados!
I have started rebuilding my collection and have 6 foot tall book shelves filled. It is by far my favorite style of book. (forgot the damn word I am looking for)
I'm not averse to e-readers adn I clearly see benefits in them. However I just prefer having the book in my hands.
Edgewriter
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Dean Koontz is one of my favorite authors. He gets a bit formulaic at times, but he writes it so well it doesn't matter.
Nice, I especially love the series novels. My best wishes for your series, as I said before I will try my best to try it.
I’m not a tremendous reader but I’ve been reading one or two SF/Fantasy/Horror/Crime books per week for almost last ten years without any break. I really feel your passion about it, it’s just like you said, all the characters are in my head all this years and they’re like from my family. I didn’t want to tell before but I too write some stuff, but they are most like short stories and waiting to be completed and become together on my old scratch pads.
Anyway I didn’t hang around and made my own personal list of my favorites of all time, they’re mostly the classic and cult ones, I’d be honored if you look at my list and make suggestions for other great reads you’ve have experienced.
1. Dune - Frank Herbert
2. Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke
3. The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. LeGuin
4. A Song of Ice And Fire - George R.R. Martin
5. Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke
6. The Book of the Long Sun - Gene Wolfe
7. Majipoor series - Robert Silverberg
8. The Lensman series - E. E. Smith
9. The Dying Earth - Jack Vance
10. Fevre Dream - George R.R. Martin
11. The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
12. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
13. Foundation - Isaac Asimov
14. Flatland - Edwin Abbott (Esp if you like math too)
15. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
16. Anathem - Neal Stephenson
17. The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
18. At the Mountains of Madness - H.P. Lovecraft
19. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
20. The Book of Knights - Yves Maynard
21. The Gods Themselves - Isaac Asimov
22. Insomnia - S. King
23. The Last Theorem - Arthur C. Clarke and Frederik Pohl
24. The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
25. The Stand - S. King
26. Watership Down - Richard Adams
27. The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
28. Lyonesse - Jack Vance
29. 1984 - George Orwel
30. I Am Legend - Richard Matheson
31. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
32. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
33. Tigana - Guy Gavriel Kay
34. Different Seasons - S. King
35. The House of Thunder - Dean Koontz
My most favourite authors are Isaac Asimov, Jack Vance, J.R.R. Tolkien, Ursula K. LeGuin, Gene Wolfe, E. E. Smith, Frank Herbert and of course Arthur C. Clarke.
You got any book suggestions for me?
Not really into Sci-fi or Fantasy. My favorite genre has always been Crime Mysteries.
My first answer to this question always would be "The Mystery of the Yellow Room" by Gaston Leroux, it's my all time favorite, it's not that fancy as the modern novels but it's a certain classic, it has a nice "locked room mystery", I would give more suggestions(obviously other than Mrs Agatha Christie
) if you'd like, but only a few hours later, I just started to my late night study
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Hantlers
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I feel like you would like most David Baldacci books, probably Michael Connelly as well.
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@ Cyrone Torbin,
OK, before I go out for school I can write some of my fav crime mystery books and authors.
*** Let’s begin with the great Agatha Christie, since her all works should be read by any crime mystery readers, there is no need to express her novels one by one. However my fav one is “Endless Night”. I liked it much because it’s little bit different from her other novels, it's also an interesting fact that she herself liked this novel most among her all works, it’s rather smooth and includes less tension but more depth character wise, plus it’s a bit downcast.
A bit more moving one is “Murder on the Orient Express”, while it’s a wonderful read , also “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd” and “And Then There Were None” are the ones I remembered that I enjoyed much. “The Unexpected Guest” and “Crooked House” are also wonderful.
One thing about A. Christie, today’s people tend to believe that she is overrated, I’m all against it, she is one of the most enjoyable authors to read without lowering the quality.
*** One of my fav authors is this French guy Jean-Christophe Grangé, he’s not that famous but has fantastic novels, such as “The Empire Of The Wolves”, “Le Vol des cigognes”(The flight of the storks) and “Blood Red Rivers”. His works seem including some fantastic themes but at the end most of time all of it ends in a realistic and logical way.
*** I’ve read almost all Dan Brown books, as much as he has the Lakers popularity, he’s the real deal. I think if you haven’t seen the movies of his books, don’t bother and read just the books, they are way better.
*** Another less well known author I read is “Glenn Meade”, “The Sands of Sakkara” and “Brandenburg” are really worth to read.
*** “L'Âme du mal”(Bad Soul or Evil Soul etc) by a young French writer Maxime Chattam, I recently read it, I would give it a 9 out of 10.
*** Tess Gerritsen, has really interesting style, writes based on her prior profession, medicine I believe. “Gravity” is really interesting as it’s like a CSI, medical thriller, crime mystery synthesis. She also has a nice series “Rissoli and Isles” which has a really really fantastic first novel called “The Surgeon”.
*** Robin Cook, he’s probably the idol of Tess Gerritsen, any book of him would be a good read, especially if you like medical/crime thrillers. You will never see the hospitals the same as before, after reading his books. I still examine the all hospital and doctors whenever I go to a hospital.
*** How about an ex-cop writer? Craig Russell, you can read his all books with the Jan Fabel character, especially the “Blood Eagle”. They are entertaining and entraining.
*** I liked this well seller and awarded(I generally don’t like best sellers etc) crime mystery by Tom Rob Smith, “Child 44”, a very moving book runs in the eastern europe.
*** I really hope you haven’t seen the movie “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” yet, because it has a WONDERFUL novel which I luckily read before the movie. The writer’s name is Stieg Larsson, if you have seen the movie then you still should read the book, actually the books, because it’s a series, unfortunately a trilogy which is supposed to be a tenolgy(I mean 10 books), because the author’s not alive. I’ve read the second book and will read the last one asap.
*** Ian Rankin, I only read a book of his “Rebus Series”, the first book, and he’s on my list of “to be read” with his tens of novels.
*** Lawrence Block, a true legend. I’m tryin to read his all novels and series, one mistake I did about his novels, I didn’t read them properly and missed a lot of details. You should follow his books in an order, or at least as whole series by series.
*** Of course no need to speak about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his Shorlock Holmes.
*** “The Black Dahlia” by James Ellroy.
*** Ruth Rendell, has looots of novels and series, but I couldn’t dare to find her best ones after I read a few ones which I couldn’t finish actually, but people praise her a lot, maybe you should give it a try.
*** “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” by John le Carré, a true spy/detective classic.
*** “The Name of the Rose” an Umberto Eco classic.
OK that’s all I can remember, I’m sure there are ones which you’ve read among these, but I hope there are also ones you haven’t read yet and I hope you like if you read any of them. Actually I’ve read all these crime/detective stuff in the last 3-4 years, because before then I was only reading SF and Fantasy. Anyway I would like to hear any suggestion of you for a good read, even it’s not a SF/Fantasy/Crime etc.
OK, before I go out for school I can write some of my fav crime mystery books and authors.
*** Let’s begin with the great Agatha Christie, since her all works should be read by any crime mystery readers, there is no need to express her novels one by one. However my fav one is “Endless Night”. I liked it much because it’s little bit different from her other novels, it's also an interesting fact that she herself liked this novel most among her all works, it’s rather smooth and includes less tension but more depth character wise, plus it’s a bit downcast.
A bit more moving one is “Murder on the Orient Express”, while it’s a wonderful read , also “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd” and “And Then There Were None” are the ones I remembered that I enjoyed much. “The Unexpected Guest” and “Crooked House” are also wonderful.
One thing about A. Christie, today’s people tend to believe that she is overrated, I’m all against it, she is one of the most enjoyable authors to read without lowering the quality.
*** One of my fav authors is this French guy Jean-Christophe Grangé, he’s not that famous but has fantastic novels, such as “The Empire Of The Wolves”, “Le Vol des cigognes”(The flight of the storks) and “Blood Red Rivers”. His works seem including some fantastic themes but at the end most of time all of it ends in a realistic and logical way.
*** I’ve read almost all Dan Brown books, as much as he has the Lakers popularity, he’s the real deal. I think if you haven’t seen the movies of his books, don’t bother and read just the books, they are way better.
*** Another less well known author I read is “Glenn Meade”, “The Sands of Sakkara” and “Brandenburg” are really worth to read.
*** “L'Âme du mal”(Bad Soul or Evil Soul etc) by a young French writer Maxime Chattam, I recently read it, I would give it a 9 out of 10.
*** Tess Gerritsen, has really interesting style, writes based on her prior profession, medicine I believe. “Gravity” is really interesting as it’s like a CSI, medical thriller, crime mystery synthesis. She also has a nice series “Rissoli and Isles” which has a really really fantastic first novel called “The Surgeon”.
*** Robin Cook, he’s probably the idol of Tess Gerritsen, any book of him would be a good read, especially if you like medical/crime thrillers. You will never see the hospitals the same as before, after reading his books. I still examine the all hospital and doctors whenever I go to a hospital.
*** How about an ex-cop writer? Craig Russell, you can read his all books with the Jan Fabel character, especially the “Blood Eagle”. They are entertaining and entraining.
*** I liked this well seller and awarded(I generally don’t like best sellers etc) crime mystery by Tom Rob Smith, “Child 44”, a very moving book runs in the eastern europe.
*** I really hope you haven’t seen the movie “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” yet, because it has a WONDERFUL novel which I luckily read before the movie. The writer’s name is Stieg Larsson, if you have seen the movie then you still should read the book, actually the books, because it’s a series, unfortunately a trilogy which is supposed to be a tenolgy(I mean 10 books
), because the author’s not alive. I’ve read the second book and will read the last one asap.*** Ian Rankin, I only read a book of his “Rebus Series”, the first book, and he’s on my list of “to be read” with his tens of novels.
*** Lawrence Block, a true legend. I’m tryin to read his all novels and series, one mistake I did about his novels, I didn’t read them properly and missed a lot of details. You should follow his books in an order, or at least as whole series by series.
*** Of course no need to speak about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his Shorlock Holmes
.*** “The Black Dahlia” by James Ellroy.
*** Ruth Rendell, has looots of novels and series, but I couldn’t dare to find her best ones after I read a few ones which I couldn’t finish actually, but people praise her a lot, maybe you should give it a try.
*** “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” by John le Carré, a true spy/detective classic.
*** “The Name of the Rose” an Umberto Eco classic.
OK that’s all I can remember, I’m sure there are ones which you’ve read among these, but I hope there are also ones you haven’t read yet and I hope you like if you read any of them. Actually I’ve read all these crime/detective stuff in the last 3-4 years, because before then I was only reading SF and Fantasy. Anyway I would like to hear any suggestion of you for a good read, even it’s not a SF/Fantasy/Crime etc.
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Haha
It's sarcasm isn't it? I don't know really, I've been always good with the girls, I compensate my shortness and broke wallet with my romance and radio-like voice
(I wish that was true, lol). But really, I talk them about books, music, movies and most importantly I listen to them. So they generally like me hehe...
Edgewriter
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I loved Watership down. I read it in High School and was amazed that you could write about rabbits and make them Bad-*** I highlighted your books above that I have also read and liked
Here is my list. It is by no means complete, but these are my favorites, the books and authors that I would recommend to everyone:
Fantasy:
R. A. Salvatore’s Drizzt novels: These are fantasy adventure novels and he writes the best action scenes around. Drizzt is one of my all time favorite characters.
Robert Jordan’s Wheel of time series: Epic monstrous Huge. By book six it gets a bit too huge. I still haven’t finished this one. He died after writing book nine and it took Brian K. Sanderson three books to tie the whole thing up. Still worth it.
David Eddings: All of his series are great. The humor in his novels really influenced me.
Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth novels: These are great except for a couple duds later in the series. He gets a bit preachy at times, but I love the characters and the horrible things he puts them through.
Mercedes Lackey’s Heralds of Valdemar series.
Sci-fi and Horror:
Douglas Adams’ Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Universe books.
Stephen King:
It (one of my all time favorite books ever. Freaky)
The Stand
The Dark Tower Series
The Talisman
From a Buick 8
Needful Things
Skeleton Crew
Salem’s Lot
Dean Koontz: Cannot go wrong with him. Each book is great but here are some of my favorites
Strangers
Whispers
Watchers
The Taking (amazing book)
Fear Nothing
Seize the Night
By the Light of the moon
False Memory
Dark Rivers of the Heart
Phantoms (Geat book)
So many more out there. I can’t write them all down right now.
Edgewriter
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If you like mystery/detective novels, You may also enjoy Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta Novels. She is like the original CSI.
The one thing about her is even though she creates great mysteries and villains, she has a hard time with endings. The book has you totally involved and then the ending is thrown together in like ten pages and you are left scratching your head.
The one thing about her is even though she creates great mysteries and villains, she has a hard time with endings. The book has you totally involved and then the ending is thrown together in like ten pages and you are left scratching your head.
Thanks for the suggestions. I didn't like Dean Koontz at first back way then but I found out it was the translations, later I have read the original versions and they were entirely different.
It should've made my list in the first 15, I can't believe how I skipped it.
Agreed on Watership Down, I've read it before my fifteen, it's a wild imagination for adults but actually many children wonder how they, the animals, think in their own world and imagine about it, at least I did back then, think about it, we were nourishing rabbits and poultry when I was reading it
I've heard a lot about the Wheel of time series and I will definitely read them asap, no matter how long it is.
Edgewriter
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I was just friended on facebook by a girl who read the book and now is designing a cosplay outfit for one of the characters. She was asking all kinds of detailed questions about what the character's costume would look like.
Edgewriter
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Here is a link to the site of the girl that has decided to cosplay as one of the characters in my book. She sent me a sketch of the costume she was designing for it.
https://www.facebook.com/neverland.nicole?notif_t=fbpage_fan_invite
https://www.facebook.com/neverland.nicole?notif_t=fbpage_fan_invite
Congratulations Edge, and it's nice to see you back here. Even though the Jazz of today bear little resemblance to the Jazz of a few years ago [sheds tear...]
Even though I'm not a fan of the fantasy genre (unless perhaps it's the sort that Wes was talking about) I'll see about getting your book. Does it download to a kindle or other e-reader or do they send a hard-copy?
edit: looks like my question was answered... I have two kindle books checked out from the library system that are seriously overdue and I know the minute I turn my kindle's online access back on, I'll lose them, and since I want to finish them, I guess your book will have to wait a bit...
Even though I'm not a fan of the fantasy genre (unless perhaps it's the sort that Wes was talking about) I'll see about getting your book. Does it download to a kindle or other e-reader or do they send a hard-copy?
edit: looks like my question was answered... I have two kindle books checked out from the library system that are seriously overdue and I know the minute I turn my kindle's online access back on, I'll lose them, and since I want to finish them, I guess your book will have to wait a bit...
Edgewriter
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Thanks Moe! Please let me know what you think when you get around to reading.
reignman40
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Nice to see you finished that novel you've been working on.
Edgewriter
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Has anyone started reading the book? Any burgeoning opinions?