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I've never actually tried Gemmell for some reason. I guess with that kind of recommendation id better read some of his books. Have you read Raymond E. Feist?
 
Originally posted by gilgalad
I've never actually tried Gemmell for some reason. I guess with that kind of recommendation id better read some of his books. Have you read Raymond E. Feist?
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You should read Gemmell, definately. Be careful not to pick a pick that's in a middle of a series to start off with - that's quite easy to do with him. I've read, let's see, 5 or 6 David Gemmell books, and so far, they've all be great. So, you can't really go wrong

And I haven't read Feist either, again, it's a case of never having gotten round to it. I said a while ago that I'd move onto him once I finished The Wheel Of Time, but I'm still waiting for the library to get the 6th part of that in for me...
 


Wow that is so great, I have never met any authors well except for Rowling I met her she was nice but we didn't talk for long she just signed my book and asked me if I saw the movie and what I thought of the first two books, that was it, but I've never met any other one's I liked, but you are so lucky too have met him!
 
I haven't met an author. Actually, now I think of it, I have, several years ago but I can't remember who the author was. What I was going to say was that a year ago I found a mistake on the Amazon.co.uk synopsis for Gallow's Thief by Bernard Cornwell (of Sharpe and Warlord Chronicles fame). So I emailed him via his website, and then he sent me a signed hardback copy of the book as thanks! I was well chuffed, understandably
 
I'm reading the third part of The Elenium. Actually, my husband read the first one then he started to read me the second book - so now I have to go backwards and read the Diamond Throne as well as reading Sapphire Rose. I'm really enjoying this series.
 
I'm reading many books right now well there's daughts of the Moon: night shade, daughts of the Moon: book 1, the fellowship of the ring, Smallville: Strange visitor, and lord of the rings: movie guide. I have been reading alot.
 
I enjoyed Feist, but not enough to read the whole series; the first three were enough.

Meeting authors...I met Brian Jacques, author of the Redwall series, several years ago, and I spoken (through online reading groups) to Patricia McKillip (The Riddlemaster Trilogy, The Forgotten Beasts of Eld), Robin McKinley (The Hero and the Crown, The Blue Sword, Beauty), and Elizabeth Moon (The Deed of Paksennarion).

*edit* Patricia Wrede (The Enchanted Forest Chronicles) also visited.
 
I've met Brian Jacques (Redwall), James Gurney (Dinotopia), and Gail Carson Levine (Ella Enchanted, Two Princesses of Bamare), and me grandma (mile by mile guides to all the tourist railroads in colorado)


On the last book of the Archives of Anthropos now (they're a lot like Narnia, which they were modelled after)... next up is a whole bunch of Stephen Lawhead books, and an 'autobiography' of Long John Silver.
 
Im still reading the New Testament and Im also reading through Unfinnished tales again.

I LOVE Artemis Fowl, those books are so incredibly funny, their fantastic!!!

Eoin Colfer, Brain Jacques, and Patrica McKillip are all great authors, your so lucky to have got to meet and talk with them!
 
next up is a whole bunch of Stephen Lawhead books
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Yaaaaay, Lawhead rules! Which ones are you reading?

Eoin Colfer, Brain Jacques, and Patrica McKillip are all great authors, your so lucky to have got to meet and talk with them!
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I didn't meet McKillip in person: she visited Readerville.com for the YA Reading Group's discussion of her Riddlemaster Trilogy last December to answer questions, and was a great guest: you can read back over the discussion here if you're interested- R'ville is a great thing, especially for people living in cultural vaccummes, like me. </Readerville plug>

I finished Sixpence House yesterday, and immediately wished I hadn't read it so quickly because I didn't want it to be over.

I'm halfway done with Tamsin, and contemplating what to read next: I have a ton of books borrowed from people that I should be reading, including The Friendly Persuasion for my book group, but I think I'll probably end up reading Winter Rose by McKillip next.

Speaking of, does anyone know of a list anywhere of which McKillip's have Kinuko Y. Craft cover art? I've been collecting them, and I think I might have them all now (!).

And this afternoon I read a cute little childrens book that I picked up at the library book sale called Trouble With Dragons; about 80 pages with nice illustrations, a nice dose of random fairy tale cuteness.
 
Uhh, Dreamthief, Avalon, and some series about Nin (I think)... haven't started any yet
 
The Nin series isn't Lawhead at his best; very disappointing compared to his other work. I haven't read Avalon (but I have it) or Dreamthief yet. My favorites by him are Taliesin and The Celtic Crusades Trilogy.
 
After finishing W.P. Kinsella's Shoeless Joe (which was the basis for the film Field of Dreams), a novel that includes the novelist J.D. Salinger as a character, I, naturally, found myself needing to re-read some Salinger. Since I pretty much know [The Catcher In the Rye[/I] inside and out, I decided to re-read Nine Stories, and after I finish it, I'll probably go back and read Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction again.

I haven't met many authors- I had a writers' workshop with the poet Jeffrey Beam once, and I've met Clyde Edgerton, but they are both local North Carolina authors, and I doubt that many people outside of the region have ever heard of them. I met Nick Meglin, who writes and edits MAD Magazine once, when he gave a speach on campus. I've had several profs who have published books, but I've only read one of them.
 
Has anyone ever heard of John B. Keane? He died just recently and was one of Ireland's most celebrated playwrights, poets, observers and several other things to do with the english language.

He lived just about half an hour away from where I do so I met him a couple of times.

His most famous works would have included The Field (made into a movie), Sive and Big Maggie.
 
What am I reading now?

I'm reading The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne, its pretty cool.


~MacAddict
 
I'm struggling through The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas. It's very interesting and fun, it's just taking a long time to read, nasty tiny print.
 
I'm trying to get through Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf. My word, it's hard going, I've never read anything like it (and not in a good way!) It's so hard to get into and there's so little to actually keep your attention. I will persist, I might love it by the time I've finished it or it she might get on my list of authors who are completely irritating and should never have even picked up a pen (Thomas Hardy being at the top!)
 
currently reading: Winter of Fire, by Sherryl Jordan
I bought it at a book fair in 7th grade, and you can tell how much I love it by the yellowing pages and crackled edges...
 
I finished Tamsin by Peter S. Beagle (it was excellent), and then I tried to start Winter Rose by Patricia McKillip, and the beginning was wonderful, but it wasn't what I needed. I ended up burning through four Stephanie Plum mysteries in as many days (pure biblio-crack; they make me laugh, and they don't require the use of any braincells), and yesterday I started re-reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone; I've haven't read it since it first came out, and I've forgotten pretty much everything, so I figured I'd better read them all again before the next book comes out (if it ever comes out...and even when it does I'll be the last person in the house to get it, but oh well. It's my younger siblings that are the drooling, frothing HP fans).

Courtney, Winter of Fire sounds familiar, but I can't place it. What's it about?
 
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