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I'm kind of dry at the moment, since the whole Gunslinger series is done.
I'm looking for a weighty tome to get into while I'm on a business trip for a couple of weeks and I'd like some advice....
Just so you know where I'm coming from....
Loved Dan Simmon "Illium" Hated Donaldson's "Thomas Covenant" stuff Loved Donaldson's "Gap" series Loved King's "Gunslinger" series Couldn't be bothered with the wheel of time stuff - Not very into fantasy at the moment.
I'd love to read more stuff like Pastwatch and Illium. Or even some well-written Historical stuff that moves along nicely with a modern writing style.
Unless he does another "Name of the Rose" I'm going to avoid Umberto Eco - "Focult's Pendulm" and "The Island of the day before tomorrow's yesterday's past participle" was just excruciating.
quote:My favorite series of all time: The Riverworld Series by Philip Jose Farmer.
Really??? I very much enjoyed the first two, but then it took him three books to tell a 1-book story.
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I just read Pastwatch - it was great. Now, I'll have to check out Turtledove . . . I'd been avoiding him . . . dunno why.
Don't laugh, Troubs - but you might consider D. Gabaldon's Outlander - I was introduced to her by a guy - and even though it's sold in the "romance" section, it more accurately fits in the alternative history/fantasy/scifi genre - IMHO. Good author - well written, engaging, and there are at least 5 in the series - just rigt to keep you occupied . . .
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No. If you want to read that series, start with How Few Remain. (It's tricky because he's got multiple trilogies that follow each other chronologically in the same world.) There’s also the WorldWar series, which is completely separate and starts with WorldWar: In the Balance. That one’s got aliens. And he has other stand alone books.
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The Marcus Didius Falco series-- modern-style mysteries set in ancient Rome (in the reign of Vespasian).
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Personal preferences on Turtledove - I love his fantasy, and was pleasantly surprised how much I liked Guns of the South. On the strength of that I started reading his World War books as they came out and while I enjoy his writing, I finally lost interest somewhere in the middle of the second series. I'm just not a war buff or historian, and where Guns fascinated me with the interplay of the people and the integrity of Lee, the other series didn't do much for me.
However, Guns remains one of the books I reread every year.
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I read part of the way through Guns of the South years ago and was very interested in the concept, but never went back and read it for some reason.
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I second the Gabaldon books. Clare's perspective of history (coming from WWII England) was fascinating.
Bob--Rutherford is coming to West Point this month and we have lots of his books at the Bookstore tempting me. I hope I get to meet him.
Troub, an author that the cadets like (but I have never read, so caveat whatever) is Stephen Pressfield ("Tides of War", "Gates of Fire"). Oh wait, I have read his book on artistic motivation ("The War of Art"), and I liked it very much. His "Gates of Fire" is set in the Pelopennesian War.
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Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet, which is a wonderful story about sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll (by which I mean it's his take on the myth of Orpheus).
If you haven't read William Gibson's Neuromancer there is something wrong with you and you should see to fixing that.
Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities is most amusing.
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I hope I get to meet him.
