Author Topic: Favorite Author you've discovered this year? (Read 2599 times)

brawndolicious · « **on:** November 27, 2006, 07:55:37 PM »

Best: Gregory Maguire or Ursula K. Le Guin. Fantasy that isn't shit!

Worst: Khaled Hosseini. Worthless as a human being.

This could be fiction or non-fiction.

Mupepe · « **Reply #1 on:** November 27, 2006, 07:57:04 PM »

Piers Anthony lolz

G The Resurrected · « **Reply #2 on:** November 27, 2006, 07:58:27 PM »

I havent read much this year. But i cant sit down and read books. :'(

Any good books on failed utopias? Zombie's? Comedy books?

The Miles Trahan Burger Experiment · « **Reply #3 on:** November 27, 2006, 07:58:43 PM »

ZomBz

G The Resurrected · « **Reply #4 on:** November 27, 2006, 08:02:26 PM »

I cant take credit for all things, but the thin line between fiction and reality sure is riveting isn't it? Some shit just cant be made up its the readers perception that matters though.

brawndolicious · « **Reply #5 on:** November 27, 2006, 08:05:14 PM »

Quote from: Mupepe on November 27, 2006, 07:57:04 PM

Piers Anthony lolz

Is he actually good?

Quote from: ZomBz on November 27, 2006, 07:58:27 PM

I havent read much this year. But i cant sit down and read books. :'(
Any good books on failed utopias? Zombie's? Comedy books?

Maybe Haruki Murakami?

The Miles Trahan Burger Experiment · « **Reply #6 on:** November 27, 2006, 08:06:10 PM »

Quote from: ZomBz on November 27, 2006, 08:02:26 PM

I cant take credit for all things, but the thin line between fiction and reality sure is riveting isn't it? Some shit just cant be made up its the readers perception that matters though.

Nah, I pretty much just assume whatever you post is false.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #7 on:** November 27, 2006, 08:19:13 PM »

Lemony Snickets

Error Macro · « **Reply #8 on:** November 27, 2006, 08:19:53 PM »

The Black Stallion

Cyanista · « **Reply #9 on:** November 27, 2006, 08:40:22 PM »

The Earthsea Trilogy is insanely good, Ursula owned that shit. I actually just discovered George R.R. Martin.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #10 on:** November 27, 2006, 08:54:13 PM »

Cyanista: Try R. Scott Bakker's "The Prince of Nothing" series. I guarantee you'll groove on it. GUARANTEE.

Fatghost28 · « **Reply #11 on:** November 27, 2006, 10:00:00 PM »

Richard Dawkins.

He says everything I wish I was eloquent enough to have said in my high school biology class 12 years ago.

Fatghost28 · « **Reply #12 on:** November 27, 2006, 10:00:36 PM »

Quote from: Drinky Crow on November 27, 2006, 08:54:13 PM

Cyanista: Try R. Scott Bakker's "The Prince of Nothing" series. I guarantee you'll groove on it. GUARANTEE.

Most awesome fantasy series I've read in a decade, shame the ending was kinda rushed/cliff hangerish.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #13 on:** November 27, 2006, 10:01:20 PM »

yeah, the very last bit of the ending was a bit off.

Still, Achamian > *

Cyanista · « **Reply #14 on:** November 27, 2006, 10:02:32 PM »

Ok, so I'll take this chance to tell you all: I don't know if you are into pulp crap, but one of the new Stephen King hunks should be avoided like the plague. Do not read Cell!

whiteACID · « **Reply #15 on:** November 27, 2006, 10:04:44 PM »

Quote from: Cyanista on November 27, 2006, 10:02:32 PM

Ok, so I'll take this chance to tell you all: I don't know if you are into pulp crap, but one of the new Stephen King hunks should be avoided like the plague. Do not read Cell!

That book was a major disappointment and a waste of 4 hours.

I just read The Historian, excellent book, I'm going to check out more books by this author.
http://www.amazon.com/Historian-Elizabeth-Kostova/dp/B000EGF0OG/sr=8-1/qid=1164682733/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-5750975-6841737?ie=UTF8&s=books

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #16 on:** November 27, 2006, 10:05:28 PM »

Cyanista, also avoid Lisey's Story.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #17 on:** November 27, 2006, 10:07:20 PM »

I read both pulp and highbrow. I'm trying to start regular Evilbore book reviews. Since everyone who's anyone knows PKD's VALIS rocks (it's what I'm reading now), my next two reviews will be The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories and Sergei Lukayanenko's Night Watch (now a Major Motion Picture!).

Megafoo · « **Reply #18 on:** November 27, 2006, 10:09:50 PM »

whoever wrote the slogans on McDonald's bags and cups is hot shit so that would be my pick.

Cyanista · « **Reply #19 on:** November 27, 2006, 10:10:53 PM »

Oooh, Night Watch. <3

I will read all kinds of shit, too. The thing that bugged me about Cell was that the lazy fucker neglected to write AN ENDING. HI do not set up your entire book on the premise will this work/will this not work and then not specify which it is. GO FUCK YOURSELF STEPHEN KING.

whiteACID · « **Reply #20 on:** November 27, 2006, 10:11:34 PM »

Quote from: Cyanista on November 27, 2006, 10:10:53 PM

Oooh, Night Watch. <3

I will read all kinds of shit, too. The thing that bugged me about Cell was that the lazy fucker neglected to write AN ENDING. HI do not set up your entire book on the premise will this work/will this not work and then not specify which it is. GO FUCK YOURSELF STEPHEN KING.

It seemed like a bad rehash of The Stand, one of my favorite books.

Cyanista · « **Reply #21 on:** November 27, 2006, 10:12:39 PM »

Yes! But the Stand had a fucking ending. Oh, I want my nine dollars back.

whiteACID · « **Reply #22 on:** November 27, 2006, 10:13:46 PM »

Quote from: Cyanista on November 27, 2006, 10:12:39 PM

Yes! But the Stand had a fucking ending. Oh, I want my nine dollars back.

The Stand had everything.

Fatghost28 · « **Reply #23 on:** November 27, 2006, 10:35:02 PM »

Quote from: Drinky Crow on November 27, 2006, 10:01:20 PM

yeah, the very last bit of the ending was a bit off.

Still, Achamian > *

Achamian is awesome, but Kelhus is the man.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #24 on:** November 27, 2006, 10:39:12 PM »

Kellhus was too much of a Libertarian teenaged male power fantasy. I like my heroes like me: old, self-doubting, sanctimonious, and busted!

cubicle47b · « **Reply #25 on:** November 27, 2006, 10:51:41 PM »

I'm ordering the Prince of Nothing series. Better be good, dicks.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #26 on:** November 27, 2006, 10:53:41 PM »

Did you like Frank Herbert? Bakker writes in his style to fairly significant degree.

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #27 on:** November 27, 2006, 10:55:50 PM »

Only serious book I read this year was "The Elegant Universe", so I guess that means Brian Greene is my new favorite author.

But I enjoyed reading Bill Simmons' book "Now I Can Die In Peace" more.

I like baseball, and the stupid shit Simmons' writes.

cubicle47b · « **Reply #28 on:** November 27, 2006, 11:02:18 PM »

One of my girlfriends tried to make me read the Dune series which annoyed me so I never did. I took a quick look at Amazon and saw someone say this series is as complex as ASoIaF and somewhat Crusades-like which interested me.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #29 on:** November 27, 2006, 11:05:31 PM »

It's less like his Dune series and more like his SHiP trilogy (the one with Brian Ransom) in terms of writing. Yeah, the plot is exceptionally complex for the genre, and the prose is fuckin' dense. However, the magic system is clever as fuck (gnostic versus anagogic) when compared to, say, Dragonlance, the battles are epic, and the characters are all kinds of fucked up.

cubicle47b · « **Reply #30 on:** November 27, 2006, 11:10:31 PM »

Sounds good. I'll bitch and moan or commend you in a week or so when I finish the first book.

Fatghost28 · « **Reply #31 on:** November 27, 2006, 11:13:01 PM »

Quote from: Drinky Crow on November 27, 2006, 10:39:12 PM

Kellhus was too much of a Libertarian teenaged male power fantasy. I like my heroes like me: old, self-doubting, sanctimonious, and busted!

Teenage male power fantasy?

No, Nietzschean ubermensch writ large instead.

You know he's gonna end up being the real villian, and I loves me a well written good villian.

And yeah Bakker writes a bit like Herbert. I love the (real) Dune books and that was something that jumped out at me. Herbert did a little better at restraining himself in creating his world though, Bakker did a little too much and left too many threads hanging, which is why the ending is kinda a blue baller.

EDIT:

Oh, and Cnaiur breaker of men is also awesome. Actually Bakker does a really good job with all of the main characters, they're all incredibly well written.

cubicle47b · « **Reply #32 on:** December 05, 2006, 12:00:11 PM »

Cnaiur is my favorite character so far.

I just finished the first book last night. There were a few things that annoyed me (when Esmenet and Achamian meet at the end..., ugh) but overall I'm impressed.

Fatghost28 · « **Reply #33 on:** December 05, 2006, 12:15:19 PM »

Quote from: cubicle47b on December 05, 2006, 12:00:11 PM

Cnaiur is my favorite character so far.

I just finished the first book last night. There were a few things that annoyed me (when Esmenet and Achamian meet at the end..., ugh) but overall I'm impressed.

The Esmenet and Achamian thing gets better.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #34 on:** December 05, 2006, 12:29:44 PM »

My favorite new author that I came across this year is easily, hands down Steven Erickson, the author of the Malazan books. OMG SOOOO GOOD!

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Author Topic: Favorite Author you've discovered this year? (Read 2599 times)