CS Lewis - I read the Narnia series in one huge gulp in the 7th grade, and again in the 8th. Maybe I should try again, but it's not high on my list of priorities. :)
JRR Tolkein -I tried to enjoy the LotR series, really I did, but I gave up halfway through The Two Towers. The Silmarillion is interesting but sooooo veeeeeery dryyyy. Of course, I've read the Hobbit. ;)
Eric Nylund - A name I've heard, but not read.
Larry Niven - I've only read his sci-fi, and not much of that - mostly the "Known Universe" stories, including the first two Ringworld books - but none of his collabs with Pournelle.
Marion Zimmer Bradley - Wasn't this the person that did Mists of Avalon? Never have I seen so many characters cry in a single book. It was okay, but very chick-lit, I thought.
Katherine Kurtz - Neo pagans make me itch. I'm not going to rush out to buy this.
Anne McCaffrey - I agree with you re, the state of the series.
Edgar Rice Burroughs - Barsoom's on that "Really got to get around to reading" list. ;)
Piers Anthony - Incarnations of Immortality - Amusing, but really stupid and, in the end, misogynistic. I read the entire series, along with Anthony's "Bio of a Space Tyrant" series, and the first dozen or so of Xanth, and gave up on the guy. He wants to be some sort of Heinlein/Pratchett fusion and failed at both, imho.
Terry Brooks - Sword of Shannara - Tried to read 'em in high school and didn't care of them at all. THe language just irritated me.
I'm strongly tempted to put all of Robert Heinlein's Lazarus Long stories into the 'fantasy' category, but that's just too easy a cheap shot, even for me. - Heh, I tend to refer to anything that Heinlein wrote after about, oh, 1970 as "science fantasy" as the science part of it clearly meant less and less as time went on...
Roger Zelazny - Again, I've got so many friends who are sooooo into Amber, that I've sort of shied away in a nigh-allergic response. It might be my loss but, there you. ;)
Bram Stoker - Dracula - A classic, but be in the mood for Victorian lit, not fast paced horror when you read it. :)
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Re: My Response, Pt 2
Date: 2005-12-13 06:17 pm (UTC)CS Lewis - I read the Narnia series in one huge gulp in the 7th grade, and again in the 8th. Maybe I should try again, but it's not high on my list of priorities. :)
JRR Tolkein -I tried to enjoy the LotR series, really I did, but I gave up halfway through The Two Towers. The Silmarillion is interesting but sooooo veeeeeery dryyyy. Of course, I've read the Hobbit. ;)
Eric Nylund - A name I've heard, but not read.
Larry Niven - I've only read his sci-fi, and not much of that - mostly the "Known Universe" stories, including the first two Ringworld books - but none of his collabs with Pournelle.
Marion Zimmer Bradley - Wasn't this the person that did Mists of Avalon? Never have I seen so many characters cry in a single book. It was okay, but very chick-lit, I thought.
Katherine Kurtz - Neo pagans make me itch. I'm not going to rush out to buy this.
Anne McCaffrey - I agree with you re, the state of the series.
Edgar Rice Burroughs - Barsoom's on that "Really got to get around to reading" list. ;)
Piers Anthony - Incarnations of Immortality - Amusing, but really stupid and, in the end, misogynistic. I read the entire series, along with Anthony's "Bio of a Space Tyrant" series, and the first dozen or so of Xanth, and gave up on the guy. He wants to be some sort of Heinlein/Pratchett fusion and failed at both, imho.
Terry Brooks - Sword of Shannara - Tried to read 'em in high school and didn't care of them at all. THe language just irritated me.
I'm strongly tempted to put all of Robert Heinlein's Lazarus Long stories into the 'fantasy' category, but that's just too easy a cheap shot, even for me. - Heh, I tend to refer to anything that Heinlein wrote after about, oh, 1970 as "science fantasy" as the science part of it clearly meant less and less as time went on...
Roger Zelazny - Again, I've got so many friends who are sooooo into Amber, that I've sort of shied away in a nigh-allergic response. It might be my loss but, there you. ;)
Bram Stoker - Dracula - A classic, but be in the mood for Victorian lit, not fast paced horror when you read it. :)
Mary Shelly - Frankenstein - Ditto. :)