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There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Thanks! It's not available until 6/2, but I've still got a book and a half of the Southern Reach trilogy to get through.
Speaking of which, so far I'm liking the series, but will wait until I'm finished to give a review/rating. It's unsettling as hell, and creepy the way the X-Files and Lost were creepy at their best, but I want to see if it sticks the landing, if that makes sense.
I really liked City of Stairs and made my DH read it. He couldn't disassociate from real Indian and Russian culture/history/stuff enough. Plus the whole embassy thing. I thought it was worthy but not quite enough to make me get City of Blades. IOW, not quite N.K. Jemisin good.
A Head Full of Ghosts is still bugging me and I think I've finally figured out why. It's not a gothic horror and it should be. It's missing the key component. Also, I think that the author needed to pull on a particular strand more than he did; for that I blame his editor. Or beta readers. I don't know. Someone should have been able to come back 24 hours after reading it and say "Dude, shift just a touch to make X the thesis. You hardly have to change anything and this becomes a brilliant book."
Having finished my personal Vorkosigan saga, I am craving a solidly great sci fi or fantasy series I can get cheap on Kindle or free through my library (at least the first book) . I have read some of the obvious ones. The first Dark Tower and Wheel of Time book are both checked out; I put on holds but am impatient to start something. Suggestions? Minimum three published books: I crave a quest.
I'm rereading the Steerswoman series, but that isn't finished.
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn by Tad Williams? The Young Wizards by Diane Duane? She's had a sale on at her ebook store lately.
The last book of the Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater has just come out.
Barbara Hambly's Darwath books?
I really like Tanya Huff's Confederation of Valor series. It's military based sci fi. I like the world building. Some of the stories get out there but no too bad. I'm reading John Scalzi's The Old Man's War universe now.
My library has Scalzi not sure about Huff though.
I have read the old man's war. Solid. Also young wizards, one of my faves. I am bookmarking both of y'all's suggestions for future, so thanks for that. I grabbed Black Trillium, written by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Julian May, and Andre Norton off of Amazon for six dollars (cheap enough). It has four sequels and I love Julian May so we will see how that goes.
The Harry Dresden books? There are 14 (or 15?) of them, so you're guaranteed a chunk of reading.
I recently reread CJ Cherryh's Morgaine books (four books beginning with "Gate of Ivrel") and felt they still stood up well. Also her Chanur books (five books starting with "Pride of Chanur") which I love.
It is probably time for me to give Discworld a real try too.
Oh man, I've been meaning to read the Discworld books, too. I keep forgetting.