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Fox
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| Koveras wrote: |
| Gaimon said that his favourite author is Lord Dunsany. Check around for The Book of Wonder or Fifty-One Tales, both available online. They're prose-poetry but not 'literary' or difficult unless you want them to be. [/i] |
Yes, this is some pretty nice stuff. For anyone who has downloaded the 13130 collection suggested some time back by underwaterbob, a reasonable amount of Lord Dunsany's work is included.
While tangentally on the topic of Gaiman, let me mention Terry Pratchett. Because the two have worked together, sometimes when you admit to having a fondness for Gaiman's work, people recommend Pratchett. Don't fall for it; Terry Pratchett is terrible. To be frank, I sometimes wonder if the British fondness for Pratchett isn't indicative of some mild level of racial dysfunction. |
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Koveras
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Pratchett sucks. Where can I get this collection? |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm afraid not, which is strange given he's an older writer with a reasonable amount of published work. I guess the people who complied it simply never ran across any fan-converted ebooks by him. |
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Koveras
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't understand this torrent thing. |
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seonsengnimble
Joined: 02 Jun 2009
Location: taking a ride on the magic English bus
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| Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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Not sure about pedestrian fiction, but for Sci Fi, there's tons of stuff.
Larry Niven- The ringworld series is pretty fun.
Neil Stephenson-Snowcrash or any other cyberpunk novels
Piers Anthony- only read one of his books because the cover was too ridiculous to pass up, but it was a fun, easy read: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_X2YpBDWHkYo/RuX0i67fbNI/AAAAAAAAAXc/hC765GmghpM/s400/mercycle
For fantasy, go with Tolkien, CS Lewis and Phillip Pullman for a huge contrast to the aforementioned authors. |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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| seonsengnimble wrote: |
| Larry Niven- The ringworld series is pretty fun. |
The Ringworld series is fun, but in my estimation, Niven's individual best work is his novel Protector. That one small book clearly articulates a series of ideas which is fundamental to his entire series. Regarding his work in general, I also have to say the Pierson's Puppeteers are an excellent piece of intellectual work, and I find them quite compelling. For a man seemingly primarily focused on writing fairly simple stories meant to illustrate scientific ideas, he does an excellent job of raising the very real point that not just the world, but the entire universe is an extremely dangerous place, and that humans have little appreciation for that fact.
Regarding Tolkien, I highly recommend anyone with any interest in old northern culture to read his The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun. This is not his own work per se, but rather his own translation and reworking of a much older series of poems, and is very much worth a read. |
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