XPost: alt.fan.tolkien, rec.arts.books.tolkien, alt.books.cs-lewis   
   From: Taemon@zonnet.nl   
      
   Derek Broughton wrote:   
      
   > Dirk Thierbach wrote:   
   >> Taemon  wrote:   
   >>> I think I already recommended Neal Asher to you.   
   >> I think you didn't, but I do like Neal Asher a lot.   
   > That was me.  On Taemon's recommendation I got all the Asher & K.J.   
   > Parker books I could get my hands on.   
      
   Heh. You like them?   
      
   >>> And K.J. Parker, if you think cruelty is funny.   
   >> Hasn't been on my radar yet. And I don't think cruelty is funny.   
   > There wasn't any cruelty in the one series (The Engineer trilogy,   
   > /Devices and Desires/, etc) I could get.   
      
   Ooooh, you haven't read Scavenger yet . That's not for everyone,   
   though.   
      
   > Skip the books of /The True Game/ (I think that's what she called   
   > it).  Very juvenile.   
      
   Yes, but I don't think that makes them bad. I liked the different talents   
   and what it did to people very much.   
      
   > I just finished /Heart of Gold/ by Sharon Shinn, who I'd never   
   > previously heard of.  Very Tepperish, and very good.   
      
   /me makes note   
      
   >>> "The Golden Age"...  John C. Wright. I've only   
   >>> read part one, and I loved it (it's one of those inevitable   
   >>> trilogies). Took me a while to realise that I could safely ignore   
   >>> everything about names like "Phaethon Prime Rhadamanth Humodified   
   >>> (augment) Uncomposed, Indepconciousness, Base Neuroformed,   
   >>> Silver-Gray Manorial Schola, Era 7043" that I didn't understand and   
   >>> just go with "Phaethon, that guy".   
   > Ugh.  Sounds like Iain Banks.   
      
   And what is wrong with Iain Banks, hm, pray tell? Dirk! Add Banks' The   
   Algebraist to your list :-)   
      
   > He has the absolute worst names for   
   > people, but the names of his interstellar vessels are _brilliant_.   
      
   Oh :-)   
      
   > I gave him up after one book, but my wife - the non-SF person - enjoys   
   > him.   
      
   Well, he also writes non-SF. Under the name Ian Banks, if memory serves   
   correctly. Ah, the Wasp Factory...   
      
   > LOL.  There's no boring cyberpunk.   There's good cyberpunk and ...   
   > stuff that isn't real cyberpunk :-)   
      
   I was impressed with one cyberpunk story, because of the last sentence   
   ("After that, everything changed"). It's just not my thing.   
      
   > Ah.  Joe Abercrombie.  Once again, I see some lurker on this group is   
   > placing holds at my library based on your recommendations :-) I'll   
   > have to wait.  I'm also in the queue for /The Braided Path/ - we   
   > should establish a Taemon's Recommendations Book Club here in   
   > Halifax, NS.   
      
   Hee hee!    
      
   C.S. Friedman! The Coldfire trilogy! That was some wild, wild fantasy. Dark.   
   Very good at bad guys. No one-dimensional Dark Lords there (no offence).   
      
   Hey, lurker? Go read Monika Felten's Elven fire. It has won two prizes so it   
   must be good.   
      
   >>>> BTW, I can recommend "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss   
   >>>> (not German, despite the name). A really good read.   
   > Again, all we have is the first book.   
      
   Apparently that's all there is. Well! I just might get the second one in my   
   mailbox soon :-)   
      
   T.   
      
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