XPost: alt.fan.tolkien, rec.arts.books.tolkien, alt.books.cs-lewis   
   From: derek@pointerstop.ca   
      
   Taemon wrote:   
      
   > 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?   
      
   I'll read Asher any time, and if I can come across /Shadow/ I'll try more   
   Parker, but /The Engineer/ got boring.  Parker maybe needs better editing.   
      
   >> 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.   
      
   No, they're not bad.  I just don't think they're the best introduction to   
   her talent.   
      
   >> 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...   
      
   Yes, she's read /The Wasp Factory/.  I just didn't bother.  I'm not really   
   sure, other than the names, what it was that didn't work for me with Banks,   
   but I was always comparing bits of him to other writers and coming up short.   
      
   >> 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.   
      
   Naughty...   
      
   >   
   >>>>> 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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   derek   
      
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