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⌈ Secret Post #3090 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Book Series or Authors

[(Anonymous)]

Fantasy series: Shannara (first through third series plus Knight of the Word), Landover series, Wheel of Time, Wars of Light and Shadow, Discworld, Lord of the Rings, chunks of David Gemmell, chunks of Xanth, bits of Dragonlance

Science Fiction series: Vorkosigan series, Honor Harrington series, chunks of Star Trek and Star Wars EUs, a bunch of stuff by Elizabeth Moon

Crime/Mystery: In Death series (also counts as SF), Charlie Parker series (also counts as horror), Agatha Christie, Sherlock Holmes, a whole bunch of other crime series like the Tony Hill series (became Wire in the Blood on TV), Commissaire Adamsberg, Louise Penny's Inspector Gamache ... Lots and lots

Historical: Hornblower, Aubrey/Maturin, Flashman, lots by Alexandre Dumas

Urban Fantasy: a tonne of trashy vampire romance series (Carpathian novels, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Anne Rice) because they're my guilty pleasure (drew the line at Anite Blake though), Dresden Files up until the last two books, bits and pieces of other fantasy noir style series

Kids series: Famous Five, Secret Seven, Narnia, Goosebumps, Chillers, Point Horror, a whole bunch of kids fantasy/mythology/sci-fi/espionage series

And probably a bunch more than I've forgotten right now. I don't tend to read most series all the way through, but I do tend to go with a series for as long as it interests me, and then when I start getting fatigued I leave it off for another while. Been that way since I was a kid. As for how many I'd recommend ... honestly, it depends on your tastes. Several of them are probably objectively bad, and I enjoy them because guilty pleasure/nostalgia/the mood I'm in on the day. Others are objectively pretty good, and still more so-so. Depends on what you're looking for, really.

Re: Book Series or Authors

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Elizabeth Moon! Fuck yeah! Serrano or Vatta?

Do you not find Honor Harrington a little dry?

Also, I've just started on Vorkosigan. It is... dense stuff. Good, just a little... Well built, if that makes sense. Like the world is already formed and fleshed out, and I either have to keep up with the characters who already know the rules of the world or get left behind.

What about the dresden files put you off? I've not got to the last few books, and would like a heads up.

Re: Book Series or Authors

[(Anonymous)]

Serrano mostly, I think. It was a while back, so there may have been some others mixed in.

Having read everyone from Mervyn Peake to Victor Hugo, as well as Hornblower, I generally found Honor Harrington quite manageable, though I do favour the later books (and the Saganami subseries). I got very attached to several characters as well (Eloise and Aivars in particular), which helps.

Vorkosigan I'm actually finding a little harder. I've only read five books so far. I very much enjoy Simon Illyan, though, and several of the other characters, so I'll probably keep noodling around it until I get all the way there.

As for Dresden Files, I don't think it was any specific thing so much as I got tired of the series, and the darkening tone overall just wasn't doing me any favours. I've only a limited tolerance for the apocalypse at the best of times, Butcher is on record that that's where we're heading, and it is becoming obvious in the tone and the general slide further into moral ambiguity for several characters. I'm just ... not able for it. Butters, Sanya and Marcone are my main loves left in the series, and they're not really enough on their own to carry it anymore.