Hey, TL, I'm a voracious reader. I can get through two or three books a week. LoTR (inc the addenda) I did in three days :D

Generally I figure that if I start something I may as well finish it on the basis that if some editor has put time into editing it and the publishers have taken the risk, there must be some merit in it somewhere.

This Tom Arden book, about an annoying bunch of adolescents looking for magical thingies (something to do with the Orokon) may well cause me to revise my criteria.

In fact, I think I'll call it a "Salvatore" - i.e. a book that gets published complete with glowing endorsements, but in reality has absolutely no merit whatsoever ;)

OUCHIE!! Cut this Salvatore fan to the quick. Don't know why I love his stuff, but I do. I think I'm more partial to the Demon series, and not the Drizzt saga, but I must confess I've read almost all of those too.

I read most anything, except non-fiction - that bores me silly. Steven King's become too much of the same thing. On the girlie side of things, Danielle Steele is so predictible I had to stop reading hers. Sandra Brown's stuff is too short and for some odd reason always makes me cry. Barbara Delinsky is great, I love her books becuase there are usually in the 1" to 1.5" size. Judith Michaels is up there with Danielle Steele, but not as pat.

I could go on and on - I just need to find something to keep me busy for the next 11 or so days until my copy of BG arrives!!

T

I'm a well known Salvatore fan. See here. Or here

If you want some recommendations, there is a long moribund thread herethat might throw up a few ideas....

:D

[ 06-10-2005, 06:36 PM: Message edited by: Mouse ]

Update - Tom Arden wins by a TKO. He's worn me out and beaten me down by the sheer mediocrity of his book. Hats off to a master. I thought I could take him, but I was wrong.

Ah, the Cleric Quintet. It's not bad, I enjoyed it at the time, however I don't read Salvatore anymore.

At present I'm reading a book called Brighton Rock by Graham Greene. It's quite intriguing so far, so looking forward to see how it turns out (just started it today).

Fiction: I've just finished Statesman by Piers Anthony, number 5 in the series Bio of a Space Tyrant.

Non-fiction: Just in the middle of Bonaparte in Egypt by J. Christopher Herold.

Well, I finished <u>War of the Twins</u> over the hot, muggy, sluggish weekend. Now to close the trilogy with <u>Test of the Twins</u>. Ok, I borrowed these books and it's bothering me that the person I borrowed them from has read them, but they look almost new. Binding's not broken. How can anyone read a book [paperback] with out ruining the binding? I must be a bad book owner.

[Edit: I'd say it is early - I forgot the "u>" of the underline]

[ 06-13-2005, 07:56 AM: Message edited by: TiliaLyn ]

The only bindings I've ever broken have been on very large paperbacks... bend the pages not the binding. [img]smile.gif[/img]

::sigh:: I just can't seem to not read a book to death.

Currently reading Sword of Shannara for the gazillionth time, because I have got nothing else to read and this was the only book that I hadn't begun with for about half a year. Although Sword isn't overly good -- to be honest, it's just a plain bad Lord of the Rings rip-off -- it's entertaining nonetheless.

The book you were reading, TiliaLyn, is the Death Gate series (by Weiss and Hickman). It has a very refreshing twist to what elves and dwarves and the likes are usually portrayed like. The story is rather complicated (as it's a seven book series), so you really need to keep your focus on the book, or you'll get lost.

The book I think I'm going to need next is the follow up to Raymond E. Feist's King of Foxes. After a rather disappointing Shards of a Broken Crown, I thought the story about Claw (is that his English name) was decent to say at the least.
After that, I may throw myself into the world of George R. R. Martin. I only hear good things about his A Song of Ice and Fire (or something close), so I reckon I'll be trying him out for size.

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