book rec!

[bedlamsbard]

I know everyone and their mother has already said this, but The Lies of Locke Lamora fucking rocks. I picked it up on an extremely nervous whim -- you have to understand this about me. I am the pickiest reader ever. As a general rule of thumb, I read the same authors and the same books over and over. It takes a lot for me to pick up a new book, let alone a new author. I've heard good things about Locke Lamora all over the place, but then again, I also heard good things about Twilight all over the place, and y'all saw how that turned out. Locke Lamora? I will have to buy, as soon as I find it. And get myself down to the library and pray that Red Seas Under Red Skies is in when I go there.

Hmm. The authors I absolutely trust?

Dennis Lehane
Carol O'Connell
Diana Gabaldon
George R.R. Martin
S.M. Stirling
Tamora Pierce
Naomi Novak

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[ladyprydian.livejournal.com]

May I suggest an author?

His name is Guy Gavriel Kay and he writes historically based fanstasy. My personal favourit is "The Last Light of the Sun". Based in Medieval/Celtic England about a Norse invasion.

I love Diana Gabaldon. Oh Outlander... *goes off into dirty thoughts*

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I have one of Kay's books -- "The Lions of Al-Rassan." Haven't read it yet, though.

The Outlander series is my comfort reading. I have been reading those books since I was in fifth grade, which means...uh, I was probably too young to be reading those books.

[ladyprydian.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed "The Lions of Al-Rassan", it was good, but I don't think it was one of his best.

As for Outlander, I have never been able to get past the First book which is so wonderful. I should probably try but I don't feel rushed to do so.

I am just about to start "The Knights of Black and White" Jack Whyte's Knights of the Templar Triology. I have heard good things and I will probably give a little bit of a non spoilery reveiw when I'm done. That may not be for a while though.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Outlander is one of the best in the series, even though it's Gabaldon's first book. I really enjoy all of them, though.

[cupiscent.livejournal.com]

YOU HAVEN'T READ IT YET?!

Read it. Now. Stop reading this comment and go and read it.

Lions isn't my favourite Kay now - it was quietly usurped by Song for Arbonne - but for the longest time it was. It was my favourite book in the whole wide world. It made me cry. In public. In English class. The third time I read it. It's that good.

All the things I loved about the Ep III novelisation? Are the things I love about Kay, and specifically about Lions of Al-Rassan.

Read it. SHOO!

(Meanwhile, Locke Lamora BOOYAH. So goddamn good. *G*)

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Well, I read part of it. And then I got distracted by something.

And I have this huge pile of books from the library that must be returned soon! (Including the one that freaked me out. Ack. Hi, yeah, the Franklin Expedition creeped me out even before I read The Terror; now it's, like, trebled.)

Locke Lamora rocks. So does Red Seas Under Red Skies, although in different though similar ways. Those two I buy.