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15 years ago
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All my adult and mature art I've received via commission or request is all over here
CallipygousWhile I may not check the comments or favs or whatnot on that account, it is where I post anything that isn't of a general rating. So check it out if that's your thing.
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So I'm a total fantasy Sci-Fi nut. I've got a good stack of favorite books and authors, and I'm going to share them with any body who ends up reading this....
If you read this journal, PLEASE AT LEAST LEAVE A COMMENT (even a smiley face is fine... )
For those of you who feel like making a more meaningful reply....
>>>Most of what CS Lewis has written, including the books in the Narnia series, and his lesser known space trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength).... The man is a genius....
>>>Orson Scott Card and his Ender's series (Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind), as well as some of his spin off works to the series like Ender's Shadow and/or Shadow of the Hegemon. Once again, another epic genius of an author. XD
>>>Loads and loads of stuff written by the awesome Michael Crichton. You know, things like: Sphere, Jurassic Park (it's a fantastic book too, not just a movie... XP), and Timeline (one of my all time favorites XD)...
>>>Anything ever penned by the best SciFi author ever (in my opinion), Isaac Asimov , and I do mean anything and everything he wrote...
>>>Tolkien and his marvelous middle earth books, not just the three in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but the Hobbit and the Silmarillion...
>>>Piers Anthony is the writer of many a Sci-Fi and Fantasy novel, and creator of the light hearted and pun filled world of Xanth (a 40+ book series that seems to grow at a rate of one novel per year...). I never fail to be captivated by his literary creations, and they were to blame for many a late night under the covers with a flashlight during my middle school and early high school years....
>>>The Inkheart series (3 books, Inkheart, Inkspell, and Inkdeath), penned by the German author (the books were translated, and edited for their release in the US...) Cornelia Funke, is one of my ALL TIME FAVORITES! For anyone with a love of reading, you absolutely are required to find and read these three books. The series centers around people with the ability to read characters and things into reality, and vice versa, people into stories.... Need I say more? All true lovers of books and reading could never resist these gems...
>>>Epic by Conor Kostick is part of a (soon to be * ) 3 part series, that I'm sure anyone who has similar tastes as myself, will enjoy just it just as much as I enjoyed it. For my fellow online gamers( MMORPG's to be exact) here and there amongst us... Well Mr. Kostick was one of the designers for the world's first live action role-playing game. You may be asking why this is relevant, and I'll tell you. Epic (and the other two books in the series, Saga and Edda) are centered around every gamer's dream; living in a world where your actions in an online multi-player role playing game, directly impact your life in the real world. I won't give away anything specific, but Kostick is a master author, and I've been waiting eagerly since 2006 for that last book to come out....
* the third book, Edda has been delayed in being released, initially scheduled for a late 2008/early 2009 release date, the latest news (9/17/10) is that the book should be released summer of 2011...
>>>Cory Doctorow's stand alone novel Little Brother, is a must read. I may be a fantasy/SciFi buff, but Little Brother adds an aspect of reality that was both slightly disturbing and thrilling. I would highly recommend this book.
-Also I was poking around on Wikipedia, (so I wouldn't misspell his name (*is a terrible speller, and would be so lost without the built in spell checker for my web browser*)) and I found something that piqued my interest. Cory Doctorow released a new book, For The Win, a few months ago, it's about online gaming (which was a fun coincidence for me after writing about Conor Kostick and Epic), and that it's available 100% free online at the authors website. Here's a link in case someone else plans to read it too... I'm a couple chapters into it, and it's pretty good so far
>>>To change my pace briefly, I would also like to mention that the unabridged versions of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein*, and Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera* were both FANTASTIC reads. XD
*Yes they were both books before being adapted to film (and theater (in Phantom's case)) versions... (Also, even though the Musical's version of the story of the Phantom of the Opera is not perfectly true to the way it was written in the book (something that happens in the movie versions of books far too often (and often bugs the crap out of me)) it's still spectacular, and well worth seeing as well...)
<<<I typically use my local and school (while I was in elementary, middle, and high school) libraries to get my hands on books. I started reading sometime in 3rd grade and I would read all the time, as much, if not more, than I played video games/watched TV. However sometime starting roughly in my junior year, it started getting more and more difficult for me to find new books that really got me fired up and unable to stop turning the pages. So I've gradually stopped reading any near as much as I used too... The last series that managed to keep me up late, unable to put the book down and go to sleep, was Issac Asimov's Foundation series, and that was a good full year ago....[/b][/b]
(I initially wrote this up for a post on the Read or Die club's forum on the MyAnimeList website...(link goes to my profile on MAL...), and then edited and modified it so it would make sense here, and could be used as a sort of favorites of reading kind of meme...)
If you read this journal, PLEASE AT LEAST LEAVE A COMMENT (even a smiley face is fine... )
For those of you who feel like making a more meaningful reply....
----What are your favorite books, authors, and/or genres? How much do you read? Are you a borrower or a buyer? Etc. Etc.---->>>Most of what CS Lewis has written, including the books in the Narnia series, and his lesser known space trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength).... The man is a genius....
>>>Orson Scott Card and his Ender's series (Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind), as well as some of his spin off works to the series like Ender's Shadow and/or Shadow of the Hegemon. Once again, another epic genius of an author. XD
>>>Loads and loads of stuff written by the awesome Michael Crichton. You know, things like: Sphere, Jurassic Park (it's a fantastic book too, not just a movie... XP), and Timeline (one of my all time favorites XD)...
>>>Anything ever penned by the best SciFi author ever (in my opinion), Isaac Asimov , and I do mean anything and everything he wrote...
>>>Tolkien and his marvelous middle earth books, not just the three in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but the Hobbit and the Silmarillion...
>>>Piers Anthony is the writer of many a Sci-Fi and Fantasy novel, and creator of the light hearted and pun filled world of Xanth (a 40+ book series that seems to grow at a rate of one novel per year...). I never fail to be captivated by his literary creations, and they were to blame for many a late night under the covers with a flashlight during my middle school and early high school years....
>>>The Inkheart series (3 books, Inkheart, Inkspell, and Inkdeath), penned by the German author (the books were translated, and edited for their release in the US...) Cornelia Funke, is one of my ALL TIME FAVORITES! For anyone with a love of reading, you absolutely are required to find and read these three books. The series centers around people with the ability to read characters and things into reality, and vice versa, people into stories.... Need I say more? All true lovers of books and reading could never resist these gems...
>>>Epic by Conor Kostick is part of a (soon to be * ) 3 part series, that I'm sure anyone who has similar tastes as myself, will enjoy just it just as much as I enjoyed it. For my fellow online gamers( MMORPG's to be exact) here and there amongst us... Well Mr. Kostick was one of the designers for the world's first live action role-playing game. You may be asking why this is relevant, and I'll tell you. Epic (and the other two books in the series, Saga and Edda) are centered around every gamer's dream; living in a world where your actions in an online multi-player role playing game, directly impact your life in the real world. I won't give away anything specific, but Kostick is a master author, and I've been waiting eagerly since 2006 for that last book to come out....
* the third book, Edda has been delayed in being released, initially scheduled for a late 2008/early 2009 release date, the latest news (9/17/10) is that the book should be released summer of 2011...
>>>Cory Doctorow's stand alone novel Little Brother, is a must read. I may be a fantasy/SciFi buff, but Little Brother adds an aspect of reality that was both slightly disturbing and thrilling. I would highly recommend this book.
-Also I was poking around on Wikipedia, (so I wouldn't misspell his name (*is a terrible speller, and would be so lost without the built in spell checker for my web browser*)) and I found something that piqued my interest. Cory Doctorow released a new book, For The Win, a few months ago, it's about online gaming (which was a fun coincidence for me after writing about Conor Kostick and Epic), and that it's available 100% free online at the authors website. Here's a link in case someone else plans to read it too... I'm a couple chapters into it, and it's pretty good so far
>>>To change my pace briefly, I would also like to mention that the unabridged versions of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein*, and Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera* were both FANTASTIC reads. XD
*Yes they were both books before being adapted to film (and theater (in Phantom's case)) versions... (Also, even though the Musical's version of the story of the Phantom of the Opera is not perfectly true to the way it was written in the book (something that happens in the movie versions of books far too often (and often bugs the crap out of me)) it's still spectacular, and well worth seeing as well...)
<<<I typically use my local and school (while I was in elementary, middle, and high school) libraries to get my hands on books. I started reading sometime in 3rd grade and I would read all the time, as much, if not more, than I played video games/watched TV. However sometime starting roughly in my junior year, it started getting more and more difficult for me to find new books that really got me fired up and unable to stop turning the pages. So I've gradually stopped reading any near as much as I used too... The last series that managed to keep me up late, unable to put the book down and go to sleep, was Issac Asimov's Foundation series, and that was a good full year ago....[/b][/b]
(I initially wrote this up for a post on the Read or Die club's forum on the MyAnimeList website...(link goes to my profile on MAL...), and then edited and modified it so it would make sense here, and could be used as a sort of favorites of reading kind of meme...)
If I do ever get a book in stores, you'll be one of the first people with a copy if you like SciFi that much. :P
That sounds like something I'd like very much XD
I would assume you recognized the big name Sci-Fi authors with ease, but how about Conor Kostick?
but yeah I'm dying for Edda to come out already...