tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7354250.post4395001302760088296..comments2024-01-31T01:40:57.553-06:00Comments on Adventures in Reading: Top Nine Author Discoveries of 2009Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16094675116398769415noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7354250.post-6783697220706455092009-12-30T06:29:23.008-06:002009-12-30T06:29:23.008-06:00Maybe so.Maybe so.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16094675116398769415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7354250.post-17945261171005780822009-12-30T04:04:00.420-06:002009-12-30T04:04:00.420-06:00Hi!
Maybe next year You will discover (at last) Da...Hi!<br />Maybe next year You will discover (at last) David Gemmell and his books. You could start with “Legend”, then “The King Beyond the Gate” and then “Waylander”. All these books are very good and were written in that exact order. The inner chronology of the Drenai series starts with “Waylander”. “Legend” is 8th and “The King Beyond the Gate” is 9th, but I think it is best to read them first. In fact all the books in this series are pretty much self-contained (apart from some references to the earlier books) and can be read as standalone novels. Try them, please!Marcinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08342761905718833481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7354250.post-1081451518514022082009-12-28T07:30:24.687-06:002009-12-28T07:30:24.687-06:00I only started reading books again this year (that...I only started reading books again this year (that is if we don't count graphic novels and comic collections which I started reading last summer) and I made a point of trying out new authors. I used to mainly read Tolkien, Weiss and Hickman, Martin, Pratchett and Erikson. Well, read and re-read until the books were in tatters. I suppose now that I'm older and have some disposable income it's easier for me to go out and expand my library of titles. 5-10 pounds for a book doesn't seem like quite such a big deal as it did back when it was basically my whole week's pocket money and, you know, I had to have those sweets :)<br /><br />Anyway, I digress, I've basically discovered new authors with every book I've read. Abercrombie, Donaldson, Sanderson, Zelazny, Bester, Bujold, Brust, Cook and Wilson are just some of the names I remember.<br /><br />Perhaps next year I'll try to expand to reading books outside of the speculative fiction/sff/whatever-you-want-to-call-it sphere. Maybe even increase the quota of books from female authors.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01414201536777406262noreply@blogger.com