Plugging my two favourite book series

[Graeme the mad]

There seems to be lots of people tlaking about books on here at the minute so I've decided to plug my two favourite authors:

THE DISCWORLD NOVELS and THE JON SHANNOW TRILOGY


for all you that have read them aren't they brilliant
and for all you that havent go out right now and buy them all (yeah its a lot of money but its worth it)

THEY ARE BRILLIANT

buy them, buy them (i know its not a very convincing or subtle plug but its my best attempt)

 

[DaEezT]

Hard to say

But i would go for the "Double Diamond Triangle Saga"
It has 8 books, each one only ~90 pages but very interesting story telling.

 

[H Tower]

What are the books about? I don't think I'm going to go out and buy the series unless I know what it's about. Sci-Fi? Romance? Thriller? Detective? Self-Help?

 

[Graeme the mad]

terry pratchett is comic fantasy (though they r very intelligent books and seriously funny)

Jon Shannow is Sci-Fi I suppose, but really it is just plain bizzarre: you have to read that one

 

[Mongol Horde]

Agree with you on the discworld. Also the Belgariad\Mallorean and for Sci-Fi the foundation series by Asimov

 

[Dell19]

I have read all the discworld books so now I have gone onto the wheel of time series. The wheel of time books have much better plots but Discworld books are funny.

My favourite Dsicworld books have to be Jingo and the Thief of Time. Jingo was great because Vimes was so funny when he tried to arrest both armies and the Klatchain king....I liked the thief of time because it was the first book that focused on Lu Tze (He had a small part in Samall Gods).

 

[floppa21]

Frank Herbert, David Brin, Robert A Heinlein.
I liked the ...of Shangyanarria (or whatever) trilogy, but other books seemed so... lame? He went from writing well thought out books every few years to crap once or twice a year. Oh well, bills to pay. What was it, Sword, Elfstone, and Wishsong? I think so anyways...

 

[Morgasshk]

Was Terry Brooks... And they are good... Also, The best writers ever are: Raymond Feist - Riftwar Saga, Empire Trilogy and Serpentwar Saga. Robert Silverberg and EE Doc Smith.

Of course, Eddings is great too and is Pratchett... damn funny sh1t!!!

 

[allan]

Heinlein--the Lazarus Long series (not really a sequential group, but all relating to that character and that timeline--includes "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls", "Time Enough for Love", and "Number of the Beast").

Herbert--I liked the "Dune" series, but I REALLY liked the trilogy dealing with Pandora ("The Jesus Incident", "the Lazarus Effect", and "the Ascension Factor")--a very thoughtful study of human nature....

Niven--"The Mote in God's Eye" and "The Gripping Hand"--I'm waiting for a sequel to that series, hope there'll be one....

 

[floppa21]

Ah yes, I enjoyed Eddings. Never read anything by Herbert but the Dune books... Man it's been a long time since I read any SF/Fantasy... I have been reading Anne Rice regularly as she releases new books, but that's about it. Thomas Harris is a great writer, movies are never as good as the books, except MAYBE The Green Mile... Sorry, i'm just ramblin now, I shut up.

 

[Phalon]

Has anyone read any Harry Turtle Dove? His biggest books are Guns of the South and the World War series? Both are alternate history/Sci-fi. In guns of the South Time travelers take AK47's back to the Civil war. WW series, Aliens invade Eath during WWII. WW series is about 8 books. First four are the best, second four are about the cold war kind of boring.

 

[Graeme the mad]

IVe read Harry turtledove and I really liked the World war series: after that it got a bit stupid


ANYHOW; THIS THREAD WAS ABOUT ME (graeme the mad) plugging my favourite series: NOT about some low life scum plugging theirs: get your OWN thread you DREGS

I agree with Dell19 - Jingo is really funny, but my other two favourite discworld were Lords and ladies (if youve ever been to an english country village its so funny) and interesting times (I could not stop laughing all the way through that one)

 

[Dell19]

Interesting times was the Chinese one? I think it was, it was pretty good because it had HEX in and all the old heroes and RINCEWIND! Not the best one though, I think. It didn't live up to my expectations, because people kept on saying it was relally good.

Anyway has anyone read any of 'The Wheel of Time' series?

 

[floppa21]

I saw a playstation game called DiscWorld II, based on said series?

 

[Dell19]

There are several games based on the Discworld series but I think the best one is supposed to be Discworld Noir. I haven't played any of them so I couldn't recommend them...