05-20-2010, 05:20 AM
Slamz Wrote:"American Gods" by Neil Gaiman. I seem to keep buying this guy's books. They're basically "dark fantasy". He's a great writer but utterly humorless. I also read "Stardust" which was quite good -- the ol' ordinary-man-has-a-run-in-with-the-fairy-realm kind of book. Not exactly classics but solid reads.
Anansis Boys is a psuedo sequal to that thats entertaining if you liked American Gods - theres also a story about Shadow in his short story anthology Fragile Things.
Sandman recommendation of his is spot on, I dont like most comics but thats the best one ever written up there with Watchmen and Preacher..
Other than that I've been reading Dostoyevsky lately and Gibbons History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, exciting stuff I'm sure everyone was looking for
Quote:And of course, if you have not read George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series you are doing yourself an extreme diservice.
Great and all but I refuse to recommend it to anyone until he finishes it, if you look at a picture of his fat ass and read his blog that he spends time writing about football in instead of finishing his damn book - you will see its fairly obvious he will pull a Jordan and kick off before its over. Series should be good on HBO tho.
Quote:It's the best fantasy series ever written and yes, I will even blaspheme and say it's better than Lord of the Rings.
I'll blaspheme and say Lord of the Rings is not that well written to begin with, it just holds a place in our hearts since it was the first..