Jun-02-2010, 11:15 AM (UTC)
Oh so my 20 most memorable books... knowing my memory I'll be hard pressed to name 20 (and I can't really list every book in a series so ...)
In no particular order (oh ok, it IS the order I thought of them in, that's an order):
1. Well all the Robin Hobb books obviously spring to mind. I don't know which one/s would be my fav though!
2. Game of Thrones (GRRM). No surprises so far.... yeah I like this.... probably talked about it enough in the actual thread on it.
3. The Death Gate Cycle (Weiss and Hickman)..... I really got sucked into this when I read it (quite a long time ago now).
4. Anything by Terry Pratchett (I can't really pick one as a standout)....I don't know how he comes up with such inventive stuff so prolifically! Great humour. And I love that Death loves cats! And I love Sergeant Detritus!!!!!!!!!!!!
5. Otherland by Tad Williams - I really liked this - perfect timing back in the early days of the internet ...... what I want to know is, all these years later WHERE'S MY VIRTUAL REALITY INTERNET? (it's like 'where's my jetpack?')
6. Memory, Thorn and Sorrow by Tad Williams - might have been one of the first real fantasy things i read? (after LOTR, long after). Liked. Can't remember much of it now though!
7. The Axis Trilogy by Sara Douglass - man there was a series of books that went downhill after this initial trilogy though. I really liked the first lot, but, I think this is a case of not knowing when to stop writing in that particular world? Not sure, she may have had the whole thing in mind from the start, but personally I think it should have stopped earlier.
*OH NO in going to check how many books there were on her website I just found out she's got a forthcoming continuation!!!!!!! Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!*
8. The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant - Stephen Donaldson. I also read this when I was pretty young and thought it was great. I later read his Sci fi stuff and didn't really like it, just found it made me want to vomit but apart from that not much...
9. The Lord of the Rings - do I really need to say any more? I was very young when I read it and loved it.
10. The Dark Tower books by Stephen King. I haven't read any of his other stuff and I don't think it'd be much like this? I really liked these ones. Gees there was a clint eastwood western on the other night it's SO that guy in the books.
11. The Silver Brumby books by .?.. - ok I was REALLY young when I read these, but they came to mind! So they must be memorable! I think I adored them as a child!
12. In the same vein, Playing Beatie Bow was another childhood book I really liked.
13. Great Expectations, Hard Times, Oliver Twist - Dickens is one of the few things I was forced to read at school and REALLY loved. (hehe also love the songs in the musical version of OT)
14. Emma by Jane Austen - I read it when I was at school (but I don't think it was on our required reading list) and I remember really liking it - but I can't remember anything about it now so not sure if it really belongs on this official list.
15. Back to Fantasy - Terry Goodkind. I got sucked into his books and read quite a few of them before they went a bit off the rails and just got too repetitive and a bit silly, and let's face it the main guy is one of those unlikeable and, later, all powerful dudes.
16. Maybe in a similar vein the Wheel of Time books by Robert Jordan. I enjoyed at first but ... then not so much .... haven't read the last few.
17. Nineteen eighty-four by George Orwell - GEEES! I only got around to reading this a few years ago and phew creeparama. This did make an impression on me. I HAD read Animal Farm ages before and now I can't remember a lot about that, except that I found it interesting.
18. This kinds of makes me also remember something I read AGES ago which was Brave New World by Huxley. That I remember really liking, and it stayed with me for a while, although the details are certainly sketchy now!
19. The Collector - John Fowles - this is in the category of 'they made me read it for school' but it was pretty memorable (well I remembered it!)
20. Clockwork Orange - I'd never recommend it but I could hardly forget it!!!!
Other books spring vaguely to mind like the narnia books, arthur c clarke books, hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, David Gemmell, Conn Iggulden, Raymond E Feist, but as I can't remember a lot about them I guess they don't really count as 'memorable books' for me!
In no particular order (oh ok, it IS the order I thought of them in, that's an order):
1. Well all the Robin Hobb books obviously spring to mind. I don't know which one/s would be my fav though!
2. Game of Thrones (GRRM). No surprises so far.... yeah I like this.... probably talked about it enough in the actual thread on it.
3. The Death Gate Cycle (Weiss and Hickman)..... I really got sucked into this when I read it (quite a long time ago now).
4. Anything by Terry Pratchett (I can't really pick one as a standout)....I don't know how he comes up with such inventive stuff so prolifically! Great humour. And I love that Death loves cats! And I love Sergeant Detritus!!!!!!!!!!!!
5. Otherland by Tad Williams - I really liked this - perfect timing back in the early days of the internet ...... what I want to know is, all these years later WHERE'S MY VIRTUAL REALITY INTERNET? (it's like 'where's my jetpack?')
6. Memory, Thorn and Sorrow by Tad Williams - might have been one of the first real fantasy things i read? (after LOTR, long after). Liked. Can't remember much of it now though!
7. The Axis Trilogy by Sara Douglass - man there was a series of books that went downhill after this initial trilogy though. I really liked the first lot, but, I think this is a case of not knowing when to stop writing in that particular world? Not sure, she may have had the whole thing in mind from the start, but personally I think it should have stopped earlier.
*OH NO in going to check how many books there were on her website I just found out she's got a forthcoming continuation!!!!!!! Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!*
8. The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant - Stephen Donaldson. I also read this when I was pretty young and thought it was great. I later read his Sci fi stuff and didn't really like it, just found it made me want to vomit but apart from that not much...
9. The Lord of the Rings - do I really need to say any more? I was very young when I read it and loved it.
10. The Dark Tower books by Stephen King. I haven't read any of his other stuff and I don't think it'd be much like this? I really liked these ones. Gees there was a clint eastwood western on the other night it's SO that guy in the books.
11. The Silver Brumby books by .?.. - ok I was REALLY young when I read these, but they came to mind! So they must be memorable! I think I adored them as a child!
12. In the same vein, Playing Beatie Bow was another childhood book I really liked.
13. Great Expectations, Hard Times, Oliver Twist - Dickens is one of the few things I was forced to read at school and REALLY loved. (hehe also love the songs in the musical version of OT)
14. Emma by Jane Austen - I read it when I was at school (but I don't think it was on our required reading list) and I remember really liking it - but I can't remember anything about it now so not sure if it really belongs on this official list.
15. Back to Fantasy - Terry Goodkind. I got sucked into his books and read quite a few of them before they went a bit off the rails and just got too repetitive and a bit silly, and let's face it the main guy is one of those unlikeable and, later, all powerful dudes.
16. Maybe in a similar vein the Wheel of Time books by Robert Jordan. I enjoyed at first but ... then not so much .... haven't read the last few.
17. Nineteen eighty-four by George Orwell - GEEES! I only got around to reading this a few years ago and phew creeparama. This did make an impression on me. I HAD read Animal Farm ages before and now I can't remember a lot about that, except that I found it interesting.
18. This kinds of makes me also remember something I read AGES ago which was Brave New World by Huxley. That I remember really liking, and it stayed with me for a while, although the details are certainly sketchy now!
19. The Collector - John Fowles - this is in the category of 'they made me read it for school' but it was pretty memorable (well I remembered it!)
20. Clockwork Orange - I'd never recommend it but I could hardly forget it!!!!
Other books spring vaguely to mind like the narnia books, arthur c clarke books, hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, David Gemmell, Conn Iggulden, Raymond E Feist, but as I can't remember a lot about them I guess they don't really count as 'memorable books' for me!
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