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 Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 7:09 pm
If you want an LDS author I would strongly suggest reading the Dragonlance trilogies by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. These books started as a mission/quest guide thing for a spin-off of D&D. Weis is not LDS, but Tracy Hickman is. These books are very very funny, and just plain awesome. And if you get the original trilogy there is an annotated(notes on the sides of the pages) version that is all three books in one, and it has a not on the side at one point where something is based on a scripture from the bible(obviously influenced by Tracy), and it just so happens to be my favorite scripture...though I don't remember exactly what it is lol...I need to look it up( I am also not positive it is in the first trilogy...I also read the annotated version of the second trilogy and it could be there.) These books don't have really anything to do with the church though.
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 4:20 pm
Not sure if terry brooks is LDS but his shannara series is good, Sword of Shannara or First King Of Shannara doesn't matter but If you First King Sword will make more sense in the beginning, but either works The series is a long one like 13 book series different characters but same storyline somewhat and can compare it to LDS faith.
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Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 9:21 pm
Well, Card is my favorite author, so i have to recommend him. Especially the Ender's Game series.
If you want books that are a little more LDS-oriented than most of Card's stuff, though, I definitely recommend Jennie Hansen. Her books Some Sweet Day and Code Red have earned awards, and i have to mention Macady because i influenced the name... yes, i know the author. smile
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Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 12:52 pm
I love terry brooks. I'm not sure if he is LDS either but he writes very well. Good fantasy and it's clean to.
Stephenie Meyer is also wonderful. Her book called Twilight is absolutly wonderful. It's a great piece of work.
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Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 12:25 pm
I am not really a fan of most LDS fiction, actually. Jack Weyland and Blaine Yorgenson or whatever it is... well, they make me want to throw up. (Charly was okay, but still HOLY SAPPY)
HOWEVER, I would have to say I DO love Stephenie Meyers AND Robert Farrell Smith. He is DANG funny, especially the Trust in Thelma's Way series. ALSO, if you like "harry potter-ish" fantasy go for his psuedonym Obert Skye. Leven Thumps is pretty good stuff.
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 11:14 am
Stephenie meyer! twilight new moon and eclipce but eclipce cpt 20 is kinda bad!
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Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 7:18 pm
Reba_mce Stephenie meyer! twilight new moon and eclipce but eclipce cpt 20 is kinda bad! I still love Eclipse, but, yes, it IS more "adult" themed than the others. (However, don't worry Edward is still the most Moral Vampire out there!) I anxiously await Breaking Dawn though... We will just SEE. But if you are younger, especially, you have been "warned."
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Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 11:05 am
i'm not sure who the author is, but they wrote, Tennis shoes among the nephites. I've heard those books are really good.
oh, and, as mentioned, Stephenie Meyer is AWESOME!! I love her books. and again, dont read them if your younger.
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Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 8:38 am
Tennnis Shoes among the Nephites is by Chris Heimerdinger, and Orson Scott Card is LDS, but his are not really church related and some books have swearing. Everybody else has mostly metioned any other ones.
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Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:00 am
There's a local author by the name of Sam Beeson who does kid's books - a friend of mine gave my kids a really cute story about Santa Claus.
Orson Scott Card has been writing a FANTASTIC series on women of the Bible - I really suggest those. Many of his older books are questionable. Oh, and his Alvin the Maker series - it's a fantasy story that is kind of similar to Joseph Smith, if he did magic and hung out with Native American prophets. Kind of like how Homecoming is the story of the Book of Mormon, if they had robots and space ships.
Oh yeah, and Dean Hughes "Children of the Promise" series - it takes a family from the pioneer years up to I think WW2...
I also love the Heimerdinger books - those were the first LDS fiction I read as a kid.
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 1:02 pm
I personally hate the "Twilight" books. I'm from Port Angeles, and Forks is part of my stake back home. Many people from Port Angeles won't read them because of where they're set. Where I come from, Forks is a joke. So last Summer when I was reading the newspaper it talked about how all these people were travelling there because of the books, it was really weird for me. Then when I get to college, my obsessed roomie makes me read them, and I must say I was disappointed.
My sister got married in December, and her husband's sisters really love the book, so I took them around Port Angeles and showed the Bella Italia, the shop where Bella gets her prom dress, the McDonald's, etc. The books have Port Angeles wrong, but I could pretty much figure out where everything was. It just makes me laugh that people would be interested in that area. I mean, it's a gorgeous place, but it's just Port Angeles/Forks.
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 8:32 pm
Check out Brandon Sanderson's stuff. I enjoyed "Elantris," though I hear "Mistborn" is better and stronger. Plus, Brandon Sanderson has been tapped to finish off "The Wheel of Time!"
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 8:55 pm
Krego-sama If you want an LDS author I would strongly suggest reading the Dragonlance trilogies by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. These books started as a mission/quest guide thing for a spin-off of D&D. Weis is not LDS, but Tracy Hickman is. These books are very very funny, and just plain awesome. And if you get the original trilogy there is an annotated(notes on the sides of the pages) version that is all three books in one, and it has a not on the side at one point where something is based on a scripture from the bible(obviously influenced by Tracy), and it just so happens to be my favorite scripture...though I don't remember exactly what it is lol...I need to look it up( I am also not positive it is in the first trilogy...I also read the annotated version of the second trilogy and it could be there.) These books don't have really anything to do with the church though. I second those books. But I would suggest staying away from the 4th trilogy by Weis only... it goes Very weird... >.< also Weis is pro lesy so she put stuff like that in some of her other books, avoid those as well. xD
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Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 4:34 pm
I hear a lot of votes for Orson Scott Card. Ender's Game is awesome, but I'm deeply in hate with the Memories of Earth series. And the Alvin Journeyman series.
The Twilight series wasn't bad.
I was really impressed with the Fablehaven series (I think it's by Brandon Mull? Don't let the fact that it's a kids series throw you off).
Actually, if you want some really good, uplifting reading, don't be afraid of the classics just because they aren't written by LDS authors.
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 2:02 pm
If you go for classics read Three Musketeers. This is easily one of my favorite books. Very funny too.
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