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 Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 10:33 pm
I think the longest I've ever stayed with a series was Animorphs and that only lasted until about the mid-tenties. Considering the series ended in the mid 50's too.
The only series I follow now are Harry Potter and possibly Redwall, once I start picking up those books. sweatdrop
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 2:12 pm
I got a bit bored with Redwall. Started getting a bit formulaic. Still love the first few books, mind.
I don't mind a series. I loved the Oz books when I was a kid, and then I discovered Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot and Discworld. As has been said, you don't need to read all of Discworld to like the story (I know for a fact that Luce read the Witches books practically in reverse order, and still liked 'em). I tend to labour through the Harry Potter books. Spend most of the time wanting to strangle the speccy little berk.
I've recently started reading the Thrawn trilogy by Timothy Zahn, and bought the first book of the Hand of Thrawn duology. Hopefully this won't be a slippery slope into the Star Wars Expanded Universe. I don't want to read eighteen-bajillion books about Jawas.
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 2:13 pm
Dinah Lance I got a bit bored with Redwall. Started getting a bit formulaic. Still love the first few books, mind.
I don't mind a series. I loved the Oz books when I was a kid, and then I discovered Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot and Discworld. As has been said, you don't need to read all of Discworld to like the story (I know for a fact that Luce read the Witches books practically in reverse order, and still liked 'em). I tend to labour through the Harry Potter books. Spend most of the time wanting to strangle the speccy little berk.
I've recently started reading the Thrawn trilogy by Timothy Zahn, and bought the first book of the Hand of Thrawn duology. Hopefully this won't be a slippery slope into the Star Wars Expanded Universe. I don't want to read eighteen-bajillion books about Jawas. I own every one of those and they're not about Jawas.... Oh God, I'm such a nerd! gonk
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 3:00 pm
I just got done with the curious incident of the dog in the night-time. I reallly enjoyed it. I had never heard of if, but i got it for a present from a family friend.
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 4:01 pm
Warren_Worthington III I just got done with the curious incident of the dog in the night-time. I reallly enjoyed it. I had never heard of if, but i got it for a present from a family friend. A lovely read, isn't it? Going into it I worried it might be 'disability porn' of the kind Hollywood and the Oscars so love, but it jumps out of that box in no time with a modernist ambition to use the novel to represent a mind and a postmodern ambition to translate the detective novel into a domestic setting while exposing its textual limts; If the world really worked like DetFic then the world would be as Aspergers diagnosed people see it...so how would a detective novel read if the narrator was Aspergers diagnosed? What would that say about the world, the syndrome and the genre? There's no level on which this novel can be approached on which there isn't something stimulating going on.
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 5:27 pm
Richard_Swift Warren_Worthington III I just got done with the curious incident of the dog in the night-time. I reallly enjoyed it. I had never heard of if, but i got it for a present from a family friend. A lovely read, isn't it? Going into it I worried it might be 'disability porn' of the kind Hollywood and the Oscars so love, but it jumps out of that box in no time with a modernist ambition to use the novel to represent a mind and a postmodern ambition to translate the detective novel into a domestic setting while exposing its textual limts; If the world really worked like DetFic then the world would be as Aspergers diagnosed people see it...so how would a detective novel read if the narrator was Aspergers diagnosed? What would that say about the world, the syndrome and the genre? There's no level on which this novel can be approached on which there isn't something stimulating going on. yeah it does have a unique view and plus once I got to the middle I litterealy couldn't stop reading untill I was done with the book.
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 5:49 pm
Dinah Lance I don't mind a series. I loved the Oz books when I was a kid, and then I discovered Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot and Discworld. As has been said, you don't need to read all of Discworld to like the story (I know for a fact that Luce read the Witches books practically in reverse order, and still liked 'em). I tend to labour through the Harry Potter books. Spend most of the time wanting to strangle the speccy little berk.
I've recently started reading the Thrawn trilogy by Timothy Zahn, and bought the first book of the Hand of Thrawn duology. Hopefully this won't be a slippery slope into the Star Wars Expanded Universe. I don't want to read eighteen-bajillion books about Jawas.
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 5:36 pm
In the British TV industry they use the terms series and serial to make that distinction. Both words usually mean different things when talking about prose, but perhaps it's handy here to draw the line between Poriot and The Wheel of Time.
I share a certain suspicion of 'serial' novels. Obviously Heller publishing a sequel to Catch-22, or Clarke publishing stories set in the world of Strange and Norell, doesn't detract from their earlier works by suddenly rendering them despicable series fiction. And obviously novels such as China Miellive's Bas-Lag books, Pratchett's Discworld books or Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster novels that can either stand alone or be considered part of a larger sequence should be clasped to our bosoms.
But series fiction can breed monsters. It tends to be for reasons of publishing rather than for reasons of the form though. A story told across multiple novels can be a Proustian masterpiece...but it's more likely to be a cash-in fuelled by a Publisher's ability to calculate a minimum return on any old gubbins within a particular franchise or (in the Fantasy genre where piss-poor serial fiction is most prevalent) by the dogmatic misaplication of the Tolkien model.
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 7:04 pm
I finished three novels in 2006; Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Anansi Boys, and The Alchemist which is funny because I've had my nose in a book pretty much constantly.
I guess I'm filling my need for straight fiction with comics these days even though there's several novels I'd like to read (Wicked, the Jerry Cornelius novels, and Breakfast of Champions at the top of the list).
Looking up at my bookshelf it seems like drugs, religion, and the occult were the major themes of the year for me. I place the blame squarely on Moore and Morrison for The Book of Thoth, The Doors of Perception, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas sharing shelf space with Mere Christianity, The Yoga Sutra, and The Kabbalah.
Sex and gender are looking to be the big theme of 2007 as I've got The Female Thing on the go and The Red Queen up next.
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 7:06 pm
....more Susan Clarke novels? *googles* Oooo, an anthology. heart *puts on "To-Read" list*
....I read Wheel of Time.... It's way too freakin' long, but it's good... emo
...and I NEED to read Doors of Perception. I love Alduous Huxley's Brave New World, his other work demands review.
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 7:29 pm
It's very short, but it's an incredibly vital read. It really helped to clarify just what he was intending to convey with Soma in A Brave New World relative to his thoughts on drugs as a whole.
It's tempting to suggest that Huxley was ahead of his time in terms of his perspective on drugs in relation to psychology and spirituality but it quickly becomes apparent that he was one of the primary influences on the psychedelic movement of the sixties. He also stays alot more grounded in his conclusions than say Timothy Leary.
Fun fact; Huxley died the same day that Kennedy was assassinated.
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 7:34 pm
Miguel OHara D&D? Have you ever read any of R.A. Salvatore's books? Yes! I have the Dark Elf Trilogy, the Icewind Dale Trilogy, the Legacy of the Drow Trilogy and a few other miscellanious ones. I love Drizzt!!! heart I also have all of the Dragonlance series, and lots of other D&D novels. So many I couldn't possibly name them all xd
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 8:51 am
Warren_Worthington III the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 8:58 am
Ana Ishikawa Miguel OHara D&D? Have you ever read any of R.A. Salvatore's books? Yes! I have the Dark Elf Trilogy, the Icewind Dale Trilogy, the Legacy of the Drow Trilogy and a few other miscellanious ones. I love Drizzt!!! heart I also have all of the Dragonlance series, and lots of other D&D novels. So many I couldn't possibly name them all xd You've really gotta read the Hunter's Blade Trilogy. It's after Paths of Darkness (after Legacy of the Drow). It's about a huge war between the orcs of the region (and beyond) versus Mithril Hall. Lots of cool new characters.
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 1:49 pm
Miguel OHara Ana Ishikawa Miguel OHara D&D? Have you ever read any of R.A. Salvatore's books? Yes! I have the Dark Elf Trilogy, the Icewind Dale Trilogy, the Legacy of the Drow Trilogy and a few other miscellanious ones. I love Drizzt!!! heart I also have all of the Dragonlance series, and lots of other D&D novels. So many I couldn't possibly name them all xd You've really gotta read the Hunter's Blade Trilogy. It's after Paths of Darkness (after Legacy of the Drow). It's about a huge war between the orcs of the region (and beyond) versus Mithril Hall. Lots of cool new characters. Obuld many arrows kicks a**. ...but not as much as Artemis/Jarlaxle.
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