Books, books and more books. I come from a family of readers and it seemed, growing up, that books were jammed into most available spaces in our home. I started reading at a very early age and books became like my favorite friends. Of course the early years went from Seuss to Miss Pickerel to Trixie Belden and Nancy Drew. And then my early teens were spent with Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. LeGuin, Asimov, Clarke and others of that genre. A brief foray into the horror novels and then one day I picked up the Lord of the Rings and a whole new world opened up for me. The world of action, adventure, heroes, good vs evil. It also seemed that there was much variety in this area at the time. From novels spun from mythologies (my favorites being the Celtic myths) to action/adventure novels, dragon novels, relationship novels, but lately the pickings have grown increasingly slim, the bookstore shelves being slowly crowded out by the Forgotton Realms and AD&D series.
So after a long friendship with fantasy novels, it seems like the well has run dry and not much truly original work is being done in this genre. Happily, I’ve rediscovered Science Fiction, and am trying out some bestseller/action/adventure type novels like Brimstone by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child , DaVinci Code by Dan Brown, and others.
Latest Books read:
Brimstone, Douglas Preston & Lincoln ChildPandemic, Daniel KallaDecipher, Stel Pavlou The Family Trade, Charles Stross
Currently reading:
Still Life with Crows, Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child Sethra Lavode, Steven Brust
Next on the List:
American Gods, Neil Gaiman
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