Great Books

[Rane Longfox]

Originally Posted by Leto

Make your own opinion.

She's right WS We can only say what we liked. It's all down to you in the end It's nothing flashy or spectacular, and Wooding doesn't have the writing quality of say Erikson of Martin, but I enjoyed it imensely. The story does drag you in, even if its not the most original...
I've just finsihed the third book in the series, and while it quite blatantly leaves the way open for another series, it finsihes everything off in a far more mature and un-cliched way than you might expect from the first two books...

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by Rosemary

Hey, here's another Dostoyevsky fan! Another great author of classics - Tolstoy's War and Peace. I have also read Quiet Flows The Don' but not sure of the author as it was a number of years ago, good but not to read again. I have re-read Edward Rutherfurd's books, starting with Old Sarum. Great reading for someone who likes historical novels.

Has anyone read any of Sarah Douglass's publications? These are definate re-read books. Her first The Axis Trilogy and then The Wayfarer Redemption Trilogy. Not sure how many times I have re-read those books!

Aha you're referring to the russian novelist Mikhail Veshenskaya who died in 1984 and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1956.

It's part of his famous and sometimes problematic novel Tikhy Don ("The Silent Don"), a portrayal of the Don Cossacks fight for independence against the Bolsheviks . I think I've read the book you're referring to BUT also it's sequel which actually forms part of that one novel as it was translated into 2 parts in English as And Quiet Flows the Don and The Don Flows Home to the Sea.

Well they don't call me the Lit God for nothing HE HE...

Have you read The Don Flows Home to the Sea yet?? and sorry in advance I don't have a copy to loan you DOH!!

As far as rereading books goes I never normally do this as I like to keep the original memories of reading a book in my mind. The only exception has been LOTR which I've read 3-4 times in the past 20 years.

Over and out....

[rune]

I use to re-read my horror collection alot. But with fantasy i've nearly always got new ones so dont have time for so much re-reading. However, I have re-read these -


Feavers Dream - George R Martin
LOTR's - Tolkien
Wizards First Rule and Blood of the Flood - Terry Goodkind
Some Terry Pratchett books
Magician - Raymond Feist

[polymorphikos]

I used to re-read all the time. These days, I must be ever moving forward if i'm ever going to read all the great books out there. I re-read Wells or Melville sometimes.

[Rosemary]

Originally Posted by GOLLUM

Aha you're referring to the russian novelist Mikhail Veshenskaya who died in 1984 and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1956.

It's part of his famous and sometimes problematic novel Tikhy Don ("The Silent Don"), a portrayal of the Don Cossacks fight for independence against the Bolsheviks . I think I've read the book you're referring to BUT also it's sequel which actually forms part of that one novel as it was translated into 2 parts in English as And Quiet Flows the Don and The Don Flows Home to the Sea.

Well they don't call me the Lit God for nothing HE HE...

Have you read The Don Flows Home to the Sea yet?? and sorry in advance I don't have a copy to loan you DOH!!

Over and out....

Well I should have guessed that you would have known the author's name, precioussss!
A sequel huh, looks like I shall have to get serious about book hunting.

No I haven't read The Don Flows Home to the Sea yet and you don't have a copy to lend me??? Oh dear. Actually the title sounds as if you have made it up!

Bye 4 now and happy reading..............

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by Rosemary

No I haven't read The Don Flows Home to the Sea yet and you don't have a copy to lend me??? Oh dear. Actually the title sounds as if you have made it up!
Bye 4 now and happy reading..............

Nope it's genuine.

[Taltos]

Originally Posted by GOLLUM

Aha you're referring to the russian novelist Mikhail Veshenskaya who died in 1984 and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1956.

well, I hope you meant Mikhail Sholokhov... Veshenskaya is partially the name of the place he was born

Originally Posted by GOLLUM

It's part of his famous and sometimes problematic novel Tikhy Don ("The Silent Don"), a portrayal of the Don Cossacks fight for independence against the Bolsheviks . I think I've read the book you're referring to BUT also it's sequel which actually forms part of that one novel as it was translated into 2 parts in English as And Quiet Flows the Don and The Don Flows Home to the Sea.

Actually in the russian bibliography it's considered one novel in four parts ... so no separate novel names

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by Taltos

well, I hope you meant Mikhail Sholokhov... Veshenskaya is partially the name of the place he was born

YES his full name as provided in English translations is Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov which was what I was alluding to, a typo on my part.....

Originally Posted by Taltos

Actually in the russian bibliography it's considered one novel in four parts ... so no separate novel names

Yes you are correct as far as the Russian release goes, it was one novel in 4 parts BUT in the English version it was relased as two major subnovels "And Quiet Flows The Don" and "The Don Flows Home To The Sea". Hence my reference to 2 seperate parts in English rather than the orignal 4 part Russian novel, but I think you kinda knew that already LOL!!

Over and out...

[The Master™]

For me:

(3 part) Riftwar Saga - Raymond E Feist
Grass - Sheri S Tepper
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkein
Forever War - Joe Haldeman
Hogfather - Terry Pratchett
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett

Graphic Novels:
Batman The Killing Joke
Crisis On Infinite Earths
Camelot 3000
Clan Destine

[Culhwch]

For mine,-

The Warlord Chronicles, Bernard Cornwell
Stardust, Neil Gaiman
Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
A Song of Ice and Fire, George RR Martin
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee

Tad William's War of the Flowers is probably getting close to the list. Feist's Magician was up there, but I've gone cold since the Krondor books. Might revisit Midkemia again, see if it is still as good as I hope it was.

[stirdgit]

Rosemary, great to see yet another Dostoevsky fan! Tolstoy was amazing but Dostoevsky was the true master, in my opinion. What do you think of Nabokov? Personally, I love his work.

[angrybuddhist]

Highways in Hiding / George O. Smith
They Walked Like Men / Clifford D. Simak
The Puppet Masters / Robert A. Heinlein
The Stainless Steel Rat (the first three in the series) / Harry Harrison
The Compleat Enchanter / L. Sprague deCamp and Fletcher Pratt

[A1ien]

I am reading Player of Games by IainM. Banks at that moment. its brilliant. first culture book i have ever read.

Jonathon Strange and Mr Norrell - Totally different from any other magic boom iv read. Very refreshing

Magician by Raymond Feist - Also very refreshing

Good Omens - An interestin view on christianity and heaven and hell

Mort by Terry Pratchet

All of Robin Hobbs books

Piers Anthony's books because they are so witty

Artemis Fowl books by Eoin Colfer - I know they are kids books but they are so brilliant!

The Animorph series was good in its day as well.

Cant think of anymore right now. i have read so many good books

[stirdgit]

Again, thank you everyone. My list of "must read" books has grown tremendously.

[Rosemary]

Originally Posted by stirdgit

Again, thank you everyone. My list of "must read" books has grown tremendously.

I should imagine that happens to most of us. My list of books is so long now that if I tried to get them all I would probably have to have a spare room built on!! Well, almost!!

Then of course there are the new books that have only just been published or about to be published to add to that list as well!! It is something that will never cease, thank goodness.

So as I usually say, happy reading stirdgit.