In the past month I have read:

[Wayfarer]

Piers Anthony
Orson Scott card
Jack McDevitt
Daniel Weber

Any names on this list you recognize?

[Silverstripe]

I recognize the first author, Piers Anthony, but I've only read one book by him. It was pretty good, though.

[Wayfarer]

What did you read?

[Silverstripe]

The Dastard.

I read the book just because, well, it was there and I was bored.

[Wayfarer]

Yeah, me too. ;)

That was one of his relatively recent Xanth novels. It was ok... I liked some of the other xanth novels better, but every time I think about pie-trees my mout starts to water (no joke!)

[BeardofPants]

The first few xanth novels were quite clever, but it got tiresome as the series wore on. I would quite like to read some of his "serious" stuff, but I've only read Dead Morn. Any recommendations?

[Wayfarer]

I agree with you that the xanth books are a bit worn. He also changes his mind on items like the names of minor characters(Dana or Dara? Stacy or Stella?)

Piers anthony writes serious stuff?

Let me think... The only serious (If you mean 'not humour') stuff I really remember of his was the battle circle 'trilogy' (which comes in one book, as opposed to none for his first xanth trilogy). It was moderately decent post-apocolyptic scifi, if a bit depressing.
His space-tyrant series looked good, but I'm holding of on reading that unitl I can read the entire set at once.
THe incarnations of immorality-eh, immortality, might be something that would interest you, but maybe not. They feature plotlines such as 'satan takes control of hell'

[XRogue]

Marion Bradley, Tolkien (duuuuh), Larry Niven.

[galadriel]

Originally posted by Wayfarer
Piers Anthony
Orson Scott card


Ooh... Orson Scott Card rocks. One of my favorite authors. He's not one of those sci-fi writers who is utterly incapable of writing outside his genre (ie, those who have no actual writing talent). And his characters and plots are terrific.

I agree with the previous comments: Piers Anthony is fun to read, but his series go downhill after the first few books.

[BeardofPants]

Forgot to mention this, but I've started on the Ender series. I've finished the first one (enders game), and I will start the second one right after I've finished 2nd Foundation by Asimov.

[johnnyrod]

I read Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card a few years back and I don't remember being very impressed. Does he get better after this?

[galadriel]

You DIDN'T like Ender's Game??????

Actually, IMO, the books get even better from there, since Card wrote Ender's Game when he was relatively young and his writing style matures. They'd also probably appeal to non-sci-fi fans more because of the extensive character-centric plot threads.

Still, I can't imagine not liking Ender's Game. I love the plot and the themes. And Ender's a great character. Some of the other characters have less developed characterization, but that's simply because the story is being told mostly through Ender's eyes and, being a child, he's not able to see the depths of their personalities.

[Curunír]

Robert Jordan, Tolkien :rolleyes: , George RR Martin and My school books (I had exams).

[Linaewen]

In the past couple of months i have read :
-The Farseer Trilogy
-The first two books of the Tawny Man trilogy
-All my school texts:
To Kill a Mockingbird
Jane Eyre
Antigone
(i loved them all)

Now im reading the Silm. Very excited about it

[ArwenEvenstar]

Robert Jordan, Tolkien:rolleyes:, Michael Ende and some really dumb stories for english

[TinuvielChild]

Michael Crichton, Tolkien, C.S.Lewis, Charles Dickens, and Mercedes Lackey.

[ArwenEvenstar]

C.S lewis is awesome

[LeniFreak]

Tolkien (my sister stole my copy of the Silmarillion, though)
Orson Scott Card (I REALLY NEED TO FIND A COPY OF CHILDREN OF THE MIND!!!)
Jack Kerouac (sp?)
Jaclyn Moriarty
Eireann Corrigan (I tend to gravitate toward authors of depressive melodramatic poetry...)
Pagan Kennedy (...and books on seventies junk culture.)
Ray Bradbury
Frank Herbert
Sylvia Plath (for school, urgh)
Pearl S. Buck (again, school. I want to burn every existing copy of The Good Earth and laugh maniacally while watching the bonfire devour them)
Charlotte Bronte
Edith Head & Yves St. Laurent (don't ask)

[Grey_Wolf]

In the past month I've:

finished off Kim Stanley Robinson's Green Mars.

[Varda Oiolosseo]

hmmmmm the past month...
The Hobbit
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (for like the 5th time)
Tales from The Perilous Realm

[druss]

just started raymond e feist's riftwar saga(yet again).
finished farseers trilogy(again)
finished eddings tamuli(again)
johnny five need more input......any suggestions for newer fantasy authors

[ArwenEvenstar]

Druss, doen't the Riftwar Legacy kick a**??

Robert Jordan (still)
Anne Macaffery (sp)
Tad Williams

[druss]

oh yes indeedie. milamber v gandalf mmmmmmm.