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i'm starting to come to the end of the last pile of books I bought, anyone have any good authors to try, i'll read most things but lean towards science, history, travel, and fantasy genres
i've been through most of the 'classics' so less well known authors would be welcome, nothing better than finding a new gem of a writer

cheers

You've probably already read Bill Bryson's A Short History Of Almost Everything. If not, do so immediately.

Fantasy? Not new, but Robin Hobb is worth a read.

aye, read a lot of Bryson's stuff, A walk in the Woods was excellant

never read any of Hobb's stuff, just had a nosy at his site and Amazon, looks like one to have a blast at, I prefer multi book reads, one just isn't enough if it's good (but Mr Jordan is taking the piss at the moment)

if you like that stuff give Stan Nicholls, Orcs a go, good twist on the Humans good Orcs bad idea

cheers for that

When not ploughing through academic stuff of recent I've been enjoying a few paperbacks a friend gave me by the cult fantasy writer Jonathan Carroll. Only read Voice of Our Shadow, The Land of Laughs and Sleeping in Flames so far, but they're all excellent and I'll try to read more. He reminds me at times of early Iain Banks, i.e his best stuff.

Highly recommended.

Thanks for the recommendation, Diplo.

Oh, and Hobb is a woman. As for Jordan, if I die before he finishes his saga, I'll haunt the bugger!

if you haven't already, have a crack at 'the davinci code'. 600 pages and did it in 3 days. kinda keeps you gripped. deception point was a good 'un too but a tad predictable at the end. dan brown. only got 4 books out and they're all on sale cheap at your local tesco, he can't be making much money from that! anyway, the davinci code may fill the 'history' part of your needs but its mainly a murder mystery. for fantasy, if you ain't done terry pratchett, you ain't lived.

I've always found Janny Wurts novels rivetting reading

Her stand alone novels like Sorcerers Legacy,The Master of Whitestorm & the most recent To Ride Hells Chasm are some of the best fantasy I've read



Her homepage has exerpts of her writing so you can see what style your in
for before you splurge

cheers
B....OZ

I enjoyed her Empire books with Raymond (Magician was great, but let's make an industry out of this) Feist.

Fido Goes To Battersea.

Actually, might I recommend Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman.
A very good fantasy set in London.
It was shown as a miniseries on BBC2 in the 90's.

I agree the Empire Trilogy(Japanese Society more or less) was a good read because it knew when to stop

It seems a few other readers may have vented their spleen about the book being an industry already on his forum
Closed down indefinitely.Is it just me or does he look like Ggeorge Lucas?
The authors deluxe version of Magician 2002 is well worth a read but the rest aren't worth a second read...I've got them in Hardback(on a different planet at the time-I was rich apparently)-even charity bookshops don't want them.

cheers
B....OZ