08-28-2004, 07:51 PM
I have a hard time picking out a specific book to recommend. I tend to follow authors and pick up a whole bunch of their books to read one after the other.
My author du jour is Robert J. Sawyer who writes some near future science fiction. He does a great job of taking current research trends and fleshing them out with great characters and well thought out possible futures. The first book I read by him was Calculating God which totally hooked me but it isn't his best by any stretch of the imagination. End of an Era and his more recent Hominids trilogy were both better reads.
I forget who wrote it but I read Cryptonomicon a few months ago and thought that was a great book. The over all story was a bit weak but the authors way of describing everything was a pure joy to read.
I've also read the first four Harry Potter books and have the fifth sitting beside my bed waiting for me to read it. I've started it a few times now but just can't seem to get into it. It seems to me that the series has started to grow stagnant but I've been told that it gets much better if I just give the book a chance.
Other authors that I highly recommend are Orson Scott Card (Enders Game is a MUST read book), William Gibson, Larry Niven (Ringworld is a classic that stands the tests of time), Clifford D. Simak, Ray Bradbury, Michael Crichton, Neil Gaiman, and Warren Ellis.
My author du jour is Robert J. Sawyer who writes some near future science fiction. He does a great job of taking current research trends and fleshing them out with great characters and well thought out possible futures. The first book I read by him was Calculating God which totally hooked me but it isn't his best by any stretch of the imagination. End of an Era and his more recent Hominids trilogy were both better reads.
I forget who wrote it but I read Cryptonomicon a few months ago and thought that was a great book. The over all story was a bit weak but the authors way of describing everything was a pure joy to read.
I've also read the first four Harry Potter books and have the fifth sitting beside my bed waiting for me to read it. I've started it a few times now but just can't seem to get into it. It seems to me that the series has started to grow stagnant but I've been told that it gets much better if I just give the book a chance.
Other authors that I highly recommend are Orson Scott Card (Enders Game is a MUST read book), William Gibson, Larry Niven (Ringworld is a classic that stands the tests of time), Clifford D. Simak, Ray Bradbury, Michael Crichton, Neil Gaiman, and Warren Ellis.
Gullible isn't in the dictionary.