Looking for a new author
Oct 30th, 2006 by darryl
Lately, I’ve been reading quite a few books, but I’m starting out of books by my favourite authors. Currently I have pretty much exhausted all of the Clive Cussler, W.E.B. Griffin books which are out there. I have also just recently re-read Lord of the Rings. Anybody have suggestions for any other good authors? I’m about to unplug for a week while I am on vacation, so I’m looking for quite a few books to take with me. Currently on the list are:
Flags of our Fathers (recently released as a movie)
Shake Hands with the Devil by Romeo Dallaire
Special Ops by W.E.B Griffin
Surprisingly, I will likely finish these off in the week that I am off, so I may need a couple more novels to take with me. If anyone has any suggestions, please feel free to comment on the blog.
Drop by the house when you get up here… I should be able to hook you up with a few books… I got a few you might like…
If you like sci-fi or fantasy, come and visit my house. Glenn is a fanatic (Forgotten Realms, Dragon Lance, and many others. Battlefield Earth is one of his favourites). I can recommend a variety of good books:
Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Truman Capote
No Great Mischief - Alistair MacLeod
The Art of Happiness - Dalai Lama
Capote - Gerald Clarke
Ghost Rider - Neil Peart (yes, from Rush)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig
Angels & Demons, Da Vinci Code or Deception Point - Dan Brown (entertaining fluff)
Beautiful Joe - Marshall Saunders (a.k.a. Margaret Saunders)
Persuasion - Jane Austen
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Or, you can give in and read the Harry Potter books…I enjoyed them
*YOU* read? Hey, wait, who approved this vacation? Dammit!
If you’ve never read it try Jack Whyte’s Dream of Eagles series starting with Book one Skystone.
Whyte provides a plausible account of the Aurthurian legends series that must be described as historic fiction.
I liked book one best because it tells the tale of Varrus a Roman legionaire stationed in Brittania in the final days of Rome’s occupation. He settles in a colony of “people” at a crossroads between Celts and Romans. It’s fascinating because he is showing how a new people were born “Britons” and soon this colony would have a “king”.
And what’s the skystone? It’s a stone that fell to Earth in flames one night … Celts have a legend about how it was a dragon but Varrus knew it as a skystone, something he’d read about. He extracted the mineral from this “skystone” and one day it would be used to make a rare sword - literally one in a million design made with mineral far beyond anything they had in the day.
Whyte’s prose is quite compelling. Definitely one of those times I couldn’t stop reading and really ‘missed’ the characters at book’s end.
Interview with a Vampire is a great book, if you like that kind of story.
Dude …. I would suggest trying Robert Jordan. He has a very rivetting series called the Wheel of Time and it starts with The Eye of the World. Also try Robin Hobb or some of the older writings of David Eddings such as the Belgariad. James Feist is also a great author.