Stacer, recommend a book to me

[fuzzyoctopus]

Also this is a thread to tell me what books are good, not which ones are bad.   And when it comes to female-oriented high fantasy, beg your pardon if you're not a person whose opinion I trust.

You lack the necessary hormones, I believe.

[Brenna]

Nope, Chris hasn't read them yet.  I keep telling him he needs to, since the series is one of my favorites.

[fuzzyoctopus]

Well, I finished it this afternoon.  Pretty good.  My big complaint is that as a stand-alone book it's pretty poor.  Everything in it screams "I'm the first book in a trilogy!" The ending, therefore, is rather unsatisfying.  Not the authors' fault, though, I've been more in the mood for "you just saved the entire world from destruction; what are you going to do next?!?" books.

I'd definitely like to read the other two, though, sometime after finals.

[stacer]

So the "what's everybody reading" thread has gotten me thinking that I need a new book for the train ride to work. I have so many on my shelf I should just read one of them, and I have a fine at the library I don't want to pay, so that's out for a while.   I borrowed a C.S. Lewis book from someone, and that was good for a while, but it's gotten kind of boring because it's only excerpts, not the whole book--a few chapters of Mere Christianity, etc.

I have enough on my plate right now that I should be fine with not having anything to read, but I feel so decidedly anti-intellectual right now, what with not being in class.

So, anybody read anything good lately they'd recommend? Anything deep and lasting that should be on a must-read list, or any new YA fantasy that might suit my tastes? Maybe I should go back on this thread and pick up one of Brenna's suggestions.

[EUOL]

I hear some guy named Robison Wells wrote a pretty cool book.

[stacer]

Done! And yes, it was really good.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I'm about to have to read a Dragonlance novel (volume two of the Heroes series, which I think is independent sets of stories). I can send it to you instead. (since I have two forgotten Realms novels too, part one of some trilogy and part three of the Dark Elf Princess series). want any of 'em? I've still got like three RPG supplements to read.

[stacer]

Sure, I'll try it. Probably ought to go for any of them that are part ones, because I've never read any of them.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

email me your address then, I'll send you the part 1. The series is called "The YEar of Rogue Dragons" or something like that. Tell me if it's too grounded in D&D culture/rules for someone who's not played. If I remember right, they generally do a good job of making their books accessible for non-players. apparently the protagonist is a half-golem (sort of a magic prosthetic I guess) and has a mad-on for killing dragons.

[stacer]

On its way. I sent it to the lemur address.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

perfect. I'll get it out this week.

[Sminja]

Yeah, I heard the Dragonlance series was excellent. I know someone who's read the whole series...I've only read half of the first book, due to time issues (and laziness), but what I did read was excellent.

[Entsuropi]

The original dragonlance trilogy reads like a D&D campaign spruced up.

[stacer]

*bump*

For chimera.