Board 8 > Tell me a little bit about your favorite book

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I'm almost all caught up with Brandon Sanderson's cosmere, which is where most of my attention has been directed the past few years. I don't know many authors, chances are I haven't read your favorite book. My hope is to fix that, provided your taste in books are similar to mine -- I seem to only like fantasy.

(Already looking into Wheel of Time as I predict someone might suggest that)
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Well lets set aside FAVORITE book, as I doubt you want to read a political thriller circe the late 1930s

But lets talk about a book I really like and only discovered recently: Michael Sullivan's Age of Myth

I havent gotten too deep down this particularly rabbit hole, but I really enjoyed it. The basic concept is that we are going back to the beginning of the age of man, staring back from the vantage points other two sets of Riyria books.

The book features a man killing a "god" (really just a different race of men with better tech) and the fallout for that to include he and his accomplice (a slave) on the run, a prosperous tribal city and probably the most delightful mystic/druid character I can think of.

We also get a look into an incredibly decadent society of the gods that feels like it is on the verge of collapse

Its all very well done.
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Coincidentally looked up that author yesterday along with a few others. Good to get confirmation. Is that the best book to start with in that series?

I would like a good sci-fi space adventure as well
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Age of Myth is actually a prequel to his other work set a couple thousand years prior. You might get a little more out of it by reading Riyria Revelations and Chronicles. But it's not really necessary. They're all worth reading in my opinion.

I'm primarily into fantasy and not sure I have a favorite book. Stormlight is up there for sure.

Other authors I'm a fan of :

Michael Sullivan - as mentioned above
Joe Abercrombie - First Law is a blast. I love his characterization and visceral action sequences
Guy Gavriel Kay - some of my favorite fantasy prose and his work is mostly standalone.
George RR Martin - game of thrones
Terry Pratchett - a recent discovery for me. Gotta love the humor, but it's more than just that
Robert Jackson Bennet : Divine Cities is amazing and seems so rarely talked about. Read it.
Patrick Rothfuss - beware that book three is perpetually on the horizon
Sanderson - I've basically read everything outside of Wheel at this point. The first book didn't grip me.
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I just hopped right into Age of Myth and didn't feel I was missing anything tbh.
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wheel of time
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1984

I was so brilliantly depressed
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It's hard to say which my favorite is, but definitely something by William gibson. Neuromancer is the obvious choice, but i also love Mona Lisa overdrive (and count zero), as well as pattern recognition. I just love his prose, and cyberpunk is basically my favorite fiction genre ever.

Pattern recognition maybe isn't as strong narraritively as his older works, but i feel like it has some of his best prose ever. I just love the way he writes.
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My favorite piece of literature is Paradise Lost, but if we're talking about genre fiction, then it's probably Snow Crash. Written in the late 80s by one of the few cyberpunk authors who actually understood how computers work, it predicts a ton of things that came true in the future, the most important being the internet (though the details are predictably wrong). As far as I'm concerned, Snow Crash is basically the end of cyberpunk. No one has ever so thoroughly created and destroyed the entire concept of a genre like Snow Crash does, to the point where it ruins further cyberpunk books for me.
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Snow crash is definitely up there too, but Gibson's prose puts his stuff over it for me, even if its less sound scientifically
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Green Eggs & Ham.

Haven't found the time yet to finish it though, but I like what I've read so far.
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snow crash is good

I couldn't get through Neuromancer. The style was too much
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Good Omens probably, Pratchetts humor mixed with Gaimans world building makes for a great book

I also did like Neuromancer, Do Androids Dream, Flowers for Algernon and Anansi Boys
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And Then There Were None is just a delight to read. How the isolation and murders created this sense of tension and dread and how the crime is seemingly unsolvable. Very enjoyable.
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Raka_Putra posted...

And Then There Were None is just a delight to read. How the isolation and murders created this sense of tension and dread and how the crime is seemingly unsolvable. Very enjoyable.

Oh yes, read this last year. Extremely good. Umineko took a lot of flavor from it.

Favorite Book: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

- It's one hell of a dark comedy with a huge cast of misfit soldiers during World War II.
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Not sure I can pick one novel out of the Dresden Files. Almost all of them are amazing.
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