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[swords_crossed]

This summer is supposed to be a summer of reading, writing, and drawing in the hopes that I can accomplish some things and relax at the same time. Under the cut, I've compiled a list of the books I'm already planning to read, and anyone with suggestions should leave a comment.

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[troublekat]

anything mercades lackey, or michelle west... Great authors, right up your alley Suzy..

[swords_crossed]

I think you and I should go to the library before we go to dinner so I can gather more books. :D Although I may have already acquired too many unless I plan on hiding in my room for the next two months, which is an all right idea methinks.

[thmanwithnoname]

as far as the Chronicles, I'd read them at least twice by the age of twelve.
you may judge how I've turned out, and plan accordingly.

as far as reccomendations go, I can give you a hell of a list.

Anything by Fred Saberhagen.
His Dracula series (first book, The Dracula Tapes)or
The Swords series, (first book, The First Book of Swords)
are both excellent places to start.
I personally Really reccomend Love Conquers All, but other people don't seem to like it nearly as much as I do.

Anything by Timothy Zahn,
The Icarus Hunt, Triplet, and Angelmass are all excellent examples.

Robert A Heinlein has a lot of good stuff, although some crap too,
Starship Troopers (nothing like the movie), and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress are both quite interesting.

L. Sprague deCamp has a lot of really good, funny stuff,
for starters, The Hand of Zei, and his Reluctant King trilogy.

[swords_crossed]

Thank you for the reccs, and I was wondering about the Chronicles because I was considering reading it with my sister, who will shortly be twelve.

I shall plan accordingly. :D

[firebird_one]

Well, you've got a lot of ideas so far... I'm especially fond of Narnia, King, Rice, Rowling, Gaiman, and Wilde.

Although Lackey is much loved by many, I'm not a fan at all... matter of taste I guess. Saberhagen's Swords series is fairly lengthy, but worth it IMHO. One of my early GREAT fantasy reads (shortly after Terry Brooks' Magic Kingdom). If you're in the right mindset, Heinlein is phenomenal.

Robert Jordan is verbose, but brilliant.

R.A. Salvatore is usually very vivid and enthralling.

My newest find is R. Scott Bakker's the Prince of Nothing series... starts with The Darkness that Comes Before. I'm still reading it and it's an interesting blend of fantasy, philosophy, and something I can't really define.

I could list more stuff, but I think you'll manage. ;)

[swords_crossed]

Thanks for he suggestions. You're a King fan as well? What are you favorites by him?

[firebird_one]

Yeah, I've liked King for a while. Still an awful lot of his stuff on my "to read" list (list the Gunslinger series), but I rahter like Salem's lot for a thriller-type and his alt-fantasy style in The Talisman. How about you?

[swords_crossed]

I loved The Talisman, and Black House was all right. I really like The Stand, Insomnia, and The Green Mile, and the Gunslinger Series is good so far, but I've only read two books.

[scytheandroses]

Ooooo, nice list. :D

Erm, shall suggest some meself. Very sorry if ye've read some, but eh.

The Invisible Man, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
Master and Commander, Patrick O'Brian
A Journey to the Center opf the Earth, Jules Verne
Germinal, Emile Zola
The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
The Sea Gull, Anton Chekhov
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carrol
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy

[swords_crossed]

Thank you muchly, and I've not read any of those actually, though I have read some Vonnegut (Hocus Pocus and Cat's Cradle I think was the other one), and those were good. I actually almost picked up Alice in Wonderland when I was in Barnes and Noble Saturday after I got off the train . . . since I made my family take me to the magical book selling place to make me happy.