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The Hobbit book is horrendous! Skip it! Not important! Read LotR!
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Buzz wrote: The Hobbit book is horrendous! Skip it! Not important! Read LotR!
Sacrilege!!!

The Hobbit is what got me into the entire fantasy genre. Thag you bery much.
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read the new book yet Surandy?
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lotti wrote: read the new book yet Surandy?
New book? You do realise that JRR Tolkien is dead, don't you? How can he write a new book when he's been dead for ages?
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it's a new one of his that's been released, like what happened when Virginia Andrews died.
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Buzz wrote: The Hobbit book is horrendous! Skip it! Not important! Read LotR!
Nup!  The Hobbit ruined any chance of me reading the rest.  I couldn't even listen when the man-of-the-house was reading the trilogy to the kids  :lol:
I was told years ago that I should start with the Hobbit before reading the others.....that's what I did and I think that was my first bash at 'fantasy' books and now I can't really get into em at all  ;-)
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I can't read.
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I'm a fan of crime/thriller/mystery books.

Patricia Cornwell
Kathy Reichs (very similar to Cornwell, but better)
Karin Slaughter
Janet Evanovich (crime, but comedy - highly recommended Tigger!)
I've only read a couple of Dean Kootz, but I really like them
Jeffrey Deaver
Jonathan & Faye Kellerman
Tami Hoag
Thomas Harris

The Harry Potter collection (but I haven't managed to read all of them yet)

Biographies (mostly of musos)

As a kid

Black Beauty
Trixie Belden
TinTin
Nancy Drew (I think I might take my niece to see the movie which is coming out soon as an excuse to see it myself)  :oops:
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Andy you might like the Alphabet mysteries by Sue Grafton, Sue's up to S.
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lotti wrote: Andy you might like the Alphabet mysteries by Sue Grafton, Sue's up to S.
I've only got up to B Lotti!  :oops:
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Andy wrote: I'm a fan of crime/thriller/mystery books.

Patricia Cornwell
Kathy Reichs (very similar to Cornwell, but better)
Karin Slaughter
Janet Evanovich (crime, but comedy - highly recommended Tigger!)
I've only read a couple of Dean Kootz, but I really like them
Jeffrey Deaver
Jonathan & Faye Kellerman
Tami Hoag
Thomas Harris

The Harry Potter collection (but I haven't managed to read all of them yet)

Biographies (mostly of musos)

As a kid

Black Beauty
Trixie Belden
TinTin
Nancy Drew (I think I might take my niece to see the movie which is coming out soon as an excuse to see it myself)  :oops:

So you like reading books for women and little kids?
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lotti wrote: at least there's the movies Tigger.
SAD  :(
100 people see a movie & they ALL see the same - One persons vision
100 people read a book & they all see different - The unique beauty of that giga neuron engine we call the human brain  ;D

My fav book probably hasn't been written yet,but will most likely be an epic fantasy.I've been a voracious reader since an early age,(pre TV  :lol: )
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Buzz wrote: Oooh - favourite book! :) Okay - my first real love in books was Obernewtyn series by Isobelle Carmody. Unfortunately, book 1 came out in 1987 - and the next three came out 1990, 1995 and 2000. How frustrating is it that we're still waiting for the 5th and final book which has now been split into two books. Twenty years between start of series and now.... Even Harry Potter is doing better! ;)

Other series of books - the Magician (Raymond E Feist), and the series Daughter of the Empire, Servant of the Empire and Mistress of the Empire (Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts). Stunning. Of course - the Belgariad series by David Eddings.
I think we may have haunted the same bookstores  ;D
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I would have to agree with Tigger re: the Hobbit... it was many, many years ago that I attempted to read it, but it really did turn me off fantasy novels.  I think I'd get into it (and fantasy novels in general) a lot more if I gave it/them another go now, but I just can't find the time to read much these days.

My favourite books would have to be "Insomnia" by Stephen King, "The Green Mile" by Stephen King (reading all 6 books as part of a mini-series when they were released monthly was torture, but very effective!), and.... oh yeah, "It" by Stephen King!

I'd love to see "Insomnia" as a movie, "The Green Mile" was a brilliant movie - probably one of the best translated books EVER, and "It" - probably one of the worst translated movies EVER!
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Buzz, have you read any of Eddings other works? The Tamuli and the Elenium?
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