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Posted by Karin on 6/2/2004, 3:39 pm, in reply to "Some of my favorites" I've also been enjoying Lynn Flewelling's "The Bone Doll's Twin" and "Hidden Warrior." Also her Nightrunner series. I HATED the the handful of Melanie Rawn's "Dragon" books that I slogged through. I always finish a book I start, but I wouldn't have started book two if I hadn't bought the whole series at the used bookstore when getting ready for a long surgical recovery. I found her characters petty and shallow, and I definitely wouldn't want to hang with them in real life, no matter HOW cool their special powers were. I used to read everything Tanith Lee wrote, but haven't been working at following her, lately. Don't know why. For SF, just about anything by Greg Bear or David Brin, CJ Cherryh, though she gets a little politically or emotionally intricate for me from time to time. My favorite classic SF/Fantasy writer is the late Fritz Leiber. I also like anecdotal writing. Gerald Durrell and Konrad Lorenz (animal behavior, mostly). They made me want to be an ethologist, but I wound up a musician. James Herriot, but his stuff is a little sappy for my taste. And whodunnits. Dick Francis, Patricia Cornwell, Tony Hillerman's Navaho tribal police mysteries. "Stephanie Plum" books by Janet Evanovich and Elizabeth Peters' "Amelia Peabody" books are not very deep, but are very entertaining. I just read my first "Repairman Jack" book by F. Paul Wilson, and really enjoyed it. His writing style has come a long way since "The Keep." Parapsychological whodunnits. Works for me.
Besides Terry's series, those by Robin Hobb and JRR Martin are a couple of my favorites.
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