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Doesn't seem like we have a favorites list in this forum, so give us your best representative horror novels: 1. Dracula (Stoker) 2. 'salem's lot (King) 3. The Shining (King) 4. Interview with the Vampire (Rice) 5. The Great and Secret Show (Barker) Hmmm. Three of them are vampire...

Here's a great team of horror/thriller writers, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, who keep getting better with each story. Beginning with The Relic and sequel Reliquary, they combine a Crichton-type expertise with a Dean Koontz style of characterizations, with various characters finding...

In the history of fantasy, Donaldson's Covenant series probably represents a revival in the salability, extending the reach of fantasy to new audiences. His anti-hero was the perfect counter to the larger-than-life heroes of Tolkien. Indeed, it's like a 60s guy is sent back to Middle Earth and...

Michael Stackpole's "Battletech" novels probably rate high in this "category" (brilliant adverse of say, guilty pleasures!) and Timothy Zahn's Star Wars novels.

Thanks for the comments! Robert B. Parker, another hard-boiled type, took control of several unfinished manuascripts and completed them. Chandler was quite a writer and a character in his own right ... Anyone else?

I just did a search in this forum for Chandler and Hammett and got a blank! :eek: :eek: :eek: :mad: These are the masters! Terrific writers! Chandler wrote a wonderful pastiche of Jane Austen with a short story in "The Simple Art of Murder" that shows just how strong a stylist he...

Yes, another vote for Sara. But if you like Sara, you MUST read O'Connell!

Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon" is amazing look at the role cryptology played in WWII and appears to be part of a larger mosaic that he's putting together in "The Baroque Series" that begins in the 17th century and traces the history of how computers came about ... from the book jacket of...

Kathleen Mallory series by Carol O'Connell is excellent police procedural-type suspense with great cast of regulars and singular literary style. I put up a thread on her books in this forum but no one has repsonded ... Kathleen Mallory books

If I'm not mistaken it was nominated for a Hugo--not a cheapy pulp novel by any means! Willis is a very good writer.

Let's not say change so much as expand and mature. We are communal creatures and need to share experiences to understand them better. I still find it hard to discuss aspects of The Lovely Bones without getting a bit misty. What really struck home to me, as a father of two, was the unfairness...

John Boorman directed Excalibur, not Ridley Scott. But that doesn't mean it isn't superior to Troy and Arthur. My trouble with Arthur was the ads make a very big deal about historical accuracy as if 1) it were a big deal since the legend is what most people prefer and 2) it were true! I don't...

Here goes! Asimov: Foundation - 5 Asimov: Foundation and Empire - 6 Asimov: 2nd Foundation - 6 Asimov: I, Robot - 5 Asimov: The Gods Themselves - 7 Barker: Imajica - 6 Barker: The Great and Secret Show - 7 Bear: Darwin's Radio - 7 Bester: The Stars My Destination (aka Tiger Tiger) -...

Sigh! There's nothing like C & H out there ... C: I like to verb words. H: What? C: I take nouns and adjectives and use them as verbs. Remember when "access" was a thing? Now, it's something you do. It got verbed. C: Verbing weirds language. H: Maybe we can eventually make language a...

Great job on the Forum 100--I'll compose my long list offline and upload soon. As you can see from my "Current Reading" list, I've found a book by GG Kay and am enjoying it! He was involved with completing The Silmarillion of all things! And he's from Toronto, one of my favorite cities!

The name of that book was "Shackleton's Valiant Voyage." I probably owe a life's worth of great reading to Scholastic. I don't begrudge them anything!

Recommended. For those who liked "Five People," you might consider The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. Not quite as "philosophical," but another interesting perspective on heaven ...

For a great understanding and feel for the modern Navy, there is no one can compare with David Poyer's series of novels. Amazon's list of Poyer novels Start with The Med and take it from there. He also has written about scuba diving and the beginnings of the US Navy in the Civil War. I've...

The "classics" are prolly Seven Days in May by F. Knebel, The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon, and Fail Safe by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler.

For a moment I thought you were writing about Moore! :D Seriously, what bothers me about Moore: he's a whore calling whores "whores." He sold out his right to claim any righteousness about his questions. And that hurts. The question raised in "Bowling," "Why are Americans so afraid?" is...