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Well, I've managed to find 2 of the 3 on my own, just in the past couple of days :) Book #2 (this one I found on Loganberry's Stump the Bookseller) - is Andre Norton's Baleful Beasts and Eerie Creatures. Book #3 is probably Nightpool - I found it on goodreads. Still looking for the book about...

It's in the YA section, but Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy probably fits into fantasy steampunk. I devoured The Golden Compass when the trailer for the movie came out, (armored warrior bears are right up my alley) & I must say the book was far, far better than the movie.

The primroses were over. - from Watership Down by Richard Adams Of course, I think it's my favorite first line because it's from my all-time favorite book, not so much because it is literary mastery. It does give a taste of time and place, though. Kind of like a one-line haiku.

I'm a sucker for atmosphere, and things that could really happen. In the 'things that could really happen' category: Gerald's Game by King ruined a portion of my sex life that I will never get back (yeah, tmi, sorry, :whistling:). The thought of being alone, handcuffed, in a remote place...

For me it depends on if it's fiction or non-fiction. For fiction, if it's a good read, I don't care what the author is involved in. For non-fiction, the author's personal opinions and views often play a big part in how the material is written. I wouldn't read a book on paganism written by Pat...

I just finished Neil Gaiman's collection of short stories - Smoke & Mirrors. It was quite satisfying. I'm in the middle of Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson. I just went to the library & started looking for cyberpunk :)

I think it helps if people's parents were readers. My parents were both avid readers, and had me in books before I hit kindergarten. The television was mostly a dust-collector. I've got a few friends who don't read, mainly because of having boring, non-relevant books forced on them...

It's a moldy oldy, but how about Dion Fortune's The Sea Priestess? Or almost any H.P. Lovecraft? Stephen King's Duma Key was pretty good, too.

I will do everything in my power to avoid throwing away a book. It has to be in extremely poor condition to do that - I'm talking mold, scribblings that obscure the text, pages falling out of a softcover that can't be repaired, that kind of thing. If I have a book I no longer want: 1) I...

Has he tried any cyberpunk? Neal Stephenson's books are good, as are William Gibson's.

If a kid knows their parents or guardians don't approve of something, that seems to make them more likely to do it, and that includes reading books. I was lucky enough to live in an uncensored home - and my parents would discuss questions I had about what I saw and read that was confusing to me...

Life is too short to read bad books. I forced myself through Anne Rice's Feast of All Saints. I had loved Cry to Heaven so I thought FoAS would be comparable. It was not. I still don't even know exactly what the story was about, and couldn't tell you anything about the characters, because by the...

1) One Book that made you read it More Than Once: Watership Down - Richard Adams 2) One book you would want on a desert island: Primitive Technology: A Book of Earth Skills 3) One book that made you laugh: The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul - Douglas Adams 4) One book that made you cry...

Did Dean Koontz have anything that qualified as a bestseller? I've tried so many of his books, & tried to like them, but contrived endings just drive me up a wall. Especially those involving ye olde deus ex machina. Makes me want to find the protagonist and throw him back to the wolves.

Looking over this list makes me feel horrible about myself. I've maybe read 20 of the books on the list - and haven't heard of about 700 of them!

Book 1: I had a copy of this book in the late 70's/early 80's. Without the dust jacket, it was a goldenrod colored hardback. It had black & white illustrations in it. It was about a pig who was a Dowager Duchess, she throws a cocktail party or something of that nature, & her jewels are...

I'm perzephone, aka Jane from Las Vegas. I'm 36, married & share my life with 2 ball pythons & a Catahoula Leopard dog mix. I'm Pagan (animistic, pantheistic, polytheistic ex-Wiccan) and have been for most of my life. I also have chronic depression and insomnia. Some of my likes include full...