(June 19, 2014 at 11:28 pm)GalacticBusDriver Wrote: Jim Butcher: "The Dresden Files" series (urban fantasy). Wizard at large with a spirit guide named Bob, who lives in a skull and has a libido roughly the size of Alaska. Hugely entertaining.
Max Brooks: "World War Z" (historical documentary of the zombie apocalypse). Awesome book. Hollywood bought the rights just to get the title and ignored the content.
Philip Pullman: "His Dark Materials" (fantasy series).
Wow. What a list. I will 100% be trying to get some of your list in my upcoming books list, can't wait. So many sound good. I'm primarily a Sci-Fi guy but I can appreciate the great fantasy.
Although I cannot comment on most of your list (which I deleted in the quote) I can vouch for these 3.
Dresden Files is a great series. There is nothing really groundbreaking in the series but if you like wit, humour and some decent drama it's a decent series. I mean it's kinda average in terms of writing (still above 85% of movies though) but very entertaining. It's the book equivalent of a escapist story, yet it is soooooooooooo much better than a say Transformer movie.
World War Z is just such an interesting take on the zombie genre. Love the way so many completely different stories manage to pull together a story. It's really too bad the author sold out the name for that beyond awful Brad Pitt film, it ruins the novel. Loved it when I read it before movie came out, movie was one of the biggest disappointments I can remember.
I read Pullman's Dark Materials when I was just a kid. Although I was only like 12-15 (hell I can't remember when; I read 150+ novels in that time haha) I for sure remember these. Great novels that had some very great situations. They were a first a look for me at the corruption and prejudiced of the church and opened my mind. Compared to the idiotic Witch and Wardrobe novels of which they were a direct response they absolutely put them to shame. Loved these books as a child and would to this day say they were a huge strengthening of my rejection of hypocrisy of religion as a young adult. Every 10-15 year old should read these and adults can learn plenty from it as well. And this is not to say they are "atheist" books in reality they are very well written from any vantage point. Come to think of it I might just check these out from my local library this week haha.
“Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.”
― Mark Twain
― Mark Twain
