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Jack Vance - Tales Of The Dying Earth (fantasy masterworks)

I love Terry Pratchett. I've read nearly all the Discworld novels but I'm not really interested in his other books. I own quite a few and the rest I borrowed from the library when I was in highschool. I think his latest books are among his best.

Arthur Rimbaud Goethe

I'm a beast. :p

I guess wisdom and maturity come early to some and to others, never! and like they say there's no accounting for taste. :cool:

Gene Wolfe is excellent. I don't know how old you are but try it again in a few years. I'm pretty wary of fantasy novels, for the most part it's something I left behind in adolescence. I just got Time and the Gods by Lord Dunsany. I haven't read it yet but it looks wonderful.

I prefer quality over quantity. there are some 200 page books that are far better than any 1200 page book.

The Centauri Device by M. John Harrison

not if you're drinking vodka.

I wrote this piece as an introduction to something longer. I haven't yet started a continuance but I have planned further ideas. It's a far future setting influenced by Olaf Stapledon's style in Last And First Men and Star Maker and other science fiction. Oblivion Angels and Suicide Saints...

Alfred Bester - The Stars My Destination and The Demolished Man

I vocalise the words in my mind but I read them slightly faster than I would speak them. I don't speed read novels, especially well written and poetic ones, that's for textbook reading. I find it beneficial for a lot of things, your general vocabulary, your own writing and your ability to use words.

Dostoyevksy is brilliant.

Lord Dunsany - Time And The Gods James Blish - Cities In Flight

E.R. Eddison - Mistress of Mistresses. wonderful poetic language and archaic english. epic romance/fantasy

Gene Wolfe - The Book Of The New Sun E.R. Eddison - The Worm Ouroboros

The Lord Of The Rings has an emotional depth like no other book. I've grown out of it now though and I've read it so many times that rereading it is pointless. the movies were a travesty. another fantasy book from that era which surpasses it is E.R. Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros. and it's written...

I put on some classical music while I read and my mind is fully occupied with both the book and the music. Romantic and Modern are my favourite areas.

Olaf Stapledon - Last And First Men Gene Wolfe - The Fifth Head Of Cerberus M. John Harrison - The Centauri Device Alfred Bester - The Demolished Man to be read: Jack Vance - Tales Of A Dying Earth Philip K. Dick - A Scanner Darkly E.R. Eddison - Mistress of Mistresses

Roger Zelazny - The Amber Chronicles. I haven't read anything this boring or disappointing for a long time. I have had a run of great books. I'm only 100 pages in and I can't go on when I have 3 other far more interesting books calling me.