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  • LordBezoar
    LordBezoar Posts: 625 Member
    Okay...since y'all like reading...what are some cheap books that you liked on iBooks?

    ...Also how do you work audible books/ Kobo on an iPhone? I feel abysmally stupid for not being able to use them and too impatient/ lazy to google the cliff note instructions.

    Audible has a free app that you download. Once it is installed and hooked to your audible account, you just download your books from inside the app.
  • LordBezoar
    LordBezoar Posts: 625 Member
    Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson, Jaqueline Carey, Jeanette Winterson wrote a sci if novel called Stone Gods which I loved (but I adore her anyway!), Alistair Reynolds. Loved Zelaznys Amber Chronicles! Oh Jack Vance - Lyonese.
    Comic book? Saga which is out monthly at the moment (Brian K Vaughn) is amazing! None scifi/fantasy but Strangers in Paradise and Love and Rockets are amazing!

    ^^^^ This right here is why we are friends lol. I was totally gonna recomend RJ and BS ..... Still way to long til the next book comes out though sigh

    I follow Sanderson on Twitter the temptation to scream HURRRRRRY UUUUUUUP at him is mighty high :) Only came to his stuff via RJ, loved the Mistborn series and Way if Kings was aces!

    Have you read Elantris and Warbreaker as well? Two really cool and very different magic systems there.
  • Captain_Tightpants
    Captain_Tightpants Posts: 2,215 Member
    Thanks so much guys! I think my reading list is easily set for the next year or two! :heart:

    And just to share something in return, I also did a bit of Googling around last night and came up with a list of other, allegedly imaginative genre-benders. Anyone want to weigh in on any of these? (Also, sorry if any of these are repeated names from those mentioned earlier in this thread. I kind of ran out of paper space and had to mix my lists up by filling in all the little gaps lol)

    Alan Campbell
    Richard Morgan
    Scott Westerfeld
    Jeff Vandermeer
    Jeff Noon
    John Shirley
    K.W. Jeter
    Richard Cadrey
    Felix Gilman
    Jay Lake
    Tim Powers
    Martin Millar
    Michael Chabon
    Diana Wynn Jones
    Haruki Marakami
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    Warren Ellis
    Mary Hoffman
  • Absidey
    Absidey Posts: 116 Member
    Diana Wynn Jones is another young adult author, and I like her. Varying degrees of simplicity.. I liked her Chrestomanci books, but I'll never reread them because they're too young. Howl's Moving Castle and its pseudo sequels are a bit more complex. The Dark Lord of Derkholm was good, if a little silly, and I think it'd fall somewhere between the two.

    Edit: clarity and grammar
  • diadojikohei
    diadojikohei Posts: 732 Member
    If you are Firefly fans try Chris Wooding's Tales of the Ketty Jay series, it starts with 'Retribution falls' then 'Black Lung Captain' and recently 'The Iron Jackal'.
    I can't recommend them enough, everyone who has read them says it has a real steam punky feel to it!

    Oh try Scott Lynch too, 'The Lies of Loche Lamorah'. (or the tale of the Gentlemen *kitten*!) I guess half of the title will be deleted out but that's what is's called!

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