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Old 03-03-2010, 04:40 PM   #31
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I've never read much fanfic - any sites you'd recommend as a starting place? Western and Romance has little appeal...besides that, I'll read it all (well, almost).
I believe fanfiction.net is considered the biggest repository of fan fiction on the internet. There are also forums where I imagine you can get recommendations. They also have a related site (fictionpress.com) which hosts original fiction. I haven't gotten around to reading anything on these sites.. at least not yet.

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Old 03-03-2010, 05:39 PM   #32
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I've never read much fanfic - any sites you'd recommend as a starting place? Western and Romance has little appeal...besides that, I'll read it all (well, almost).
The Archive of Our Own tends toward high-quality writing, because it's fairly new, and was created by a pool of experienced fanfic authors who got fed up with other archives' changing policies and erratic customer support. It skews heavily towards slash, but has clear (to me, anyway) markings to make things fairly easy to find.

It's in beta testing, and the code's constantly being updated, so it's got some bugs. (And if you find any, they'd like to know about it. Even if they've got it on the list; they like knowing what new people find vs what their experienced site-crawlers notice.)

Hm. For someone who's never particularly tried fanfic, I'd suggest starting with the Yuletide 2009 collection. Yuletide is an annual fanfic gift exchange focused on "small fandoms"--those that don't have a large following online. It gets stories on a lot of favorite childhood books, individual songs, and obscure tv shows. Yuletide has a minimum of 1000 words for its stories, and tends to high quality because it's done by volunteers who are willing to be handed writing assignments at random. (They pick what 4 fandoms they're willing to write; they get a prompt list with 3 or 4 fandoms, at least one of which is certain to match one of theirs.)

The original Yuletide archive is also good, but less search-able and harder to navigate. (Eventually, it'll all be migrated to AO3.)

5 Yuletide recs:
Wait Wait Don't Eat Me: National Public Radio RPF (Real people fic), 1007 words.
Summary: "We're going to be cutting our show a little short today, because, as you may have heard, there's an apocalypse happening! But we didn't let the election of Barack Obama stop us, and we're not going to let the zombie hordes stop us either."

All your heart-melodies: Lilo & Stitch, 1039 words
Summary: At seven, Lilo wants to grow up to be an intergalactic space hero.

Bearing Witness: Babylon 5, 9726 words.
Summary: The best observers are often the quiet ones. The long road of Londo and G'Kar, as seen through Vir's eyes. Spoilers for all of the five seasons.

Breaking Dawn: Atlas Shrugged, 5396 words
Summary: Hank Rearden settles into Atlantis.

Most Likely To: Breakfast Club, 8142 words, explicit slash, Brian/Bender
Summary: If there had been gossip after the reunion, Brian's life might have looked something like this.

(Couldn't decide if I should rec my own or not, because there were others in the fandom that I thought were better, maybe, sort-of, so I chickened out & skipped the whole fandom.)
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Old 03-03-2010, 09:01 PM   #33
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Old 03-04-2010, 09:53 AM   #34
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Old 03-04-2010, 03:36 PM   #35
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I go to Amazon, then sort by rating... life is too short to read crap.

Unfortunately a lot of jerk marketters have taken to creating dozens of fake amazon accounts to write glowing reviews about their own books!
... pretty easy to spot though.
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Old 03-09-2010, 09:11 PM   #36
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Goodreads.com is a site I find quite useful. I like its layout better than that of LibraryThing. I'll use Goodreads to get a synopsis of a book and to read a good cross-section of user reviews, both pro and con.

The Teaching Company has a great lecture series available entitled
Classics of British Literature created and presented by John Sutherland.
The entire series is 24 hours in length spanning 1500 years of literature from Beowolf to Salman Rushdie. Obviously with a program that long there will be a dry spot or two but overall the lectures are wonderful. Sutherland provides some great insights to the authors lives and the times in which they lived.
The series is available as an MP3 file and makes for a nice diversion while commuting or walking.
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Old 03-10-2010, 01:14 PM   #37
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Goodreads.com is a site I find quite useful. I like its layout better than that of LibraryThing. I'll use Goodreads to get a synopsis of a book and to read a good cross-section of user reviews, both pro and con.
I use Goodreads a lot too - fun site!
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Old 03-13-2010, 06:24 PM   #38
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Fantasy Book Critic is a good blog for finding new releases and authors
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I really like finding books written from the mid-1800s to the 1940s; most seem to be out of print, so I've used the mobileread book selections as well as Project Gutenburg and other free sites. I discovered Sax Rohmer's books this way as well as many others like E. Phillips Oppenheim's First WW spy stories. Other people's suggestions are important to me too. I just discovered the ebook version of The Lord of the Rings that way the other day. What a hoot!!
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