11-07-2020, 01:40 PM | #31 |
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The Mystery Series by Lisa See (Dragon Bones, Flower Net, The Interior) While Lisa See is most notably known for her Historical Chinese Fiction this series is more contemporary about a woman public security agent and an american attorney.
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11-07-2020, 03:41 PM | #32 |
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Two series I can recommend are:
The Myth Adventures Series by Robert Asprin. I had the first book in the series for a long time, and one evening I finally decided to read it. I found it a great read and picked up the rest of the books in the series. NOTE: The series does split into two series, The Myth Adventures Series which focuses on the adventures of the main character, and The Myth Inc. series will focuses on the supporting characters. Robotech by Jack McKinney. A novelization of the U. S. anime series of the same name. Due to the patchwork nature of the anime (they took three unrelated series and through editing and dubbing they fused it into one story), I found the novels much more interesting and entertaining than the anime. There are 21 books in the series but the order is a little confusing because the first 12 books are an adaption of the anime, and the remaining books fill in the gaps in the original story (as an example, there are five books in a later series that are set between books six and seven of the first series). |
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Wow.
Without knowing what you like, I defaulted to Mystery, but many of the great Sci-Fi series (other than the ORIGINAL Dune; run like Usain Bolt from the retread "prequels" and "sequels" from his kid) have been covered here. There are some fun supernatural mysteries or whatever; I see someone of course mentioned Harry Dresden, and the author's five-year-long dry spell has (finally) come to an end, so you might enjoy those. So...any hints as to what you want, my shelves overflow with bingy series of all sorts. SciFi, Fantasy, urban fantasy...I tend to gravitate toward series so that I can have a period of time where I enjoy something and don't want to throw it at the wall and waste my money, ha! Hitch |
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11-08-2020, 02:57 PM | #35 |
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For Sci-fi fans, Philip Jose Farmer, Riverworld series and the World of Tiers. I've been re-reading them, and tbh, they are way better than I expected. He's a pretty darn good writer at his best, and way underrated these days.
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We can also say that pretty much everything written prior to 1980 is also sexist. So what? Will I keel over dead if I read Pride & Prejudice, where the goal is to snag a husband? Will I faint dead away, if I read Chandler--as mentioned above, fine vintage prose--because almost all women are basically evil double-crossing backstabbers and murderers? Do we lose all the written history of storytelling, so that, God forbid, we don't see or read something sexist or racist? How far we have come from "sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me," and IMHO, not a good distance. Half the books on my list have lines or comments that are racist by today's standards. We can read them, make a quick mental note of something that would be objectionable today and move on. Expecting yesterday's authors to hold to today's standards seems absolutely ridiculous to me. What, did Dr. Who pick them all up, bring them to today, educate them and then drop them back, instructing them to write not-objectionable-150-100-years-later prose? And, BTW, it's Spenser. Not Spencer. For what it's worth. If you don't want to read Wimsey, more power to you. Frankly, I'm shocked that you think it's appropriate to try to dictate to others what they should or shouldn't, or worse, "can't" read. Hitch |
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11-09-2020, 09:51 AM | #38 |
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FWIW, there are significant arguments about DLS's "racism" and anti-Semitism. While she definitely exhibits the casual racism, etc., of her time, she also has characters, like Miss Climpson, that argue against it, quite forcefully. One of her major gentile upper-class characters falls in love with, and marries a Jewish woman. If one only reads the odd sentence or paragraph, here or there, out of context, yes, she can be made to look like a raving anti-Semite; but if you read the entire series...well, you'll have to make up your own mind. Hitch |
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Oh. Lord Peter Whimsy is a character in the books, not the author. Now I feel even stupider than I did a minute ago. That's par for the course...
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11-09-2020, 03:34 PM | #42 |
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Ursula Le Guin's "Earthsea" books are a great read. Much more "grown-up" wizardry than Harry Potter.
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I've read the first Lord Peter book and I hated it. I hated the racism and the antisemitism. I know when it was written and no, I am not going to make allowances for the time the stories are written. There's no need to read such when there are plenty of other series that can be read that are not so horrible.
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