Comments on: Why Talion: Revenant should be on your bookshelf

By: Chique

Chique — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:44:02 +0000

Sounds like something I need to checkout, thanks for the heads up! Also, I firmly believe that if you’ve not read Steven Brust’s Vlad Taltos series, you are missing out on one of the best authors of all time. Sleek and compact writing style that actually makes you pay attention, I think he’s a master wordsmith and his plots are wonderfully complex. He’s authored some of my favorite end of book ‘aha!’ moments where I have no choice but to get up and do happy dance :)

I completely agree with SmokyBG about Lukyanenko’s series. Good stuff.

By: Classy

Classy — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 04:27:17 +0000

Looks like I’m putting the Kindle App on my Nexus 7 because Google Play doesn’t have Talion: Revenant.

By: SmokyBG

SmokyBG — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:36:04 +0000

I’ll try this one out :-)
As for recommendations: Sergei Lukyanenko’s Watches series… I just finished re-reading them in Russian, and I think that while it helps to be an Eastern European of a certain age to fully appreciate parts of the book, it should still be an excellent read for everyone else too :-)

By: Scott D

Scott D — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:19:20 +0000

Your book recommendations have always been spot on, so I’m definitely going to try this one out. I recommended “Ready Player One” to a co-worker after picking it up myself and enjoying it. He read it three times in a row. I hope Mr. Stackpole is still tracking his count of e-book copies sold, because he’s about to get a spike in business.

Try to get the book off of his website, if you do buy it. More of the revenue goes to the author that way.

By: Stubborn

Stubborn — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:40:32 +0000

You had me at “Sam Vimes.” I love Pratchett, so any kind of comparison thereto can sell me. In fact, your signed copy of Night Watch should hang out with my signed copy of THUD!, especially since they’re both Sam Vimes novels.

Thanks for the suggestion, Bear!

By: khalton

khalton — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:07:35 +0000

Bear, i’d recommend the Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. I’ve read the series at least ten times and would highly recommend it.

By: Tamiel

Tamiel — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:37:51 +0000

I’m going to go check these out; thanks for the recommendations! I love me some juicy, chompalicious new-to-me series.

I walked over to my book shelve, and starting thinking,”what books do I read several times each year?” Among them would be David Weber (mainly like his Honor Harrington series, but his other series are decent too), Raymond Feist, Terry Pratchett, C.J. Cherryh (The Foreigner Universe), and Mercedes Lackey. About once every 2 years, I barrel through Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe’s Rifles series.

I also collect are reread graphic novels. I like: Barry Ween Boy Genius, Fables, Sandman, The books of Magic, Watchmen, Camelot 3000, and Usagi Yogimbo.

When I get extra book copies, I either loan them to friends or give it to one friend who does BookCrossing. http://www.bookcrossing.com/ Where you “tag and release” books into the wild/public, and if the receiver logs into the website, the giver can see where they books travel.

By: Hob

Hob — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 03:31:27 +0000

Oh my god, I’d completely forgotten about Talion: Revenant! I’m overdue for about five reads of that book! Thank you!

My favorite thing about Stackpole is that his book plots always come within a hair of being terrible cliches, then dodge sideways into awesomeness.

By: Ngita

Ngita — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 02:45:10 +0000

I have brought a few physical books twice accidentally but never by choice. I have been picking up a far few in ebook that I own as paper. Physical room and way to many moves over the years. I once lived in the same spot for almost a decade.

But brought(ebook) and I now I know I can buy sten again my buy finger is itching.

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:56:38 +0000

For non scifi/fantasy, for me there is the Matthew Scudder series by Lawrance Block and the Prey series by John Sandford. I’ve heard of the Spencer for Hire series, but the books themselves have never crossed my path, and libraries tend not to have them all.

And of course the jack Reacher books, and anything by Stephen Hunter. On the “read every three or four years” list is Steven Brust’s Vlad Taltos books.