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Writing Reference: What's on your bookshelf?
Kris_W:
My top shelf writing books are:
Roget’s International Thesaurus (Absolutely my most used writing book)
The Pessimist’s Guide to History, by Stuart & Doris Flexner (An awesome source of plot twists)
The Book of the Weird (Also published as The Glass Harmonica) by Barbara Ninde Byfield (A dictionary, sort of, for psudo-medieval fantasy things)
What’s What: A Visual Glossary Of The Physical World by David Fisher & Reginald Bragonier Jr.
And several baby name books picked up cheap at second hand shops - Buy lots, they each have their own bizarre character.
Jasper:
Writing Science Fiction/Fantasy by Orson Scott Card was a good, info-laden read. Also, Writing the Private Eye Novel had some really great info too, and not just to the mystery field.
ballplayer72:
Bible, Book of Mormon, Quran.
Various and sundry works of fantasy and science fiction not limited to but including : The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher, The vampire earth books by E.E. Knight, The Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews, The Brothers Leandros series by Rob Thurman, a bunch of Warhammer and Warhammer 40k novels (Eisenhorn, spacewolves, grey knights, gotrek and felix, blackhearts. Gaunts ghosts)
Plus a whollllleeeee lot of sci fi from authors whose names i can't remember off the top of my head. (no more room on the shelves. everthing is stacked, not but away. there are books scattered about the room on every availible surface :) )
Also Stranger in a Strange Land by Heinlein (an original paperback that is in dreadful condition it was my dads, and the unabriged version) and the Forever War by Jon Haldeman. Good stuff.
RangerSG:
--- Quote from: ballplayer72 on July 20, 2009, 02:16:22 PM ---Bible, Book of Mormon, Quran.
Various and sundry works of fantasy and science fiction not limited to but including : The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher, The vampire earth books by E.E. Knight, The Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews, The Brothers Leandros series by Rob Thurman, a bunch of Warhammer and Warhammer 40k novels (Eisenhorn, spacewolves, grey knights, gotrek and felix, blackhearts. Gaunts ghosts)
Plus a whollllleeeee lot of sci fi from authors whose names i can't remember off the top of my head. (no more room on the shelves. everthing is stacked, not but away. there are books scattered about the room on every availible surface :) )
Also Stranger in a Strange Land by Heinlein (an original paperback that is in dreadful condition it was my dads, and the unabriged version) and the Forever War by Jon Haldeman. Good stuff.
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Well now, if we're talking fantasy currently on my shelves...
LoTR, Steven Erickson's Malazan Book of the Fallen, Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age, The Baroque Cycle and Anathem, Steven King's The Dark Tower and The Stand, Martin's ASoIaF, Kay's Tigana, Heard's Otori saga, Glen Cook's The Black Company and The Instrumentalites of the Night, Bakker's Prince of Nothing and the Aspect-Emperor and, of course, Dresden.
Also forgot Shelby Foote's Narrative History of the Civil War in my list yesterday. :P
Uilos:
Let's see...
The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy series
The Golden Compass
The Dune Series, all of them except the incredibly recent
Neil Gaiman, the Sandman series, Stardust and American Gods
Lukyanenko's Nightwatch
Both Butcher Series
Adam Ross's Kingdom Come,
Frank Miller's Sin City
Alan Moore's V for Vendetta and Watchmen
Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit
Shakespeare
Ovid
Homer
George RR Martin
incidentally, I need to start making more space
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