Fiction Fun

OK time to go back to the book lists i promised. So I've listed out the non-fiction books i liked already but i recently remembered one more i need to add to said list, Tuesdays With Morrie because it is fracking amazing. I can't really say anything more about it right now because, well, i can't do it justice. Suffice to say read it, its good.

Now back to the current list. Fiction covers many more genres and as such has many more available books for me to list. So i need to divide the single topic of fiction into a bunch more. Right now I'll start with my favorite genre, Fantasy.

First off is a Canadian author, Guy Gavriel Kay. Here is an author who has a talent which is widely respected even if he isn't well known amongst the age group most aim for. He was hired to turn the grouping of stories J. R. R. Tolkien into the The Silmarillion. His books are not designed for someone who wants a gripping adventure from page 1. Rather his works resemble, to me at least, modernized Shakespeare. Each is filled with underlying beauty of the modern language. For beauty pure and simple go to his books.

Next comes Tamora Pierce who writes books admittedly for young teenagers but they are excellent books. Simple reading, good to relax with. Fun books but defiantly not nearly as complicated as Guy Gavriel Kay.

Back to the complicated you can look to Terry Goodkind and the Sword of Truth series. Very vivid, the cultures described very well. His books have a political stance though, but i'll let you figure that part out on your own. His books also have little details change as you go along but it is a massive series of 13 books averaging out at about 700 pages per book, maybe a little more. Still a good read, at least for a while though you need some endurance to make it through them all.

Rob Thurman and Jim Butcher (recommending the Dresden Files) are the final two i want to list.Good authors, they write in the way that you cannot help but wonder about the books all day long. Though it is a technique that they have learnt to write with i still find it captivating. As well the storyline in the Jim Butcher series can show some excellent character development. In Rob Thurman books you get a darker storyline than any of the others, yet it is excellent for this. That is what makes it unique, and therefore what makes it worthwhile.

P.S. The gulity pleasure authors are here, that is authors that are fun to read, but really aren't that greatly skilled at writing. Christopher Paolini and Raymond E. Feist. These books are not at the level of writing the other authors listed here but are good for a relativly quick easy read.