Favorite Books and Current Reads

[scy]

If you want "Umineko-like" mysteries than go after Knox or Dine's novels. There's good reason Ryukishi used them as a basis (and, for that matter, why there's even a mystery "ruleset" involving them). Their works are far closer to the "the reader solves it alongside the detective" than most others, even if they get kind of full of themselves as time goes by / start (Vance >>).

If all else fails, every single Detective Conan is solvable, though some require some leaps of faith that make no fucking sense sometimes. And they really like their whole string/wire/cable/etc. solutions to locked rooms.

Also, I didn't think ATTWN was unsolvable, though it's very much intended to be "hard" to solve.

[spoiler]Though, yes, the first like five deaths are tragically/laughably irrelevant.[/spoiler]

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[spoiler]Unfortunately, the most "damning" evidence for the real guilty party exists, if I recall, outside the knowledge of the reader. A slight flaw, I suppose. The Judge being the lone innocent amongst the guilty isn't discernable until they smack you in the face with it.

But the red herring bit is probably just as telling so...[/spoiler]

[Maxine MagicFox]

[noodles]

.....Somehow Ray Bradbury is still alive, and when I think "favorite author" he is who pops up in my mind. One of the original grand masters of the golden age of science fiction, when Venus was a jungle world full of monsters, and Mars harbored an envious civilization secretly scheming, but man's greatest enemy was still himself.

We don't have flying cars or time machines or colonies on Mars, but his stories always ring true as if we did. I think that's the author I'll miss the most, even if he's too old and crazy to write anything anymore.

[scy]

When I hear Ray Bradbury, I think of this:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1IxOS4VzKM[/youtube]

[noodles]

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This is not something I have seen or should be seeing, but the references to stories are making me giggle

[Kinokokao]

[scy]

[Sampson]

Nope, no connection there.

[Maxine MagicFox]

[Kinokokao]

Oh, I read the Redwall books, and I do remember they had birds, but the birds certainly didn't have swords. They're fucking birds. They're already like the freakin' FIGHTER JETS of the redwall universe.

Also, why would a bird try to use a sword? It hurts my brain to even think about it.

I'm FFFFFFFFFF-ing over the fact a book I want isn't available from Ingram anymore. : / damn

[Illuminage]

Light novels count, right? If so...

[zamisk]

not that light

[Kinokokao]

+1

[SirthOsiris]

My sister wants to pick up the second Percy Jackson book, after I bought the first on a whim (went to work and forgot the book I was reading, so I went to their book aisle, and that was the only thing that interested me). She loves it, I liked it.

However, I'm going with her because I have my own interests: I am going to be picking up the first book in the Song of Ice and Fire series, A Game of Thrones. Y/N? Probably won't be back to read an impression.

[scy]

I hate fantasy novels. It's one of those stupid absurd things that I never really tried it but hated it none-the-less (in other words, I fit in with the internet awesomely). A friend hounded on me to get A Game of Thrones so I bought it. Within the week, I finished the book and picked up the rest of the series and quickly became a jaded misanthrope who wants to kill George R. R. Martin for taking 6 years to write the 5th book. 6 years where I've waited all of 4 months.

A Game of Thrones does a damn good job of crafting a world inhabited by billions-of-fucking-characters and does a damn good job of getting you to figure out who's who, why you should give a shit, and basically give them a sense of individuality and importance. It's also a far more political-centric book than I was expecting and I loved it for it; it's a lot more grey morality and shady things occurring than "I swing my +5 Sword of Awesome" and bros doing wacky, zany fantasy things from atop a dragon with elvish concubines.

George R.R Martin is also not shy about just fucking ending people if the story calls for it. Or even if it doesn't call for it. Or basically because it's Tuesday and he needed a bro to die.