Okay... long time no see right?

Well, I'm all out of fresh material to read... I'm keeping myself sane by re-reading old Gaiman stuff, but I've got nothin as of right now.

I've already read all of Gaiman's stuff...and so now I need to get a hold of something... I'm going nuts.. it's like cabin fever of the literary mind!!!

So... if anyone has any suggestions of agood book... something exciting and un-put-down-able. I like stuff with Vampires, Lichens, Werewolfs, Demons, Angels, Fallen Angels... well you know... Neil-ish stuff.

Preferably... no series and trilogies... but if one is just that good, I'm willing to try anything rightabout now!
Please and Thankyou!

Preacher is a series, but it has all the elements that you are looking for in there.

Garth Nix's Sabriel. Lots of undead, magic, and adventure in that one. He wrote a sequel called Lirael, but it's not necessary that the sequel be read to understand the plot. If you do read the sequel, however, be sure to read Abhorsen as Lirael and Abhorsen go together plotwise.

There's also Green Rider by Kristen Britain.

Annette Curtis Klause wrote a couple of books along the vampire and werewolf theme. Silver Kiss and Blood and Chocolate. They were pretty good I thought.

Oh and Stephen King's Dark Tower series or Insomnia are very good. So is his book on writing.

Otherwise, you should go to your library and walk around and listen to the books. I know this sounds silly, but it has worked for me everytime when I have run out of things to read. If you clear your mind and walk up and down the aisles of books and give each spine a passing glance, eventually one will call out to you and you may be surprised to find that it is just what you were looking for. More or less I guess it comes down to unconsciously spying a book title you like without really thinking about it.

I will take the opportunity to pimp, yet again, George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire. It's one of my top fantasy series of all time, along with Lord of the Rings and Sandman. It might be a tad more gritty and realistic than you're looking for, but after a slightly slow start it has exciting and un-put-downable in spades.

THank You so much!

All I need do now is make it to the library.

Now, I was in walmart the other day, and I saw a book called Blood Moon, and the author was Dawn Thompson, I think... have any of you read that? and is it any good?

Atrinati... very inciteful advice. I can definatley dig what your saying. Now that I think about it, that's sorta kinda ish how I got hooked on Gaiman.

Thanks again... i tell you how the books worked out for me.

_Sunshine_ by Robin McKinley.

Nice chewy vampire goodness.

- Cho

I thought Blood Moon was TERRIBLE, but it's a gothic-cum-romance (emphasis on the "cum," incidentally) which is possibly my least favourite genre.

May I suggest McCammon's remarkably underrated "They Thirst"? On par with "Salem's Lot," I think.

China Mieville's Perdido Street Station has an interesting spin on vampires (although they're never called such). And his book the Scar does have a vampire as a prominent character.

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Preacher does surprisingly have all the things you mentioned. Except for maybe the Werewolves.

"They Thirst" doesn't have werewolves.

I do not recommend McCammon's werewolf book, "The Wolf's Hour." It is tepid.

Ditto on Sunshine! Great characters, believable setting, wonderful tone--excellent all 'round.

And Patricia Briggs has a coupla books where she's a werewolf detective in Wyoming, working with vampires, etc. I was thinking Blood Moon as a title of one... Must be something similar. Liked those. She's got a funny, Buffy-ish edge. Ignore the sensationalist cover illustration.

There's also those Laura Hamilton detectives. Not quite my cup of tea, but you may bite.

And The Scar is brilliant--unusual vampires in that one. Loved, loved, loved it (hey! There's arcana major characters in it too.)

A whole 'nother thang is ER Eddison's fab 100-year-old Zimiavian trilogy (yeah, I know! but wait) in which he moves backward in time and involves a dark, tormented advisor to the evil king. A fallen angel type. Not quite like anything else out there. It's Mistress of Mistresses, A Fish Dinner in Memison, and the Mezentian Gate. (And The Worm Ourobouros.) It's got young beauties who morph into lynxes & back, etc.

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Originally posted by Chomiji:
_Sunshine_ by Robin McKinley.

Nice chewy vampire goodness.

- Cho

I loved it, a really good one.

If you want to try the Anita Blake series from Laurell K. Hamilton, just be aware that the stories and characters are good and she writes well, but there's lots of sex, especially in the latest ones. Just so you know.

And stay away from the Historian.

Nancy Collins has all those in her books, except Angels or fallen Angels. I haven't read ALL of her books but I haven't come across an Angel yet.

Okay, just got an email from Amazon (on new Oxford Guide to Arthurian Lit) which linked to links to a couple of books of interest...I have NOT read either of these, but they may fit your criteria:
Vamps: Hunting Diana, Orsini
Weres: Lord of the Weres, D'Arca

They're in "romance-other" category, FYI--and apparently one has a menage a trois...

Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. I think it's the best book I've read this year (I've kinda fallen in love with McCarthy's work over the pass few months *blush*, reading several of his books). It starts with the words 'See the child.' and from these words follow something that is horrific and epic.



My God!
I believe I've just soiled myself.



(Sorry, I had to write somethin' disturbing; keeping up appearences and all that.)

Sergei Lukyanenko's Nightwatch and Daywatch are excellent urban fantasy books. Just avoid the movies like the plague.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

China Miéville - Perdido Street Station - fantastic book, and while it's self contained, there are two books that follow if you find you can't get enough of the world. One of the best things I've read in a long, long time.

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It plays around with narrative conventions and the like. Really good too, one of those books that makes you think as you are reading and afterwards, then as you explore it and find out more about it you realise that the story is just one thing going on in there. I can't even tell you much about it without spoiling it, if you are going to read it try not to read anything about it as reviews by their nature have to reveal something. I can say that it starts off a bit like Momento (I feared for a rip off when I began it) but it soon gets a whole lot wierder.

Or try Atonement by Ian McEwan. It is the best book I've read in the last three years.

Or Train Man - Nakano Hitori

A geek's love story told in forum posts. Marvellous.

A hearty second to Perdido St Station, and Larry--have you read McCarthy's The Road yet? An excellent, dark forecast of where we're headed (same league with Lessing's Memoirs of a Survivor).