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[jeff60]

New to this board. Look forward to share favorite reads and get suggestions - hope I can find that here. Old school science fiction guy, still love reading "Dune".

EDIT by E Pericoloso Sporgersi: deleted spammy URL

[clong]

Welcome, jeff60! Please rate and review a few books and join the conversation! Plenty of Dune fans around here, as well as a few skeptics.

[umsolopagas]

as well as a few skeptics.

Welcome, jeff60, skeptic here invites you to enjoy your time here.

[mashedpotato]

Hi,

I'm a 24 year old student from Denmark. I would like to read a lot more than I do in my spare time, however the studies rob me of exactly that. During the summer holidays I love to read, and that's what I'm doing now. 6 great weeks ahead I came here for inspiration on great books, and hope to find some!

1. Favorite Genre - None really. I like the stories that experience with language the most.
2. Favorite Author - At the moment I don't have one, but 4-5 years ago, I would probably say Stephen King.
3. Favorite Author that's not in Favorite Genre - Hard to say, but probably Max Brooks
4. How/Why you picked your Member-Name - uses it at other forums. Chosen randomly at some point. (I do like mashed potatoes though)
5. How you found IBDoF - through iblist
6. Name one book you would never recommend to a friend - Slaughterhouse 5, somehow it just rubs me the wrong way
7. Top 5 books/series - A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, IT by Stephen King, The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson, Naked Lunch (the restored text) by William S. Burroughs... It's hard to choose 5 books, and since I'm from Denmark I would probably have a couple of national contenders, that nobody else have heard about.

[clong]

Welcome, mashedpotato. Please make yourself at home and join in the conversation.

[CodeBlower]

Welcome!

(.. and I like mashed potatoes too!)

[umsolopagas]

Welcome mash!

[wendifull]

hello everybody, i am 59 years young, enjoy reading very much, live in victoria, australia in a small town. i am married with 2 daughters and grandma to three,[2 boys 1 girl] my husband thinks i am too old to be reading "science fiction rubbish" but after spending the last 2 years fighting [and beating] cancer i think lifes too short to worry about reading the right books because the rlght books are the ones you enjoy.
my favourite authors are l e modesitt jr , anne macaffrey terry pratchett and others too numerous to mention. this is also the first time i have joined a chat room or blog or whatever it is called , so if i make mistakes please forgive me

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

hello everybody, i am 59 years young, enjoy reading very much, live in victoria, australia ...

Welcome Wendifull,
(I assume this is a contraction of Wendy and wonderful? I envy your hubby.)

Always glad to have a new member from Down Under (we've been getting top-heavy lately). At 67 I'm slightly younger than you are.

As for any mistakes you commit, there's no need to worry. Rest assured that, if you do knowingly violate our TOS, we'll land on you like a ton of bricks, just as they did to me. And for your unwitting errors you shall be fined one glass of Triple Trappist or Duvel, meaning that *you* have to drink it.

Concerning the "science fiction rubbish", permit me to recommend ALL of Lois McMaster Bujold's books for your reading pleasure.

Enjoy your visits and let us enjoy your posts,

Francis, the window-leaner (NOT -cleaner, sorry.)

P.S. I've taken the liberty of choosing an avatar for you. You can of course delete it or choose another one. It's up to you.

[voralfred]

Hello, Wendifull
I am just one year less young than you, and I don't just read SF, I supervise translations into french of Lois McMaster Bujold books. I share with EPS an inconditional love for her books.
Not my regular job, just a hobby (the editor does pay me for that, but the amount I get vs the time I spend means it is still a hobby...)
Welcome to this forum!
(Vor)Alfred

[CodeBlower]

Welcome!!

[gollum]

Hi Wendy & welcome!

Definitely add Bujold to your SF/F alphabet, you wont regret it.

Greg

[umsolopagas]

Welcome Wendifull, pull up a keyboard and enjoy.

[sweetharleygirl]

Hello! It's great to see, or read, you here! Don't worry about making mistakes, I still make mistakes on here, but they still love me....I think!? Love the avitar you've got, I always got the Peter Pan jokes being my name is also Wendy, when I was a kid. Poke around here see what there is to see, and WELCOME!!

[MidasKnight]

You're name isn't Wendy anymore?

[sweetharleygirl]

You're name isn't Wendy anymore?

Me?? Yes it is! I hope my name hasn't changed!

[voralfred]

(...) , I always got the Peter Pan jokes being my name is also Wendy, when I was a kid. (...)

You mean you don't get Peter Pan jokes anymore?
That's awful! I'll have to think of a few ones, just to remind you of the Good Ol' TImes...

[sweetharleygirl]

Oh, gee, thanks Voralfred....as you can tell I'm all a dither with excitement. lol

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

... I'm all a dither with excitement.

Oh yes, dear, it's obvious.

I hope your new Wendy-avatar will please you.
(I like it and I'm sure Voralfred and the guys will too!)

But from now on you had better learn and sing the chorus lines of this song when the need arises. (There are some nice old cars shown in the clip).

[sweetharleygirl]

LOL I like the cars, I like Betty Boop, the avitar I'm not crazy about! But for your and "the guys" benefit, I'll leave it for a while....you're welcome!

[MidasKnight]

Meh, I much prefer brunettes ...

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

Meh, I much prefer brunettes ...

Hey, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, you know?

Well, my little prank has lasted long enough.

Sweetharleygirl herself said she didn't really like her new avatar, but she graciously gave me permission to leave it up until today.
As promised I have now restored Sweetharleygirl's chosen avatar.

But just to remember the ephemeral hallowatar, Peter Pan's Wendy, here she is one last time.

[G.Dearth]

Hi all,

I'm an American living in Germany, retired and a big fan of Lois McMaster Bujold. I believe I have read everything she has written. I'm joining to find similar titles and ask for recommendations.

I just finished rereading the Vorkosigan series and my question is where do I go from here? I would appreciate suggestions from other Bujold fans for books of the same general category and quality. Also recommendations as to were to find them. I have a Rocket e-Book (not much used) and an eBookwise 1150 but the selection of available books is poor. I might be interested in a Kindle Fire to have access to Amazon’s content but only if and when it becomes a finished product and is available in Germany. Otherwise most English books are available here in paperback.

I also read the best sellers (John Irving, John le Carre, Scott Turow, John Grisham, Jonathan Franzen, David Foster Wallace, some of Dan Brown, some of Michael Crichton, Joe Klein, etc.) and of course all of Douglas Adams.

I arrived her by way of http://www.dendarii.com

Thanks in Advance

Gary D.

Edit by E Pericoloso Sporgersi: corrected link

[clong]

Welcome Gary!

We have plenty of Bujold fans here--you might try posing that same question in the Bujold forum.

One of my favorites which offers at least a vaguely Bujoldesque balance of action, humor, and empathy is Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart. Other things that come to mind include the Liaden Universe books of Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, the Mageworlds books by Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald, and the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser books of Fritz Leiber.

I hope you'll join us for some discussion in the book forums.

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

...
I arrived her by way of http:// www dentari com
...

I guess you mean http://www.dendarii.com

To answer your question:

You might like R. A. Heinlein's Citizen of the Galaxy, Podkayne of Mars and I Will Fear No Evil and maybe also Alexei Panshin's Rite of Passage.