To give you an idea of what I like, I have all of the Discworld books as well as Good Omens(the one Pratchett and Gaiman wrote together).
If all else fails, though, you could ask for Robert E. Howard's "Conan the Barbarian" series, which have been recently re-published. Conan is important as he heralds the first break from medieval European fantasy and births the genre of swords and magic where bony wizards in thick, flowing robes abduct scantily-clad young women who are raped by brawny men after said men disembowl said wizards.
Nice.
Maybe ask for a BOOK OF POETRY so you can impress the ladies.
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I hate poetry.
The key to reading poetry is to discover what words fit best in a limited amount of space. Fiction is an adventure, a long and drawn out episode in someone's life, whereas poetry is intended to be not even a scene, but more like a glimpse into someone's life.
To that end, it helps immensely when seducing women.
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Arrenn Lightblade's fortune cookie read:
The Zombie Survival Guide
I have that book.
I also have America: The Book by THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STUART.
So, humor/fantasy humor/political humor is what I'm looking for, I guess.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
Of course I was 15 years younger then.
Or Trio for Lute by R. A. MacAvoy is a good, epic fantasy, somewhat akin in spirit to Discworld, I'd say. Beware though, it can be a tear-jerker.
Cadga 2.0 fucked around with this message on 12-08-2006 at 02:26 PM.
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The logic train ran off the tracks when Mr. Parcelan said:
If all else fails, though, you could ask for Robert E. Howard's "Conan the Barbarian" series, which have been recently re-published. Conan is important as he heralds the first break from medieval European fantasy and births the genre of swords and magic where bony wizards in thick, flowing robes abduct scantily-clad young women who are raped by brawny men after said men disembowl said wizards.
I'm reading through these books now actually. These new re-published versions are much better than the old edited versions. The stories are formulaic, but I can't help but love them.
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Gadani startled the peaceful upland Gorillas, blurting:
I'm not really into the fantasy so much as the humor/satire.
Robert Rankin's The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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anything by Kurt Vonnegut
Indeed.
Slaughterhouse V is generally considered his best, if you're not sure where to start.
Devices and Desire, by someone I forget. It's a neat little political fiction with some weird kinda Arabs or Turks and an Italian City-State
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel by Susan something
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
Final Exits, by someone I forget which is an encyclopedia of ways we die.
Any Solomon Kane story by Robert. E. Howard.
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Piers Anthony.
Good suggestion here. He also covers several different genres beyond fantasy as well so you are covered there as well.
And it's ALL humor/satire, without the obscurity of some of Pratchets work. So it's a good deviation from the Discworld type.
I miss my Discworld collection though. 
Anyway, yeah, Piers Anthony is awesome. He is also responcible for the ever popular "Total Recall". 
I highly recomend the "Incarnations of Immortality" series. Unfortunately you absolutely MUST read them in the order they were produced.
There is also the "Adept" series and the infamous "Xanth" world of puns series which is still insanely popular and still running today (29 novels in).
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Anyway, yeah, Piers Anthony is awesome. He is also responcible for the ever popular "Total Recall".
Which was actually inspired by the novelette "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" by Phillip K. Dick.
Kinanik fucked around with this message on 12-09-2006 at 03:01 AM.
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When the babel fish was in place, it was apparent Blackened said:
Piers Anthony is pretty much a closet paedophile.
I used to exchange emails with him when I was fourteen, and yeah, even then I got said vibes x.x Good writer, buuut....
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I used to exchange emails with him when I was fourteen, and yeah, even then I got said vibes x.x Good writer, buuut....
So are we going to go back to posting about how you are personally involved somehow with every topic?
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Which was actually inspired by the novelette "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" by Phillip K. Dick.
Yep, among other sources. Dick is actually credited in Anthony's original novel. Which is really just an expanded verion of the novelette.
It was his novelette that prompted the movie being made, as Ronald Shusett,and Gary Oldman were fans of it. The script was pulled from the novell obviously since it contained more, and futher expanded material.
Kinanik... "Blade Runner"? That has nothing to do with "Total Recall". That was based off of Dick's "Do Androids Dream." 
"We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" was the basis for Piers Anthony's "Total Recall" which was based off that novelette, and inspired the movie.
Edit: Actually needed to clarify something. The actual "novel" novel came after the movie, it was his prewrite that would BECOME the novel that was the major basis for it. Noteably, once the movie was actually released, Anthony got caught in the backlash because the then released novel's ending was different from that of the movie. Faelynn LeAndris fucked around with this message on 12-09-2006 at 07:28 AM.
Also get a copy of the Kama Sutra for when you get an STD.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
Piers Anthony's Xanth novels suffer from the same issue earlier books are better than later ones, especially since so much humor relies on puns, I think he went through the best ones earlier on.
Loved his Incarnations series though definatly read the whole thing, not really worth reading otherwise especially for the ending on the final book.
Bill, The Galactic Hero series by Harry Harrison is good for mindless and often Sophmoric humor.
Any of the novels involving Wuntvor by Craig Shaw Gardner are funny but I believe out of print. Taylen fucked around with this message on 12-10-2006 at 06:25 PM.
As is Go Quest Young Man by K. B. Bogen but if you can find it at a used book store is definatly a fun read.
Xyrra fucked around with this message on 12-11-2006 at 01:27 AM.
I have been wondering about discworld books for awhile but am afraid to buy something I might not like.
if this ends up looking like a hijack of Gadani's thread, i apologize and ignore me. Just figured he had 30+ replies so he had some pretty good material to work with
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I have been wondering about discworld books for awhile but am afraid to buy something I might not like.
You'll like it.
quote:If you want to try out Discworld without sinking yourself into a sequence, start with Small Gods. If you like it, look up the Discworld reading chart and pick one of the starting-point books.
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I have been wondering about discworld books for awhile but am afraid to buy something I might not like.
