Results!

[pigrescuer.livejournal.com]

Last week I posted a request for everyone's favourite authors

And here are the results (I think it's quite clear who is the second favourite in this community):



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Looking at the biggest names, does anybody spot a similarity between their books and Megan's?

If anybody's curious, here's a wordle of this page of the community.

Also I'm sure I made one of these a couple of years ago but the tags are confusing me

Comments

[emerald-happy.livejournal.com]

and i totally did not take part

i'm feeling guilty now. *goes and writes on previous post* :P

[pigrescuer.livejournal.com]

lol you're a bit late now.

I could make another one involvin you. ^_^

[emerald-happy.livejournal.com]

no don't worry

it pretty much looks like my bookshelf anyway.

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

I FEEL NEGLECTED

I MISSED THIS POST

I DEMAND YOU INCLUDE EMERALD AND I IN THE NEXT ONE

[pigrescuer.livejournal.com]

YOU SHOULD PAY MORE ATTENTION

maybe if you go comment i will make another one just for you two.

Especially so that one of Em's authors in her second comment is included

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

DONE AND DONE

<3

[eatenbyfangirls.livejournal.com]

YEAH DIANA WYNNE JONES.

That's all. Just expressing my approval. <3 to you for making this.

[zumie-ashlen.livejournal.com]

hahahaa it's like looking at my bookcase.

But I should clearly read some Lois McMaster Bujold. Recommendations for any books in particular?

[pigrescuer.livejournal.com]

Aah you have't read LMB books?!

Try the Vorkosigan Saga. They all standalone, more or less, but the first chronological one is Shards of Honor, last published in an omnibus with the second, Barrayar, called Cordelia's Honour.

I hope you enjoy.

I hope lots of other people find this a good place for recs.

[emerald-happy.livejournal.com]

all standalone-ish except Memory!

[zumie-ashlen.livejournal.com]

Sweet. I'll probably read them in chronological order--I am anal about that. :D Thankies!

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

Yup-- publication order, that is.

Sometimes the planned publication order gets disturbed. That happened with the novella "Winterfair Gifts", as described in my teaser for the spoiler-free filk I wrote about it...

Winterfair Gifts (http://filk.cracksandshards.com/WinterfairGifts.html). Based on the novella of the same title, and written before it was released. How, you may ask. Owing to a change of personnel at the publishing house, the collection (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0451211111/cracksandshar-20) containing this and five other "SF/romance crossovers" was delayed a year, much to everyone's disappointment, irritation, and confusion, not to mention the disruption of the carefully planned publicity campaigns leading up to the scheduled Valentine's Day release. But a licensed translation had already been released in Croatia, and some of us had bought copies through the Bujold list. Then a Croatian fan back-translated the story into English, with the help of a couple of other listies, and with Lois's approval the back translation was printed up as Winterfair Gifts: A Comedy of Translations and offered for sale only to those who had bought the Croatian edition. And that, children, is how your grandpa was able to sing this teaser, or trailer (guaranteed spoiler-free), at Arisia and/or Boskone 2004 (grandpa's memory is a little fuzzy) before the book was published. (And that is how your loquacious host manages to write a description that is several times longer than the song it is about.) [Posted December 2004]

[emerald-happy.livejournal.com]

I heard that story on the mailing list and cheered aloud :-) Brilliance!

[emerald-happy.livejournal.com]

MILES. Though I liked The Curse of Chalion and its sequel Paladin of Souls too.

And read them in order. PR described them as "Gen in space"

First is about Miles' parents and how they meet. It's called Cordelia's Honor (or is "Shards of Honor" then "Barrayar" when split into 2 books)

The first with Miles in it is called The Warrior's Apprentice.

[zumie-ashlen.livejournal.com]

Haha, alright. Thankies!

[pigrescuer.livejournal.com]

Did I? I don't remember doing that! But it's an ecellent description anyway!

[emerald-happy.livejournal.com]

when you read TWA you said that in chatzy. It was after we all finally bullied you into reading them. It was last summer I think.

*glomps*

[katecoombs.livejournal.com]

Besides the Miles V sci-fi books, check out her fantasy books: Curse of the Chalion and sequels, also the newer Sharing Knife books.

[hapaxnym.livejournal.com]

If I had to say there was anything in common among the biggest names:

Larger-than-life characters driving twisty plots in detailed, richly imagined worlds, with prose styles characterized equally by a sense of wonder and a sense of the ridiculous.

Which is, imho, just a long-winded way of saying Really Good Books.

[charlie-ego.livejournal.com]

This? Is awesome. I am pleased to find many of my favorites (that didn't make my list of MOST favorite) on that chart. I'm going to try to check out some of the ones I haven't read before.

[agh-4.livejournal.com]

That's amazing! It looks so cool! Yaaaaaaahooo!

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

Very cool. But is there any way to embiggen it even further? Some of that type is way too small for me to read, and I'm curious about the whole list.

[pigrescuer.livejournal.com]

No, I don't think there is.. Just head over to the original post if you want to see people's input.

[harlyn.livejournal.com]

I'm glad Noel Streatfield is up there-- I didn't list her as a favorite, but probably would have if I'd remembered. Ballet Shoes is one of the best childrens books ever...

[filkferengi]

Yeah, it and _Thursday's Child_ are having the best tea party ever!