Thread: Have you ever done this.

Hey all,

I'm new here. Well comming back ater a long while. Any way I had something happen to me and I was wondering if it has happened to anyone else. My boss introduced me to the Dresden Files. He brought me one book. I read it THEN preceeded to read ALL 13 books in two and a half months. It would have been sooner but I was trying to pace myself for the new one but it got pushed back.

Jim Butcher came out of nowhere to become my favorite author. I've never had that happen before. has anyone else?

*suppresses inner grammar Nazi*

Being the young impressionable tyke that I am, I read mostly action/fantasy fiction. Sorry if I sound really childish here, but I have to say, I took an instant liking to Rick Riordan's "Percy Jackson" series. It's so original, I mean, really. You barely ever get original books these days, but to my knowledge, there are very few fiction books which feature Greek Gods. This is what most people my age, myself included, consider 'cool'.

I got bought a book called "The Dumas Club" by Arturo Perez-Reverte. I then went out and bought pretty much everything he's ever written. The only other authors I've done this with are Umberto Eco (but only his novels) and Alexandre Dumas himself (whatever I can find). Odd for an English reader to be so hooked on books in translation...?

there are very few fiction books which feature Greek Gods

There's a school of thought that the Greek gods are as fictional as the christian god.

A school of thought?

I noticed the thread in the debate section about this... It's not so much a school of thought as a system of belief-formation.

And if you want fiction with Greek gods in, might I suggest Hesiod and Homer (in translation, perhaps...)?

I wasn't actually talking about the debate section in here but thats cool. And I'm not sure if that last re Homer etc was aimed at me in particular or EpicArtifex?

Speaking of Greek Gods, there's this fantasy series by Rick Riordan entitled Percy Jackson. 'Tis a good read.

No one in particular... Just that Greek gods, being, as they were, Greek, tend to feature in Greek literature.

And I wonder if I misread you. Could you mean that neither are fictional?

Either or pretty much. Schools of thought are relative to the thinker.

Eh? Some sort of vortex seems to have happened with those Rick Riordan books...

And hell fire if I haven't dropped a barbarism in my last post. "...neither is fictional?"

I think thats what you might call thought being faster than type.

I can certainly see how that happened!

I just LOVE Jim Butcher's style of writing.

So far I've only read (well, actually heard ... it was an audiobook) one of his Harry Dresden books.

But I enjoyed it from the very first few minutes. His entire Dresden Files books are on my 'to read' list.

I did that with Terry Brooks way back when I was 12. I read his first Sword of Shannara and then read everything in a matter of weeks or months, depending on when the Library could have them sent to me. Just recently, it was John Flannagan's Ranger's Apprentice series. I read the first one. And must have read the other nine in less than a month.

I picked up "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin at a thrift shop. It sat buried under a bunch of junk for about a year, until one day my computer crashed and I had nothing better to do than read the one book in my house I hadn't read yet.

It turned out to be the first installment of the greatest series I'd ever read, and George R.R. Martin's genius inspired me to write my own novels. I have him to thank for my present level of literacy and the publication of two short stories (yay for me!).

I read the third book in the series (over 1400 pages) in sixteen hours without stopping to eat, drink or even pee. It was that good.

Actually book 3 is only 1200 pages
But whatever
I've also read it without stopping, in less than a day.