I'll start

The Tommyknockers
Author Stephen King
It was interesting and fun, I read it when I had nothing else to do over a long weekend stuck in the barracks.
I do not recall any knockers in the book.

The Wheel of Time
Author Robert Jordan
The first book I read the book store gave away the first half of the first book. Just like some crack dealer I was hooked. I started buying the hard backs as soon as the bookstore would get them in.
I noticed a change in the writing around book 10 or 11, like he was just trying to fill the pages.
It was later that I found out he was very sick. Cancer sucks.
Disappointing that the publisher took his notes that he had for the final book and turned it into two books against his wishes. I can see the last two books on the shelf where I have yet to open them.

It's really, really rare that I find a book that I'm not interested in or that I can't get through.

I've recently become a huge fan of Darcey Coates, who writes horror / ghost stories. But I've started re-reading all of the books I read in middle school when I was a kid... all the old AD&D Dragon Lance and Forgotten Realms books. I've read the Pools of Radiance / Pools of Darkness / Pools of Twilight trilogy... (which was Forgotten Realms), and have now started re-reading all of the Dragon Lance books related to the Chronicles. I started re-reading them in order this time, starting with the Preludes. There's two Prelude's trilogies... 1 and 2, with each one having 3 books each (obviously). I'm on the second book of the 2nd trilogy, and then I get to read the Chronicles... which itself is 3 books, and then another set of Chronicles, and then just recently, Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weiss have started writing a new Trilogy. Only thing that bums me out is that I discovered that there's a whole series of books called "Legends" (Legends 1 and 2, with three books each), which came before the Preludes. Those were written around the same time the Chronicles were written (back in the late 80s / early 90s. So I kind of screwed up, but no big deal. I can finish going through these and then read the Legends. In total, there's something like 300+ AD&D novels, which I'll never get through...

One book that really pissed me off though. I went to some museum in Salem, MA ... the Peabody Essex Museum. It had a nice book store inside. There was mostly art-related books, which was great, not really my thing... but there was an "other" section by staff favorites. There was one book there (which I don't have anymore). It was a novel that had several ghost stories in it. I was super excited because they all seemed pretty awesome (a total of 5 in there, and it was some 500 pages). The thing that was odd, is that every other chapter was about gay sex. I was totally confused. I'd start reading, and it would be about some girl in a haunted mansion, and then immediately in the next chapter it would shift to a male gay couple that was married, and started following them. It would go into detail about some stuff, and I was kind of like... ok, kind of nasty... but maybe it's related. I went through 4 chapters before I realized that the gay chapters have literally nothing to do with the ghost stories. I'm not even sure why they're in there... literally every single other chapter was about some male + male marriage, their arguments, and then their make-up sex ... and then right back to the story of the girl in the haunted mansion. It was really a WTF moment because I don't know if it was a publisher error, or if it was intentional to piss of the reader or God only knows... but I threw that **** out.

One book I read really pissed me off, "I am legend". Yes the zombie movie they made ages ago. The book is a gajillion times better but the ending. Man I never had a book ending piss me off that much ever! Im still mad lol

The john carter man of mars series was awesome, but it just kept going. And kept going.........

One D&D book I remember was the runeblade or something like that, I had a few but thats the only one I remember.

shem

I have read a lot of D&D related books. One of the perks of getting the hard back WOT was I could trade them for 10 paperback books at the used book store so I always had something to read. When I started working 12 hour days I quit reading, was just too tired then later the computer took over my book reading time.

I remember grabbing a book going on a trip to Ohio from Florida, I read half the book and then lost it in Ohio when I came back home. Could not remember the title for the life of me. Deep fantasy about a world full of monsters and evil monarchs struggling to rule. Still pisses me off and I still don't know the title.

None of these books have left me down.
Terry Brooks is an author that I have enjoyed over the years.
Piers Anthony if you like funny along with your fantasy.
David Eddings has some good books.

[This message has been edited by Jake_Dragon (edited 07-09-2025).]

in the 80's, Clive Barker started writing a trilogy.


Wikipedia:
Books of the Art or The Art Trilogy is a planned trilogy of novels by British writer Clive Barker, currently consisting of The Great and Secret Show (1989) and Everville (1994). As of 2025 the untitled third novel in the series, which Barker claims will be "a big book when it comes" and that will be written with "as much feeling as possible" has no scheduled release date.


ARGHHHH!!!!

It's 2025. I read the other two when they came out. The third book was supposed to be coming out around 2000.

I barely recall ANYTHING from the other two+, but they were kinda interesting, and it would have been nice to see how things ended up...

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I mentioned it to my coworker, and he said, "oh you mean "The books of Abarat"? I hadn't heard of that so I looked it up, he did the same thing AGAIN!!!:

"The Books of Abarat are a series of young adult fantasy novels written and illustrated by English writer and visual artist Clive Barker. The series is intended to contain five books, three of which have been published from 2002 to 2011"


Sheesh.

It's pretty cool that so many of us have read the D&D novels from back in the day. I think for most male Gen-Xers... these were the Go-To books aside from the Hardy Boys books our parents pushed on us (which were not bad, mind you)...

I get migraines from reading and I tend to not want to put a book down reading it for too long at one time and get a migraine. So I really haven't read anything worth of note lately. Other than how to manuals. ATM it is on masonary.
Reading glasses didn't help with the migraines. ATM the pain isn't worth picking up a novel to read.