08-04-2008, 10:59 AM
Titan ! Wrote:Back about 10 years or so ago, I was in my turbo charged Rah Rah Jesus phase. and I loved Frank Peretti. The Oath is still one of my fave books to this day.
Currently I am re-reading IT by Stephen King.
I just finished Time Spike by Eric Flint, where a modern day maximum security prison is sent back in time, along with a group of American Indians, and a group of Conquistadors, to the Cretacous period.
I really like alternate history specifically when it has a fantasy element to it. Specifially authors like Harry Turtledove, and really especially S.M. Stirling
Here's a few faves:
The guns of the South, where terrorists from the year 2020 travel back to the 1860s during the American Civil war and give the south thousands of AK 47s
Dies The Fire: What if, suddently everything electronic, mechanical, and high energy quit working ? Cars, guns, batteries, phones etc.
good stuff homey
Sounds like some interesting stuff - I'll have to check a couple of those out.
I was huge into King when I was in high school and college, then dropped him altogether. After he finished the Gunslinger series, I re-read all the books that I had read, then finished the series off. Great reads. I just recently re-read The Long Walk, and was pretty disappointed. Way too violent for my liking.
I think you'd really enjoy the Circle Trilogy. It's about a guy who accidentally discovers there is a parallel world that is inter-related to our world. He becomes a great leader in the parallel world and has to figure out a way to save both worlds from certain destruction. Extremely entertaining, lots of fantasy stuff mixed in.