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    Stuck in a rut

    You might also like to take a look at Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos series.
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    How would you like your dialogue -- with or without the garnish?

    Mostly, I don't really care so long as it's clear to me that the author has taken a conscious and deliberate choice to lay out his dialogue in a specific style. I do find the more flowery dialogue to work best in a humorous or light-hearted setting; Ernest Bramah is a good example.
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    Most gorgeous bookcovers

    A couple more (the above two are from manga novels).
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    Most gorgeous bookcovers

    A couple of my favorites.
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    books similar to rigante series.

    Nightshade have recently released the first of Charles Saunders' Imaro novels. I haven't read these for ages since they've been out of print, but I remember them being excellent, African-themed Sword and Sorcery (in the Howard vein). Worth checking out. You might also enjoy The Grand Cham by...
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    Thought this was funny

    There's also National Lampoon's "Doon," a rollicking space adventure set on a far-away dessert planet featuring giant preztels, ancient sisterhoods and the Mauve'bib, the Universe's super chef.
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    Thought this was funny

    Now that was funny!
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    HELP!!! - I've read every Gemmell book!

    I personally didn't mention either of the above authors because I didn't think that a fan of Gemmell would automatically dig these guys. Both Leiber and Vance have a much more flowery, romantic style as opposed to the 'blood n thunder' action of Howard, Gemmell, Wagner etc. In Vance's case often...
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    Cthulhu Mythos Anthologies

    Some good recommendations above. Any of the Arkham House collections are worth reading and excellent value for money. I'd probably stay away from the Del Rey edition "Dreams of Terror and Death," as a lot of the work collected here is his earlier, weaker stuff, and the collection as a whole is...
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    Favourite creatures from the Cthulhu Mythos?

    Strange. I've always found Nyarl one of the less nerve-jangling of the Mythos, pretty much for the reason you find him so horrible/excellent(?). The creatures that I could grasp or understand in some aspect ceased to retain their hold over me. Still unnerving though. I agree. Lovecraft for me...
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    Favourite creatures from the Cthulhu Mythos?

    The end of "At the Mountains of Madness" is chilling. Throughout the whole of the piece we are gradually exposed to greater and yet more horrific revelations, first the ancient fossils lingering at the base of those dread peaks, thence to the antediluvian city of the Old Ones, thence to the...
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    Dune

    All of the original six are worth reading, although Herbert in later books tended more toward introspection and an heavy-handed preaching of his own philosophy that got to such a degree that I found the last book, Chapterhouse, almost impossible to enjoy. I also noted rather a change in tone...
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    Good Post Apocalyptic Books Wanted

    I'd recommend JG Ballard's "The Drowned World" for a brilliant study of the human mind striving to adjust to a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by global warming. "Canticle For Leibowitz" is also brilliant -- humorous and highly relevant. Also, for anyone who enjoys older fiction, MP Shiel's...
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    Algernon Blackwood and Clark Ashton Smith

    Nemesis of Fire is an excellent piece, if I remember correctly. Genuinely terrifying in places. The scene in the tomb (I won't reveal further) will definitely put the chills up you.
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    Algernon Blackwood and Clark Ashton Smith

    I've read pretty much all of CAS's fiction, including Averoigne. My favorites are probably the standalone tales: A Night in Malneant, Monster from the Prophecy, City of the Singing Flame. They strike the perfect balance between weirdness and normalcy, in my opinion; I feel I can empathize with...
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    Memorable Scenes

    The plane flight over the mountain range and the discovery of The City in 'At the Mountains of Madness.' Though really, the whole Antarctic wilderness stuck with me. It was the crossing of a physical, temporal and mental boundary into a forgotten and antediluvian world. Totally immersive and...
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    Algernon Blackwood and Clark Ashton Smith

    I think Blackwood is one of the finest horror prose stylists I've read, though he can be a little up and down in quality. But when he's on he's on. I think one word that comes to mind when reading Blackwood is subtlety, not so much with his John Silence tales as with his tales of wilderness and...
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    HELP!!! - I've read every Gemmell book!

    Try 'The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian' and 'The Bloody Crown of Conan' by Robert E Howard. David Gemmell is himself a great fan of Howard's: “I adore these books. Howard had a gritty, vibrant style–broadsword writing that cut its way to the heart, with heroes who are truly larger than life. I...
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    C. L. Moore

    Sorry. Just spotted this thread. As a Sword and Sorcery fan I have, of course, read CL Moore. Yes, I believe she was an extremely important, though largely forgotten, influence on modern fantasy and SF. At a time when the terms 'Sword and Sorcery' and 'Space Opera' were not even coined, Moore...
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    What makes for good horror?

    I also think that horror benefits from an exotic setting. That can be the ubiquitous ruined city, bleak wilderness, isolated house; it can equally be something so simple as a monkey's paw or a yellow sign, in other words something which hints at the exotic. This, of course, equates to the...
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