GenreLand discussion

This is a little subjective, but an author who has published, say, 20 or more books would count, don't you think? My favorite prolific author is probably Agatha Christie, so I might re-read one of hers. Or this may be where I give Barbara Cartland a try.

I might reach for another King.

I won a Goodreads giveaway of My Heart Is a Chainsaw. The author has published 17 novels, 8 short stories/novellas, a graphic novel, and 7 short story collections; all since 2000. That seems pretty prolific to me, so I'll plan on reading my new book in March.

I started Salem's Lot for another book club so I'll probably count that

I got Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear for a Christmas present. She's got well over 30 books out and I need a reason to get this to the top of my list, so that's my plan.

Amy wrote: "I won a Goodreads giveaway of My Heart Is a Chainsaw. The author has published 17 novels, 8 short stories/novellas, a graphic novel, and 7 short story collections; all since 2000. T..."

Nice! I have a copy of his The Only Good Indians, but I'm not planning to get back to it for a few more months yet.

I read my first Maeve Binchy a couple months ago when I picked up an audiobook at the library book store. (I was never sure if she would be too fluffy or too romance-y for my tastes, but selection was limited and I took a chance.) It was a chance to return to Ireland which I fell in love with attending the 2012 BookCrossing Convention. Since then I have picked up another of her books and it will make for a nice change after some heavy reading in February.

Would you call an author with just three books out prolific?

I wouldn't.

I am going with Janet Evanovich, I am reading number 20 in the Stephanie Plum series. I am still reading White Rage, as it’s pretty heavy, the nice fluffy book will be a good change.

Stina wrote: "Amy wrote: "I won a Goodreads giveaway of My Heart Is a Chainsaw. The author has published 17 novels, 8 short stories/novellas, a graphic novel, and 7 short story collections; all s..."

That one is on my wishlist. I really liked the short story collection I read.

My prolific author is Lilian Jackson Braun.

I have inherited from my daughter 10 of her books, from the serie "The cat who...". My daughter loved cats and loved mysteries. It took me some time to start the serie, first I wanted to finish to read all the Agatha Christie (thanks for your help, Christina) and other books on my pile.
With the first one, it was ok, but I did not like so much... but after 2 or 3 I was hooked ! I loved this guy and his moustache !
I read 10 on the row, and I am waiting for my TBR pile to diminish to buy and read the 20 others ones.

I chose to re-read Michael Moorcock’s Elric of Melnibone, the first of those stories from
a massively prolific fantasy author. Enjoyed revisiting it, with its baroque world-building, deliberately opposed take to muscular Nietszchean supermen like Conan, and almost proto-emo hero. I noticed how for the first time Moorcock used companions to the Eternal Champion (for so Elric turns out to be a facet of) to be an audience POV and voice of reason along the bizarre high fantasy.
I also was surprised to find the politically devious villain, in a work maybe fifty years old, say his desire is to “make Melnibone great again”..,.

Cheryl wrote: "I read my first Maeve Binchy a couple months ago when I picked up an audiobook at the library book store. (I was never sure if she would be too fluffy or too romance-y for my tastes, but selection ..."

I've really liked what I've read of hers, but they always make me cry.

Marie-thérèse wrote: "My prolific author is Lilian Jackson Braun.

I have inherited from my daughter 10 of her books, from the serie "The cat who...". My daughter loved cats and loved mysteries. It took me some time to ..."

You're still in the good ones, I think. Somewhere around book #19, the quality falls off dramatically. My guess is that Braun wasn't up to the task health-wise anymore so they turned it over to a bunch of ghostwriters.

This one is at the low end of the spectrum of "prolific," but I read Y is for Y'all: A Book of Southern ABCs by Kelly Kazek. I'm from a state that somehow manages to be simultaneously Southern, Midwestern, and Western, and I've been getting a kick out of the It's a Southern Thing channel on YouTube. Kazek is one of their writers, so even if she doesn't have a ton of books to her name, I'm sure she is putting out a lot of content.

definitely looking at reading another book from the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. I think I am up to The Path of Daggers. I took a break from the series, and now I Am lost a wee bit.

I only ear read the last one she wrote and that did make me cry in places. Now I am working on her first one. We shall see.

Well, I zigged in my selections when I was looking for something somewhat mindless (like a re-read) and straight forward. Ended up with a Louis L'Amour -- Night Over the Solomons.

I read a couple by Michael Crichton - Micro and Jurassic Park.

Micro I would not recommend, it was entertaining, but had enough plot holes to annoy me.

Jurassic Park. is one of my favorites - although I didn't get the same feeling this time as I did the first time I read it - I think the excellent movie has colored some of what is in the book.

Read Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear. It looks like she's got about 10 series out, and I've read about 5 of them. I do like her stuff and don't know why I haven't read more by her, except the obvious so-many-books-so-little-time thing. If you like space opera, give it a try!

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I am reading Old Bones, by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. They have written 27 books together. I am really enjoying this thriller story about the FBI, grave robbing and the unknown (to me at least) history of the Donner party. Will let you all know what I think after I'm done.

Some of these authors are more prolific than others, but here are the rest of my GenreLand reads for March:

update... I went with Going Postal by Terry Pratchet. Needed a good laugh.

Excellent choice!

I'm still slogging my way through Salem's Lot because it turns out I'm maybe not a big fan of Stephen King, or at least not this novel. XD

I finally finished My Heart Is a Chainsaw, not quite a month late. I liked it, but it was not a quick read for me.

Amy wrote: "I finally finished My Heart Is a Chainsaw, not quite a month late. I liked it, but it was not a quick read for me."

I've read only one thing of his, and even though it was a novella, it took me a while. Perhaps that is why I'm intimidated by The Only Good Indians.