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Message: [QUOTE="ATenderLad, post: 71814, member: 3864"] Picking favorites is....probably not that hard, actually, it's just a -Me- problem. Here's some of the more recent ones I can think of though. [ATTACH type="full" width="188px" size="310x494"]24254[/ATTACH]There's [I]The Big Sleep[/I] by Raymond Chandler, a cornerstone of hardboiled detective books. It's more pulp than mystery, the various threads don't come together like an Agatha Christie novel. That said, Chandler turns a phrase like nobody's business, and between him and Dashiell Hammett you have the origin of a lot of the slang and style of speech in film noir movies of post-war Hollywood. There's some articles by a cephalopod that got me thinking to re-read my only real foray into D&D-adjacent fiction, Dragonlance. A boy on the bus gave me the book, he'd read it and didn't care much for it, and figured I would appreciate it. (He was right!) It's apparently a combination of three novels, though the cover had already been all but torn off when I got it. [ATTACH type="full" width="215px" size="287x449"]24250[/ATTACH]Okay it must be this one, [I]Dragonlance Chronicles [/I]by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. I found a copy sold on Ebay and the spine matches my mutilated book. (The pages are all still in good shape, thankfully.) Anyways, I didn't read much fantasy growing up - neither of my parents were into it - so this was a bit of a revelation for me. I'll admit, as an adult it's a lot easier to see the derivative bits - Tolkien especially - but the characters are a delight, with the red wizard Raistlin Majere being a real standout. [/QUOTE]

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