I recently went through my book list again to add a couple recent reads. This gave me a chance to update my tally of authors for whom I'd read six or more books. Here's the count, from high to low (and there are many five-book reads that didn't make the cut):
Robert Heinlein (38)
Harry Turtledove (36)
Michael Stackpole (15)
Piers Anthony (14)
C.S. Lewis (11)
Michael Crichton (7)
Larry Niven (7)
Greg Rucka (7)
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (7)
Isaac Asimov (6)
Robert Charrette (6)
Jack McKinney (6)
Michael Moorcock (6)
Some of these are definite remnants of my reading tendencies earlier in life. McKinney wrote the Robotech novelizations; I read one of his Macross books and then the entire Sentinels series over the course of a week during seventh grade. Similarly, six of those Weis and Hickman books are Dragonlance novels, and all the Stackpole books are game-related fiction. Heinlein still holds the lead, but Turtledove will catch up and surpass him. He's (1) tremendously prolific and (2) not dead (and there's at least one more book by him that I want to read, and probably will be others).
Piers Anthony was also an old read, and Robert Charrette was also game-related fiction. From that list, I think I am reasonably likely to read more:
Harry Turledove
C.S. Lewis
Greg Rucka
Isaac Asimov
Michael Moorcock
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[info]nowhun
2005-01-27 07:59 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen Select
Closest I got was 9 for both Gibson and Clancy (latter might be more, but I can't recall which I've read anymore now that they all blur together). I think the only hope for me getting anywhere close to your numbers is to read all of Discworld.
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[info]schrodingersgnu
2005-02-03 07:59 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen Select
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And I'm giddy as a schoolgirl about turtledove finally releasing a sequel to colonization.
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[info]schrodingersgnu
2005-02-03 08:00 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen Select
damn you LJ for not allowing me to edit my posts...
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[info]parakkum
2005-02-03 08:31 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen Select
I'm also looking forward to the sequel, though I convinced myself not to buy it in hardback (wouldn't go with the others, anyway...I only have one Turtledove book in hardback, and that's In The Presence Of Mine Enemies).
I've read some Pratchett and Pournelle, but not six of either, and all but one of the Pournelle books (Janissaries) I've read were collaborations with Niven. Only one of my Moorcock reads is Elric, whom I am not fond of either (though Cataptromancer is the one who gave me my first Elric book to read and made me aware of Moorcock). Instead, I really enjoyed Moorcock's Bastable series, which follows its protagonist through a series of alternate worlds. Naturally, there are airships.
I have not read any Feist or Wurts.
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[info]schrodingersgnu
2005-02-04 02:37 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen Select
Yeah, know the feeling. I promised myself never to buy new releases in hardback, realizing it would quickly get to expensive.
I always felt that Pournelle was the stronger of the Niven/Pournelle pair, but that might just be me :) I really enjoyed his Falkenberg Legion series, as well as King Davids spaceship.
Hmm, maybe I should check out the Bastable, then. Sounds a little bit like Heinleins Job... :)
If you liked Weis/Hickman as a youth, I'm fairly sure you'd like Janny Wurts and Feists early books - good, honest fantasy. They also have a collaboration trilogy (the Empire series) which is one of my favorite series, I re-read it every few years.
I credit Weis/Hickman with teaching me english, btw. I was at best a medocre student of english before a friend lent me the dragon trilogy (which wasn't available in swedish translation). Two years later I opted out of english at my teachers suggestion. :)
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[info]parakkum
2005-02-04 04:57 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen Select
I liked Janissaries a lot. I simply haven't tracked down any other individual titles by him.
Bastable is more proactive than Job, I think.
As for Wurts and Feist...does one have to like Weis and Hickman /now/ to like them? :) I reread the first two Dragonlance books last year, and they weren't as cool as I remembered. Not that this is an odd thing when books are read long ago, then reread.
That's a pretty cool way to learn English. Maybe I should find a Pournelle book in Korean.
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[info]schrodingersgnu
2005-02-05 03:22 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen Select
Ah, I see. King davids spaceship is somewhat similar to janissaries, so I think you'd like that. The spartan series is more militant (it might be the best military sci-fi there is), while his short story collection left something to be desired, I think.
More proactive sounds good, although I figured part of the point of Job was to keep him off his balance so he couldn;t be proactive...
Wurts, definetely no. Feist, maybe. I'd suggest buying Magician and see how you like him. But Wurst will always be good, I think. (well, once she starts writing on a different series. The current one is on it's eight or so volume, and I sort of lost my stamina after the sixth or so...)
I know what you mean about trying to read dragonlance again. I've purposedly avoided that, after a debaucle involving "the black kettle". Just wasn't the same...
Pournelle in korean, go for it :) What do you have to lose? And a followup question: why korean?
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[info]parakkum
2005-02-06 03:45 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen Select
Korean because my potential in laws are Korean. I took a year of Korean during grad school, but I haven't done much more learning in the last year or so (finishing grad school was sort of the focus for that time).