Scott Lynch's Locke Lamora and Megan Whalen Turner's Eugenides/Gen in The Thief, The Queen of Attolia etc have given me a craving for thievery, cunning and low-level law-breaking. Not personally, but in my reading materials, obviously. 
Can you recommend any books with thieves as main/central characters? I've already been recommended Among Thieves by Douglas Hulick but I'd like as many suggestions as I can possibly get!
I'm not going to include pirates or assassins in this because they seem pretty distinct to me - you could argue that they're thieves on the sea or that they steal lives (!) but they are a separate type of character, if you get my meaning. Unless you know of any particularly brilliant ones (Retribution Falls was mentioned, which is great, and I have Tim Powers' On Stranger Tides in my TBR pile). I like pirates too. Can't go wrong with a good pirate.
Any graphic novel/movie recommendations also welcomed.
Can you recommend any books with thieves as main/central characters? I've already been recommended Among Thieves by Douglas Hulick but I'd like as many suggestions as I can possibly get!
I'm not going to include pirates or assassins in this because they seem pretty distinct to me - you could argue that they're thieves on the sea or that they steal lives (!) but they are a separate type of character, if you get my meaning. Unless you know of any particularly brilliant ones (Retribution Falls was mentioned, which is great, and I have Tim Powers' On Stranger Tides in my TBR pile). I like pirates too. Can't go wrong with a good pirate.
Any graphic novel/movie recommendations also welcomed.
I like thieves. Any recommendations?
- 05/04/2011 02:10:20 PM
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Did you read Lynch's Red Seas too?
- 05/04/2011 07:52:36 PM
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Red Seas is the one pirate-y book I'd allow! Good point about the rogue mindset actually. *NM*
- 06/04/2011 10:15:27 AM
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Red Seas is the one pirate-y book I'd allow! Good point about the rogue mindset actually. *NM*
- 06/04/2011 10:15:27 AM
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Mistborn stars an ex-thief, and the first book is centered around the "grand heist" premise.
- 05/04/2011 09:53:40 PM
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That does sound good. I started the first but misplaced it, I shall hunt it down! *NM*
- 06/04/2011 10:11:02 AM
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Gardens of The Moon
- 06/04/2011 01:33:24 AM
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I didn't get on very well with the first Erikson. It gets better? *NM*
- 06/04/2011 10:13:37 AM
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Yes, but there are few books that star thieves as prominently as GotM. *NM*
- 06/04/2011 07:39:11 PM
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The first one was written as a screenplay many years before the rest. It's noticably worse. *NM*
- 07/04/2011 01:07:59 AM
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I just want to shout out The Queen of Attolia, one of my favorite books of all time. *NM*
- 06/04/2011 04:21:05 AM
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- 06/04/2011 04:21:05 AM
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Hmm.
- 07/04/2011 01:24:55 AM
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