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
Not thieves, but cunning and law-breaking (or skimming) and being clever in general - they definitely have that feel. Also I second the Mistborn recommendation.
And that's all I have...
No wait, I'll also recommend Tanya Huff's Valor books b/c they are so good - military scifi, but also focused on being clever and escaping impossible situations. And very fun.
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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Jhereg by Steven Brust, Miles books by Bujold
- 07/04/2011 01:02:55 AM
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Hmm.
- 07/04/2011 01:24:55 AM
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