Noah Stacy <nstacy at cinci.rr.com> writes: > There's just what comes to mind right now... mostly books with bad > cover art don't make it into my collection, I'm skilled at ignoring bad art, which is good since there is very little that I like. For serious art, the only good stuff I can think of are the Dragaeran covers by Stephen Hickman and Sam Rakeland. For non-serious artists, I really like Phil Foglio, Paul Kidby, Jeff Smith and Brett Helquist. > 'cause when I walk into the store without any clue what I'll be > picking up... well, I hate to say it, but cover art has a lot to > do with what gets picked up and what doesn't. It's horrible, I > know, and I wish I had some better way of figuring out good stuff > to read, but... :P If your ISP has a decent newsserver, you might want to ask for recs over on rec.arts.sf.written . When asking, mention some examples of books you really liked and books you really hated, so we can at least try to fit your tastes. You can also read other people's booklogs to see what they liked. Mine is linked in my .sig, and here's some others: http://speculativefiction.org/weblog/index.jsp http://www.scwu.com/bookreviews/ http://www.matthilliard.com/reviews/index.html http://oldrottenhat.typepad.com/ http://www.klio.org/weblog/ http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ http://www.steelypips.org/library/ http://cloggie.org/books/ http://www.fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com/ http://www.steelypips.org/weblog/ And if you want to see what's being read outside of SF/F, try this: http://www.livejournal.com/community/50bookchallenge/ -- Konrad Gaertner - - - - - - - - - - - - - - email: gaertk at aol.com http://www.livejournal.com/users/kgbooklog/ "I don't mind hidden depths but I insist that there be a surface." -- James Nicoll