Agreed - fantasy fiction, or to be more accurate the Harry Potter Series, opened the gateway for my own love of reading. While I'm still a fan of fantasy (especially science fantasy), dystopian works have become my recent go-to books. I like the classics like Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Huxley's Brave New World, but some of the more modern hidden gems I've found - the Beyond Trilogy by Kate L. Mary, The Resistance Series by Tracy Lawson, and this new book I've crossed called The Text are all hot reads. But, it all started in the late 1990s when I picked up Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (I didn't realize it was Book 2 in the series at the time) at a book fair.
Agree 100%. fantasy and science fiction at one time had some of the greatest writers. Read the Lord of the Rings 3X maybe even 4. Read Roger Zelazny, Frank Herbert, Robert A. Heinlein, Philip José Farmer, Isaac Asimov, Harlan Ellison, Robert E. Howard, Michael Moorcock, Jules Verne, Edgar Rice Burroughs and many more.
Agreed - fantasy fiction, or to be more accurate the Harry Potter Series, opened the gateway for my own love of reading. While I'm still a fan of fantasy (especially science fantasy), dystopian works have become my recent go-to books. I like the classics like Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Huxley's Brave New World, but some of the more modern hidden gems I've found - the Beyond Trilogy by Kate L. Mary, The Resistance Series by Tracy Lawson, and this new book I've crossed called The Text are all hot reads. But, it all started in the late 1990s when I picked up Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (I didn't realize it was Book 2 in the series at the time) at a book fair.
I'll have to check out those hidden gems one day.
Agree 100%. fantasy and science fiction at one time had some of the greatest writers. Read the Lord of the Rings 3X maybe even 4. Read Roger Zelazny, Frank Herbert, Robert A. Heinlein, Philip José Farmer, Isaac Asimov, Harlan Ellison, Robert E. Howard, Michael Moorcock, Jules Verne, Edgar Rice Burroughs and many more.
Excellent advice! All reading is good reading and, as you point out, usually leads to more reading.