Originally Posted by DeneK
I'm an SF kinda person too.. Prefer hard SF over Fantasy, tho I can enjoy well written Fantasy too. Outside that genre, like Robert B. Parker, James Patterson (will only read what HE writes tho and not just because they put his name on the book with a co-author). Guess my most favorite at the moment is the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. Resisted reading it for years because it just didn't sound like my kind of book. Then found that I absolutely loved it. It is even better on audio books read by Davina Porter.
It took me till the movies to come out to finally read Tolkein I could NOT get into them in High School. (and I also played D&D for years w/o realizing how much those books influenced the game)
The only fantasy I really will read consistently is anything by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.