Guys, can you help me out here? I’m blanking on the title of a Tami Hoag novel. The main character is a woman who’s moved to a new town to start a new life. She meets an arrogant, brooding womanizer and they both hate each other instantly. Then somebody gets murdered. Then the woman and the womanizer have sex, but the next morning, both declare it a mistake and that they still hate the other. Then another murder happens. Eventually it’s revealed that the harmless guy who creeps out the female lead is the murderer, and the woman and the womanizer fall in love.
Oh, and can someone remind me of the title of this Terry Goodkind novel? It’s the one where Richard and Kahlan are forced apart by some unknown magic, but their heedless drive to survive allows them to overcome all obstacles and be together again. I also seem to remember that at some point, there was a random Objectivist rant that really didn’t fit will with the rest of the story. Oh, and a bunch of women got raped and brutally murdered, but Kahlan just barely avoided that fate.
By the way, what’s the title of that Harry Potter novel in which Voldemort almost succeeds in killing Harry, but is foiled by a deus ex machina?
Let’s stay on topic with science fiction. Which Heinlein novel had the upright and naive teenager going out in the world and being guided by the wise yet cynical old man?
I think it came out right around the same time as that Asimov book - you know, the one that was supposed to be set thousands of years in the future but everybody acted like it was a 1950’s American suburb?
Was that the one with the sweet-natured retarded person who really knows what’s going on, or the one with the elderly black person with magical powers?
Yeah, wasn’t that around the same time period when that one L. Ron Hubbard book was published? The one with the amateurish writing and the ranting about psychiatrists?
Greetings! I just registered so that someone could help me find that Laurel K. Hamilton book that’s short on plot, heavy on gratuitous sex, and each point she makes is repeated at least twice in the same paragraph. You know, the book where her characters bang everything in sight while not much else happens and…
Actually, I was thinking that it reminded me of that one Gor book where this chick starts out fiercely independent but eventually decides that she’d much rather be a slave.
There was a book by Anne McCaffrey where the heroine was a poor downtrodden female whom no-one recognised for her many sterling qualities, but she valiantly overcame sexist prejudice and what’s more turned out to have some kind of magic powers to go with her unsuspected ability to really be a man-magnet once she came out of her shell, and she, like, saved the whole world or something.
I used to have that on the shelf right between the Piers Anthony thing with too many juvenile puns, and the Star Trek episode where they visited some planet and it turned out to be exactly like Earth.
Oh hey, is that the one where the book ends on a slowly-rising note of indescribable horror - which Lovecraft nevertheless throws a lot of adjectives at in a vain attempt - and the protagonist narrates everything as his sanity slips away from him?