Thursday, November 18, 2010

Fantastic Fiction

Fantastic Fiction is a web site that any and all lovers of books should know about.  Very rarely have I not found a book on this web site.   I e-mailed them about the missing books (o.k. only twice) then I went back a few weeks later and there  it was.  I can not say enough good things about this site. 
You can look books up by author, title or keyword.  Once you found said author or book it gets even better.  on the author page is a brief bio of the writer and then all the books that person has written, in order , with publish dates after each title.  No more trying to figure out if the book in your hand is the third in the series or the fifth (gods I hate that).  At the top of the page are the release dates, titles, and names of new books the author has coming out in soft or hard copy. Fantastic Fiction is a U.K. website so sometimes the release dates for the U.S. or other places differ, but at least we have a general idea when to look for our books. 
So you found your author and now you click on a book title and find yourself on the books page.  Here you will find a description of the book, links to purchase the book and info telling you which series the book is in and which number it is in the series.
NOW FOR THE BEST PART.....
You have finished a series and really liked it ....ALOT.....at the bottom of each authors page is a list of books that author recommends.  AND, a list titled "Visitors to this page also looked at these authors", basically similar style and genre writers.
If you look at the bottom of a page for a book you will see a list that says if you liked this book them you might also like to read these books.  which are all then links to their pages where you can read a discription.

I have found more books this way then I can tell you.
my only complaint about Fantastic Fiction is that they do not list which books can be purchased in Audio.
If you are reader then this is a site you need to have in your bookmarks

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