Team!

[katikat]

You know, I love team-centric movies/shows/books/etc. - but they are so hard to find! I mean, in the TV format, there are my dear and lost SGA and SG-1, then there's NCIS and that's mostly it. In those series, you can feel them being a family: the Xmas episode on NCIS or Sateda on SGA! In other series, it's mostly two people investigating or the team-ness, the whole "the team is a family", is completely missing (Without a Trace, anyone?). But there still are team!shows.

With books on the other hand, it's something completely different *sigh* You can dig and dig and dig and you mostly come up with romances or lonely PIs or something similar. That's why I totally fell under the spell of Stargate tie-in novels - the team is there! But try and find an original book with a similar premise and you bomb.

But! I might try either Mel Odom's "NCIS series" (it has nothing to do with the show!) or Preston and Child's "Pendergast series". Or maybe Wen Spencer's new scifi series? I did love her "Ukiah Oregon" series - awesome characters, awesome team! - and "A Brother's Price", so...

Dear flist, do you know of any good team-centric, "the team is my family" sort of books? I tried asking around but with no luck whatsoever. Puh :(

Comments

[lemmealone.livejournal.com]

Do you read any manga? Because Saiyuki is very team-focused. Otherwise, hmm. Havemercy by Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett has an awesome team dynamic AND it's a fantastic read.

[katikat.livejournal.com]

Yup, I read manga. I watched Saiyuki in anime format - I loved Gojyo and Hakkai, they were so a couple! XD

And I heard about Havemercy! I will really have to get it now :) Thank you for the tip!

[seraphim-grace.livejournal.com]

have you ever read david eddings
he writes the best team, really, his characters are great, and they snark and fight and trick each other and it's all very sweet and human
the stories are good but he has one plot and he writes it over and over again
a good place to start would be the elenium because it's a smaller team than the belgariad, and he goes out and uses the team again in the sequels, but rather than say like in SGA where they have one small adventure they have lots of little adventures having one big one

the elenium is
The Diamond Throne
The Ruby knight
The Sapphire rose

if you want to start with the more traditional belgariad
pawn of prophecy
queen of sorcery
magician's sometihng or other (it's been a while)
castle of wizardry and
and
enchanter's end game

I prefer the holy knights but that might just be me

[katikat.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you for the rec! :) He writes fantasy stuff, right? I think I remember seeing his books in my boss' shop...

[seraphim-grace.livejournal.com]

yeah, great big thick novels that should keep you going for a while, they're fun and funny and dark and violent and really well written,
but they do get repetitive after a while (but rest assured he's written lots before that happens)

[naye]

Ah! Yes, I understand exactly what you mean... Please share if you get any good recs!

Me, I'm getting my team-as-family kick from anime and manga right now. They're so good with that. ♥ One Piece has it in spades, though One Piece is special. Gintama has places where they say it right out loud! In between a LOT of crack. Yeah. But still! Saying it out loud! "Think of me as your family," and "We're here because there's nowhere else we'd rather be than with you" and. It's socute. One of my favorite anime/manga families are Ban and Ginji from GetBackers - though they're more married than anything else. Living in their little car, being happy dorks together.

I could go on, but since these aren't exactly books, I think I'll shut up now. *g*

[katikat.livejournal.com]

In anime, I felt it strongest in Ouran High School Host Club - which reminds me, I need to catch up on the manga *groans* But Ban and Ginji were really cute too - I was a Ginji!girl - and then there was the "threesome" with the blind needle guy on GetBackers, I forgot their names...

And about team!books - you should really try the SGA tie-ins. So far, all the books that I read were awesome :)