Favorite Book

[Divine Miss Bee]

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller.
A great piece of satire taking place in WWII.

you just became more awesome. how are we not friends?

besides the above, i enjoy the collective works or edgar allan poe and robert a. heinlein.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

I refuse to pick one book. I must pick a series.

Specifically, The Wheel of Time series. By Robert Jordan.

I love it for all the normal reasons you'd love a book; good writing, good characters, good story. But also because it's huge, both in size and scale. It is truly an epic series.

Wheel of time: Agree on 2 things: excellent characters - love the development throughout the series, and a good story. However Robert Jordan's writing is painful at times, overly descriptive to the point of distraction. Seriously by the end of that series if I had to read another paragraph describing the lace, colour and cut of some maiden's dress i would scream.

Out of interest did you pick up the final books in the series written by (i think) Brandon Sanderson? Were they any good?

My favourite book: 1984 by George orwell.

I've read the first one Sanderson wrote and , in my opinion, he does a good job emulating Jordan. I'd pick it up if you like the series. I have the second one he wrote, but I haven't had time to read it yet.

 

[Serenegoose]

I really love the Belgariad series by David Eddings. Particularly Enchanter's Endgame. That is one of the funniest yet most epic battles ever in a novel.

Wow nice to see someone other than me who has heard of that series, it's my favorite too!

I really like that - but I always preferred Polgara to the rest of the Belgariad.

 

[Pariah164]

The 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R.R. Martin. Brilliant all around.

 

[Skyline16]

SUnset over Fallujah
Walter Dean Meyers

 

[Atmos Duality]

Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede

No matter how many great (and other) books I read, that one still holds a special place in my heart. I can just read through it and appreciate the light snark.

 

[disfunkybob]

From turning around and looking at the bookshelf, I'll choose:

Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut

I love the satire/sci-fi/fantasy stuff. A lot of Terry Pratchett is fun to read too.

 

[The Shade]

Neuromancer by Willian Gibson.

Gibson is by far my favourite author, so all nine of his novels and a handful of his short stories all make the top of my list.

Following that would be an assortment of HP Lovecraft stories (mainly, those outside the Cthulhu mythos), Philip K Dick, JRR Tolkien, and Neal Stephenson.

As a child I enjoyed the writings of Brian Jacques, JK Rowling, Hesiod and Homer.

 

[Chefodeath]

The title that most immediately jumps to mind is pet sematary by Stephen King, though I wouldn't neccesarily call it my all time favorite.

 

[fdbluth]

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.

It's the funniest book you'll ever read, I guarantee it.

 

[Nouw]

Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein.

You have to thank this book for Military Science Fiction, you really do.

 

[Koroviev]

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.

It's the funniest book you'll ever read, I guarantee it.

That really is a wonderful novel. I've been meaning to reread it for some time. Thanks for the unintentional reminder.

 

[Huttser]

Fell by David Clement-Davies is my favorite book. It is a sequal to The Sight by the same author. But to give you an idea of what it is picture Watership Down, just instead of rabbits use wolves. Also David Eddings books are truly exceptional.

 

[ScourgeOfHell]

The clear and unequivocal winner in my opinion, is Kane and Abel. I've read that book around 5 times, and still read it once in a while to inspire myself.On the whole though, I'm really surprised to find a thread about a book, on a gaming website. A pretty refreshing change though

 

[Novijen]

Thud! is my favorite, followed by Caiphias Cain.

 

[evantrees]

at this point can't be sure, so going with the old favorite that really got me reading
Enders Game by Orson Scott Card
love dan simmons books hyperion/endymion cantos and others, enjoy dan abbnett's books though have never played warhammer and sigh, been so long couldn't recall his name at first but stephen baxter writes some great hard scifi. Have enjoyed many other books as well among then 100+ starwars books for better or worse, really need to get back to reading more again.

 

[BrightBlackDaylight]

Paradise Lost, John Milton. 'Nuff said.

 

[thylasos]

Magic & Witchcraft by Nevill Drury is always good; a complete history of magical thought in mankind. Герои Нашего Времены (A Hero of Our Time) by Mikhail Lermontov is always good too, though. Or Small Gods by Pratchett.

 

[T8B95]

The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsythe. It's a thrilling, methodical tale of how an assassin plans out how to kill the President of France...what's not to like?

A close second is Damnation Alley by Roger Zelzany.

My favourite book: 1984 by George orwell.

I never liked Orwell much. I found 1984 to be fear-mongering and propogandic, but I also found it to be bland. For me at least, it just wasn't very good.

 

[The87Italians]

Right now, my favorite book is John Dies at the End by David Wong. That was the only book I've ever read twice in a row, I loved it.