Yeah, those books were great fun to read.Je Suis Ubermonkey said:
At the moment I'm reading the Sharpe books, which are great, some Diskworld books and Sherlock Holmes. I'm having a whale of a time!
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At the moment I'm reading the Sharpe books, which are great, some Diskworld books and Sherlock Holmes. I'm having a whale of a time!
A+ on the Foundation series, all those books are amazing, favorite thing by Asimov.
Hitchhiker's Guide
To The Scatters Your Bodies Go (Riverworld series)
Just finished The Graveyard Book-Gaiman awesome stuff
Un Lun Dun by china Mieville
Hitchhiker's Guide
To The Scatters Your Bodies Go (Riverworld series)
Just finished The Graveyard Book-Gaiman awesome stuff
Un Lun Dun by china Mieville
Mine are:
Dune by Frank Herbert
Metro 2033 (yes the game was based off it)
Red Inferno by Robert Conroy
Brave New World by Huxley
1984/Animal Farm by Orwell
I was also surprised by how much I liked The DaVinci Code
Dune by Frank Herbert
Metro 2033 (yes the game was based off it)
Red Inferno by Robert Conroy
Brave New World by Huxley
1984/Animal Farm by Orwell
I was also surprised by how much I liked The DaVinci Code
Malazan Book of the Fallen - Steven Erikson and Ian . C. Esslemont
Chronicles of the Black Company - Glen Cook
H. P. Lovecraft's work
Discworld - Terry Pratchett
Song of Ice and Fire - Tad Williams
Kingkiller Chronicles - Patrick Rothfuss
Shadowmarch series - Tad Williams
Krigeren - Josefine Ottesen
Black Magician Trilogy - Trudy Canavan
Conan - Robert E. Howard
Game of Thrones - Geroge R. R. Martin
Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Iliad - Homer
The Last Samurai - Helen Dewitt
Dark Tower - Steven King
And a lot other I can't remember right now...
Not all of it is quite finished yet.
And Yes I've read Mogworld.
Chronicles of the Black Company - Glen Cook
H. P. Lovecraft's work
Discworld - Terry Pratchett
Song of Ice and Fire - Tad Williams
Kingkiller Chronicles - Patrick Rothfuss
Shadowmarch series - Tad Williams
Krigeren - Josefine Ottesen
Black Magician Trilogy - Trudy Canavan
Conan - Robert E. Howard
Game of Thrones - Geroge R. R. Martin
Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Iliad - Homer
The Last Samurai - Helen Dewitt
Dark Tower - Steven King
And a lot other I can't remember right now...
Not all of it is quite finished yet.
And Yes I've read Mogworld.
My favorite books:Harveypot said:
Dresden Files series
Codex Alera series
Kingkiller trilogy
Lord of the Rings
Villains by Necessity
These are my top 5, but I have a few hundred books that I read fairly regularly. It's getting a bit ridiculous, since I'm out of bookshelf space, but I keep getting more anyway.
Agreed, for sure.TimeLord said:
I'm not good at picking favorites, though...The only book I can remember ever re-reading is The Hobbit. Man that book is awesome. Much less drawn-out and dry compared to the LotR series. I mean really: less than 10 pages in Bilbo's got 13 dwarves and a wizard in his house saying "Let's go kill a dragon!" In LotR, it was like 17 years (and 70-100 pages) before Frodo even left the Shire after he got the ring.
I'm also very much a fan of Maria V. Snyder's Study and Glass series's, and in high school I went through pretty much all of Tamora Pierce's Tortall books in just a few months. I tend to get fixated on series's. I'll come across one I love, and then not read anything else until I've finished it and whatever offspring it might have. But if I had to settle on one book, I guess I'd say The Hobbit.
Did you know Leo Tolstoy's wife rewrote that entire book for him seven times, by hand? If she wasn't mad before she began, she certainly had to have been by the time she was done.Aur0ra145 said:
Best non-fantasy/sci-fi book I've ever read.Goofguy said:
Otherwise:
Magician (Raymond E Feist)
A Bridge Too Far (Cornelius Ryan)
anything in the Duchies world (Robin Hobb)
Troy series (David Gemmell)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a trilogy in 4 parts containing:Je Suis Ubermonkey said:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Life, the Universe and Everything
So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish
That is the book I own and have read... does this mean I am missing a part!?
Dresden Files (Any and all) - Jim Butcher
John Dies at the End - David Wong
Night Angel Trilogy - Brent Weeks
Scott Pilgrim series (Technically a book. It's a comic, but if that doesn't count, forget I mentioned it.) - Brian Lee O'Malley
There's more, but I can't think of them.
John Dies at the End - David Wong
Night Angel Trilogy - Brent Weeks
Scott Pilgrim series (Technically a book. It's a comic, but if that doesn't count, forget I mentioned it.) - Brian Lee O'Malley
There's more, but I can't think of them.
Hesse's Steppenwolf is still my favorite book of all time. Immediate follow ups are anything written by Kurt Vonnegut.
I LOVE anything by Robin Hobb. Shes a brilliant fantasy author. My favorite is, by far, the Farseer and Tawny Man trilogies. Also, the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman was great. HDM is really atheist, and it actually made me atheist for a bit. Ironically, the same questions from the book that made me atheist made me Christian again.
Yes! Mostly harmless! Featuring the best sandwiches in the universe.lunncal said:
Get yourself to a bookstore! Go!
The Sight - David Clement-Davies
Black Beauty - Anne Sewell
Sara's Face - Melvin Burgess
Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett
They're all great for their own reasons. The Sight was originally a book I borrowed from the library but was so good I had to buy my own copy. Black Beauty was the first book I ever loved so much I re-read it, I was like 8 when I first read it. Sara's Face was the first book with a character I truly identified with and Guards! Guards! well it's Terry Pratchett...Need I say more?
Black Beauty - Anne Sewell
Sara's Face - Melvin Burgess
Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett
They're all great for their own reasons. The Sight was originally a book I borrowed from the library but was so good I had to buy my own copy. Black Beauty was the first book I ever loved so much I re-read it, I was like 8 when I first read it. Sara's Face was the first book with a character I truly identified with and Guards! Guards! well it's Terry Pratchett...Need I say more?
There's seven?? I don't think I read seven of them! Could it be that some of them haven't made it this way? Probably. I am in America and they suck. Like when they stopped publishing the Spy High series and before the last book in the first series came out... *pouts*TimeLord said:
*looks it up* I knew it! It's the seventh one exactly! Gah! Oh well, at least I knew it wasn't the end!
I should see if I can check it out from a library.
Anyway... I don't think I have a favorite. I love too many to count. Plus some of them I haven't read yet.
Well, obviously...
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller.
It's one of the few books that actually have had the capacity to entertain me, and I've read a few... And than thrown them away after their dreary, unforgiving melancholy attitude they often so infringe upon me have already done their damage.
Also self-biography books from rockstars such as Long Hard Road out of Hell by Marilyn Manson
and Heroin Diaries by Nikki Sixx, the bass player and lyrics writer of a well-known band, guess what one...
Otherwise, dun' have any. Books tend to bore me. Except these lovely ones.
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller.
It's one of the few books that actually have had the capacity to entertain me, and I've read a few... And than thrown them away after their dreary, unforgiving melancholy attitude they often so infringe upon me have already done their damage.
Also self-biography books from rockstars such as Long Hard Road out of Hell by Marilyn Manson
and Heroin Diaries by Nikki Sixx, the bass player and lyrics writer of a well-known band, guess what one...
Otherwise, dun' have any. Books tend to bore me. Except these lovely ones.
There are 7 now?!TimeLord said:
Bugger me, I've only got the first 5. And I didn't like 4 and 5.
[sub]Can't remember the titles. >.<[/sub]
OT: Discworld books. Still haven't got all of them, working on it...
The Dresden files
Codex Alera
Night Angle trilogy
Artemis Fowl although the last few have been a bit disappointing in my opinion
I used to like Harry Potter but after reading the series above I look back at the HP books and think that calling them mediocre would be to generous. The writing is not very good and the story is kind of crap. And if I remember correctly except for the last few chapters at the end, nothing actually happened in book 6.
Codex Alera
Night Angle trilogy
Artemis Fowl although the last few have been a bit disappointing in my opinion
I used to like Harry Potter but after reading the series above I look back at the HP books and think that calling them mediocre would be to generous. The writing is not very good and the story is kind of crap. And if I remember correctly except for the last few chapters at the end, nothing actually happened in book 6.