The Best book you OWN
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The book is about awesome! Seriously it's kinda tough to describe. It's certainly a unique piece of writing. It's kind of about a house that's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside, but that's only sort of what it's about. There's a lot more going on. One passage in the book contains possibly the most directly terrifying thing I've ever read. Again there is also more going on. Pick it up in a bookstore and just flip through it. You'll see what I'm talking about.dalek sec said:
Edit: As to genre, I would kind of call it horror, maybe.
I'm pleasantly surprised that The Name of the Wind has been mentioned twice before the thread exceeded 3 pages. That book is so impossibly perfect.
Dune by Frank Herbert or Hyperion by Dan Simmons if this means I personally own them.
The Time Machine and War of the Worlds if my family owns it can count.
Yes, I like science fiction.
The Time Machine and War of the Worlds if my family owns it can count.
Yes, I like science fiction.
We talking the book's content, or the book itself? I have a big tome of complete Tolkien all leather-bound and being big enough to thwap intruders to death with, which I consider my best prize...
Content-wise, however...
Jennifer Government. Simple paperback, but it has everything I've come to want from a story without becoming needlessly complicated or getting full of itself. Of course, we're talking about the book... Not the community that formed around it. Theeeere's a needlessly complicated bunch so full of themselves they reproduce through budding*.
*Generalized statement, may not actually reflect nation-sates community.
Content-wise, however...
Jennifer Government. Simple paperback, but it has everything I've come to want from a story without becoming needlessly complicated or getting full of itself. Of course, we're talking about the book... Not the community that formed around it. Theeeere's a needlessly complicated bunch so full of themselves they reproduce through budding*.
*Generalized statement, may not actually reflect nation-sates community.
sort of ninjaed since ive only read the first 4.tmdude said:
im gonna have to go with Percy Jackson series and Demonata series
My girlfriend checks GRRM's blog religiously to comb for a release date for the new one. I bought her signed first edition copies of the current 4 in the series last Christmas. Quite pricey.skywalkerlion said:
I can't decide between Saturn's Children or Iron Sunrise, both by Charles Stross. I love the world of Iron Sunrise, but I love the characters of Saturn's Children, which has been a huge inspiration to me.
Enders Game by Orson Scott Card is my favorite, followed by the Lord of the Rings trilogy & the Dragonlance Chronicles...Lonesome Dove is one of my favorites too, it's pretty good for a western novel.