The best book you've ever read.

[Shakaar9267]

War Of The Spider Queen.
By: R.A. Salvatore.

Is he still writing those books? I got to pick up the last.... few? I loved them when I was in High School and I picked up some of the graphic novel adaptations a couple of years ago.
I can't pick a best book ever.
If you like mystery type books but what to break out from them a little, try The Illuminatus Trilogy. It's trippy and will force you to abandon the conventions. A good companion to that is Prometheus Rising.
I guess my favorite genre however would be contemporary post-modern British lit: Terry Pratchett, Robert Rankin, JKR.

No, it's over. There are six books in the series.

Six? I don't think I know those.
I think the Drizzt book I read was Passage to Dawn but I'm not sure.
I'll have to check those out again.

Oh no, it's not the Drizzt series. Sorry about that. War of the Spider Queen was 2002-2005. It's a different story, set in Menzoberranzan. Check out Wikipedia to see if this is something that might interested in.

If it's Drizzt you want, these are the books in the main series;

The Crystal Shard (1988)
Streams of Silver (1989)
The Halfling's Gem (1990)
Homeland (1990)
Exile (1990)
Sojourn (1991)
The Legacy (1992)
Starless Night (1993)
Siege of Darkness (1994)
Passage to Dawn (1996)
The Silent Blade (1998)
The Spine of the World (1999)
Servant of the Shard (2000)
Sea of Swords (2001)
The Thousand Orcs (2002)
The Lone Drow (2003)
The Two Swords (2004)

Hope that helps.

 

[Drakane]

A Storm of Swords by George RR Martin, is the best book I've read. The only book to ever make me cry.

as to not spoil anything, you should toss me a message as to what made you cry. I am a big fan of the series and can't wait for the next 2. and have finished the current 4 that are out.

 

[GonzoGamer]

War Of The Spider Queen.
By: R.A. Salvatore.

Is he still writing those books? I got to pick up the last.... few? I loved them when I was in High School and I picked up some of the graphic novel adaptations a couple of years ago.
I can't pick a best book ever.
If you like mystery type books but what to break out from them a little, try The Illuminatus Trilogy. It's trippy and will force you to abandon the conventions. A good companion to that is Prometheus Rising.
I guess my favorite genre however would be contemporary post-modern British lit: Terry Pratchett, Robert Rankin, JKR.

No, it's over. There are six books in the series.

Six? I don't think I know those.
I think the Drizzt book I read was Passage to Dawn but I'm not sure.
I'll have to check those out again.

Oh no, it's not the Drizzt series. Sorry about that. War of the Spider Queen was 2002-2005. It's a different story, set in Menzoberranzan. Check out Wikipedia to see if this is something that might interested in.

If it's Drizzt you want, these are the books in the main series;

The Crystal Shard (1988)
Streams of Silver (1989)
The Halfling's Gem (1990)
Homeland (1990)
Exile (1990)
Sojourn (1991)
The Legacy (1992)
Starless Night (1993)
Siege of Darkness (1994)
Passage to Dawn (1996)
The Silent Blade (1998)
The Spine of the World (1999)
Servant of the Shard (2000)
Sea of Swords (2001)
The Thousand Orcs (2002)
The Lone Drow (2003)
The Two Swords (2004)

Hope that helps.

So I missed quite a few.
Thanks. I think I will check those out.

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

Frank Herbert's Dune.

Atlas Shrugged is a close second.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Best book is like best cup of coffee. They're all good at the time...even if they're stone cold chicory presses.

 

[Samwise137]

I loved Nikki Sixx's memoir and I'm looking forward to the new one this spring!

 

[Assassin Xaero]

Metro 2033. It is amazing.

 

[Autolykos]

Best one read in school: George Orwell - 1984
Should be read in school: Stanislaw Lem - Golem XIV
Best entertainment: Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

 

[Toaster Hunter]

The Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R.Martin. it is insanely well written and the characters are fully fleshed out rather than being flat caricatures. Still waiting for Dance With Dragons, any time now George, any time now...

 

[ajofflight]

"The Name Of the Wind" by Patricks Rothfuss. His first novel, and a Quill award winner to boot.

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

But I'm really looking for something a little darker. This might sound a little dumb but I want something dark and possibly depressing...

A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick is fairly dark and depressing (don't base your opinion on the movie), and you may know that Dick was friends with Koontz.

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller is classic and definitely gets rather dark and frenetic especially towards the end.

Dead Lines by Greg Bear is a scifi "ghost story". Its fairly dark and similar in general style to Koontz's work but Bear is more towards "hard" scifi (personally I liek Bear better). The science in this book is not very "hard" but it does involve some "real" theoretical physics ("theoretical" being the operative bit there).

Queen of Angels by Greg Bear is also good and dark in another manner. Its a strange sort of scifi futurist cross between Silence of the Lambs and Virtuosity [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114857/](IMDb link incase you are unfamiliar with the movie).

I'm trying to think of more. What sort of dark are we looking for here exactly? I don't think much of my reading has been particularly dark unfortunately. Lately reading Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, but I don't really consider them very dark.

 

[unit342]

Best entertainment: Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

I was just gonna say that. I am still wondering how Douglas Addams could think that book up. Perhaps he was using lemons to come up with all the brilliance that the books have...

 

[azuu]

The White Dragon by Anne Mccaffrey. It's from an awesome series called 'The Dragonriders of Pern'. I've read that book 3 times, and given how relativly little I read thats nothing short of a miracle.

 

[Adecristo]

If you consider comics as a books too, then it would be Thorgal.
If you don't, then it's "The Black Company" by Glen Cook.

 

[Daveman]

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

It's just epic and genuinely changed my life.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

There are many, many books that I've really liked. I loved the Harry Potter saga and, the Darth Bane trilogy, reading both sets multiple times. As for my single favorite book though, it would probably be Soul Music by Terry Pratchett. A great parody of the history of Rock N' Roll as seen through the filter of The Discworld and, one of the books in the Death story arc (Death being my favorite arc) Perhaps the best thing though is the image it leaves us with:

hm...thought I could find a better pic than that but it's not bad...

 

[ham and red bull]

My favorite or best? My favorite book(s) of all time is the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series, but not the newest one from Eoin Colfer. I like the dude and loooove Artemis Fowl, but his newest book sucks so much!

The best book is probably: watchmen. I know it's not a real book, but it changed superheroes forever for me. I just love it sooo much! I also enjoyed V for Vendetta.

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

The White Dragon by Anne Mccaffrey. It's from an awesome series called 'The Dragonriders of Pern'. I've read that book 3 times, and given how relativly little I read thats nothing short of a miracle.

If you're into dragons you might be interested in the Temeraire Series by Naomi Novik. Alternate history set in the Napoleonic wars, where they have dragonrider airforces.

Also a trilogy of trilogies: The Farseers trilogy, Liveship Traders trilogy, and Tawney Man trilogy all by Robin Hobb. Damn... I just looked and it seems that she has a fourth in that series The Rainwild Chronicles that I have not read yet. Anyway the first trilogy does not deal much with the dragons until near the end. The second and third deal with them more and there is a sort of overarching metaplot across all three trilogies. The fourth appears to continue the metaplot.

 

[Red Right Hand]

It would definitely be a tie between "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson and "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest" by Ken Kesey.

Two absolutely excellent reads. I would definitely recommend them to anybody. They both have great film adaptations as well.

 

[Atmos Duality]

Recently: A Storm of Swords
Ever: Hard to say. I did enjoy Dean Koontz "Lightning" quite a bit.
I may have to fall back on some nostalgia here, but "Dealing with Dragons" is my childhood favorite.