Fav. Book?

[killergamer]

Ok I know that alot of you must like to read and I was just wondering what some of your fav. books are this includes series...

I like: Inheritance (aka Eragon), Ranger's Apprentice, Enders Game, Inkheart, and pretty much any fantasy books.

[xRyokenx]

Anything by Robert Heinlein and pretty much anything SciFi. I like some fantasy too, like LotR, the Eragon series, etc.

[Bopher]

The Xanth Series, Incarnations of Immortality, any Clive Cussler book, Dragonriders of Pern. Loved 2001:A Space odessy and the 2nd book. A few of the Star Wars books that are out especially the ones after Vector Prime.

[Drum Thumper]

A few of the Star Wars books that are out especially the ones after Vector Prime.

Oh, please tell me you are including Vector Prime in your list of SW books that are good. Salvatore is the shiznit. If you don't believe me, do yourself a huge favor and get any of his Forgotten Realms books. Better yet, start at the beginning with 'Streams of Silver' and work your way up from there.

Yes, RA Salvatore is one of my favorite authors. Stephen King too (long time members here will undoubted remember my left field post regarding the Harry Potter series and its connection to Stephen King's Dark Tower series). Although as of late, the only thing I have been reading is textbooks for college.

And regarding Eragon--the author lives in Montana and I have met him once at a book signing. He's a helluva nice kid. Very down to Earth.

[NightrainSrt4]

I love most of David Patterson's Alex Cross books. Along Came a Spider and Cat and Mouse are probably my favorites, but there are so many great ones. Pop Goes the Weasel actually might be my favorite, that one was great as well.



Although old and kinda childish A Wrinkle in Time is probably another favorite. Great book. Just saddened that the sequels never directly picked up where the first left off.


Dan Brown's Angels and Demons was an amazing book as well. DaVinci Code was good but I liked Angels and Demons a crapload more. Digital Fortress was really cool too.


Michael Crichton's Prey was pretty interesting as well. About nano-tech and such.

Alot of the WoW books are pretty interesting as well. Lord Of The Clans by Christie Golden was amazing, atleast for a WoW book. I came to a completely new understanding and love for Thrall. I love that book.


Theres a ton of books I love. Ill try to remember some more. Reading is peaceful. Haven't read in a bit because of school, but I always sleep better after reading.

[killergamer]

Michael Crichton's Prey was pretty interesting as well. About nano-tech and such.




Theres a ton of books I love. Ill try to remember some more. Reading is peaceful. Haven't read in a bit because of school, but I always sleep better after reading.

I love Michael Crichton! my fav. is Timeline just think its sweet how it kinda all goes around in a circle.:banana:

[noopypoop]

Books?Pfft.:smoker:

[killergamer]

LOL what kids don't read any more... Pfft I'm 16 and love just sitting down and read. Trust me if you ever just wanna relax read a good book a book can also make the times that your bored go away.

[simon275]

I read a lot. There are to many to list.

So I will leave you with this my favorite authors in general for reading when I am relaxing and don't have to think are Andy Mcnab, Chris Ryan, Robert Ludlum, Clive Cussler, Tom Clancy, Patrick Robinson.

[killergamer]

I like talking to people that actually read books. All my other friends don't read for fun they think that it is a waste of time then when there board they complain about not having any thing to do.

[Bopher]

Oh, please tell me you are including Vector Prime in your list of SW books that are good.

Of course. I have Vector Prime in hard cover I couldn't wait for the paperback. I forgot about Terry Brooks, the Shannara Series is awesome. I don't know what it is, when you get a book even an old one from teh library and you open it up, it just has this smell about it.

[Trace]

Favorite Author: Agatha Cristy
Favorite Series: Artemis Fowl, Harry Potter, and ...Can't think of it.
Favorite Book(s): And Then There Were None (A.k.a Ten Little Indians) By Agatha Cristy, DaVinci Code By Dan Brown.

[Zephik]

The Inheritance Cycle

Eragon
Eldest
Book 3
Book 4Harry Potter

Philosophers Stone
Chamber of Secrets
Prisoner of Azkaban
Goblet of Fire
Order of the Phoenix
Half Blood Prince
Deathly HollowsArtemis Fowl

Artemis Fowl
The Arctic Incident
The Eternity Code
The Opal Deception
The Lost Colony
The Time Paradox
His Dark Materials

The Golden Compass
The Subtle Knife
The Amber SpyglassJohnny The Homicidal Maniac (Comic Books)
Issue one
Issue two
Issue three
Issue four
Issue five
Issue six
Issue sevenDragonlance - The Chronicles Trilogy

Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Dragons of Winter Night
Dragons of Spring Dawning
Chronicles of Narnia

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Prince Caspian, the return to Narnia
The Voage of Dawn Treader
The Silver Chain
The Horse and His Boy
The Magicians Nephew
The Last Battle
To Kill a Mockingbird

Non-Series
The Outsiders
Non-Series
Song of Fire

Non SeriesThe Hobbit

Non-Series?
Redwall (way too many to list)

Mossflower
Redwall
The Long Patrol
Alice in Wonderland

Non-Series?
Fahrenheit 451

Non-Series
...and possibly a few others that I can't remember at the moment. The items in Red indicate that I have not read those books yet.

[noopypoop]

i Used to love to read. I was so exited for harry potter 7 , but actually didnt finish reading it i thought it was so bad.

[Quakken]

I've read all the possible inheritance books, Harry Potter, Artemis fowl, the Chronic(what)cles of narnia, some of these christian books (just took a trip, read all 800 pages of the first 4 books in four days)... Yeah. There are others of course, but I can't think of them.

The last harry potter book, although very good nearing the end, had a far too long middle part where they just don't do anything. But I got through it, and ended up finishing it in two days.

[slytherock]

Authors:

Asimov
Van Vogh
Zelazny
Werber
Pennac
JJ Pelletier
Dostoievski
Robin Hobb

[killergamer]

Authors:

Asimov
Van Vogh
Zelazny
Werber
Pennac
JJ Pelletier
Dostoievski
Robin Hobb

Sorry to say I have never heard of any of those authors

[Zephik]

Wasn't Asimov the Red Eye dealer from Tijuana in Cowboy Bebop? :D

But no really, I haven't heard of any of those authors before either. What genre of authors are they? That could determine why, since I really only read fantasy.

[slytherock]

Sorry to say I have never heard of any of those authors


Wasn't Asimov the Red Eye dealer from Tijuana in Cowboy Bebop? :D

But no really, I haven't heard of any of those authors before either. What genre of authors are they? That could determine why, since I really only read fantasy.

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Asimov (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov)

Van Vogt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._E._van_Vogt)

Zelazny (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Zelazny)

Dostoevsky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoevsky)


Come on guys... and you call yourselfs geeks???

I can continue, but I think you get the point...


Edit: and for those who like Eragon: give up on that crap, try The Farseer Trilogy from Robin Hobb insteed. You love Harry Poter??? try The Chronicles of Amber, that's real reading

[NightrainSrt4]

Asimov was brilliant. Only had a chance to read a few choice books but of those they were pretty amazing.

Here's one for you guys. I can't remember for the life of me what they are or who wrote them. They are probably extremely childish at this point, but I know they are oldies so maybe some of you guys know what I am talking about. I've been looking forever and can't find them.

They are books, mostly science fiction and on most pages you are given different choices. You pick one of those choices and the story proceeds in different directions on different pages. Sometimes you cause everyone to die, or drift off into space or whatnot. God I loved those books when I was extremely young. They were all like science fiction, I just can't remember who the hell wrote them or what they were called. If anyone knows I would be EXTREMELY grateful to find this information. I spent many childhood hours escaping with these books. :think:

[xRyokenx]

Choose Your Own Adventure?

[Quakken]

I read the original eragon, and although it wholeheartedly rips off of every fantasy book ever written, I want to see how it ends. Harry potter is childish, but hey- at least I'm reading.

It's better than not, isn't it?

[NightrainSrt4]

Just looked that up. OMG are you a GOD dude. +rep!!!!! Now to see if I can find some of those old classics at the bookstore/libraries. They are probably super lame at this point but now I finally know what I am looking for. Thanks so much!

[xRyokenx]

Heh... those books are like RPGs in book form, lol. They were fun to read. Hell, I'd read through them in order by pages (1-100, etc.) instead of following the adventure when I got bored and had nothing better to do. I don't know what the purpose was but it was kind of interesting, lol.

I should start reading more... especially since I finally got a good job and am getting good pay, lol.

[Drew]

Choose your own adventure.

I remember.....

And I wanted to get more.. but now I can't find the series I used to read :(

I can find CYOA books, but the ones I remember reading I seem to remember being mainly orange covered (however I could be wrong) with Silvery stuff on the cover... and dice on the bottom of all the pages....

Anyone know what on earth I'm blathering on about....?

[Pointy_Stick]

My favorite author is easily Matthew Reilly. He's an Australian author who writes books best described as Hollywood action movies in book form. Imagine that kind of over the top action, with lots of shooting, explosions and daring plans and you're pretty much there. And it moves at a pace I have not seen in any other book. His books don't get bogged down with useless things like believable characters or so called "realism" and "physics" and gets straight into the action.
Basically what I'm trying to say is imagine something like "Die Hard" as a book. Now imagine that book was good. Thats what Matthew Reilly is like.

[.Maleficus.]

Eragon series, all of the Ender's Game books (especially the "Shadow" series), Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen (that's a series), Brave New World, 1984, Animal Farm, All Quiet on the Western Front..

I'm sure there's more that I can think of, but not on 6 hours of sleep.

[Luke122]

The Xanth Series, Incarnations of Immortality, any Clive Cussler book, Dragonriders of Pern. Loved 2001:A Space odessy and the 2nd book. A few of the Star Wars books that are out especially the ones after Vector Prime.

Incarnations of Immortality is tied for my favorite series of all time... with the Vampire Chronicles.

[blueonblack]

Where are all the Tolkien fans? Lots of fantasy listed here but not many lotr mentions. Having read them again recently (beginning with The Hobbit), I was shocked at how different The Hobbit read. Gandalf is completely different, and the whole book reads like it was written for middle school. Interesting.

Oh, yeah, back to favorite books. A few authors and my favorites by them. They all have others but these top my lists.


It by Stephen King (his best work)

Without Remorse by Tom Clancy

Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (SO much better than The Davinci Code)

The Death Gate Cycle by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (7-book fantasy series, presently reading it for the third time)

Friday by Robert Heinlein

Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard (yes, the movie was one of the most horrible pieces of audiovisual garbage ever created by the hand of man)

Usher's Passing by Robert McCammon

The Heir to the Empire series by Timothy Zahn

The Integral Trees by Larry Niven

State of Fear by Michael Crighton

From the Corner of His Eye by Dean Koontz (a very weird author, some of his stuff is excellent, some of it reads like a seven-year-old wrote it)

The Lion's Game by Nelson Demille

Elminster in Myth Drannor by Ed Greenwood (all the Elminster books are great)

A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle (a gift at age nine, it opened the whole concept of dimensional mechanics to me)

The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper

Songs of Distant Earth by Arthur C. Clarke

Every Forgotten Realms novel R.A. Salvatore has written


There are a lot more, but we can't list them all, can we? :D
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[.Maleficus.]

I forgot to mention Heinlein. Starship Troopers, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

[xRyokenx]

I forgot to mention Heinlein. Starship Troopers, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

Heinlein kicks ass. I need to pick up some more of his stuff one day soon. Stranger in a Strange Land was pretty good too. Hooray for opening my mind up to different views on the world, lol.

[Vertigo]

Very interesting thread, I'm a rhetoric major myself. So I HAVE to read a lot lol. But that's never been a problem.

As for favorites (in no particular order):
Albert Camus - The Stranger
Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game & Ender's Shadow
Zelazny - The Amber Chronicles
Stephen R Donaldson - The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (the this book being my favorite)
Any Asimov or Bradbury, or HP Lovecraft for that matter.

My favorite style would have to be short horror fiction though.

[armadilloben]

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Asimov (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov)

Van Vogt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._E._van_Vogt)

Zelazny (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Zelazny)

Dostoevsky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoevsky)


Come on guys... and you call yourselfs geeks???

I can continue, but I think you get the point...


Edit: and for those who like Eragon: give up on that crap, try The Farseer Trilogy from Robin Hobb insteed. You love Harry Poter??? try The Chronicles of Amber, that's real reading


i absolutley love zelazny i read all of the amber series and loved em

and asimov is awesome

[chaksq]

Dang can't believe I didn't see this earlier. Reading is definitely an addiction of mine, I can spend hours reading and don't want to stop. for a while I stopped reading but now I'm getting back into it. I'll add some of my favorites here. In general I like science fiction and dystopia novels although I read a wide variety of other stuff.

Novels:
One of my favorites is The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. I also like 1984 and Brave New World.

Authors:
Issac Asimov is one of my favorites with all his classics like the Foundation series.
Another author I'm really starting to like is Charles Stross responsible for novels such as Accelerando.

Series:
A number of different series I like. When I was younger I was really into the Hardy Boys books. Of course there's Harry Potter. I'm also liking the Pendragon books. Also like most of the Star Wars novels which come from a wide variety of writers.

Also I'm a sucker for Manga. Don't have too much yet but I like the Initial-D and the Love Hina series.