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Curious as to what other books/series everyone is into. I would have to say that my favorite book of all time is The Fountainhead with On The Road being a close second. Some favorite series are: The Foundation series by Asimov, The Dune series, Wheel of Time.

Dune series
Thomas Covenant Series
Golden Torc series (Julian May)
Conan series (original books)
Shakespeare's plays
LOTR of course
Lewis Grizzard (RIP)
Steven King
James Clavell
Phillip K. Dick
Edgar Poe
HP Lovecraft


Mostly history now, although I am currently reading the collected books of HG Wells (very cool).

Favorite Book (fiction)
Golden Torc, Lucifer's Hammer, Phantoms, IT, Shogun


Favorite nonfiction that I can think of for the moment
Schindler's List, Stephen Ambrose, Killer Angels (sort of fiction/nonfiction), The Prize, BlackHawk Down, At Dawn We Slept, Barbarians at the Gates (fall of RJR Nabisco), Stalingrad.

Discworld is still the bomb...

Vonnegut and lately Neil Gaiman.

Favourites: Pratchett, Gaiman, George R. R. Martin, Robin Hobb.
Currently reading a psychology textbook, and slogging through the Fantasy Masterworks series, as well as the complete sherlock holmes.

BloodofOrks wrote:Vonnegut and lately Neil Gaiman.

I have always wanted to read Vonnegut. It calls to me every time I'm in the library, but something usually calls louder.

My recent favourites have been:
A Song of Ice and Fire (George R. R. Martin)
The Lies of Locke Lamora (Scott Lynch)
The First Law trilogy (Joe Abercrombie)
Temeraire series (Naomi Novik)
Neverwhere, American Gods (Neil Gaiman)

Currently reading Dan Abnett's Gaunts Ghosts series after a friend gave me the omnibuses. I'm pleasantly surprised by just how good they are, having not had too much good luck with franchise tie-ins before.

The last series I got properly into was Alastair Reynold's Revelation Space series. I loves me some hard sci-fi.

Song of Fire and Ice takes priority (whenever a new book comes out)besides that though...
Drizzit series
Gotrek & Felix
Caiphus Cain
Black Dagger Brotherhood
Ravenor
Anything about the Aliens movies
Any book about the former US presidents I can get my hands on. Preferrably Andrew Jackson or Washington

Series i will read over the summer:
Malus Darkblade
Dune
Horus Heresy
D&D Eberron: The Inquisitives

Lets see now:

Raymond E Feist - all of his books especially Magician are fantastic
Gaunts Ghosts
Horus Heresy Series
Eisenhorn Trilogy
Drizzt Series - particularly the Icewind Dale trilogy

Oh man, so many.

David Gemmell's books (unfortunately the bastard upped and died before he finished the Rigante series.
Dune series.
The Legend of Drizzt.
Eragon series.
Lord of the Rings.
Harry Potter.
Halo novels.
Deltora Quest.
Too many to mention.

I'm going to make a special mention to my favourite though, Animorphs. That series was like the ultimate GRIMDARK. fething awesome. If only they had been longer.

youngblood wrote:

BloodofOrks wrote:Vonnegut and lately Neil Gaiman.

I have always wanted to read Vonnegut. It calls to me every time I'm in the library, but something usually calls louder.

Cat's Cradle is a good place to start. Galapagos and Mother Night are both excellent as well.

Gene Wolfe- Anything
China Mieville- Perdido Street Station, The Scar, Iron Council
Philip K Dick- Anything
Michael Moorcock- End Of Time series

Favorites- A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M Miller Jr, The Zen Gun by Barrington J Bayley

That series was like the ultimate GRIMDARK.

What the heck? That thing had no grimdark in it until the last book! Though it was addmittedly amazing when I was 8.

Favourite book of all time? Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein.

Favourite series. The Drenai Tales by David Gemmel

Series I like;

The Conqueror Series
The Emperor Series
King Arthur Trilogy by Bernard Cornwell
The Sharpe Series by Bernard Cornwell
The Saxon Series by Bernard Cornwell
Animorphs (When I was really young.)
The Redwall Series (When I was young, now I read them simply so I have read them all.)
Teh Rigante Series by David Gemmel
The Trojan War by David Gemmel
The Sparhawk Books
Belgariad &
Mallorean by David Eddings
Harry Potter was good.
Lord of the Rings + The Hobbit and Silmarillion were good as well. Havn't read the Children of Hurin.
Wheel of Time. (talk about going nowhere for 8 thousand pages....)

Individual books are rather too numerous to list so I will say that I read anything I can get my hands on from;

John Ringo
RA Salvatore
Robert A. Heinlein
Isaac Asimov
That guy who created Dune
Anything on the Classical Period
Anything on the Dark Ages and Viking era
Black Library Novels

And Great Teacher Onizuka but that is the only anime that I actively seek out.

Yikes I read too much...

Oh, definitely easy for me.

The Dresden Files series.
Some of the greatest books I've ever read.

Just finished Kissinger's Diplomacy. Very insightful, but probably the most unbelievably dry thing this side of the Sahara.

In terms of fiction I don't have much in the way of preferences, though I've always enjoyed Arthur C. Clarke.

Tom Clancy is a guilty pleasure. Multiple page descriptions of (read: sonnets to) near-future military gear? Yes, please.

What are books?
seroiusly.
mostly star wars and halo

I forgot to put the Ender series by Orson Scott Card. Ender's Game is one of the greatest books I've ever read.

I finished Xenocide and never go round to the rest of the series. It was surprising how Ender's Game, which was pretty short, suddenly exploded into a 500+ page mania about pigs and stuff.

Cheese Elemental wrote:I finished Xenocide and never go round to the rest of the series. It was surprising how Ender's Game, which was pretty short, suddenly exploded into a 500+ page mania about pigs and stuff.

Ya... took a strange turn that focused mostly on character development. What goes on following Bean back on earth becomes much more interesting.

Most of the stuff Don Delillo writes is great. I recommend it to anyone into post-modern minimalism.

Oh, and The Power of One is a great read. Really emotional, and it doesn't cut any corners. It's about a white English boy living in South Africa before, during, and after World War II. He grows up mostly amongst descendants of the white Dutch settlers and the book really goes into detail about the brutality directed towards the Afrikaans.

War of the Rats is a great fictional read based on the Battle of Stalingrad which, you guessed it, is a great account of the actual battle of stalingrad.


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Joseph Conrad is a great author in relation to the sea. I loved Lord Jim and Into the Heart of Darkness by him. They are just classics.

I really love how visceral Bukowski is. The man speaks his mind. It's often violent, passionate, crude, and so true. Last Night of the Earth Poems is my favorite collection from him. I also admire Robinson Jeffers for the sheer epic beauty of his poems. His connection to the California sea coast is amazing.

The Old Man and the Sea or anything pulp written by the man.

Favourite SF book.

Armour by John Steakley.

Closely followed by :

Hammer's Slammers by David Drake
Any Phillip K Dick.
Robert Heinlein Rocked.
Some of Frank Herbert's stuff also rocked (any Dune written before he died).

I love most of Tolkien's books,espically the children of Hurin.

I also like reading various Sci-Fi books which are filled with short stories.

I've always been more of an action-sci fi and heroic fantasy man myself. It started at childhood and rather than get drawn into 'pure' sci-fi, I started reading old D&D novels and the Legend of Drizzt.

When I'm not in the mood to read fiction, I flip through the Bible and find some good passages to mull over.

Well, on top of that list would be of course Discworld. Apart from the Wee Free Men (who are nice and all, but not Pratchtet's best material) he just keeps getting better every time. Is it just me, or were his last 8 or so books more about great storytelling and social commentary then just fantasy jokes? Not that the older books aren't great as well, but I have a feeling that the new ones are much better.

I devoured Song of Ice and Fire. ABOUT 2 FRIGGIN' YEARS AGO!! Seriously, if that man doesn't want to finish it, then he could just say so.

I read a lot of Star Wars Novels, including the complete New Jedi Order series but not one book/series managed to reach the brilliance of the original Zahn trilogy. If that man writes Star Wars I can hear the music while reading, it's amazing.

Anyone else heard of Locke Lamora? A great series about a master thief in an interesting fantasy world.

My brother gave me something form Hammilton for christmas, I still didn't get around to read it.