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I got a free copy of Clive Barker's Jericho (on PS3, which i don't have) and it came with the short novel Mister B Gone. I can't say i was all that impressed with it... i'd compare it to my experience with Daniel X. I've heard Mister B Gone is very different from his old(/usual?) stuff.

garret wrote:I liked vector prime(star wars) why did they kill of chewbacca?

I was disappointed too, but it was better than him dying of old age. It took a goddamn moon hitting him at full pelt to kill him. That's one tough Wookiee.

Moby Dick.

Is there ever an explanation as to why the white whale is called Moby Dick? I never bothered reading it.

...Probably something to do with white people and their fantasies lol!

It is probably because the publishers wouldn't let them call it something stupid... like... Free Willy, or something...

Perhaps it's a misprint...perhaps it was supposed to be the whales title,Moby the dick!!!

LOL!

He DID sink a whole boat. (But the guys were whalers, so they were dicks too)

Based off a real albino whale called Mocha Dick, Mocha because that's the island around which he was encountered.

And Dick becuase...

Sounds better than Mocha Richard.

EDIT: I must have been 12 when I posted that joke.

+ 1 for David Gemmel. Loved all his books that I have read.

Also, three of my favourite fantasy series: The Riftwar Saga, The Serpentwar Saga, And Daughter/Servant/Mistress of the Empire.

2 by Raymond E Feist, one by R.E. Feist and Janny Wurts.

Jimi Nemesis wrote:+ 1 for David Gemmel. Loved all his books that I have read.

Also, three of my favourite fantasy series: The Riftwar Saga, The Serpentwar Saga, And Daughter/Servant/Mistress of the Empire.

2 by Raymond E Feist, one by R.E. Feist and Janny Wurts.

Have you read the rest of his books based in midkemia

The list would take forever but current favs alt hist book series by Naomi Novik Napoleonic era with Dragons, Anne Mcaffree, L.E. Modesitt, John Ringo

Sorry for the thread necromancy here, but with all the negative book threads riding about, i was going to start up a topic of my own, and searched this first...


without further ado, the books or authors that i have enjoyed the most:

Robert E. Howard.. His Conan stuff is just ace, and i am about to hit into Solomon Kane.
H.P. Lovecraft

"Fight Club" By, Chuck Palahniuk

and, sadly, i have immensely enjoyed the wheel of time series (only read up through the ones robert jordan himself wrote, not sure about the ones co-authored by some other guy, post RJs death)

Catch 22 was great, as was LotR.

Mhm...

A brave new world
Starship Troopers
Gears of War: Aspho Fields
Diablo: Sin War Trilogy
Goblin Quest

And pretty much anything by Dan Abnett.

I've got several favorites, but here are three that come to mind:







And of course LOTR

Don't have a favourite book, but I have a favourite series; Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Cycle.

Wow, forgot that this thread even existed.

I guess I can use this opportunity to pick out my new favourite, which is without a doubt anything and everything by Joe Abercrombie. The Blade Itself, Before they are Hanged, Last Argument of Kings, Best Served Cold and The Heroes. All fantastic, but I might say especially the first three.

Liseys Story by Stephen King.

1+ for the Assassins Aprentice and Tawny Man books, they're great.

I would say 'The Road' I have had plenty of books i have eaten up in a day but i have never felt such emotion in simply reading a book. Runner up is 'The Screwtape letters' by C.S. Lewis, it is about a Devil trying to tempt a good christian into minor misdeeds that could send him to hell, sounds like it could be preachy but it is just a great read. The last few 'letters' constitute my favourite prose ever.

Scifi wise i would say 'Excession' by Iain M Banks it plays out like some beautiful shambles and finally coalesces into a great ending. Honourable runnerf up 'Use of Weapons', 'Player of Games' and 'Consider phlebas' Read all four of these books pretty much in a row, which is rare for me i usually get bored of the same kind of book. Oh and that book about aliens that harvest humans for meat, forgotten what it's called, that's great.

Jurasssic Park, Brave New World, Animal Farm, World War Z, A Handmaid's Tale, and The Sum of All Fears top out my books list.

All right. Let's see

American Gods by Neil Gaiman.. bringing mythology and folklore into the modern world.

The Princess Bride because... c'mon

Northworld... because I love modernized Norse stuffs

The Black Company... 'cause it's probably the best stuff, ever. Like ever.

The Dread Empire series... cause it's the Black Company before there was a Black Company.

Dresden Files and Codex Alera by Jim Butcher, Awsum

any John Ringo stuff.... 'cause he's like me but with a publishing deal

Harry Turtledoves series of "what if the South won the civil war series" starting with How Few Remain"... an awesome 11 books epic so long as you can ignore 1000 references to how Confederate cigarettes are better than Union.

the Deepgate Codex by Alan Campbell

Garret Series (by Glen Cook, who I already mentioned for the Black Company and the Dread Empire, seriously he's awesome)

The Death Gate Cycle by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

uhhhhh, anything by Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke, Pournelle, Brin, Moorcock, Gemmel, Saberhagen, Heinlein again, Pratchett, Simon R. Green, the first five books of Amber by Zelazny, Temeraire novels by Naomi Novak, Destroyermen by Taylor Anderson, John Birmingham's stuff, Robert Asprin, David Brin, Tad Williams, Piers Anthony, David Drake, David Eddings, Bruce Sterling, Larry Nivens, Joe Haldeman, Neal Stephenson, Timothy Zahn, Stephen Brust, Dan Simmons, S.M. Stirlings stuff if you like interesting ideas mucked up by deus ex machina and crazy events favoring your heroes, E.E. Knight's vampire earth, Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn, Ben Bova


I like books.

Roze wrote:Sword of Truth series Book 1 * Wizards first rule * is my fave! the rest are all so close seconds

I must have read that series... 4 times by now? by far the most enjoyable books i have ever read. I love Zedd.

The last book in the Strongbow saga.

I never felt so close to a fictitious character before. Probably because he wasn't too beyond life aside from the fact he was extremely lucky.

And the ending where Halfdan puts the neiflings right hand man six feet deep. Never before did I feel so proud of my heritage.

Emperors Faithful wrote:EDIT: I must have been 12 when I posted that joke.

You have always been 12. ;P

And The Night Angel Trilogy. The best series I have read, blows Harry Potter and LOTR away.

Perkustin wrote:I would say 'The Road' I have had plenty of books i have eaten up in a day but i have never felt such emotion in simply reading a book. Runner up is 'The Screwtape letters' by C.S. Lewis, it is about a Devil trying to tempt a good christian into minor misdeeds that could send him to hell, sounds like it could be preachy but it is just a great read. The last few 'letters' constitute my favourite prose ever.

Scifi wise i would say 'Excession' by Iain M Banks it plays out like some beautiful shambles and finally coalesces into a great ending. Honourable runnerf up 'Use of Weapons', 'Player of Games' and 'Consider phlebas' Read all four of these books pretty much in a row, which is rare for me i usually get bored of the same kind of book. Oh and that book about aliens that harvest humans for meat, forgotten what it's called, that's great.

The Road is an awesome book. One of my favorites too. Also the movie was great and followed it closely, it's a shame that hardly anyone went to see it.

Eh, it's hard to pick a favorite, but Starship Troopers, Dracula, and The Stand would all be near the top.

Edit: Do you just mean novels? Because if you include short stories, The Shadow Over Innsmouth bolts to the top of my list.

Good question, I'll categorize for my own ease.

Fiction:

The Book of the New Sun, Foundation

Nonfiction gets a couple sub-categories:

Political Science: The Clash of Civilizations (Huntington, so wrong, and therefore so great), Social Theory of International Politics (by Alex Wendt)

Philosophy: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Wittgenstein), Republic (Plato), Al-Farabi's collected works

Physics: The Feynman Lectures on Physics