Thread: Favorite Books

wow big list. why don't we make it a bit bigger?
Dirk Pit serices, really good action adventure books.
And the X-wing star wars novals, exellent.
Anyone else?

Most of my favourite authors and books have been mentioned already so i'll keep this short.

First read this in school in the 90s,and i've since reread the entire series every couple years:P

A Wizard of Earth sea by Ursula K Le Guin,and the earthsea trilogy.Great books.

Was never much of a fan of stephen kings horrors,but his dark tower series is amazing,never expected that kind of story to come from stephen king,i'd go as far to say they're a masterpiece.

I love these kinds of threads!

I like using images, a picture speaks a thousand words.

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1.Dragons of Autumn Twilight/Winter Night/Spring Dawning by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
2.The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien
3.Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn

Yeah, all other books I've read are pretty much lame and/or uneventful.




~Tourmalien

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

It came out last year and is probably the most fun book I've ever read. If you liking gaming (and by visiting these boards I'm sure that you do) you really need to check this one out. And if you are like me and were a kid in the 80's.........then the pop culture references are going to be an extra bonus for you. It's Willy Wonka meets The DaVinci Code meets Tron. Seriously, I can't recommend it enough. It goes all the way to 11 my friends.

Riders of the Purple Sage
Written by Zane Grey
Introduction by William Handley



Told by a master storyteller who, according to critic Russell Nye, “combined adventure, action, violence, crisis, conflict, sentimentalism, and sex in an extremely shrewd mixture,” Riders of the Purple Sage is a classic of the Western genre. It is the story of Lassiter, a gunslinging avenger in black, who shows up in a remote Utah town just in time to save the young and beautiful rancher Jane Withersteen from having to marry a Mormon elder against her will. Lassiter is on his own quest, one that ends when he discovers a secret grave on Jane’s grounds. “[Zane Grey’s] popularity was neither accidental nor undeserved,” wrote Nye. “Few popular novelists have possessed such a grasp of what the public wanted and few have developed Grey’s skill at supplying it.”

i would also highly reccomend anything writen by James Herriote. great stories about what it was like being a Vet in the early part of the Century.

Many good choices here, and some that I'll have to check out. A few of my favorites:

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, by Susanna Clarke
Seven Gothic Tales, by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)
An Instance of the Fingerpost and The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears, as well as his Jonathan Argyll (detective art historian!) series

The Professor's works are pretty much a given.

Other favorites include but are not limited to the Redwall series, Watership Down, the Vorkosigan Saga (especially A Civil Campaign), and assorted Neil Gaiman works.

Anyone who's:

- played MMO's
- grew up in the 80's
- loves video games
- has ever been social in online chat rooms

... NEEDS to read READY PLAYER ONE! It was such an unexpected breath of geeky awesomeness that even after the 2nd reading, I still felt like listening to They Might Be Giants while playing Space Ace wearing my Member's Only jacket! SOOO GOOD!

Here's the first two chapters should you wish to "log in"... Enjoy!

My favourite books:

1. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
2. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
3. The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter
4. The Trial, Franz Kafka
5. Dubliners, James Joyce
6. Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe
7. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
8. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
9. Short stories, Franz Kafka
10. Story of O, Pauline Réage

A very excellent thread this!.....and wow a lot of variety here.....I found some really good new finds from everyone's lists, many I had never heard of

Here's some of my favorites - (in no particular order)

Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (no doubt about it....legendary )
The Silmarillion
The Hobbit

Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
The Green Mile - Stephen King (one of the most impressive story I've ever read)
The Shawshank Redemption - Stephen King
Sphere - Micheal Crichton
The Hades Factor - Robert Ludlum
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
The Swiss Family Robinson
A Song of Fire and Ice - George R. R. Martin
Wheel of Time series

Favorite modern fiction: Baudolino, by Umberto Eco.

Favorite classic fiction: Les Miserables', by Victor Hugo.

Favorite sci-fi: Hyperion, by Dan Simmons

Favorite fantasy fiction: A Song for Arbonne, by Guy Gavriel Kay.

Favorite non-fiction: Dreadnaught & Castles of Steel, by Robert K Massie.

Originally Posted by Lyrilo

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

It came out last year and is probably the most fun book I've ever read. If you liking gaming (and by visiting these boards I'm sure that you do) you really need to check this one out. And if you are like me and were a kid in the 80's.........then the pop culture references are going to be an extra bonus for you. It's Willy Wonka meets The DaVinci Code meets Tron. Seriously, I can't recommend it enough. It goes all the way to 11 my friends.

+1!

I was coming into this thread to recommend this book, which I just finished reading. It was recommended to me by a gaming friend, and I in turn am recommending it to all my gaming friends. It's quite a ride.

(Let's make an attempt to legitimately bump all the legitimate threads in this forum, and bury the spam threads until a mod can delete them.)

1) The Lord of the Rings (the trilogy) - J. R. R. Tolkien
2) A Song of Ice and Fire (all of them) - George R. R. Martin
3) The Kingkiller Chronice (the 2 published books) - Patrick Rothfuss
4) The Left Hand of God (reading right now) - Paul Huffman
5) Dune (a classic) - Frank Herbert

A few that I didn't see mentioned.

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes.

The Saga of Recluse by L.E. Modesitt (most anything by Modesitt, really)

The Honor Harrington series by David Weber (and other series)

Horratio Hornblower series by C.S. Forester

Watchers and Strangers by Dean Koontz (most of his others get too supernatural for me...)

Great books all of them, so many I've read and re-read *sighs*, so here's a few of mine:

James white - Hospital Station series - should really be a series!
anything by Azimov - Caves of Steel leaps to mind
Stranger in a Strange land - Heinlein
The Pern series - early ones I re-read
Discworld- working my way through the *city* books once more!
Agatha Cristie - classics in their days, still worth a read
H.P Lovecraft - oh man he had creeping horror down pat.

^^ you just reminded me of this one

At the Mountains of Madness
The Definitive Edition
Written by H.P. Lovecraft




Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish visions, H. P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and dignity of his own pioneering fiction in 1931 with his quintessential work of supernatural horror, At the Mountains of Madness. The deliberately told and increasingly chilling recollection of an Antarctic expedition’s uncanny discoveries–and their encounter with untold menace in the ruins of a lost civilization–is a milestone of macabre literature.


This exclusive new edition, presents Lovecraft’s masterpiece in fully restored form, and includes his acclaimed scholarly essay “Supernatural Horror in Literature.” This is essential reading for every devotee of classic terror.