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[M8DMAN]

So what are some of your favorite books/authors? I myself am a fan of classic sci fi and horror. Some of my favorite authors are Stephen King and Frank Herbert.

Small list of my favorites in no Particular order
1. Stephen King's The Stand
2. Frank Herbert's Dune
3. Tom Clancy The Sum of All Fears
4.Michael Crichton Eaters of the Dead
5.William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist

[Hatem]

I recently read "Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins, was pretty good, about to read the sequel "Catching Fire". One of my favorite modern authors though is Khaled Hosseini. Read both of his books "The Kite Runner" and "A Thousand Splendid Suns" and I absolutely loved them.

Currently reading "Major Problems in American History: Volume 2" for my college course (lol). I swear it is even worse than the four Twilight books I read a few months ago.

[SleeplessInSigil]

★ Diana Wynne Jones' Chrestomanci series and others (way better than Harry Potter)
★ Tales of the Otori
★ Redwall
★ Sword of Truth
★ Spellsinger
★ Drizzt series
★ His Majesty's Dragon
★ Sherlock Holmes
★ Fight Club

Modifié par SleeplessInSigil, 28 février 2010 - 10:01 .

[Eleinehmm]

M8DMAN wrote...

So what are some of your favorite books/authors? I myself am a fan of classic sci fi and horror. Some of my favorite authors are Stephen King and Frank Herbert.

Small list of my favorites in no Particular order
1. Stephen King's The Stand
2. Frank Herbert's Dune
3. Tom Clancy The Sum of All Fears
4.Michael Crichton Eaters of the Dead
5.William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist

Oh Clancy, one of the most hilarious things I have ever read – Can be totally summarized by didn’t do the research.

Back to the topic - I love New wave and pre New wave sci-fi and Victorian horror stories, which  are repetitive but quite entertaining in their own way.

Modifié par Eleinehmm, 27 février 2010 - 07:35 .

[AntiChri5]

Jim Butcher. Brilliant

Dresden files + Codex Alera. Both totally worth it. Buy them or i hurt a puppy.

Modifié par AntiChri5, 27 février 2010 - 07:35 .

[Loerwyn]

1. Stephen King's "The Eyes of the Dragon"

2. J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit"

3. All other books are irrelevant.

[Noilly Prat]

 I mostly read nonfiction, but for novels, I pretty much love anything by Ken Kesey, Kurt Vonnegut, and Thomas Pynchon. Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion is probably one of my five favorite novels.

[Vansen Elamber]

Steven Erickson and his Malazan Book of the Fallen series. An ambitious writing achievement no doubt about it but this author turns out a book pretty much every year so the wait is not to painful. He is currently working on the last book (book 10) of the series, The Crippled God. Book 9, Dust of Dreams, was released in August of 2009.

George RR Martin and his A Song of Ice and Fire series. One thing to note about this series is that George writes really really slow, usually a 5 year gap between books or more. He is currently working on A Dance with Dragons, and it is expected to be released sometime this summer or fall.

Stephen R Donaldson and his Thomas Covenant series. His books at some point nearly always bring tears to my eyes because the people in "The Land" are so passionate about life in general. This is an old series so there are tons of books that you can get and I am not sure where he is in the series.

Tad Williams and specifically his Memory, Sorrow, Thorn series. This series was completed years ago so you can go to most libraries and find his books. He also has some other titles like his Otherland series which is more Sci Fi then fantasy but still has some fantasy elements. I forgot to mention a book by Tad, a stand alone novel called The War of Flowers. Its hard to tell you what it is about, but this is one of his best novels and I really wish he would go back to that world of fairies in The War of Flowers. Also be sure to check out his more recent series Shadow Play, Shadow March, and a third book to come in that series.

Modifié par Vansen Elamber, 27 février 2010 - 10:34 .

[AceTrilby101]

Wow. A lot of high-brow stuff on display here. I myself enjoy a bit of Terry Pratchett - particulary the Watch series and Carpe Jugulum (both from Discworld) - though I intend to make a start on I, Robot by Isaac Asimov after I finish Revelation and Ascension.

[A Killing Sound]

I had an earlier thread on this subject and people stopped going to it. *sniff....

[Panderfringe]

1. Book of the New Sun, by Gene Wolfe. This is one of the few stories that get better every time I read it.



2. House of Leaves (imagine the word "House" is blue), by Mark Danielewski. It's, uh.... hmm. I like it, if only for the sake of novelty.



3. Orphanage, by Robert Buettner. I don't know why, it's not really special, but I found the entire series to be very endearing.



4. Tigana, by Guy Kay.



Never read the ASoIaF series, been meaning to, but I ehar the dude hasn't even finished it yet. That true?

[Seagloom]

Panderfringe wrote...

Never read the ASoIaF series, been meaning to, but I ehar the dude hasn't even finished it yet. That true?

It's true. It's been stuck at the fourth book for years now. There's some speculation he'll die before ever finishing considering the next book won't be the last and he's taking this long to get going.

[Nissun]

I have a question:



Jack Vance. I've read "Night lamp" a dozen times, and I love it. I want to read more of his books, but considering I don't have much time to read them all and see it for myself, could anyone recommend me a specific one to begin with? Science fiction, like Night lamp.

[Dark Lilith]

Dune-the entire series

War and Peace

The Stainless Steel Rat-series

I robot

The Original Tarzan

The original Lost World

[LightSabres]

The Belgariad series - David Eddings(First not second)
The Stand (unedited version) Steven King
Eyes of the Dragon - Steven King
Crystal Singer and Killishandra- Anne McAffrey
Ship who Sang (Series) - Anne McAffrey
Pegasus Rising (Series) - Anne McAffrey
Dragon Riders of Pern (many many books series) - Anne McAffrey

LOLz Lillith - My mom has a huge collection of original "Tarzan" books.

Modifié par LightSabres, 28 février 2010 - 01:09 .

[Statulos]

I love works of mythology; from the Bible to the Ramayana. Some day I´ll be rich and I´ll get a complete version of the Mahabharatta. <3

Theatre of almost any culture or in any form is also a thumps up for sure. I know, I know, it´s better in the stage that in public, but I still love to read it.

I´m not a great fan of novel as genre but there are masterpieces here and there such as Asimov, Zola, Malaparte...and of course, our great Golden Century authors. I must say, though, that from Baroque I enjoy poetry far, far better.

Modifié par Statulos, 28 février 2010 - 01:16 .

[darkshadow136]

1.Sun Tzu: The Art of War
2.Bushido: Code of The Samurai
3.Dante: The Divine Comedy
4.Milton: Paradise Lost
5.William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
6.Homer: The Iliad
7. Homer: The Odyssey
8.Edgar Allen Poe: The Complete Works

[Panderfringe]

I am astounded at how many people like King.

[Loerwyn]

He's surprisingly good at fantasy.

[Godak]

King's horror books are what sell, but his passion is fantasy, and it really shows.

[A Killing Sound]

I second the Stainless Steel Rat series. Easily the most enertaining series I've read.

[Sa Seba]

- everything Oscar Wilde

- Agatha Christie's works, especially Poirot

- all Karl May books (I grew up with them)

- R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing series and Neuropath