What are your Favorite Books?

[Tom21]

What are your Favorite Books?

 

For Me It's:

 

Make Way for Dragons! by Thorarinn Gunnarsson

Human, Beware! (Magic Words, No 2) by Thorarinn Gunnarsson

Dragons On The Town by Thorarinn Gunnarsson

Dragon's Domain by Thorarinn Gunnarsson

 

ALL of

Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey

 

ALL of

Robert A. Heinlein Books! BEST Book of All Time for Me Is: "Time Enough for Love"

[Tregarin]

Favourite books?

 

Any sci-fi by Asimov, but especially the Foundation and Robot series.

 

Bill the Galactic Hero books.

 

Any by Terry Pratchett, especially the ones that star Death in a major role.

 

Any erotic book that deals with "not quite willing... at first" situations. (both ways... I'm an equal opportunity pervert )

[Old Book]

Anything by Pratchett, Gemmell or Heinlein. I've read everything they've written a dozen times or more. Almost anything by George RR Martin, but his stuff while wonderful also depresses the hell out of me. Anything by Harry Harrison. Almost everything by Philip Jose Farmer. Most things by David Drake or Leo Frankowski. All of the Destroyer series. Most things with Superheroes, bad men trying to do good, or realistic martial arts or warfare.

[D_KNIGHT_PEN]

Robert Jordan's The wheel of time series (waiting on book 14 the final book).

The Inheritance series by Chris Paolini.

And random others that range the genres of fiction, sci-fi, and romance.

[Symon]

Science Fiction:

* The best science fiction Book of all time, which is in my sig.

* Anything else by Roger Zelazny, though oddly, his Amber series, for which he is most well known is his weakest. (Though still good).

* Anything by Ian M Banks. (Consider Phlebas, The Player of Games and Excession especially).

* Anything by Jack Vance.

 

I'm VERY picky with my Fantasy, as much of it I find very weak and derivative but:

* Anything by Jack Vance.

* Anything else by Zelazny

 

Non-SF/Fantasy:

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

The Cleoptras (Novelization by the BBC)

[BlueSkyMine]

Pretty much anything by David Gemmell. Particularly, his Troy series, Hero in the Shadows and the Rigante series. He may write the same type of characters over and over again but he's very, very good at writing motivations and actions/reactions. I haven't found many authors who do that well.

[Babychucker]

Twilight

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Ragged Robin]

The Icelandic Sagas, The Kalevela, The Elder and Prose Eddas. I have no skills in translation whatsoever so I have to rely the skills of others.

Dorothy L Sayers Lord Peter Wimsey

C S Lewis - That Hideous Strength & his Narnia stories

LOTR (obvious really)

All Terry Pratchett's works

Harry Harrison - Stainless Steel Rat & Deathworld

Thom Holt - Who's Afraid of Beowolf

Neil Gaiman - American Gods (also his wonderful work on Sandman if comics count, er sorry, "Graphic Novels")

Grant Morrison (if the above is accepted, the I can add "The Invisibles")

Spider Robinson - Callahan's Crosstime Saloon.

 

For the Authors whose works made my lonely teens feel less bleak:

Michael Moorcock - The Eternal Champion (and others)

R A Heinlein - Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Starship Troopers

I Asimov - I Robot, Nightfall, Foundation series

Kurt Vonnegut - Sirens of Titan

AE van Vogt - Worlds of Null-A

Philip Jose Farmer - World of Tiers series

S R Delany - The Einstein Intersection

 

So many wonderful books and authors and so little time.

 

[Guest flingingfeces]

Currently reading a couple of thick ones lol

 

Game of Thrones A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin

The Phoenix Gaurd by Steven Burst

[EvenstarGW]

Robert Jordan's The wheel of time series (waiting on book 14 the final book).

 

I like those as well. Haven't finished reading them yet, as I don't read that often. But then again, apparently he hasn't finished writing them yet either

[Searinglich]

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne

The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri

(I know they are not books, but here are some short stories I enjoyed)

The Shunned House - H.P. Lovecraft

The Horror at Red Hook - H.P. Lovecraft

The Music of Erich Zann - H.P. Lovecraft

... and pretty much every other short story by Lovecraft

 

[Tom21]

If You Liked The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri You'll Love Job: A Comedy of Justice by Robert A. Heinlein!

 

[Symon]

Ah, a Lovecraft fan. Have you read any Clarke Ashton Smith? One of his peers, you might like that too if you haven't.

[Evilokami]

I don't wanna be "that guy" but I don't really like reading. It never keeps my interest. I'de much rather play an RPG and go and do all the things I would be reading about.

 

But That's not saying I havent read a book shelf of books because of school. And a few I did really like.

 

The giver.

House of chains.

House of leaves.

goosebumps when I was younger.

eragon.

LOTR.

A few history books.

[Kashked]

Robert Jordan's The wheel of time series (waiting on book 14 the final book).

 

I like those as well. Haven't finished reading them yet' date=' as I don't read that often. But then again, apparently he hasn't finished writing them yet either

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Well, that's because he is dead...

But don't panic, the last books will be relesed anyway, written by another author, based on the notes he left.

 

Myself, I love reading, although almost exclusivly fantasy and sci fi. Favourite authors are Robert Jordan, Terry Pratchet, Tolkien, Asimov, Heinlein, Robert Anton Wilson (both fiction and non-fiction), and Douglas Adams.

 

That and almost anything written before the year 1900...

I love the classics that have survived the centuries or in some cases even millenia, like the Gilgamesh Epos, Beowulf, The Divine Comedy, The Aeneid, The Illiad, The Art of War, Sherlock Holmes, Shakespear and various (modern) collections of ancient roman, greek, norse and celtics myths.

 

Also I read a lot of non-fiction, mainly dealing with history or politics, as well as autobiographies of various great people from history. A recent favourite in the non-fiction department is Generation Kill, the book the TV-series was based on. I am also preparing the tackle Winston Churchills account of the second world war, but before burying myself that deep into my anglofilia I will try to finish Sherlock Holmes, and the collected works is quite a brick to put it mildly.

 

Right now I am listening through the complete works of Isaac Asimov on audiobook, and reading The Complete Sherlock Holmes and a book about the history of slavery (I always keeps three books, one audiobook for bed, one "real" for the comfy chair, and one for the bathroom for those times when you are stuck there...).

 

Right now I am however in the middle of my thesis work on the university, so a lot of my reading-time for the next couple of months will be related to that...

[razerparero]

These are all my favorite Books :

1. Harry Harrison - Stainless Steel Rat & Deathworld

2. Thom Holt - Who's Afraid of Beowolf

3. Hamlet - William Shakespeare

4. Romeo & Juliet - William Shakespeare