Oog Posted May 14, 2008 Report Share Posted May 14, 2008 Well, since we have talked about Favorite Movies, I thought we would go on to talk about Favorite books Rose of the Prophet Trilogy- Great books about Three Wars going on all at once, One war with Desert Tribes, Another With Djinn, and the Third with the Gods. Very Funny Guy in the Book that looks like a girl so the bad guys keep trying to catch him to do bad naughty things to him....Made me laugh a lot. Harry Potter Series<===== I am such a nerd Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice - Very Good books. Each Character in the Books have so much detail given to them. The Looking Glass Wars - A great Twist on Alice in Wonderland I-Robot Series - All I can say is that I think these books are amazing. Great Old Time Detective Stories Dealing with Robots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iusedtobesomebody Posted May 14, 2008 Report Share Posted May 14, 2008 anything Weis/Hickman anything Eddings anything Micheal Moorecock anything Salvatore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Professor Posted May 14, 2008 Report Share Posted May 14, 2008 Are you kidding me? Did you not know, that we do not read here.....? LOL Tsk, tisk.....no Wheel of Time...? I could go on forever....but I will keep it down to a select few..... Don Quixote Inferno Paradise Lost The Count of Monte Cristo The Canterbury Tales Thought I was going to put one of those Tennessee Williams plays did you not? Maybe something by Mark Twain? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iusedtobesomebody Posted May 14, 2008 Report Share Posted May 14, 2008 WoT was great the first 7 books or so then got so... bleh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Professor Posted May 14, 2008 Report Share Posted May 14, 2008 Jordan is rather long-winded......or was....such a shame...sighs.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted May 14, 2008 Report Share Posted May 14, 2008 Dan Brown - Deception Point was my favourite Raymond E. Feist - I own the whole series from the riftwar to the darkwar now Ben Bova - Great Sci-Fi books, although some can be incredibly tragic. Like the main character loses everything he loves and then dies at the end. Maggie Furey - Artifacts of power series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oog Posted May 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 Only read the first WoT, so I guess I could try to read the others now. Professor, each one of those you said are very amazing books. Weis/Hickman <===good stuff there, thats who did the Rose of the Prophet that I menchioned, older stuff by them but very very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mya Posted May 15, 2008 Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 "Don Quixote" Its quite nice, but i hate all the side stories... still stuck at 1/3 of it. Quite fun book. Get someone to lend you the Wot Books. To Buy them is a bad idea. Very good classics: "The Mysterious Island" - Jules Verne. "Five Weeks in a Balloon" (Cinq Semaines en ballon, 1863) - Jules Verne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladyoki Posted May 15, 2008 Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 Harry Potter Series – Yes I love Harry Potter, I’m a big Nerd and I’m proud to say it. Wheel of Time - I’ve only read up to the third book (I’ve heard they get better as they go on, just haven’t had the time to read. Mist of Avalon I have a list of books that I need to go read, once I find my library card. I don’t have the money to go off and buy the books. I also love to read plays and such. I love Shakespeare. And I thought I was the only one that read “Don Quixote” had to read for school, But I also have the books at home. Written all in Spanish. That was not fun to read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oog Posted May 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 yay, I love reading plays. I have taken way too many Theatre classes now and so they get me to read all types of them. I also go see lots of plays. One of my favorite past times. Maybe I can get The Professor to lend me the WoT books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a-guitarist Posted May 15, 2008 Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 Dune series by Frank Herbert. My favorite book. Expendable - can't recall who now, too lazy to amazon it. Sci fi about expendable exploring sticking it to an unjust system. Great read, the following book was enough to make me not want to read anything else in the series. Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein. Think the movies, and then think the exact opposite in suckitude. (The movies were great, in an awesomely bad way) My current that I'm just freaking inlove with? On the Road - Jack Kerouac. Just wow... semi true story. Great read. About the beat generation life after WWII. a-g Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mali Posted May 15, 2008 Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 Nine Princes in Amber - Roger Zelazny Lord of Light - Roger Zelazny The Book of the New Sun - Gene Wolfe (Especially the first book, the Shadow of the Torturer, which won the world fantasy award) American Gods - Neil Gaiman Anything Robert Graves (I Claudius, The Isles of Unwisdom, Count Belisarius) Nova - Samuel R. Delany Tales of the Dying Earth- Jack Vance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a-guitarist Posted May 15, 2008 Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 American Gods! Yes. I can't believe I forgot this. Although, I do think my copy is cursed.... everytime I get to around page 220 I have to put it down and leave the house for a reason. When I come back... I can never find it. A few months later I'll find it, start again, and continue. Only to have the same thing happen. I bought another copy, and the same thing happens with that one. Strange... a-g Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Twendrist Posted May 15, 2008 Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 -Count of Monte Christo -Runes of the Earth series -Angela's Ashes -'Tis (sequal to Angela's Ashes) -Teacher Man -Just about anything by Stephen King -Tolkien is a beast -Several star wars books, I can't remember the names of them though -Dante's Inferno -The Bourne Series (the books are so much better than the movies) There are a lot more, but I can't remember them all. I read way too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oog Posted May 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 a lot of these books that are list are amazing and makes me want to find my library card and go get them for a second enjoyment. Dune Rocks the BLock! Tolken stuff is great as well. Neil Gaiman is sweet as the Devil as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iusedtobesomebody Posted May 15, 2008 Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 re Mali: How could could I forget the Amber series?! Zelazny is great. Thanks for reminding me. Someone said Anne Rice's Vampire series. The only ones worth reading are Memnoch the Devil and Tale of the Body Thief. The rest were too... lavender... for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Professor Posted May 15, 2008 Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 funny you mentioned those two from Anne Rice...those are the ones I did not like..... The one's I enjoyed were about the individual vampire, their life's story. Pandora Blood and Gold Armand Interview with the Vampire I thought those were very rich in char development and complex story lines maybe, it is because I am bias? those are my favorite char's in the Chronicles PS DUNE is awesome anyone read Necroscope? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suunmar Posted May 15, 2008 Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 Coldfire Trilogy (Black Sun Rising, When True Night Falls, and Crown of Shadows) American Psycho A Clockwork Orange 1984 Dark Tower Series Stranger in a Strange Land Time Enough for Love Lord of the Flies Animal Farm The Sun Also Rises Fahrenheit 451 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Professor Posted May 15, 2008 Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 **bonks self on head** can't believe I forgot about Lord of the Flies....very good read.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psycho Child Posted May 15, 2008 Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 First off...Tolkien. EVERYTHING by him. (I'm a bit obsessive. I've done 3 term papers on him so far... I think I need help. ) Secondly, alot of the books already mentioned are great. I'll see if I can remember a few books that I don't think have been listed... Alhazred by Tyson Anything by Orson Scott Card Anything by Isaac Asimov Dragon Bone Chair and Otherland series by Tad Williams Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind Dragonriders of Pern series by Ann McCaffrey Wicked and Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire Lamb by Christopher Moore Lords of Darkness by L.G. Burbank Anything by David Eddings and his wife Leigh ( The Redemption of Althalus was particularly good. ) Anything by H.P. Lovecraft Anything by Edgar Allen Poe (duh) Gah, I could go on forever. Be glad I don't have access to my bookshelves at the moment to expound further. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aulian Posted May 15, 2008 Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 Fiction All of Feists books - just awesome. Tolkein - obviously. The River God series (not really a series but carries on the story from the 'river god' through 'the seventh scroll' to 'warlock') by Wilbur Smith Alot of Wilbur smith books actually. Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind - amen to that. Religious Dante's inferno - A prerequisite to a rounded human being The Koran The Bhagavad Gita (The teachings of Krishna) The four truths by the Dahli Lama Mythology Iliad by Homer - a must read obviously. Odyssey by Homer - a must read. Aeneid by Virgil - a must read obviously. I could keep going... But Im trying to an assignment. Bajillions of books I could list under those three catagories that I've read and would recommend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psycho Child Posted May 15, 2008 Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 Aulian - Try "I Ching" (Chinese) some time if you like some interesting philosophical/religious writings. Its pretty interesting. It is also known as "The Book Of Change". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aulian Posted May 15, 2008 Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 lol for someone who isnt religious (me) im quite a religious freak in the respect that I love learning/reading about them and what the belief structure involves. Its actually amazing how similar the Koran and the Bible compare in many areas - Its also amazing how similarly the current isalm extremist idealism is so similar to the crusades, where the zealots ignore the teachings of healing, generosity, peace and understanding and instead focus on the wrath and vengence. But thanks, I'll definately see if I can order a copy from Amazon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-D&Der Posted May 15, 2008 Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler Neuromancer, William Gibson The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, Herman Wouk Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser The Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut Catch-22, Joseph Heller Goodbye to All That, Robert Graves USA, John Dos Passos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psycho Child Posted May 15, 2008 Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 I have an original print of The Way of All Flesh. I'm a bit of a bibliophile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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