Topic: Best Read

ok, so im just about finished with the Dune series, and i need to know what to read next....summer is here so i have a bit of free time, any suggestions?

or just in general what is your favorite book?

im big on fantasy/sci-fi/realistic-fiction (just about everything actually)

<KT|Away> I am the Trump of IC

Re: Best Read

Go read Atlas Shrugged. Ayn Rand. Pure class and made of multiple wins. Long read though.

If you wanna stick with fantasy/sci fi, the sword of truth series by Terry Goodkind is pretty class too. Or if you are in the mood for something funnier, pick up the Discword series (order is irrelevant) by Terry Pratchett or the Hitchhiker set by Douglas Adams.

Enders game series by Scott Orson Card is a good read too... More Sci-fi though and lower reading level than Dune, but still awesome. If you wanna up reading level, try the original awesome Gormenghast series by Mervyn Peake is a must read.

Can you take the Chocolate Rain

3 (edited by Gw 16-May-2008 05:12:19)

Re: Best Read

The Fountainhead by Rand is also a good read

I love the Dresden files by Jim Butcher, they are a great melding of sci fi & fantasy with real world Chicago

[RETIRED]

4 (edited by Emi 16-May-2008 05:12:47)

Re: Best Read

the Ender series is pretty beast, i have to agree with triqster, i wrote Ender series before i read his post


i am legend is a really good book as well

DON'T GIMMIE THAT MELLOCHIA!

2003-10-30      Activated my account
2003-10-30     Registered!

Re: Best Read

If you want to stick with a fantasy themed series, I wholeheartedly recommend the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. It's a series of seven fairly large books, so it'll take you a little time, but it's worth it. I'm generally not a fan of fantasy fiction, but that series was absolutely captivating.

I tend to read a substantial amount of non-fiction, but do enjoy a large body of fiction writers. My other recommendations include Twain (A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is one of my all-time favorites), Stephen Crane, and any epic poetry.

Wario

Re: Best Read

Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre, greatest book I've read so far..

The next book I'm going to read is: Extremely loud and incredibly close by Foer

God: Behold ye angels, I have created the ass.. Throughout the ages to come men and women shall grab hold of these and shout my name...

Re: Best Read

the magician series by raymond e feist
actually all his series around that setting are great, serpent war saga etc

also the dragons of pern by anne mc caffery were really cool

The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut

Re: Best Read

I did like the feist series very much indeed

qsudifhkqsdhfmsklfhjqmlsdfhjqkmsldfhjmqklsfhmqlsfhjqmsklfhqmskjdfhqsfq
sdffdgjfhjdfhgjhsfsdfqgsbsthzgflqkcgjhkgfjnbkmzghkmqrghqmskdghqkmsghnvhdf
qmkjghqmksdjqlskhqkmsdhqmskfhjqmskjdfhqkmsdfjhqmskfhjqkmsjdfhqkm
sjfhqkmsjfhqkmsjfhkqmjsfhqksdjmfhqksjfhqskjdfhnbwfjgqreutyhaerithgfqsd
kjnqsdfqsdfqsdfmkjqhgmkjnqsgkjmhzdflmghjsmdlghjsmdkghmqksdjghq

Re: Best Read

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DON'T READ TERRY GOODKIND! Epic fail.

J00 should read the Song of Ice and Fire series.

And Ender's Game!

Re: Best Read

I dont read books!

What do I have to work with?

Re: Best Read

Do you read beer bottles?

Re: Best Read

Sometimes yes

What do I have to work with?

Re: Best Read

What beer bottles would you recommend reading?

Re: Best Read

Those with a history of the beer on it.

What do I have to work with?

Re: Best Read

Those are coincidently quite big bottles I assume?

Re: Best Read

nah, 33cl usually

What do I have to work with?

Re: Best Read

- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
novel by Mark Haddon
http://www.markhaddon.com/curious.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Curious_Incident_of_the_Dog_in_the_Night-time


- Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (1990)
fantasy novel written in collaboration between Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Omens


- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
science fiction comedy series by Douglas Adams.
you might have seen the movie, but the book is funnier:P

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy


for some "brainless" reading i've found the jack reacher novels by lee child, the alex delaware novels by jonathan kellerman and the repairman jack novels by f. paul wilson entertaining smile
also, wilson did the Adversary Cycle and some other stuff you might like.
- http://www.leechild.com/
- http://www.jonathankellerman.com/
- http://www.repairmanjack.com/

till the end of time..

18 (edited by TheYell 16-May-2008 15:27:19)

Re: Best Read

Which Dune series? Frank Herbert or Brian Herbert?

"Ringworld" by Larry Niven series is good. Also the "Gateway" series by Frederick Pohl but it's kind of whiny.  Those are hard science-fiction.

There are two books about the Moties, "The Mote in God's Eye" and "The Gripping Hand"--by Niven and Jerry Pournelle.  I liked the first one better.

Robert A. Heinlein did a lot of powerful sociology science-fiction up to the 1970s.  "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" is about a penal colony that breaks free of Terran rule.  "Stranger in a Strange Land" is a classic of the counterculture, a Man raised by Martians comes back to earth.  "Starship Troopers" is a LOT better than the movies.

For an interesting twist read "Starship Troopers" and then "The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman.  Haldeman lost a leg in Vietnam and his Galactic war story is about draftees who hate all authority.  Try to get an older version, the "New Author's Version" is one where Haldeman tore up what Ben Bova taught him and shows his original draft of the story.

Keith Laumer does a series about a future Earth diplomat who has to stop Earth pansies from giving away our galaxy to alien dictators, usually by breaking into their HQ and slapping around their bosses.  Its done for laughs.  It's called the "Retief" series, the best are collections of short stories from the 1960s.

Maureen F. McHugh did a really great novel about a future USA hit with drought and overrun by Maoist revolutionaries called "China Mountain Zhang", a half-Chinese American learns how to deal while studying architecture on both sides of the Pacific, and side-stories about street kids hang-glider racing among NY skyscrapers, and their friends on a lunar forced-labor farm.

Ender was a good series but not my favorite.  Hitchhiker's Guide was a great series but Adams died before he could make a happy ending in a sixth book.

Harry Harrison did the "Stainless Steel Rat" series which is awesome, not as preachy as his "Deathworld" series.   He also did a series about an alternate Earth where dinosaurs got sentient and learnt to breed biological alternatives to our motorized society, like algae that poop steel into seamless bands, and giant itchysaurs that can haul cargo across oceans--and the human beings that fight them.

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

Re: Best Read

for those reading beer, keystone light now puts "unsmooth moments" on all their cans.

and frank herbert, ive not heard much good about what brian did

<KT|Away> I am the Trump of IC

Re: Best Read

The Dark Tower books, by Stephen King.

Je maintiendrai

Re: Best Read

"like algae that poop steel into seamless bands"

QFT tongue

That is trully awsomme

Not many people know this, but I own the first radio in Springfield. Not much on the air then, just Edison reciting the alphabet over and over. "A" he'd say; then "B." "C" would usually follow...

Re: Best Read

Yep, the dark tower books by stephen king indeed smile

<@Nolio> Ilu was the man back in the day,he even made monkeywrench and arganon look good for half a round =p
<@iluvatar> it is my grandest achievement
<@Nolio> *half a round  =p
<@iluvatar> still
* Final_Doom is now known as Thanks_Iluvatar

Re: Best Read

The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay

To serve is to survive

24 (edited by [TI] ZoZferatu [Pw9] 16-May-2008 22:30:34)

Re: Best Read

Damn The Yell,  I read everything you quoted, except McHugh's one.

Also; how could you forget the epic A. E. van Vogt? hmm

&#9745;&#65279; Saddam Hussein &#9745; Osama Bin Laden &#9744; Justin Bieber