Author Topic: Books (Read 2805 times)

Sorrow · « **on:** November 17, 2008, 09:16:53 PM »

What is this blasphemy? Reading? On a forum dedicated to games?

Seriously, though, what books are you lot interested in?

Personal favorite: Watchmen.
Read it.
Now.
I MEAN IT.

70 CUDA · « **Reply #1 on:** November 17, 2008, 09:22:01 PM »

anything Knootzs.( i think i got that right)
but "from the corner of his eyes" is the best IMO

Sage · « **Reply #2 on:** November 17, 2008, 10:16:47 PM »

Inheritance Cycle.

Last Apprentice series.

Harry Potter.

Any book with scary, heart-stopping moments.

Resetti's Replicas · « **Reply #3 on:** November 17, 2008, 11:06:20 PM »

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Inheritance Cycle.

Last Apprentice series.

Harry Potter.

Any book with scary, heart-stopping moments.

So I assume you like Stephen King too?

Sage · « **Reply #4 on:** November 18, 2008, 06:51:09 AM »

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So I assume you like Stephen King too?

No. I've read the entire Dark Tower series, and it was so anticlimactic
I couldn't bear it. He is quantity, not quality.

Naryar · « **Reply #5 on:** November 18, 2008, 07:09:29 AM »

He's just a money maker...

Speaking of fiction, my all time favorites are Dune (read only three of the entire collection, but still it's great), and in a lesser extent LotR.

man manu · « **Reply #6 on:** November 18, 2008, 11:35:58 AM »

HARRY POTTER!!!!!! I have read every book about 15 times (not even exadurarting, it could actually be more)

Somebody · « **Reply #7 on:** November 18, 2008, 07:00:13 PM »

The Alex Rider series, by Anthony Horowitz.

Urjak · « **Reply #8 on:** November 18, 2008, 07:06:01 PM »

Cujo all the way!

System32 · « **Reply #9 on:** November 18, 2008, 07:14:29 PM »

His Dark Materials series, Most of the Harry Potter books, Does that Real Robots magazine count? Oh, and the zombie survival guide, 3 different encyclopedias, 15 different Nat geographic magazines and 2 dictionarys, one dedicated to science.

Sage · « **Reply #10 on:** November 18, 2008, 07:23:17 PM »

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The Alex Rider series, by Anthony Horowitz.

True Dat!

i went to Barnes and Noble today (a bookstore) and had 12 books i wanted to buy. All new books. All different series. ><. I got two cause they were all like $20.

Somebody · « **Reply #11 on:** November 18, 2008, 07:27:40 PM »

I got Snakehead about 2 weeks after it came out.

R0B0SH4RK · « **Reply #12 on:** November 18, 2008, 08:21:15 PM »

The Zombie Survival Guide is probably the closest thing to a book that I've read lately. I remember reading some stuff by Robert Jordan a while back.

Clickbeetle · « **Reply #13 on:** November 22, 2008, 10:44:43 PM »

Where to start!

Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn by Tad Williams... recently read it and it might be my all-time favorite fantasy series.

The Shannara books by Terry Brooks... I'll admit the first one (The Sword of Shannara) is fairly generic for fantasy, but his later books only get better.

The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan, who sadly died recently (though the last book is being finished by another author)

The Dune books, both the originals by Frank Herbert and the new ones by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson

The Ender books by Orson Scott Card... might be my all-time favorite sci-fi (the earlier ones at least)

The Dark Wing by Walter H. Hunt. Not well known but it's a very imaginative, interesting science fantasy quartet. I feel like there should be one more book though.

All of Ted Dekker's books, especially the Books of History series. He's a Christian thriller/fantasy author but is crossing over into mainstream.

The Wizard Knight by Gene Wolfe. I also read his Book of the New Sun... hard to get into, but worth the read in the end.

Inheritance cycle and Harry Potter (I think everyone who likes fantasy likes those)

I'm currently reading Stephen King's Dark Tower. It's not the best fantasy I've read but it's pretty good so far. It's certainly not generic at all.

WhamettNuht · « **Reply #14 on:** November 23, 2008, 03:35:03 AM »

For me, it would be:
The Golden Compass
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass
All by Phillip Pullman.

somestrangeguy · « **Reply #15 on:** November 23, 2008, 05:08:31 AM »

Books, hmm... Nope, no books for me, unless Guinnes world records count? Or Black Kight by Don Rosa(got his autograph in this book :D)

Somebody · « **Reply #16 on:** November 23, 2008, 07:44:00 AM »

I got Johnny Pesky's autograph in his biography yesterday, along with Chris Carpenter, Jonathan Papelbon's two twin brothers, and Bernie Carbo.

WhamettNuht · « **Reply #17 on:** November 23, 2008, 09:48:15 AM »

Autographs i have, roboteers (About 100 roboteer autographs, including Chris, house bot opperater and the RW judges!) and Jaquline Wilson (She came to my school, i won tickets to see her...)

Gigafrost · « **Reply #18 on:** November 29, 2008, 05:34:27 PM »

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George was a good read for me when I was in my early teens, it also gave me the munchies.

The far Side of the Mountain was gaywardspitonanoctopus because it took the mystery of being, "alone in the wilderness, survivor-man style", out....

Anonymity · « **Reply #19 on:** December 06, 2008, 01:30:27 AM »

For me it'd be...

Anything by Alistair Reynolds, good large-scale sci-fi reading.
ALL Terry Pratchett books, they are hilarious.
EVE: The Empyrean Age by Tony Gonzales was pretty good.
And I just finished reading The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton, all 1225 pages of it. It's a great book but some people may find it hard to follow the story line, it starts off with about 10 characters all in different places who eventually either come together or are killed off. It's a bit anticlimactic though.
And a while ago during a holiday in Ireland I read The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks, it also branches out a bit but in the end it's a good read.

Yeah I know, this amount of reading is completely uncool for someone my age.:biggrin: