The Dark Tower series by Stephen King is my all time favorite. Roland kicks serious ass.
The Eyes of God and The Devil's Armor by John Marco... dang they sound like religious books... but they aren't... political/military/brutal fantasy. Good stuff.
The Legend of Huma by Richard Knaak, only DragonLance book I have ever read but it was damn good.
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers is a GREAT book about the Vietnam War. I wouldn't recommend this to a young teen though, because it has quite a bit of language.
EDIT: 2 Short reads i forgot to mention were: Soldier's Heart and My brother Sam is Dead. Those 2 I found were very interesting about actual wars. Soldier's Heart is short, but its packed with action and some great writing.
dude those goosebumps books used to ROCK back in the day... They were totally Uber
OH and by the Way ANOTHER great book that changed my life... "Animal Farm" -- forgot the name of the author (also do not judge it from it's movie)
What's your Wu Name? Donovan --> Wu Name = Violent Knight Methane47 --> Wu Name = Thunderous Leader "Some people call me the walking plank, 'cuz any where you go... Death is right behind you.." <i>ME<i>
David Eddings was born in Spokane, Washington in 1931, and was raised in the Puget Sound area north of Seattle. He received a Bachelor of arts degree from the university of Washington in 1961. He has served in the United States Army, worked as a buyer for the Boeing Company, has been a grocery clerk and has taught college English. He has lived in many parts of the United States. He's first Novel, High Hunt, was a contemporary adventure story. The field of fantasy has always been of interest to him, however, and he turned to The Belgariad in an effort to develop certain philosophical ideas concerning that genre. Leigh Eddings has collaborated with her husband for more than a dozen years. The Eddings live in the Southwest.
Books by David Eddings
High Hunt.
The Losers.
The Belgariad.
Pawn of Prophecy.
Queen of Sorcery.
Magician's Gambit.
Castle of Wizardry.
Enchanters' End Game.
The Malloreon.
Guardians of the West.
King of Murgos.
Demon Lord of Karanda.
Sorceress of Darshiva
Seeress of Kell.
Belgarath the Sorcerer.
Polgara the Sorceress.
The Rivan Codex. Ancient Texts of THE BELGARIAD and THE MALLOREON.
The Elenium.
The Diamond Throne.
The Ruby Knight.
The Sapphire Rose.
The Tamuli.
Domes of Fire.
The Shining Ones.
The Hidden City.
The Redemtion of Anthalas
Regina's Song
Alastair Reynolds Books
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I'm a science fiction writer based in the Netherlands. After twelve years of postdoctoral science work, including ten within the European Space Agency, I finally turned full-time writer in March 2004. I started selling short stories in 1989, and after ten years of that branched into novels. My first book was REVELATION SPACE, which appeared in the UK in Spring 2000 from Orion books, followed by CHASM CITY in May 2001, REDEMPTION ARK in June 2002, and ABSOLUTION GAP in November 2003. ACE have published the first four novels in the States, and will publish the next one in July 2005.
Just out from Orion: the standalone novel CENTURY RAIN. I am now working on another novel, again unrelated to the others, concerning space exploration and first contact.
Chasm City, is the second book by Reynolds and is set in the same universe as Revelation Space. However, this is not a direct sequel. While it mentions one or two characters from Revelation Space, beyond that, it is a completely stand alone novel using the same setting. It also winds up having a slightly different feel to it. While it still plays out in the same broken down, dark universe that appealed to me so much, this one is a bit more of an action tale versus the more space opera feel of Revelation Space. It is mostly centered around a mercenary, Tanner Mirabel, and his quest to avenge a mission gone wrong. The book starts off with some incredible scenes as Tanner launches his quest. The scene around the Needle is immediately drew me in and sold me on the book. From the war ravaged planet of Sky's Edge Tanner head's to Chasm City where Reynolds goes into much greater depth about it's plight. Chasm City itself is an incredible idea, a world much so reliant upon technology it backfires in a pretty horrifying manner. Reynolds describes the city and it's society in terrific detail, including the Glitter Band, and even The Game, which he briefly teased us with in Revelation Space. Overall, the setting is just as good as in Revelation Space, here concentrated mostly to a few locations, but done in great detail. Another big step forward, I felt, was around the characters. Reynolds does a nice job going into the main characters, in particular Tanner, his employer, and Sky. Tanner is a very multi-angled character, from which a lot of the book is told from his perspective. Without doing such a good job on Tanner, a lot of the book's mystery and twists would have been lost. And this one certainly has it's share of twists and turns. Which brings me to the reason why I couldn't give this one five stars. For the first half of this book, I was convinced it was a five star book and was completely entrenched in it. But then, when the pace picked up, and some of the twists and turns started to reveal themselves, the plot became a little too convenient for Tanner and his quest. Characters began helping for really weak reasons, he was able to stumble on things, etc. that were just way to coincidental. Also, there was a lot of explaining of the plot through conversation with other characters, which grew a little annoying by the end. But, beyond that, this was still a great read, probably even a little better than Revelation Space (it's close though). Chasm City itself, is worth the read, and Reynolds does pull off an extremely complicated tale, which is why I think he fell into some of the traps he did. I think his next book, Redemption Ark, picks up where Revelation Space left off, but, this is not one to be skipped over.
I love to read those Robert Jordan books, they really take me to the world he describes. They are big books so you got to like reading. I like Harry Potter too because they are well written and you want to know how the story goes on. Tom Clancy's books I read most of them too and then some books in dutch.
"One day all will die, surely you but never I." Wheel of Time
OH and by the Way ANOTHER great book that changed my life... "Animal Farm" -- forgot the name of the author (also do not judge it from it's movie)
George Orwell. It's a wonderfully simple book that presents an allergory of the Russian Revolution. All that needs to be said (apart from read it!) is: "ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS!".
Oh, I completely forget:
* Brave New World - Aldous Huxley.
Where to start? Advances in production and technology extrapolated to their logical conclusion in a future Utopia (Dystopia?), where Humans are free from the evils that benign the world: war, poverty and hunger. It is a world where Humans live a rototic, souless existence, and have choosen to be ignorant and to love their own slavery.
The power of the novel is the visionary way Huxley used current production techniques, technological advances (genetic engineering), and even social mores (drugs, promiscuity) and extrapolated them to form a vision of the future that we are hurtling towards without any awareness of the consequences.
One of the books you will read and realise that you should have read it many years ago.
Regards, Riotgirl
"If you think I'm plucky and scrappy and all I need is love, you're in way over your head. I don't have a heart of gold or get nice. There are a lot nicer people coming up. We call them losers."
Sorry I cant give you any title (Im a spanish reader and titles are awfuly translated when arrived to Spain), but I can give you some writers... (with tons of books each one)
sci-fi:
Phillip K. Dick (remember blade runner, or totall recall, minority report... they came from books... greaters books)
Michael Crichton of course... more sci-fi and less political
Isaac Asimov (why not?): one of the biggest... but he sleeps in space... future have not to be in steel
political... fighters of the word and so:
...sorry here I know some of them... but they are just spanish... and I think there are not translation
Anyway try them on your own, fighters of the word are in everywhere.
"Light can be in the deepest darkness... so let the darkness be the way"
The books Calling on Dragons and Talking to Dragons are two very awsome books. One thing im pissed about is that when i looked them on on the next just now, they changed the AWSOME RELISTIC ARTWORK to some stupid CARTOONIC ARTWORK maybe to attract kids .
LotR 1,2 and 3 Our Agent in Havan- Graham Green, there is a film with Pierce Brosnan where he is a secret agent sent to Panama is based on this book Carter beats the Devil- Glen David Gold (about Carter the Great, a former magician based on true facts with "some" fiction put inbetween)
Originally posted by Rikimaru_X The books Calling on Dragons and Talking to Dragons are two very awsome books. One thing im pissed about is that when i looked them on on the next just now, they changed the AWSOME RELISTIC ARTWORK to some stupid CARTOONIC ARTWORK maybe to attract kids . Here is a look of one of the original covers:
LOTR series ,SIlmarillion, book of lost tales, and the Enders game series (second one with the pig people sucked), and of course CALVIN AND HOBBES!!!!111oneone
Anyway, Im writing to complain about the replies... the subject of this topic is "What are the best books you have ever read"... but Kiamde wrote:
"please don't bog down this thread with fantasy novels"
I havent read
"Talking with dragons"... but i think it is not a sci-fi novel... maybe spionage... or historical?...
Same with "Silmarillion" (I have read this one... but I havent liked it at all ) or "book of lost tales" (it sounds like J.R.R. Tolkien too...)... Tolkien is not famous for writing essays... or black novels... terror or mistery...
"Light can be in the deepest darkness... so let the darkness be the way"
all i can say is R.A. Salvatore and Terry Brooks. two of the greatest author's, to me anyways (of course its fantasy, except for the star wars books by R.A, they are sci-fi)
but my wife is reading the Dark Tower series from Stephen King and she says its very good.
Originally posted by Kiamde I was curious. I need some ideas for a new read. Now, I make one request- please don't bog down this thread with fantasy novels.
I enjoy many of Tom Clancy's novels. Rainbow Six and The Hunt for Red October are probably my favorates. I also enjoy the occasional Steven King novel. Michael Crichton is a great author and I have read all of his novels and I look forward to reading his new book on his political views.
Did you read the newest book released by Michael Crichton? I cannot remember the name right now. But the cover has a black and white pic of a cloudy kind of stormy sky. It released I think in Dec 3, 2004. Roughly 2 months ago.
One of the best books I've ever read is Watership Down. It's about rabbits... well not really, it's about goverments pre-WW2... but it uses rabbits. So it's an interesting read.
For something of a classical nature, I'm an Edgar Allan Poe man myself. Any of his shorts or poems like the THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO, THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER, NEVER BET THE DEVIL YOUR HEAD, THE SYSTEM OF DR. TARR AND PROF. FETHER, THE TELL-TALE HEART, and there are many more, are a good read.
I like Tom Clancy as well. My favorite book by him is RED STORM RISING.
I like Tolkien's works as far as fantasy is concerned.
Have you read any of Issac Asimov's works? FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE and the other FOUNDATION series novels, I-ROBOT(the book is way better than the movie), and CAVES OF STEEL(Robot City).
The Foundation series by Isaac Asimov (sp) are excellent easily one of the greataest series I've ever read. Other than that, The Dune series by Frank Herbert, Ray Bradbury is excellent as well, I suggest Farhenheit (sp) 451, Something Wicked this Way Comes, and From the Dust Returned, To Kill a Mockingbird is also an excellent read, as well as anything by Shakespeare and Poe. (sorry if any of these have already been said and I do realize that a 15 year old shouldn't be reading so much but I can't help it)
Oh ya The Giver was also excellent, as well as... dare I say, Harry Potter... Micheal (sp) Crichton has written many good books like Jurassic Park, and the Lost World
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." -Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Dark Tower series by Stephen King is my all time favorite. Roland kicks serious ass.
The Eyes of God and The Devil's Armor by John Marco... dang they sound like religious books... but they aren't... political/military/brutal fantasy. Good stuff.
The Legend of Huma by Richard Knaak, only DragonLance book I have ever read but it was damn good.
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers is a GREAT book about the Vietnam War. I wouldn't recommend this to a young teen though, because it has quite a bit of language.
EDIT: 2 Short reads i forgot to mention were: Soldier's Heart and My brother Sam is Dead. Those 2 I found were very interesting about actual wars. Soldier's Heart is short, but its packed with action and some great writing.
Snow Crash
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maitenance
Just finished Hyperion - less than what I had expected. too much hype I think
Now reading 2 at the same time - Neuromancer and Perdido Street Station
yeh i felt hyperion to be a little too slow for my taste...
I mostly read little kids books and stuff for sum reason....like goosebumps and hardy boys(LOL)
but the books that i actually like to read that r mostly to my lvl are probaly the harry potter series.
dude those goosebumps books used to ROCK back in the day...
They were totally Uber
OH and by the Way ANOTHER great book that changed my life...
"Animal Farm" -- forgot the name of the author
(also do not judge it from it's movie)
What's your Wu Name?
Donovan --> Wu Name = Violent Knight
Methane47 --> Wu Name = Thunderous Leader
"Some people call me the walking plank, 'cuz any where you go... Death is right behind you.."
<i>ME<i>
Well well...
David Eddings Books
About David Eddings
David Eddings was born in Spokane, Washington in 1931, and was raised in the Puget Sound area north of Seattle.
He received a Bachelor of arts degree from the university of Washington in 1961.
He has served in the United States Army, worked as a buyer for the Boeing Company, has been a grocery clerk and has taught college English.
He has lived in many parts of the United States.
He's first Novel, High Hunt, was a contemporary adventure story. The field of fantasy has always been of interest to him, however, and he turned to The Belgariad in an effort to develop certain philosophical ideas concerning that genre.
Leigh Eddings has collaborated with her husband for more than a dozen years.
The Eddings live in the Southwest.
Books by David Eddings
Alastair Reynolds Books
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I'm a science fiction writer based in the Netherlands. After twelve years of postdoctoral science work, including ten within the European Space Agency, I finally turned full-time writer in March 2004. I started selling short stories in 1989, and after ten years of that branched into novels. My first book was REVELATION SPACE, which appeared in the UK in Spring 2000 from Orion books, followed by CHASM CITY in May 2001, REDEMPTION ARK in June 2002, and ABSOLUTION GAP in November 2003. ACE have published the first four novels in the States, and will publish the next one in July 2005.
Just out from Orion: the standalone novel CENTURY RAIN. I am now working on another novel, again unrelated to the others, concerning space exploration and first contact.
Chasm City Book
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Anne Rice - Vampire Series
Anne Rice - Mayfair Witches series
(eventually if you read both they merge at various points in later books, and books under her other names *adult reading*)
Stephen R. Donaldson - Thomas Covenant Series (Awesome Fantasy, read them many many moons ago, and now again recently)
The Descent , and darn it I wish I could remember the Author, excellent as well
aha got it: Jeff Long
One player's great game is another players derisive snort!
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"One day all will die, surely you but never I." Wheel of Time
One of the best books I have ever read was Stephen King's Pet Cemetary...It was just great and the story just wouldn't let me go
George Orwell. It's a wonderfully simple book that presents an allergory of the Russian Revolution. All that needs to be said (apart from read it!) is: "ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS!".
Oh, I completely forget:
* Brave New World - Aldous Huxley.
Where to start? Advances in production and technology extrapolated to their logical conclusion in a future Utopia (Dystopia?), where Humans are free from the evils that benign the world: war, poverty and hunger. It is a world where Humans live a rototic, souless existence, and have choosen to be ignorant and to love their own slavery.
The power of the novel is the visionary way Huxley used current production techniques, technological advances (genetic engineering), and even social mores (drugs, promiscuity) and extrapolated them to form a vision of the future that we are hurtling towards without any awareness of the consequences.
One of the books you will read and realise that you should have read it many years ago.
Regards,
Riotgirl
"If you think I'm plucky and scrappy and all I need is love, you're in way over your head. I don't have a heart of gold or get nice. There are a lot nicer people coming up. We call them losers."
Sorry I cant give you any title (Im a spanish reader and titles are awfuly translated when arrived to Spain), but I can give you some writers... (with tons of books each one)
sci-fi:
Michael Crichton of course... more sci-fi and less political
Isaac Asimov (why not?): one of the biggest... but he sleeps in space... future have not to be in steel
political... fighters of the word and so:
...sorry here I know some of them... but they are just spanish... and I think there are not translation
Anyway try them on your own, fighters of the word are in everywhere.
"Light can be in the deepest darkness... so let the darkness be the way"
The books Calling on Dragons and Talking to Dragons are two very awsome books. One thing im pissed about is that when i looked them on on the next just now, they changed the AWSOME RELISTIC ARTWORK to some stupid CARTOONIC ARTWORK maybe to attract kids
.
Here is a look of one of the original covers:
and here is the new ugly artwork: Be advised that if the original one looks good . . .u might don't want to look at this
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0152046917/ref=sib_dp_pt/104-6817633-5082344#reader-link
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MY favourite books are:
LotR 1,2 and 3
Our Agent in Havan- Graham Green, there is a film with Pierce Brosnan where he is a secret agent sent to Panama is based on this book
Carter beats the Devil- Glen David Gold (about Carter the Great, a former magician based on true facts with "some" fiction put inbetween)
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god that book work sucks, it looks like a really old bad book :S
I bet the new 1 is better :P
Of course the inside is more important than the outside
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Anyway, Im writing to complain about the replies... the subject of this topic is "What are the best books you have ever read"... but Kiamde wrote:
"please don't bog down this thread with fantasy novels"
I havent read
"Talking with dragons"... but i think it is not a sci-fi novel... maybe spionage... or historical?...
Same with "Silmarillion" (I have read this one... but I havent liked it at all
) or "book of lost tales" (it sounds like J.R.R. Tolkien too...)... Tolkien is not famous for writing essays... or black novels... terror or mistery...
"Light can be in the deepest darkness... so let the darkness be the way"
all i can say is R.A. Salvatore and Terry Brooks. two of the greatest author's, to me anyways (of course its fantasy, except for the star wars books by R.A, they are sci-fi)
but my wife is reading the Dark Tower series from Stephen King and she says its very good.
Also, America (the book).
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For something of a classical nature, I'm an Edgar Allan Poe man myself. Any of his shorts or poems like the THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO, THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER, NEVER BET THE DEVIL YOUR HEAD, THE SYSTEM OF DR. TARR AND PROF. FETHER, THE TELL-TALE HEART, and there are many more, are a good read.
I like Tom Clancy as well. My favorite book by him is RED STORM RISING.
I like Tolkien's works as far as fantasy is concerned.
Have you read any of Issac Asimov's works? FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE and the other FOUNDATION series novels, I-ROBOT(the book is way better than the movie), and CAVES OF STEEL(Robot City).
The Foundation series by Isaac Asimov (sp) are excellent easily one of the greataest series I've ever read. Other than that, The Dune series by Frank Herbert, Ray Bradbury is excellent as well, I suggest Farhenheit (sp) 451, Something Wicked this Way Comes, and From the Dust Returned, To Kill a Mockingbird is also an excellent read, as well as anything by Shakespeare and Poe. (sorry if any of these have already been said and I do realize that a 15 year old shouldn't be reading so much but I can't help it)
Oh ya The Giver was also excellent, as well as... dare I say, Harry Potter... Micheal (sp) Crichton has written many good books like Jurassic Park, and the Lost World
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
-Friedrich Nietzsche