ivke - Member Share Posted May 28, 2012 I just wanted to know what is your favourite book (beside books from WOT series). Mine is Arch of triumph by Erich Maria Remarque. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Thorum - Member Share Posted May 28, 2012 I immediately think of three books, and cannot choose between them: Valhalla rising by Clive Cussler. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valhalla_Rising_(novel)) Sorry by Zoran Drvenkar (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/books/review/sorry-by-zoran-drvenkar-book-review.html?_r=1&ref=books) Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ivke - Member Author Share Posted May 28, 2012 Snow crash seems like something I would like. I'll try to find and read it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Suttree - Member Share Posted May 29, 2012 Best Fantasy book/series: White Luck Warrior-R. Scott Bakker "Prince of Nothing & Aspect Emperor Series" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Nothing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aspect-Emperor Literature Blood Meridien-Cormac McCarthy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Meridian Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sakaea - Member Share Posted May 29, 2012 (edited) A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin And I can't pick just one of the books, so it's my other favorite series. Edited May 29, 2012 by Sakaea Quote Link to post Share on other sites
moldham - Member Share Posted June 1, 2012 Have to go with Harry Potter such a big part of me growing up must have read them all ten times. I still love reading them (not as much as WoT though lol) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jaedan_edhel - Member Share Posted June 1, 2012 Tough one. I've got a few favourites from different genres but for Fantasy, I'd find it hard to choose between Tolkien's 'Silmarillion', 'Rose of the Prophet' (trilogy) by Weis and Hickman, 'Vampire of the Mists' by Christie Golden; I'm strangely fond of Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar series. There's also Dragonlance and Melanie Rawn... Thank the gods for Kindle - at least in a fire I can now rescue all the books I can't live without. I'm about two-thirds of the way through 'Game of Thrones' (and have been for about 6 months) and can't quite decide whether I like it or not. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Arinth - Member Share Posted June 1, 2012 Outside of fantasy... 1. Catch 22 2. 1984 3. Catcher in the Rye 4. Lord of the Flies 5. Fahrenheit 451 Fantasy: Steven Erikson's Deadhouse Gates and Memories of Ice. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
condonmc - Member Share Posted June 2, 2012 Redwall by Brian Jacques The Great Sioux Trail by JOSEPH A. ALTSHELER The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Promise of the Witch King by Ra Salvatore and all the wheel of time books it all started with redwall though......that series guided me through some tough times as a child and gave me an escape. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
John E. Kelley - Member Share Posted June 2, 2012 The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand Quote Link to post Share on other sites
brujah - Member Share Posted June 2, 2012 THE MALAZAN BOOK OF THE FALLEN BOOKS ONE THROUGH TEN -STEVE ERIKSON Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Thorum - Member Share Posted June 2, 2012 THE MALAZAN BOOK OF THE FALLEN BOOKS ONE THROUGH TEN -STEVE ERIKSON Guess that makes it a hundred times more important than the other ones? Probably not, just more anoying... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
balefired-ed2 - Member Share Posted June 3, 2012 Fantasy- ASoIAF 1-3 First Law trilogy +Best Served Cold+ The Heroes Prince of Nothing + Aspect Emperor Earlier Malazan books, the later ones were not that enjoyable to me. Non-Fantasy- 1984 Brave New World Guns, Germs, and Steel A Mighty Fortress Capitalism and Freedom Why the West Rules, for Now Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tiinker - Member Share Posted June 4, 2012 Anything Peter Hamilton Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Arinth - Member Share Posted June 7, 2012 Balefired, did you like 1984 or brave new world more? The similarities and differences are both pretty interesting. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
balefired-ed2 - Member Share Posted June 7, 2012 Balefired, did you like 1984 or brave new world more? The similarities and differences are both pretty interesting. 1984. I felt like I knew Winston Smith better than any character in Brave New World. Also, I felt the ending was more powerful, as in 1984s dystopia there is no room for individual agency, unlike Brave New World where free thought, while discouraged, will only get a person exiled to live and think as they choose. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Masema - Member Share Posted June 8, 2012 My favorite book of all time is actually one that came out recently. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. This book is absolutely amazing. It made me laugh, cry, and smile. This book effected me in so many ways. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to have one of the best reads of their lives. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Arinth - Member Share Posted June 9, 2012 Yeah I agree with 1984. Really showed how scary an unchecked government can become where they can even turn kids from their parents. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JDM - Member Share Posted June 14, 2012 (edited) The only fantasy I have read thus far has been The Morgaine Saga by CJ Cherryh so it is the best lol. I read the Hobbit years ago, but I can't really remember it. I definitley need to read it again as well as the Lord of the Rings. Tonight I will begin the WOT so I am very excited. I guess the best book(s) I have read thus far would be On the Road by jack Kerouac and The Catcher in the Rhye by J.D. Salinger. Edited June 14, 2012 by JDM Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hallow - Member Share Posted June 16, 2012 For Fantasy series it has to be the Malazan Book of the Fallen. Overall, probably 1984. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
peacesells - Member Share Posted June 23, 2012 Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever 1st trilogy. (Reading the last trilogy now and it's kinda of painful. I'm skipping tons of text in it.) The sword of Truth trilogy (The first trilogy is great. The subsequent books range from very good to preachy.) Another fine Myth. (Just all out completely fun books. Robert Asprins Phule series is great too.) The Blue Adept series (IMO Piers anthony's best stuff. As far as what I've read of his. He's written way more than I can read.) The Rift War Saga (Raymond Feist's first series was great!) The Empire Trilogy by Raymond Feist and Janny Wurtz based on the same world as the rift war saga was pretty close to being even better. Shogun. Amazing book. Could not put it down. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sid - Member Share Posted June 28, 2012 A Storm of Swords, GRRM Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paul H - Member Share Posted August 9, 2012 That's a very tough question, but I guess I'll go with a classic and say Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Thorum - Member Share Posted August 10, 2012 That's a very tough question, but I guess I'll go with a classic and say Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. You liked it? That would be the first time I hear someone claiming Huckleberry Finn being a good book. Interesting, yes, but oh so hard to get through... That's a surprise from someone on a fantasy-book-based forum Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paul H - Member Share Posted August 10, 2012 (edited) You liked it? That would be the first time I hear someone claiming Huckleberry Finn being a good book. Interesting, yes, but oh so hard to get through... That's a surprise from someone on a fantasy-book-based forum Well, first, I would say that I'm even more of a Mark Twain fan than a fantasy fan. I have read almost every single book and short story that Twain published in his lifetime, as well as a few that were published later. I just love his humor, his prose, and his light-hearted way of looking at life (in his earlier books -- though he also wrote some very dark books late in his life). You mentioned that you found Huckleberry Finn to be hard to get through, but that wasn't my experience at all. I'm guessing that the dialog -- and particularly the various dialects used -- were probably what you found most difficult. In my case, it probably helps that I grew up about three miles from the Ohio River, and only about 50 miles from the Mississippi River. So for me, some of the dialects in the book aren't radically different from the way that I have heard actual people speaking. On the other hand, I see that you are from Brussels, and I'm assuming that's not Brussels, Illinois. :-) So it would be understandable if the dialects in the book seem a lot more bizarre to you than they do to me. Edited August 10, 2012 by Paul H Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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