books

[Everay]

so recently, i picked up this new hobby, apparently people have been doing it for ages, but i just started, its called reading, and of course, i dont count fourms as reading. anywho, i wanna know, if you read, and if you do, can you suggest good sci fi books? so far, just this week, ive read Starship troopers, and Legend of the jade pheonix (battletech books, it was a trilogy, 250 pages each book, and all the books were in one book) both were good, and tommorow, ill start on Halo: the fall of reach. anywho, your suggestions for Sci fi books please.

[martyr]

clancy & hawkings

[worldvengence]

Tom Clancy Rulez all....kinda has a thing against commies tho...

[OneManArmy]

David Weber the honor harrington series (starts with On Basilisk Station) some of the best sci fi books you will read. ever. in your life. period.

[Sentrosi]

Fantasy:

David Eddings (Belgaraid, Mallorean, Ruby Throne all good series)
Terry Goodkind (Sword of Truth series)
Mercedes Lackey
Anne McCaffery (Pern series)
Michael Moorcock (Elric, Hawkmoon, Eternal Champion et al, the 'inventor' of the multiverse concept in modern fiction)

Sci-Fi:
Robert H. Heinlein
Orson Scott Card

[eXoSloth]

Fantasy:
Mercedes Lackey


<3 Mercedes Lackey

[Octavian]

Fantasy:

Tolkien for LOTR
Robert Jordan for the WoT series

[Everay]

ill look into that OMA, but i must ask, how many books are in the series?

oh, and im not reading tolken, i already saw the movie, that was long enough :p that, and, only mention your fav sci fi authors, since, thats what im into right now.

EDIT


i just looked into it, 8 books, some bigger than the trilogy of books i just read, well, it sounds good, and looks good, but will take me ages to finish, ill buy the first one when i see it. and i still have 10 battletech books to read before im done with that franchise. damn...

[Octavian]

ill look into that OMA, but i must ask, how many books are in the series?

oh, and im not reading tolken, i already saw the movie, that was long enough :p that, and, only mention your fav sci fi authors, since, thats what im into right now.

EDIT


i just looked into it, 8 books, some bigger than the trilogy of books i just read, well, it sounds good, and looks good, but will take me ages to finish, ill buy the first one when i see it. and i still have 10 battletech books to read before im done with that franchise. damn...

So do you want to die as one of the only people who hasn't read LOTR? It'll only take a year or two for you. Less time it took for all the movies to come out.

[Rayder]

Fantasy:
Robert Jordan for the WoT series
I thought his newest book was gonna be the final in the series... well apparently not, the bastard!

[Sentrosi]

One reason why I stopped reading the Wheel of Time series back around book 5. I'd poke fun of people continuing to read his work, but they would turn around and point out that I'm waiting for the next Sword of Truth book to come out.

[EineBeBoP]

ill start on Halo: the fall of reach.

Pwns!

Enders Game.
Net Force series by clancy
...umm more when i get home.

So do you want to die as one of the only people who hasn't read LOTR? It'll only take a year or two for you. Less time it took for all the movies to come out.


I absolutally intend to be one of these people. LOTR 1 SUCKED! The hobbit was great, but rest of the series blows!

[Dharkbayne]

Only a year or two? I read all 3 in a week...

[Neon Apocalypse]

the dune series Dune:The Butlearian Jihad, Dune:The Machine Crusade, Dune:The Battle of Corrin, Dune:House Atreides, Dune:House Harkonnen, Dune:House Corinno, Dune, Dune Messiah, The Children of Dune, The God Empereror of Dune, Heretics Of Dune, Chapterhouse Dune, by frank herbert

thats about a years worth of reading, ive read most of them

new halo book

Star Wars:New Jedi Order series, very good series

Otherland series: Otherland, Otherland:River of Blue Fire, Otherland:Mountain of Black Glass, Otherland:Sea of Silver Light all by Tad Williams

Darwins Radio, Darwins Children, by Greg Bear

Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, Speaker for the dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, all by Orson Scott Card

Feed, forget the author

The Redwall series, by brian jacques

thats my collection

[AztecWarrior]

Dystopian:

1984 by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Animal Farm (short and good) also by George Orwell

Some of the stuff we read for school was awesome. SOME of it. NOT Moby Dick.

[Onizuka]

I hate reading.

[Febnon]

well then dont come in here and whine.


i liked the halo books

[Vick]

Read all the classical shit first, cause it is the best.

For sci-fi I like Asimov alot, and those Halo books were pretty good.

[SDM]

so recently, i picked up this new hobby, apparently people have been doing it for ages, but i just started, its called reading, and of course, i dont count fourms as reading. anywho, i wanna know, if you read, and if you do, can you suggest good sci fi books? so far, just this week, ive read Starship troopers, and Legend of the jade pheonix (battletech books, it was a trilogy, 250 pages each book, and all the books were in one book) both were good, and tommorow, ill start on Halo: the fall of reach. anywho, your suggestions for Sci fi books please.
Don't limit yourself to one genre like Sci-Fi. A great book depends on the writer, not the subject matter.

I personally would recommend The Dark Elf Trilogy (Homeland, Exile, and Sojourn) by R.A. Salvatore.

[Neon Apocalypse]

House of The Scorpion is also very good

also right now im readin All Quiet on The Western Front, and its pretty good

[FlakMan]

Tom Clancy is a great author. I've read Patriot Games and now I'm reading Rainbow Six, great books. The Dirk Pitt novels by Clive Cussler are also really good. Pretty much anything by Tolkein, and a lot the Star Wars books are pretty good if you're into that.

[Rayder]

One reason why I stopped reading the Wheel of Time series back around book 5. I'd poke fun of people continuing to read his work, but they would turn around and point out that I'm waiting for the next Sword of Truth book to come out.
I read like two books in the Sword of Truth. Redwall is always good.

Dragonlance books, read those, NOW!

Stephen King has some books, the Dark Tower series for instance.

[1024]

"Ender's Game" - Orson Scott Card

[Everay]

alot of good books ive heard mentioned here, that i simply forgot about, liked Dune, i love the movies, and books are always better than movies, so ill get them, and everyone says enders game, ill be sure to pick that one up, and a buddy of mine mentioned Dragon lance, so ill be getting those as well, soon.


Oh, and someone mentioned Asimov, i already have a book of his, well, its a collection of his short stories, volume 1 i belive, ive read some of it, he is great.

[FlakMan]

Oh yeah, Redwall. How could I forget? Furry animals going into battle :D

[Cyanide]

I don't read a lot of novels. But these are the ones I would recommend.

The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

The Hobbit - J.R.R Tolkien (This is Bilbo's side of the story. The part that happened before the LOTR. Definately worth a read.)

The Giver - Louis Lowery (It's not a big novel, but it's my favorite book of all time. Probably the only one I ever read more than once because I actually wanted to. It's deep stuff.)

[Neon Apocalypse]

i fucking hated the giver, worst book ever

[Cyanide]

i fucking hated the giver, worst book ever

N00b!!!!! :D

Some people hate it because the real meaning in it goes over their head.

[FlakMan]

I think 1984 deserves an honorable mention here

[Octavian]

Only a year or two? I read all 3 in a week...

Exactly, but you and I are experienced readers. Everay, well he just started reading. So for really bad readers, it takes ages to read long books.

[Setari]

it only takes me ages to read long books if i dont like em :p but the military stuff like Clancy and Griffin i can read quite fast

[Rayder]

N00b!!!!! :D

Some people hate it because the real meaning in it goes over their head.No, I hate it because it's a piece of shit. Oh ma goodness! Did he run away from the racist and war free world where your job is picked for you when your 12, where you can't ride a bike until your 8, where men and women can't participate in sex freely, where they aren't allowed to pick their spouse, where hills are called "mounds" and only one person, in the entire community, has memories of what the past used to be like just so balance could be saved, and die? Or did he actually find a world like ours. I hate that book.

[Rbstr]

Aurture C clarks 2001, 2010, 2061(51?), and 3001 are good, so are the Rama series

You HAVE to read LOTR becasue even though the movies did a decent job they are awsome. 1984, Animalfarm are good. Tom Clancy stuff. Hich Hikers guide to the galaxy

EDIT: Forgot Enders Game, Speaker of the Dead, Xenocide, Childeren of the Mind(the orson scott card Ender series), Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets (paralles to the previous)

[GonePostal]

chuck palahniuk

[Octavian]

There's also a good book by Orson Scott Card called First Meetings.

[ultraviolet]

If you like war novels, check out "The Iron Lance" and "The Things They Carried."

[Everay]

you know, i looked into both those books, and i dont really want to read a war novel, wether it is the crusades or veitnam, because, both events happened, and both are apart of history, and i dont really like false stories, that didnt happen, and are based off of history. however, if the author that wrote "The Things They Carried" was a actual veteran from Veitnam, that would change my oppinion....which after reading about him, i found out he was, so mabey ill pick that one up.

[Setari]

but the funny thing is that Griffin books IMO are some of the best books i have read but they are mostly talking.....i dont understand why i think theyre so good :shrug:

[AztecWarrior]

I also recommend the following detective novels. Unlike the movies, these have violence and sex. Yes, sex. The movies were made early on when showing someone in a skintight bathing suit was offensive.

The Maltese Falcon
The Big Sleep
Double Indemnity

[Rayder]

omg the maltese falcon, havn't heard that in a while.

[EarlyDawn]

Black Hawk Down.

[Spee]

Harlen Coben & Palahniuk.

[BUGGER]

Xenocide

[FlakMan]

Black Hawk Down.
Great book, and it's purely non-fiction

[Zatrais]

Just going to name the books:

A song of fire and ice series

The Black Company

Fallen Dragon by Hamilton (best sci fi book i've ever read, highly recomended)

The BattleTech universe

The Forever War (GREAT book)

Rainbow Six

Those are some of my all time favs.

[Incompetent]

Heinlen > Herbert > all

Starfist might be a good series for you as well.

Edit: And a warning, Dune owns, but the prequels suck

[Happy lil Elf]

David Eddings (Belgariad, Mallorean, Elenium and Tamuli, Blegarath the Sorcerer and Polgara the Sorceress)
R.A. Salvatore (Dark Elf Trilogy, Icewind Dale Trilogy, Legacy, Starless Night....there are a lot, just pick some up ;) )

Some of the Star Wars novels aren't too bad. They fugde the Star Wars universe pretty bad but overall are decent.

Robert Jordan's Wheel of time is good but has been getting kinda bad with the latest books since it's generally believed he either never knew how to end the series or if he did he forgot around book five (it's on 10 or 11 at this point, I forget).

Dune series aren't too bad. They can be a little dry but overall they're pretty good.....no pun intended >_<



Basically there is a shtload of books out there. Try going to Barnes and Noble or something like it and just reading the back of some novels. It doesn't tell you a whole lot but sometimes you'll find something that catches you're eye and interests you. Form there just buy it and find out if it was worth it ;)

[Rayder]

The 1th book for "The Wheel of Time" series, "Crossroads of Twilight," is the last one he did. However, his newest one in the series "New Spring: The Novel" is the completed version of "New Spring" which can be found in bits and pieces in "Legends." It basically takes place before the first book, setting up the characters Moiraine and Lan, and how they got about to being in the Two Rivers and meeting Rand. I havn't finished, a little more than halfway through.
I just wish he would finish the thing, I personally see "New Spring: The Novel" as a scapegoat, it lets him please his readers for a bit while he thinks up how to end it. I mean, "Crossroads of Twilight" deals with how Egwen? Edgwen? I forget her name, but it deals with her and the new White Tower and stuff. Not even *close* to the end.

[Octavian]

Oh yeah and there's a good sci-fi book called Prey, by Michael Crihton(sp?)

[AztecWarrior]

I have lost faith in Barnes and Noble.

I went about an hour ago. I can understand the coffee/snacks area, but they had fucking old computer games like Myst, Legends of Might and Magic, Tomb Raider, and Unreal Tournament for sale. If I wanted to go to the Electronics Boutique of 1999, I would do it elsewhere.

I also saw a book on Star Wars Galaxies. Not a strategy guide, a fucking NOVEL based on SWG.

This didn't tick me off, but they also have wiccan books for sale. I saw one in Spanish with a pentagram on the cover, telling you about "brujeria" (translates to witchcraft). And people say that wiccans aren't witches.

I'm ordering all my books via internet. OMG BETTER IDEA- IM FUCKING DOWNLOADING THEM OFF OF KAZAA!

[Rayder]

I'll be the first to say it because I have avoided the cops for thus long... warez.

[FlakMan]

Oh yeah and there's a good sci-fi book called Prey, by Michael Crihton(sp?)
Airframe was also a great book by Crighton(sp?), I almost forgot that. I hear Timeline isn't too shabby either.

[Smaug]

Don't limit yourself to one genre like Sci-Fi. A great book depends on the writer, not the subject matter.

I personally would recommend The Dark Elf Trilogy (Homeland, Exile, and Sojourn) by R.A. Salvatore.

Oh man I love bob salvatore. Read alot of his stuff. Icewind Dale trilogy, dark elf trilogy, legacy of the drow quadlogy(yeah....). And right now reading the war of the spider queen series. Not written by him but edited. Love reading about drow life, its so fascinating.

[BUGGER]

I have lost faith in Barnes and Noble.

I went about an hour ago. I can understand the coffee/snacks area, but they had fucking old computer games like Myst, Legends of Might and Magic, Tomb Raider, and Unreal Tournament for sale. If I wanted to go to the Electronics Boutique of 1999, I would do it elsewhere.

I also saw a book on Star Wars Galaxies. Not a strategy guide, a fucking NOVEL based on SWG.

This didn't tick me off, but they also have wiccan books for sale. I saw one in Spanish with a pentagram on the cover, telling you about "brujeria" (translates to witchcraft). And people say that wiccans aren't witches.

I'm ordering all my books via internet. OMG BETTER IDEA- IM FUCKING DOWNLOADING THEM OFF OF KAZAA!
1. UT is fun no matter what, I'd buy Doom if they had it too.
2. There is a Halo novel, good but really, a novel also based on a video game
3. ....what?
4. No, amazon+psu=better idea.

;)


O i didn't read the first page. Best book of all freakin time=Ender's Game. And after that, read Ender's Shadow. Its basicly hte same story exept from a differnt person. And it unleashes some of the things you didn't know about what happened behind Ender's back.

[UncleDynamite]

And a warning, Dune owns, but the prequels suck

Yeah, this is pretty true. Dune's excellent, though.

I'll ditto All Quiet on the Western Front.

Not sure if this has been mentioned, but The Foundation Trilogy is a fantastic work by Issac Asimov. Probably his best. It's pretty long, but once you get into it, it's fast and fun read.

[OneManArmy]

i dont know who you are uncle but Silent Storm owns!