Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
Ender's Game (the whole series really)
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Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
Ender's Game (the whole series really)
Who's series do you like better, Ender's or Bean's?Quote:
Originally Posted by smart zombie
I guess Bean's was better for me because it incorporated the rest of the jeesh characters into it. However I liked the "Jane" character later on in the Ender series. Hard choice really, but I'll go with Bean.
In a couple years I hope to re-read the entire series as it should be read. (Enders game, Bean series, rest of Ender series)
I’m a fantasy girl myself.
R. A. Salvatore’s Forgotten Realms. Gotta love Drizzt Do'Urden!
George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire. I’m super excited because the first of these books (A Game of Thrones) is coming out as an HBO series in April! Woohoo!!! :D
Not trying to make this all awkward or anything but, I love you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chelsea Childress
Not trying to make this all awkward or anything, but let's get married.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wicked Sid
I really can't choose a favourite but heres some I have read and loved recently
The Lord Of The Rings (3rd read through) (Tolkien, but you know that)
The Stand (Steven King)
The Day by day series (J L Bourne)
The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks (Rebbecca Skloot)
And everything John Wyndham ever wrote.
As the World Dies series by Rhiannon Frater
The Stand. Stephen King.. (unabridged version only,) (and to many others to count)
I keep going back to the dragonlance series, I own about 60 books but the best ones are written by Margret Weiss and Tracy Hickman, but if you have never read any of them you have to read the first two trilogies starting with the Chronicles and then Legends. From there I'd recommend reading the two tales trilogies which are a bunch of shorter stories about parts of the first two trilogies written from a different perspective. From there it's up to you where you want to go. I've gotten as far as Dragons of a New age but the realm has drastically changed and not for the better.
I've also been very particular with Issac Asimov one of my all time favorites is Robot Dreams
I also like Dean Koonz and my favorite of his is Intensity(i could easily see a movie adaptation), followed by from the corner of his eye
I used to read a ton of books but having kids and other interests kinda took over
just found this thread, so I thought I'd throw my $.02 in as well. some of my favorites have been mentioned already, so I will try to omit those.
The Stand by Stephen King
truly an epic read that takes the reader through several levels of reality before you reach the final layer of truth. not for the casual reader, but absolutely worth the journey.
Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard
yes, that L. Ron Hubbard. possibly the most comprehensive plot development I've read in any genre. I would compare the scope of this book to the lies of The Count of Monte Cristo or Great Expectations without blinking an eye. the story takes you from the smallest seed of an idea and follows it all the way through to where hat seed has become a mighty mature oak. also not for the casual reader; however, truly worth the investment. and really, how can you not read a work of science fiction by the man who brought us Scientology? seriously, the man invented a religion! no offense intended. the only thing this book has in common with the movie "based" on it is the title, and is the entire reason that John Travolta is dead to me.
The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
best. series. ever. hands down. this man is a gamer, fantasy and sic-fi geek that writes for gamer fantasy sic-fi geeks. the character development is excellent, and the plots and nuances to the stories tie together so perfectly to paint a picture of a world so like our own, yet so much deeper and inviting. the modern noir aspect to the narrative is spectacular without overshadowing the story. Butcher has taken the Wizard Private Investigator in Modern Day Chicago sub-genre and breathed new life into it! Okay, okay....so that genre may in actuality be wholly comprised by the Dresden Files series alone, but who can resist a talking skull, holy knights, fallen angels, three different kinds of vampires, one kick ass blonde police lieutenant and, dare I say it, an undead tyranosaurus rex? and that's just in the first three or four books! seriously. read it! the Sci-Fi Channel series loosely based on this series, while okay, really dumbed down the essence of what JB put into the world he created...kind of like how Sci-Fi has ruined pretty much every series they've gotten their meat hooks into. KC, you have been warned!
Codex Alera Series by Jim Butcher
Jim Butcher does high fantasy. amazing character development and exceptional storytelling. the world of Alara is unique and elaborate, full of magic and intrigue. the plot this series covers is, again, immense and covers ground from political espionage to epic pitched battles to the life story of a young man as he learns to cope in a world to which he was born an outsider. I personally guarantee you will not be disappointed by this series. in fact, if you read the entire series based on my recommendation and can truthfully claim you hated it, I will buy you a paperback of your own choosing as compensation for your lack of a soul.
The Stand is great, I just finished the extended version, I reckon that 1200 pages isn't bad for £6 of our british pounds.
The Church by John McCuarig is a good one from the UK - I also love most stuff by Eric S Brown.
Wastelands Stories of The Apolcalypse Edited By John Joesph Adams
This is a great read its basically a collection of short stories about what it means to remain Human in the wake of Armageddon
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell It's a fantasy set in an alternate history. Magic, oblivious monomaniacal fairies, a meditation on the effects of miserliness in a magician and the Napoleonic Wars fought by an England with a magician on their side. I wish I could reach into each of your collective brains and cause you all to listen to the audio book en masse. The reader is perfect.
Reading Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank as a kid really set the stage for what I would and wouldn't like in books and movies growing up. It is a must read. I read it again a couple of years ago... Still great. Dated, yes. But still great.
Ra1th, you got me as a fan just for this one post.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ra1th
He is my favorite author for just these reasons, and you didn't even mention the dozen or so short stories that flush out the world even more than the main casefiles do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joosbawx
The Maximum Ride series by James Patterson. A group of kids that were breed in test tubes, are have bird have human. (They have wings, good eyesight, strong bones) And they are escaping the facility they were made in and discovering it's secrets. Best books I've ever read. It has so much that I can't properly explain it here, so don't really go off what I said here. But I strongly recommend it.
Ooh favorite book. I only get one? Lolz. The Ender's Game series is amazing, Good Omens is a riot, The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks is incredible, the Chaos Walking Trilogy, Divergent, Xisle... i've got a good sized list.
This may sound odd, but my favorite book is different than the best book I've read.
Favorite book: Halo: Ghosts of Onyx
Best book: World War Z
I don't read as often as I want to, and I read slow so I haven't read too many books.
swan song = epic. love that book.Quote:
Originally Posted by bohemianroxie
my favorite series is the orphan series by Robert Buettner. military scifi, but the guy was in a MI divisionand the military is done REALLY well. it's not very scifi in the first two, or rather it's very grounded in modern tech, but the cool thing is that through the series you get to watch them go from one cobbled together beater of an emergency interplanetary troop transport, to a fleet of top notch intergalactic warships. very cool series, highly recommended for anyone into scifi, military, or both. and of course swan song = epic
being from the uk you might like this one: The Whitchapel Gods. crazy book. also crazy good. very rivetingQuote:
Originally Posted by Solanine
Ghosts of Onyx was amazing. I really want a sequel to it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lavitz
I agree about the halo books, as a fan of the universe I love them but some of them are terrible eg Halo the flood. A halo game's plot a good book does not make.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lavitz
I'll make sure to check it out. Another very interesting book is Wild swans. Especially if you like asian culture.
Yeah pretty much all the Eric Nylund ones I like, but the other authors really don't hold candle to his books at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Solanine
My favorite book is usually the one I am reading, if it is good. Just finished Game of Thrones, by George RR Martin, and started the second one, A Clash of Kings. Both really good, have not seen the TV show yet, so I don't know what to expect if I watch it.
If you've read the book you can understand the show a whole hell of a lot better than just watching the show.Quote:
Originally Posted by kek
I watched the first episode, going to my brothers apartment Wednesday to watch more. Before I even started reading the book my sister told me Sean Bean dies, so of course after starting the book I figured who was going to die.... lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Waldo Butters
Wow, somehow missed this thread...
I can't pinpoint it down to one book in particular, but the dark tower series...even though I found the ending to be a letdown, still I hold it in the highest regards possible...quite curious how the movie/tv/movie thing us gonna play out. But just thinking back about the different parts of the series still gets to me..years later...
In particular- when I am not reading metaphysics books or introspection based books, I would have to say that the Warhammer 40k books are AMAZING. Graham McNeill completely brings the Ultramarine's chapter to life as well as the forces of Chaos when they are the subject.
Another good series of the Warhammer 40k is books based on the Imperial Guard- the Ciaphas Cain series in particular- the dude is a hero in my heart.
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