Wordless Wanderer Posted February 3, 2012 #26 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wordless Wanderer Posted February 3, 2012 #27 Share Posted February 3, 2012 And And James Patterson's Suzanne's Diary of Nicholas, Mario Puzo's The Last Don and Michelle Moran's Nefertiti Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbie333 Posted February 3, 2012 #28 Share Posted February 3, 2012 I have read probably about 20 books in my entire life, but am hoping to change that as I re-kindled (no pun intended) my interest in reading. Something about it has just appealed to me lately. My favourite book... ever? Probably A Wrinkle in Time. It's a timeless classic by madeline l'engle. Yours? Not to change the subject but I have recommended this book in here a lot. Very fun, refreshing and different kind of book to read. Give it a go. http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children-ransom-riggs/1100388567 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Paranoid Android Posted February 6, 2012 #29 Share Posted February 6, 2012 I also greatly enjoy Wheel of Time.. just wish he didnt die before completing the last book.You know that Robert Jordan's wife has got a shadow writer to complete the series now? Brandon Sanderson. Robert Jordan knew he was going to die and devoted large chunks of time to outlining the story chapter-by-chapter of the rest of the book. Some chapters have only a paragraph summary, other chapters were actually and totally complete. Whatever the case, his vision lives on and books 12 and 13 have been released in the past 24 months. The final book 14 last I knew should have been due out in December 2011, but the release date has been pushed back to an unknown time in 2012. Whatever the case, it's actually getting really interesting and I can't wait for the last book (well, I've been waiting for many years - I began reading when only books 1-4 were out and I had no idea the series was going to be this complex - so really, another month or two is not going to kill me, in the context of 15 years or so). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danbell06 Posted March 10, 2012 #30 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Angels & Demons - Dan Brown The Exorcist - Willam Peter Blatty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prestige Posted March 15, 2012 #31 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Dantes inferno, cask of amtillado and the catcher and the rye Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simbi Laveau Posted March 15, 2012 #32 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Oh,so many. I love Poe,Dickens,Shakespear. I love this book called Robots Have No Tails,about an inventor,who can only work when hes plastered drunk. White Fang,Call of the Wild,Grapes of Wrath,The Color Purple. I love stuff by Robert Asprin,William Peter Blatty. I adore The Bartimaeus Trilogy,the Pendergast series by Lincoln and Child(like most of Lincoln's solo stuff too). I mean ,cannot think of them all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yazdepp Posted March 16, 2012 #33 Share Posted March 16, 2012 Angels & Demons - Dan Brown The Exorcist - Willam Peter Blatty Exactly my thoughts!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonardo Posted March 16, 2012 #34 Share Posted March 16, 2012 It's difficult to name a single book, but one that did have a tremendous impact on me was Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wordless Wanderer Posted March 16, 2012 #35 Share Posted March 16, 2012 It's difficult to name a single book, but one that did have a tremendous impact on me was Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein". I am reading it right now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taun Posted March 16, 2012 #36 Share Posted March 16, 2012 (edited) I also love sci-fi / Fantasy... Some of my favorites: The Illiad and the Odyssey (the books that actually got me started reading) The Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit Anything by H. Beam Piper Most of Robert Heinliens books The Honor Harrington series by David Weber The Antares Dawn Series by Michael McCollum The Books of Lawerence Watt Evans (The Misenchanted Sword, With a Single Spell, The Night of Madness, etc) The 'Wiz' series by Rick Cook (a computer programmer is sent to a world of magic and learns that spells are just like computer code) Huckelberry Finn Tom Sawyer A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court Hammer's Slammers The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (series) Lord there are so many! Edited March 16, 2012 by Taun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wordless Wanderer Posted March 16, 2012 #37 Share Posted March 16, 2012 The Illiad and the Odyssey (the books that actually got me started reading) True. Both of them are amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funky Poacher Posted March 17, 2012 #38 Share Posted March 17, 2012 I am reading it right now You should try her The Last Man - it's entirely superior. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wordless Wanderer Posted March 18, 2012 #39 Share Posted March 18, 2012 You should try her The Last Man - it's entirely superior. I will! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funky Poacher Posted March 19, 2012 #40 Share Posted March 19, 2012 I will! It's free on the Internet, too. Just Google around, eventually you'll find it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcion Meets E. Sibyl Posted March 19, 2012 #41 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Yours? Yes. Two of Hearts, my book, is my favorite book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wordless Wanderer Posted March 19, 2012 #42 Share Posted March 19, 2012 It's free on the Internet, too. Just Google around, eventually you'll find it. Got it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mentalcase Posted March 20, 2012 #43 Share Posted March 20, 2012 (edited) My top favs are.. The Celestine Prophesy (James Redfield) The 7 Spiritual Laws of Success (Deepak Chopra) The Stand (Stephen King) A Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) Contact (Carl Sagan) Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Richard Feynman) Wiki page What Do You Care What Other People Think? (Richard Feynman) Desperation (Stephen King) The Regulators (Stephen King, written under his pseudonym Richard Bachman) (These two book have cross-over themes and the same characters, the way it all ties together is very interesting and intriguing. I recommend reading both of these novels back to back.) World War z (Max Brooks) (a soon to be film! wiki page on the film) Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (James Gleick) Edited March 20, 2012 by Mentalcase Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldorado Posted March 20, 2012 #44 Share Posted March 20, 2012 The Invisible Man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landry Posted March 21, 2012 #45 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Stephen King's The Stand ...unabridged version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilly Posted March 28, 2012 #46 Share Posted March 28, 2012 I'll just list of few of my favourites in the Sci Fi genre: "The Fountains of Paradise" Clarke "I, Robot" Asimov "The Time Machine" Wells "Ringworld" Niven "Dune" Herbert "The Left Hand of Darkness" Le Guin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Q-C Posted March 28, 2012 #47 Share Posted March 28, 2012 (edited) There are many favorites for me too. Many have already been listed. A few more: Charlotte's Web- EB White Julie of the Wolves- Jean Craighead George John le Carre Robert Ludlum Early Joseph Wambaugh- The Onion Field, etc Serpico- Peter Maas Marathon Man- Goldman (and none of the movies for the above which usually have nothing to do with the books, or are extremely poor representations of the book, even if the movie is okay) Edited to add: "A Cry in the Dark" don't know if it is a book or who the author is, but it is on Crime Library. Great Read about the Lindy Chamberlain case in Australia Edited March 28, 2012 by QuiteContrary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldorado Posted March 28, 2012 #48 Share Posted March 28, 2012 My Savings Account Book, before buying my first ever car. Was a joy to behold and all my own work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Spartan Posted March 30, 2012 #49 Share Posted March 30, 2012 I read a lot, in different kind of genres, so it has to be many favorites. here are some FANTASY The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Silmarillion and The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan The Belgariad Series by David Eddings A Song of Ice and Fire Series by George R.R. Martin All books by Neil Gaiman SCIENCE FICTION/SPECULATIVE FICTION Dune Series by Frank Herbert & later by Brian Herbert/Kevin J. Anderson The Foundation Series by Issac Asimov The Space Odyssey Series by Arthur C. Clarke The Hyperion Series by Dan Simmons The Ringworld Series by Larry Niven The Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett ALTERNATIVE HISTORY Fatherland by Robert Harris The 1632 series/Ring of Fire series by Eric Flint The Nantucket Series & The Emberverse Series by S. M. Stirling HISTORICAL FICTION Earth’s Children Series by Jean M. Auel Sharpe Series and Azincourt by Bernard Cornwell Aztec Series by Gary Jennings THRILLER FICTION Agent Pendergast Series by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child Dirk Pitt Series by Clive Cussler Alex Cross Series by James Patterson Alex Delaware series by Jonathan Kellerman Jack Reacher Series by Lee Child Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taun Posted April 4, 2012 #50 Share Posted April 4, 2012 I read a lot, in different kind of genres, so it has to be many favorites. here are some FANTASY The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan The Belgariad Series by David Eddings SCIENCE FICTION/SPECULATIVE FICTION Dune Series by Frank Herbert & later by Brian Herbert/Kevin J. Anderson ALTERNATIVE HISTORY The 1632 series/Ring of Fire series by Eric Flint HISTORICAL FICTION Sharpe Series and Azincourt by Bernard Cornwell Spartan: I really liked the Belgariad and the Wheel of Time series at first.. then they started annoying me with the way he wrote all of his female characters as 'super smart', 'super in control' and all the men as bumbling idiots - even though the main male character of each was 'the chosen one'... Dune was great but I really didn't care for the sequels... Ringworld and 1632 series were brilliant... Have you read any of Harry Turtledove's books? IMO he is the Master of Alternate History... The Misplaced Legion series is my favorite... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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