Favorite Books

I usually read high fantasy style series, with some science fiction or historical fiction as well.

My favorite bar none: A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin... best series I've ever read, combines fantasy elements with gritty realism.

The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan is a good series as well, but books 4-9 drag somewhat (6-8 especially).

The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks was a good story way back when... the sequels to it were decent but none of the same caliber... the complete story arc is however somewhat interesting as recently Mr. Brooks has been tying his earlier fantasy works together with his newer post-apocalyptic series.

Ender's Game is one of my favorite all time books, and certainly my favorite sci-fi work. None of the sequels however even approach the genius of the first book.

 

Next by Micheal Crichton

 

My favorite books/series

Eragon & Eldest (when is the 3rd book comming out ?!?!)
Sword of Truth series (heard they are going to make it into a TV series)
Harry Potter series (great books and movies)

 

Favorite books eh?

The Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit: J. R. R. Tolken
Everything by Asimov
1984: Orwell
Die Verwandlung: Kafka
Hamlet and McBeth: Shakespeare
Canterbury Tales: Chaucer
Everything by Mark Twain
Gulliver's Travels: Johnathan Swift
Timeline: Crichton

 

Hey, quinta. When I saw that you posted, I personally though "Oh boy, it's going to be a bunch of math text books and science liturature" since you are incredibly knowledgable on both subjects. However, I'm not surprised about your selections.

You seem to be the kind of person to like shakespeare and Mark Twain. I personally can't handle shakespeare since I have a terrible time understanding Old English. The only book my him I've read is Romeo and Juliet, what a mouthful that book was...

 

1984's an awesome book, same with Tolkien's work. Some of O'Henry's short stories are really good too.

 

i hated 1984 when i had to read it Junior year of high school

 

I loved that book actually. Also I like Fyodor Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov and the Odyssey and the Iliad.

 

i never read the first one of those but the other two weren't bad

 

I wonder if anyone likes Shakespeare.

 

I don't. His books are too confusing to read with all the extra words and completely awkward grammar and sentence structure.

 

Me neither. Although I could see why people loved those back then. Bad jokes, guys in tights, that sort of thing.

 

some of his works were okay

now i look but into a mirror darkly


awesome line

 

I don't like shakespear (as anything I had to read for school), but I like old english. A piece of Beowulf I read was awesome with the old words and structure (It was modernized though, I wouldn't understand a thing from original)

 

Something wicked this way comes.

Classic.

 

Oh oh!! That guy is an amazing writer. I absolutely LOVE Andromeda Strain.

For all you fancy high thinkers, I recommend a book called 'The Dancing Wu-Li Masters'. It has nothing to do with dance, rather it's a book on quantum physics. REALLY interesting stuff in it, and pretty easy to understand (For QP anyway )

 

2001: A Space Odyssey. It's nothing really extraordinary in terms of literature, but it's pretty good.

 

Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Machetta

 

Good lord I couldn't write them all... (I'll just put some more recent reads)

Well one that I recently read (but doubt many of you would like) was Riddle Master by Patricia A. McKillip, after I finished it, I considered picking it up again at the beginning.

Also, the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik is pretty good to, its the Napoleonic wars with DRAGONS (rawr)

also Peter Jackson is making a movie out of the temeraire series.

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/preview/180979508

and while everyones on the note of classics, I found the three musketeers by Alexander Dumas to be quite entertaining

 

oh yeah, new author I just remembered I really liked

The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, Day 1) by Patrick Rothfuss.

Extremely good writing. Looking forward to see what he does with the series... if he can keep it up, might give Martin a run for his money as my favorite.