Read On!

[Princess Bree]

I am a bibliofile! I love to read and have an extensive library(a couple thousand volumes or so).

So my question for you is........
What have you read that "thrilled [you], filled [you] with the hope to wish impossible things"?

What have you read that made you dream? made you think? made you laugh? made you cry?

What have you finished reading that even when done, you still couldn't put it down?


~Bree~

[Quakester]

Well the Xanth series by Piers Anthony made me laugh so hard I think I pulled a muscle. :chuckle:

[TroubleWolf]

The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind is my favorite of all time.

I also love all of the Harry Potter books.

And, though I haven't read all of them, I've never met a DragonLance book I didn't like.

[The Widowed]

The Choose Your Own Adventure books. :P

Seriously? Most of our World of Darkness collection, everything from Vampire: The Masquerade to Demon: The Fallen. Why can't I put the books down? They're well-written (except for maybe Demon, the editing of which betrays the lack of a good proofreader), the running stories and backstories are superb, and--most of all--I can't put the books down because I'm constantly checking the rules. :D

[Tarberetta]

I don't read much because I read entirely too fast. It's gets expensive :chuckle:

But I'm really digging a few Mechwarrior/BattleTech books I have.

[Randomus]

Anything by Vonnegut. Neuromancer if you haven't read it. Tad Williams writes quite well, though his lack of formal training often shines through in awkward prose and overuse of adverbs.

[Stan Walker]

2 different series that i absolutely cannot stop raving about are:

Anita Blake Vampire Hunter by Laurell K. Hamilton
and
The Dark Tower series by Stephen King


although i wasnt overly excited about the ending. Laurell also does an interesting series on the fey in her Merry Gentry books. other than that i love to read and do quite a bit. Dean Koontz used to be a good author his stuff has gone downhill. I real the complete works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle . I liked it but found it hard to understand the language. oh and as always i read comics. The current book i am readiong isnt fiction at all it is Arnold Schwatzeneggars complet encyclopedia to body building.

[Randomus]

Oh yeah. Discworld.

I don't think there's a funnier series anywhere.

[Akamaz]

I have yet to read a book by mercedes lackey that i didn't like

her new series with James Mallory (TOR books) sems pretty good (the fist book is titled "The Outstreached Shadow" from the Obsidian Trilogy otherwise, "The Fairy Godmother" also by Lackey, is a good read.

[8 Ball]

A lot of William Gibson titles (though I do find that most of his lead characters are too alike in his books) I also just finished "Oryx & Crake", amazing book :D.

[Tarkenchi]

My favorite book of all time is

"The Book Of Three" By Lloyd Alexander

[ThunderMace]

Boy's Life by Robert McCammon.
Also I love any James Lee Burke or Elmore Leonard novels.

[Randomus]

That's very true, 8. The lead character in "Pattern Recognition" is even named "Cayce" and they make a point of observing that it sounds like "Case".

[Sun-Scarab]

The Wheel of Time series.
theres other ones i like but the WoT got the most emotional pulls off on me.
from :lol: to :mad:
(even the :cry: )

then there was the pools trilogy. (the pools of radinace,twilight,&darkness)
those where good, made you liked the characters type of reading.

[Jade_Dragon]

"A Wrinkle In Time", no contest. It's what got me into Science Fiction.

"Dune" was also pretty heavy, but I wasn't really old enough to understand it when I first read it. It's gotten better in subsequent re-reads.

A few more of my favorites:

The rest of the Wrinkle in Time trilogy. ("A Wind In The Door", "Swiftly Tilting Planet")
"Lad, a Dog", by Albert Payson Terhune.
Anne McCaffrey's Dragonrider series. (I actually like the Dragonsong trilogy the best of them)
While I love the Xanth series as a whole, there's nothing that really stands out. Same with Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
The "Great Brain" series, by J.D. Fitzgerald.
Pretty much along the same lines, "The Mad Scientists' Club". I guess those two were my Harry Potter...
And since Stan mentioned comics, one of my favorites from a long ways back has always been the French comic Asterix, which I even started a thread about since I decided to try and make him in CoH. I read the English translation, of course, but I'm a huge punster, and Asterix is about as pun heavy as they get...
And finally, while I love the Lord of the Rings trilogy, "The Hobbit" will always be my favorite of Tolkein's books.

[Larke]

Well the Xanth series by Piers Anthony made me laugh so hard I think I pulled a muscle. :chuckle:

I'll have to agree there :)

one book I loved that I read for highschool was "Like Water For Chocolate" it was so good, I'm glad I chose to read it ... but the movie was AWFUL.

love the harry potter series. and the vampire chronicles by anne rice

I don't read much anymore, because when I read I can't put it down til its done... and when that was the harry potter book 5 my husband wanted to strangle me.. up late, wouldn't make dinner.. that kind of thing hehehe

[Vendel]

The Wheel of Time series.
theres other ones i like but the WoT got the most emotional pulls off on me.
from :lol: to :mad:
(even the :cry: )




ditto

[OneHitWonder]

The one series I have read over and over and over again is the Incarnations of Immortality by Piers Anthony. Fabulous series. Pretty much sums up my spiritual outlook. Hmm... I wonder what box those got packed in?

[Quakester]

The one series I have read over and over and over again is the Incarnations of Immortality by Piers Anthony. Fabulous series. Pretty much sums up my spiritual outlook. Hmm... I wonder what box those got packed in?

I Loved that series. The timeline is convoluted as hell, though. Also his Battle Circle book was great.

[D'Arkaine]

just about anything by Robert Heinlein or Anne McCaffery (big PERN fan and Talent fan).

the Young Wizard series by Diane Duane
Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton
the southern dead series by Charlaine Harris (i just love these for some reason)
the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher

These are the books I read and reread. I discovered Heinlein a year after his death and have been working on getting a copy of everything he has published. So far, not too many disappointments.

[The Widowed]

I discovered Heinlein a year after his death and have been working on getting a copy of everything he has published. So far, not too many disappointments.
...aside from Paul Verhoeven boogering up Starship Troopers? ;)

[Esbat]

1984 - one of the swankiest reads I've ever come across.
The Bible - its the prankster's bible
Choose Your Own Adventure Series - They still entertain me to this day...

[The Widowed]

Choose Your Own Adventure Series - They still entertain me to this day...
Do you have The Curse of Batterslea Abbey? That's the CYOA book that I most regret not getting, because I read it in the library and it was good but I couldn't find it at any bookstores and I was too goody-goody to steal it from the library.... :(

I could swear I had Space and Beyond too, but I can't seem to find it on my bookshelf anywhere. The Enchanted Kingdom is a good one, though; Oberon's cool, but Titania's kind of a mortal-hating bitch. :rolleyes:

I even have the first one I ever got: The Mystery of Chimney Rock. This book creeped me out when I was that age, and it's a good read (even if the ending on page 119 is a little hard to grasp). And I like how the one ending in there--where the wicked old witch condemns you to clean up a broken china cat forever--takes a departure from the usual "The End" and replaces it with "There is no End". Back in the day, I thought this was the best book in the world. :)

God, I feel old. :(

[D'Arkaine]

...aside from Paul Verhoeven boogering up Starship Troopers? ;)

Speak not of that movie!!! There is a special spot reserved for PV in the underworld for that that...<expletive deleted> <expletive deleted> <expletive deleted> <expletive deleted> piece of <expletive deleted> <expletive deleted>.

[Alumette]

Everyone will roll their eyes and say it with me, but "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery is my favorite book ever. (It's in my sig, even).

To that, I suppose I would add:

The Mandarins-Simone de Beauvoir
Les Miserables-Victor Hugo
The entire oeuvre of Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes cartoonist)
Madame-Antoni Liberi

I have more, but they're all in boxes until I can move back to the city (one more year! I can't wait!). I'll post more as I think of them.

[The Widowed]

Speak not of that movie!!! There is a special spot reserved for PV in the underworld for that that...<expletive deleted> <expletive deleted> <expletive deleted> <expletive deleted> piece of <expletive deleted> <expletive deleted>.
So tell us how you really feel, D'Ark. :D

[Akamaz]

"the talent series is da bomb yo"

Umm, and... err...

Starship troopers.. good book, bad movie... Makes you wonder how power armor and superior firepower became flak jackets and rifles...

[The Widowed]

Makes you wonder how power armor and superior firepower became flak jackets and rifles...
Hey, it worked when he did RoboCop.... :D

[Tsarmina]

Last book I read was Game of Thrones by some author I'm too lazy to look up.
Kinda picking at Shelters of Stone by Jean M Auel now.
Love Piers Anthony, Mercedes Lackey, Lauell K Hamilton, love Charles De Lint, the Harry Potter books, Redwall series (for the child in me)... I know I'm missing some.

I used to work in a book distribution center. That's right. Bookstores would order from us. Whole warehouses of books at my fingertips-For A DISCOUNT! Man I miss that job. They relocated our CT warehouse to PA. :(

[Randomus]

The Starship Troopers movie was hilarious. I loved it.

It's just that it was a complete satire of the book.

So, people who love the book hate the movie.

Personally I like both.

Oh, another good book is Frank Herbert's "The Godmakers". And if you haven't read "The Art of War," do so now. Though take your time; it's not something you read through in one sitting.

WoT is also good, but the quality's been degrading as the years wear on and "Jordan" gets older and more obsessed with making the characters have sex. Also it's like forever between volumes. I've been reading it since I was about 10. That's almost half my life.

[Larke]

you mean you guys didn't like Starship Troopers ... oh come on ;) hehehe the best part of the movie was how Mr. Moviefone said "starship troopers" when you call in for movie times hehehe How bout the second one.. that was a great piece of work!