Author Topic: The Readers List: Favorite Books? (Read 347 times)

doomfarer75 · « **on:** September 30, 2005, 04:29:00 AM »

Any fans of Fantasy and Sci-Fi Literature out there?

we've done movies and music...let's do books..

I am a fan of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, and book 11, Knife of Dreams is coming out OCT 11th..I'm pretty pumped.

JBSpeed · « **Reply #1 on:** September 30, 2005, 06:29:35 AM »

I have a rather large library of mostly sci-fi and fantasy. Right now there really are a large number of great series.

Number one for me is George Martin's Song of ice and fire series. The 4th book A Feast for Crows should be out Nov. 8th, it been nearly 4 years since A Storm of Swords!

Next is Matthew Woodring Stover's Caine books: Heroes Die and Blade of Tyshall. They are just extraordinary both in story and the explicit violence that no other series I've read has approached. I saw on some site that he's going to write 2 more, but haven't seen any more news yet.

Steven Erikson's A Tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series
book1 Gardens on the Moon book2 Deadhouse Gates recently came out.

Micheal Stackpole's Dragon Crown War cycle
Dark glory war, Fortress Draconis, When Dragons Rage, and The Grand Crusade

In sci-fi
W. Micheal Gear's Forbidden Borders Trilogy
Requiem for the Conqueror, Relic of Empire and Counter Measures
Its been out for years, but still good

Peter Hamilton's Night's Dawn Trilogy
The Reality Disfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist, and the Naked God
This series has also been around, when they came out in pb there is a part 1 and 2 to each book

and Pandora's Star which has just come out in pb

Basically anything by Timothy Zahn - The Icurus Hunt to name one

Harry Turtledove's excellent alternate history series where the south won the civil war is now in its 8th book Drive to the East, where the CSA has the USA on the ropes as WW2 rages truly around the globe.

Really are too many to list

Keranu · « **Reply #2 on:** September 30, 2005, 07:12:25 AM »

Not really a reader myself, but Communion rules.

esteban · « **Reply #3 on:** September 30, 2005, 08:53:45 AM »

I don't read much fiction, really.

non-fiction:
Currently, I'm re-reading Social Darwinism in American Thought
by Richard Hofstadter. This book is a classic and really remains relevant to today's political climate.

In light of the recent tsunamis and hurricanes causing mass death, I decided to go back and finish Mike Davis' excellent Late Victorian Holocausts. The history Davis covers is fascinating, if gruesome.

For fiction, I actually am reading some children's books:
The Boxcar Children is a series that I've been hooked on for the last month or so. I was in the library and I saw this cover and title:

The Mystery in the Computer Game

and I knew I had to read it. It was totally fun reading this book during my lunch breaks and now it is part of my daily ritual. I've read a bunch of books in the series so far, but they are written for like 4th graders, so it's a fast read and I'm worried what I'll do when I finish the series.

doomfarer75 · « **Reply #4 on:** September 30, 2005, 10:06:56 AM »

Quote from: "JBSpeed"

I have a rather large library of mostly sci-fi and fantasy. Right now there really are a large number of great series.

Number one for me is George Martin's Song of ice and fire series. The 4th book A Feast for Crows should be out Nov. 8th, it been nearly 4 years since A Storm of Swords!

Next is Matthew Woodring Stover's Caine books: Heroes Die and Blade of Tyshall. They are just extraordinary both in story and the explicit violence that no other series I've read has approached. I saw on some site that he's going to write 2 more, but haven't seen any more news yet.

Steven Erikson's A Tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series
book1 Gardens on the Moon book2 Deadhouse Gates recently came out.

Micheal Stackpole's Dragon Crown War cycle
Dark glory war, Fortress Draconis, When Dragons Rage, and The Grand Crusade

In sci-fi
W. Micheal Gear's Forbidden Borders Trilogy
Requiem for the Conqueror, Relic of Empire and Counter Measures
Its been out for years, but still good

Peter Hamilton's Night's Dawn Trilogy
The Reality Disfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist, and the Naked God
This series has also been around, when they came out in pb there is a part 1 and 2 to each book

and Pandora's Star which has just come out in pb

Basically anything by Timothy Zahn - The Icurus Hunt to name one

Harry Turtledove's excellent alternate history series where the south won the civil war is now in its 8th book Drive to the East, where the CSA has the USA on the ropes as WW2 rages truly around the globe.

Really are too many to list

Nice! I too have an extensive library..and am a fan of a song of ice and fire..the ending of storm of swords certainly left me in shock! along with some you have listed I am also a fan of the First Dune..phenomenal..anything by Tim Powers (the anubis gate) david gemmel, starship troopers..(that book actually made me join the army:))

ER Eddison, (The worm Ouroboros) and many others...more to come!

sunteam_paul · « **Reply #5 on:** October 01, 2005, 04:23:55 AM »

Asomiv's Foundation series.
Dayworld was quite good if I remember.

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Basically anything by Timothy Zahn

Even the dreadful Star Wars books he wrote?

JBSpeed · « **Reply #6 on:** October 01, 2005, 06:44:09 AM »

I'm not a star wars fan so I wouldn't include any of those books. Some of his other books like Angel Mass are a bit too Golden Age of Sci-fi for some.

A couple of the authors I mentioned also have SW books, Stackpole and Stover though I doubt I would ever read them. Stover's Shatterpoint ( i think) has gotten good reviews.

doomfarer75 · « **Reply #7 on:** October 01, 2005, 10:04:39 AM »

Ah the Golden age...How about L Ron Hubbard..and another of my all time favorites, Edgar Rice Burroughs..I love his Martian Tales! John Carter is the Man.

JBSpeed · « **Reply #8 on:** October 07, 2005, 04:14:33 AM »

Anybody interested in some good sci-fi/fantasy books should check out
http://www.baen.com/library/defaultTitles.htm
and download away.

td741 · « **Reply #9 on:** October 07, 2005, 05:10:35 AM »

I've been reading lots of Robert J. Sawyer. I generally like some of his ideas. A lot of his books hover around some world-changing event and although his stories concentrate on the main characters he has interesting ways of giving the readers glimpses of the impact elsewhere in the world.

Anyway, I'd recommend people look at some books like "Flash Forward", "The Terminal Experiment" and "Calculating God". His website is here: http://www.sfwriter.com/ (umm, needs a redesign.

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I've also finally picked up some Orson Scott Card.

Finally read the whole Ender story arc....

Appart from that, read pretty much everything from Douglas Adams. Read some Terry Pratchett. Umm, in non-fiction just started reading "On the Edge: The Spectacular Rise and Fal of Commodore" http://www.commodorebook.com/index.php . Actually pretty interesting.

doomfarer75 · « **Reply #10 on:** October 07, 2005, 07:39:20 AM »

The Agony and the Ecstasy

A Masterpiece by Irving Stone

it concerns the life and times of michaelangelo, a fictional biography in a way. it left me stunned.

sunteam_paul · « **Reply #11 on:** October 07, 2005, 11:21:42 AM »

OK so it's not sci-fi or fantasy, but Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa is one of the best books I've read since Lord of the Rings. Fantastic and gripping story with some nice twists and painful moments. Samurai fans will lap it up.

Sinistron · « **Reply #12 on:** December 27, 2007, 01:07:42 AM »

Quote from: Keranu on September 30, 2005, 07:12:25 AM

Not really a reader myself, but Communion rules.

Communion by Whitley Strieber? I love that book.

Only Sci-fi I really read is PKD.

I read a lot- but mostly true crime (last was Murder Machine), bios, and period fiction.