The Book Thread

Just wanted to see how many people here read books, just tell us the genre of the book(s) you like, the author, and the name.

Fantasy/Sci-fi

Wheel of Time series- Robert Jordan

Gardens of the Moon- Steven Erikson

Dune-Frank Herbert

Lord of the Rings- JRR Tolkien

Plenty of others, but will let you guys give out more!

Crime and Punishment-Fyodor Dostoevsky

A Tale of Two Cities-Charles Dickens

The Fountainhead-Ayn Rand

I like sci-fi, fantasy, religious fiction, and apologetics. Some titles I've read:

The Chronicles of Narnia (7 books) by C. S. Lewis

Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis

The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis

Miracles by C. S. Lewis

Out of the Silent Planet (3 books) by C. S. Lewis

The Problem of Pain by C. S. Lewis

Left Behind (16 books) by Tim LaHaye/Jerry Jenkins

Left Behind: The Kids (40 books) by Tim LaHaye/Jerry Jenkins

John's Story by Tim LaHaye/Jerry Jenkins

Soon (3 or 4 books) by Tim LaHaye/Jerry Jenkins

Pendragon (10 books)by D. J. MacHale

Inkheart (at least 3 books)by Cornelia Funke

Eragon (4 books) by Christopher Paolini

Maximum Ride (at least 4 books)by James Patterson

And some others.

What I like:

Fantasy

The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R Tolkien

The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien

The Dark Tower - Stephen King

A Song of Ice and Fire - George R.R. Martin

ugh, I hated Eragon/Eldest. Wow all the mistakes, all the.. horribleness, if thats a word.*No pun intended*

I like sci-fi, fantasy, religious fiction, and apologetics. Some titles I've read:

Dracargen

You check out Rand yet?

For me, the major genres I like are: Fantasy, cyberpunk, action, whatever genre Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child's books are.

Favorite authors and their books are:

Steven Erickson - Malazan Book of the Fallen (brutal fantasy series)

George R.R. Martin - A Song of Ice and Fire (brutal fantasy series)

Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child - Any of their books with Pendergast (mystery/action?)

Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged

Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon (action), Snow Crash (cyberpunk)

I knew I was forgetting someone, George RR Martin, best of the best!CoreyNT

Steven Erikson owns him. Check the dude out, his series is so deep in detail it's crazy.

ugh, I hated Eragon/Eldest. Wow all the mistakes, all the.. horribleness, if thats a word.*No pun intended*

CoreyNT

I loved them. They were written by a 15-year-old, so I give him some slack with errors. The story is great, in my opinion, and dragons are always awesome.

[QUOTE="Dracargen"]

I like sci-fi, fantasy, religious fiction, and apologetics. Some titles I've read:

SimpJee

You check out Rand yet?

I found a copy of The Fountainhead in a library. I liked it, though I am slightly biased, so I'm not surprised that I didn't love it. . .:P

[QUOTE="SimpJee"][QUOTE="Dracargen"]

I like sci-fi, fantasy, religious fiction, and apologetics. Some titles I've read:

Dracargen

You check out Rand yet?

I found a copy of The Fountainhead in a library. I liked it, though I am slightly biased, so I'm not surprised that I didn't love it. . .:P

So ... no change in views yet?

*backup plan initiated*

Go check out Atlas Shrugged. :D

[QUOTE="Dracargen"][QUOTE="SimpJee"][QUOTE="Dracargen"]

I like sci-fi, fantasy, religious fiction, and apologetics. Some titles I've read:

SimpJee

You check out Rand yet?

I found a copy of The Fountainhead in a library. I liked it, though I am slightly biased, so I'm not surprised that I didn't love it. . .:P

So ... no change in views yet?

*backup plan initiated*

Go check out Atlas Shrugged. :D

Only if you check out The Problem of Pain.:D

Only if you check out The Problem of Pain.:D

Dracargen

I'll check it out at the library yo.

All of the Raymond E Feist books (Fantasy)

Eragon/Eldest (Brisingr hasn't been released in Aus yet)by Christopher Paullini (sp?) (Fantasy)

All of Matthew Reilly's books (War/Action)

All of the Darren Shan books (Horror/Fantasy)

and I usually read a few others

All of Matthew Reilly's books (War/Action)

trentman7

Matthew Reilly's epic.

Ice Station blows all other authors away :D

I really enjoyed Temple. The rapa's were awesome lol :Dtrentman7

Yeah that was a good book as well.

I hear they're making that into a movie, but "they" have been saying that for a while :(

They said that about Contest as well. Well, based on my experience from book-to-movies *cough Eragon cough* it would probably turn out bad anyways.trentman7

Sorry Contest was the movie I was thinking of haha. I think this one would have turned out great, Eragon is fantasy and a little harder to make into movie form.

Sci-Fi, Modern Classicsm and most any type of memoir but like war diaries.

Heinlein exclusively.

Vonnegut, Heinlein, Heller, and Steinbeck pwn.

Horror authors that I like

Stephen King

Brian Keene

Edward Lee

Jack Ketchum

Bentley Little

Richard Laymon

Clive Barker

Anne Rice

Poppy Z. Brite

My favorite genres are Sci-Fi and Horror.

I'm currently reading Violin by Anne Rice. Meh.

Reading right now:

The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir

Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hanncock

The Great Derangement by Matt Taibbi

Inidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

the things they carried, harry potter, eragon,the firm (john grisham), fahrenheit 451 (ray bradbury)

gah i feel like im missing something really important

The Honor Harrington series

A Song of Ice and Fire

His Dark Materials

The Book of the New Sun

i liked night by elie resell (sp) its about how life was being a jew going to concentration camps.

i can't think of the other book but it is about a girl that gets raped the book is like a journal that she writes.

i liked night by elie resell (sp) its about how life was being a jew going to concentration camps.

i can't think of the other book but it is about a girl that gets raped the book is like a journal that she writes.

iam2green

Top 4

Great Expectations

Slaughter-house five

Catcher in the rye (kids favorite)

Kafka's short stories (The Metamorphosis, starving artist etc.)

I DO read a lot of books, but I don't read a book based on genre- the author is the most important factor.

I'm assuming most GS subscribers only care for sci-fi and fantasy.

For sci-fi I like Asimov, Iain Banks, and Phillip K. Dick

Fantasy, other than Tolkein, maybe Guy Gavriel Kay.

As for other genres, I like James Patterson, Ken Follet, Sara Gruen, Paulo Coelho....

Michael Crichton, J.K. Rowling, Orson Scott Card... to name a few of my favorite authors...

EDIT: oh yeah duh! I forgot to mention Garth Nix, Chuck Palahniuck, and Stephen King!

Oh and some offhand books I've really enjoyed are:

Memoirs of a Geisha(100000 times better than movie)

and Falling Leaves. :)

The only book series I ever cared about so much that I actually wanted to use up free time after school for was the "Cirque Du freak" series by Darren Shan. I used to read harry Potter, yet somehow lost interest after the fourth book. :?DJ-Lafleur