Best book/book series you've ever read?
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Gaunts Ghosts (series)
Deception point
Honorable mentions:
Gotrex and Felix
Angels and Demons
The Shining
Battle Royal
Series:
1. Hitchhiker's Guide
2. The Dark Tower
3. Thursday Next(by a Welsh author, uses lots of literary allusions)
Individual books:
1. Catch-22
2. Slaughterhouse Five
3. Huck Finn
Edit: The Bartimaeus trilogy was surprisingly well-written considering it is in the young-adult section of most bookstores. I quite enjoyed it.
1. Hitchhiker's Guide
2. The Dark Tower
3. Thursday Next(by a Welsh author, uses lots of literary allusions)
Individual books:
1. Catch-22
2. Slaughterhouse Five
3. Huck Finn
Edit: The Bartimaeus trilogy was surprisingly well-written considering it is in the young-adult section of most bookstores. I quite enjoyed it.
There are two that spring to mind instantly:
1) His Dark Materials - Pullman
I love pretty much everything about this series, the world is beautifully thought out with a mixture of pure fantasy-esque settings such as the Northern lands with the Bears and Witches, etc. mixed with the idealised Oxford of another world that is strangely familiar, yet very different from our own. Pullman's imagination is something most could only hope for. Ideas like Daemons, an external part of you that is as much your best friend as it is a part of you. The imagery put on paper is just brilliant and Pullman has an excellent writing style to compliment it. The books are heavily linked to religion and it remains a prominent feature throughout leading to the final battle near the end of the third book.
2) The Book World Series - Fford
This series, although not complete yet, is a real hidden gem. The books are extremely funny, the concept has to be read to be believed, and the villains are not to be trifled with.
The general idea is there are many Spec. Op. sections in the government working on many different things ranging from time travel to literary theft. The latter division being where the main character Thursday Next works. In the first novel the original copy of Jane Eyre is stolen by an arch villain called Archeon Hades with the intention of destroying it so that all other copies in the world will have their pages turn blank - yes, big catastrophe.
The other main feature is that Thursday is granted the power to "read herself into books", (the power is granted by the book-world people of course.) Hmm, well now I'm genuinely struck on how to continue, I've left so, so much out of the concept as a whole that its almost frightening - I can't really continue as typing it out just doesn't do it justice (not with my writing style anyway). Hey that works... trying to explain it is like trying to explain The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. There that saves and lot of brain ache for me. Honestly, go onto Amazon or whatever and see for yourselves (you have to start with the first book) - I'll expect a few thank you's in the next couple of weeks.
Also honourable mentions to:
The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy - Adams
and
The Bernie Gunther series - Kerr
1) His Dark Materials - Pullman
I love pretty much everything about this series, the world is beautifully thought out with a mixture of pure fantasy-esque settings such as the Northern lands with the Bears and Witches, etc. mixed with the idealised Oxford of another world that is strangely familiar, yet very different from our own. Pullman's imagination is something most could only hope for. Ideas like Daemons, an external part of you that is as much your best friend as it is a part of you. The imagery put on paper is just brilliant and Pullman has an excellent writing style to compliment it. The books are heavily linked to religion and it remains a prominent feature throughout leading to the final battle near the end of the third book.
2) The Book World Series - Fford
This series, although not complete yet, is a real hidden gem. The books are extremely funny, the concept has to be read to be believed, and the villains are not to be trifled with.
The general idea is there are many Spec. Op. sections in the government working on many different things ranging from time travel to literary theft. The latter division being where the main character Thursday Next works. In the first novel the original copy of Jane Eyre is stolen by an arch villain called Archeon Hades with the intention of destroying it so that all other copies in the world will have their pages turn blank - yes, big catastrophe.
The other main feature is that Thursday is granted the power to "read herself into books", (the power is granted by the book-world people of course.) Hmm, well now I'm genuinely struck on how to continue, I've left so, so much out of the concept as a whole that its almost frightening - I can't really continue as typing it out just doesn't do it justice (not with my writing style anyway). Hey that works... trying to explain it is like trying to explain The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. There that saves and lot of brain ache for me. Honestly, go onto Amazon or whatever and see for yourselves (you have to start with the first book) - I'll expect a few thank you's in the next couple of weeks.
Also honourable mentions to:
The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy - Adams
and
The Bernie Gunther series - Kerr
Thank you, its good to see I'm not the only one to have read them (Its called The Bookworld Series). As series go it is truly great and deserves a lot more recognition than it gets.HPoirot said:
The Demonata Saga by Darren Shan. It is so fucking tits it makes me want to cry manly tears of joy.
His Dark Materials trilogy by Pullman xD
The Keys to the Kingdom by Garth Nix (Mister Monday, etc.)
Eragon + Eldest (forgive me, Brisingr was a bit of a letdown...)
Elsewhere, I thought, was a pretty good book.
Artemis Fowl was great, I thought (especially Artic Incident, Eternity Code and Time Paradox)
1984 was the only book to ever make me wince when its protagonist was hurt ("They usually go for the eyes first...")
Brave New World, I liked too.
Catcher in the Rye was good.
House of the Scorpion
The Supernaturalist.
The Keys to the Kingdom by Garth Nix (Mister Monday, etc.)
Eragon + Eldest (forgive me, Brisingr was a bit of a letdown...)
Elsewhere, I thought, was a pretty good book.
Artemis Fowl was great, I thought (especially Artic Incident, Eternity Code and Time Paradox)
1984 was the only book to ever make me wince when its protagonist was hurt ("They usually go for the eyes first...")
Brave New World, I liked too.
Catcher in the Rye was good.
House of the Scorpion
The Supernaturalist.
The Dark Knight Returns
Watchmen
The Orcs series
The first 3 Dune novels
Discworld
The ___ Watch books
Neal Asher's Polity novels and the other non-Polity books
The Bourne Trilogy
Non-Fiction:
The Writer's Journey
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Book of Five Rings
Beyond Good and Evil
The Men Who Stare at Goats
Watchmen
The Orcs series
The first 3 Dune novels
Discworld
The ___ Watch books
Neal Asher's Polity novels and the other non-Polity books
The Bourne Trilogy
Non-Fiction:
The Writer's Journey
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Book of Five Rings
Beyond Good and Evil
The Men Who Stare at Goats
The Bourne series, Enheritance, harry Potter. Though it's noticeable that these are her first books, I still have to say Twilight is up there too. You need to look beyond the green-behind-the-ears writing but it has good stuff in there. It's definitely better than your next SAVE THE WORLD DRAMA HORROR FANTASY than usual.
I loved the first three books of the Dark Tower Series by Stephen King, but then...meh. Same with the Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan and, to a lesser extent, the Dune books by Frank Herbert. I enjoyed Dune more consistently throughout.
But the one series that never let me down is the Night's Dawn Trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton. It's actually six volumes, two per book, and is everything a science fiction epic should be. The characters are well fleshed, the tech is clear and believable, and it hits on some pretty profound philosophical stuff.
For a light read, the Dresden files by Jim Butcher. I'm not too fond of his Alera Codex stuff. I liked book one, but book two, meh.
And oh! I forgot His Dark Materials.
But the one series that never let me down is the Night's Dawn Trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton. It's actually six volumes, two per book, and is everything a science fiction epic should be. The characters are well fleshed, the tech is clear and believable, and it hits on some pretty profound philosophical stuff.
For a light read, the Dresden files by Jim Butcher. I'm not too fond of his Alera Codex stuff. I liked book one, but book two, meh.
And oh! I forgot His Dark Materials.
The Tosev 3 books (worldwar to colonisation to homeward bound) by Harry Turtledove
Riftwar by Raymond E Feist
Riftwar by Raymond E Feist
