Favorite Book and why

[jad4400]

Generally, I like a lot of the Tom Clancy books, I also like the Max Brooks Zombie books


I also recentaly read: The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, and I have to admit that it was very good.

 

[Nexus424]

I actually have a few really good book collections
The Supernaturalist by Eion Colfer - Really nice story and interesting twist
The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud - I enjoyed all 3 of these books and couldn't put them down after I started
Anything by Caroline B. Cooney as she is on of the Masters of Suspense
And 2099 Fear the Year series by John Peel

 

[The Sorrow]

Watchmen, by Alan Moore.
A sobering take on the superhero that will leave you questioning your definition of heroism.
ALSO:
A Song of Ice and Fire, by George R.R. Martin.
Brilliant fantasy.
Discworld Series, by Terry Pratchett.
Delightfully irreverent, hysterically brilliant.
V for Vendetta, by Alan Moore.
Anarchy reigns.

Further:
Transmetropolitan, by Warren Ellis.
Preacher, by Garth Ennis

 

[Trivun]

Has anyone here heard of the Australian author Ian Irvine? I'm a huge fan of his fantasy series The Three Worlds cycle. It's made up of a quartet (The View From The Mirror), then a second quartet set 200 years later (The Well of Echoes series), then a trilogy set ten years after that (The Song of the Tears). Each book is really big and chunky, tough to read, but very well worth it. Story is very well written and although each series is written seperately, they all tie in to each other and there are questions from the start that aren't answered until the very end. Anyone who has read these please let me know, since I really want to find other people who have shared in Ian Irvine's genius...

 

[Cortheya]

1984 and farenhite 451 were both excellent along with dragonlance especially summer flame the "we will sing them ourselves" line was awesome

 

[willard3]

I liked all of Dan Brown's stuff, even though he takes tons of factual liberties. They all kept me on edge and kept me guessing.

I do believe my favorite author is Tom Clancy, though. He can have some fairly heavy stuff in there, though.

Rainbow Six was probably my favorite book of his. After that, probably Red Storm Rising and Executive Orders

 

[Incredible Bullshitting Man]

Oh, too many good books to choose from. I love Lovecraft´s stuff, so The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath would be a qualified choice. Umberto Eco´s The Name of the Rose is also an excellent book, as well as Voltaire´s Candide, already mentioned Roadside Picnic and a collection of short-stories by Ambrose Bierce. I simply love fascinating stories, which either teach me something or feed my imagination.

 

[Klagermeister]

I must sound really stupid for this, but...
The Bible.
I especially like the book "Song of Songs".

I also enjoy Calvin and Hobbes.

 

[Necrophagist]

Neil Gaiman's American Gods

Why?
BECAUSE IT'S FUCKING AWESOME, THATS WHY!

I'm reading this right now. So far, so good.

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

The Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart,

A 100+ Year old sage and a young peasant go in search of the mythical great root of power to save children suffering from a mysterious plague. Reads like a cross between Sherlock Holmes and Indiana Jones with a huge dollop of Chinese Mythology on top.

 

[djpuppylove789]

The Road, No Country for Old Men, Blood Meridian, or hell anything by Cormac McCarthy

 

[geezer_man]

to get the best view of Germany (and Germans)before, during, and after the rise of Hitler - The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
to get a sick twisted version of WWII - Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

 

[Hunde Des Krieg]

Any Micheal Crichton book, mostly for the commentary on biology, technology and emerging sciences.

 

[Symp4thy]

That's a tough one...
The Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem because it really makes you think about our perceptions of reality and society's dependence on drugs.
or
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card just because I really like the story.

 

[j0frenzy]

I personally enjoyed Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex. It was an interesting read that defies the idea of genre by fitting none of the modern genre types. Also, I am still mentally confused over how excused he is in overt satire/parody/commentary.

To the person who semi-recommended Twilight: I do agree that there were good portions of the book and that Stephanie Meyer may have talent buried somewhere deep inside her that glimmers partially in this novel, I don't think I could recommend the book because the Sue characters and bad plot detract more than the good parts were enjoyable (for me at least).

Edit:

Wizards First Rule by Terry Goodkind! The book has everything, action, romance, gory details, and old cooky men. This book is MAGIC! Read it, and if you don't like it, then we'll go to fistycuffs!

We sir, must go to fisticuffs then, because not only did I hate that book, but I could not stomach to finish it. The details of the pain magic and torture were too much and just went on for ever. It really pissed me off too because up until that part of the book I really enjoyed it.

 

[oktalist]

Anything by Paul Auster. New York Trilogy, or Oracle Night. Touched me like no other book ever has. Makes you love it then breaks your heart. Over and over again.

For sci-fi, Isaac Asimov's Foundation series fascinated me.

And of course for comedic sci-fi/fantasy there's the giants Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett.

and Roadside Picnic, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.

Yes! Seconded. Like Hedberger said, it's the inspiration for the game Stalker, which is brillo-pads (brilliant). I was so stoked when I found out they were basing a game on it I was like, "yeah, it'd make a sweet game!" And they didn't disappoint me. Only took like 8 years to release it or something stupid but I don't begrudge them that. Did a pretty good job of recreating the atmosphere of the book. Of course the game's "plot" bears no relation to the book. All that stuff about Strelok was useless waste of time. I just wanted to explore the zone, searching for artefacts and avoiding anomalies like in the book, really getting inside the experience. Yeah, awesome!

I still need to read some cyberpunk...

 

[cannot_aim]

The song of ice and fire series by George R.R. Martin. The world is awsome and the characters are written amazingly well

 

[Aries_Split]

Ironside by Holly Black. Because I'm a teenage girl on the inside.

 

[SmoothGlover]

The Affinity Bridge by George Mann is a pretty good book, certainly my favourite of the moment (also the start of a new series so its worth investing in) although you cant knock the Lucifer Box books either.

So i would say my favourite is the Affinity Bridge (a steampunk murder mystery)

but that its also worth checking out Lucifer Box:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vesuvius-Club-Lucifer-Box-Novel/dp/0743483790/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1234931457&sr=1-2
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Devil-Amber-Lucifer-Box-Novel/dp/0743483804/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Butterfly-Lucifer-Box-Novel/dp/0743257111/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_c