Favourite Books

[Arsen]

Song of Ice and Fire
The Dark Tower series
Anything by H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, and Clark Ashton Smith
The First Law Trilogy

Am I the only person that doesn't like Neil Gaiman's work... at all? The Sandman was just...horrible to me. And American Gods, don't even get me started. THAT'S considered a modern classic?

 

[kayisking]

You don't really hear about books on the Escapist (except Twilight hate, which is perfectly reasonable) so what are you faves?

I swear this is one of the most asked questions on the Escapist. :L

And I keep telling you, go and buy the Histories of Herodotus, read it, persevere with it, have your mind absolutely blown as all of modern Western Culture is explained from the very bare routes from which it has grown from. BUY IT NOW!

(It also has the true story of the 300, which is always a good read).

Do you mean those 300 Spartans?

The very same, and the story is told by a man who was alive at the time, making it the most accurate and reliable rendition.

I guess I will check that book out. Thanks for the tip.

 

[Strain42]

My favorite book ever that put the Strain in my user name is Pest Control by Bill Fitzhugh, which I can NOT recommend enough.

If you can ever find it, I suggest reading it.

The 42 in my name should be pretty obvious lol

 

[Nickompoop]

I like both those, although my favorite Fantasy series is (forgive me) the Inheritance Cycle. And I was overjoyed to hear that the finale is coming out in a few months

HELL YEAH! My good sir, you are awesome.

My current favorite books are:
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
World War Z by Max Brooks
Little Brother by Cory Doctrow
1984 by George Orwell
The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King
John Dies at the End by David Wong (the only actually scary book I've read)

 

[XIII's Number XIV]

My top Top TOP favorite has to be this obscure WWII book called Milkweed. Read it a long time ago, still have fond memories of it. Have to go read it again someday. I really don't know why it is, but it just is...

Others include:

Da Vinci Code
Moby Dick
Of Mice and Men
Animal Farm
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (just the first one, I tried reading the second and was like "eh..."

 

[derob]

i don't feel comfortable referring to any book or author as my favorite, but i do however feel comfortable naming the few authors and works i find to be of great interest:

social studies
slavoj zizek (the sublime object of ideology, welcome to the desert of the real)
thorstein veblen (the leisure class)
b.f. skinner (beyond freedom and dignity)

fiction
anthony burgess (honey to the bears, kingdom of the wicked)
edgar allen poe (the black cat)
jean-paul sartre (les mouches [the flies])

 

[derob]

animal farm is pretty awesome, just like any politically allegorical story should be.

 

[Datsle]

Hm, saw someone mention The book of Lost things by John Connelly. I loved that book

Also, Cathedral of the Sea by Ildefonso Falcones.
Shardlake series by Cj Sansom.
Im just about to start Game of Thrones, Shantaram or Wheel of time tho, cant choose. Fml

 

[Monty McDougal]

Jumper(the movie is based off this but not really similar.
Timeline(the movie is also not similar)
Born standing up(a steve martin memoir, just great0
and Halo: Fall of Reach(i don't care that it is based on a video game, it is actually really well written)

 

[Uber Evil]

Metro 2033, No Country for Old Men, The Road, and I'm finding this [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gospel_of_the_Flying_Spaghetti_Monster] book to be very funny.
EDIT: And some guy mentioned World War Z, which was also good.