Greatest book/series ever!
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Well I really liked the Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks, but....
of ALL time? Yeah that would be Hitchhiker's Guide series.
of ALL time? Yeah that would be Hitchhiker's Guide series.
The Brothers Karamazov is probably the best novel I've ever read. It is fairly brutal, however, and you should definitely read Crime and Punishment first, which is almost as good and a much faster read.
My personal favorite series is Margaret Weis' Star of the Guardians. Space opera with a boatload of Milton references? Sign me up!
My personal favorite series is Margaret Weis' Star of the Guardians. Space opera with a boatload of Milton references? Sign me up!
I may have to read The Belgariad and The Malloreon again! After all the hours i invested in them, I can't remember anything that happened!Je Suis Ubermonkey said:
apart from I liked silk
The best book I've read, Michael Crighton, Jurassic Park.
The book I most enjoyed reading, and have read many times over, Kevin Brooks, Lucas
The book I most enjoyed reading, and have read many times over, Kevin Brooks, Lucas
and the most shoplifted author is Terry Pratchett, who I'm voting for.Phishfood said:
The discworld novels started as some fairly good fantasy parody tales, but once Pratchett really found his 'voice', they became something more, a fun house mirror, reflecting our own world back at us, he's covered so many big topics, sexism, racism, war, death (and of course Death), movies, journalism, finance (hell, he made finance and the post office interesting!) and more.
I still maintain Jingo is one of the greatest books about war ever.
while Pratchett is probably a multi millionaire, I still find it kind of a shame that J K Rowling got the big set of movies and all that comes with it, with Harry Potter, whereas the Discworld is getting by on 'made for TV' movies on SKY, even tho they're very good for the budgetary restraints.
I understand why tho, the Discworld just isn't as simple, as black and white, as 'good guy/bad guy' as the Harry Potter series, and Rowling's work is just much more filmable and accessible to huge audiences. I don't deny her the success, tho I would suggest they're rather milking the last few drops by splitting the next movie into two parts.
Ooh, someone else who's read it! I don't want to re-read the series though, because I'm fairly sure that it's actually crap, whilst nostalgia says it wasn't.Kris015 said:
Looking through this thread, I may have to have another look at 'His Dark Materials'; I haven't read it in a few years.
Otherwise, the Ender's Game series is very good, the Temeraire/His Majesty's Dragon series is surprisingly compelling, and the Hannibal Lecter series is really quite chilling.
Also, whilst not a series, if you're not squeamish, Chuck Palahniuk's 'Haunted' is well worth reading. People have passed out in shock whilst bits of it have been read aloud.
Although I am fond of a fair number of classic novels (Stranger in a Strange Land, Catch-22 and A Clock Work Orange spring to mind as three of my oldest favourites) as well as more modern popular fiction (I'll read just about anything by Timothy Zahn or Terry Pratchett), the one book I simply cannot get enough of is Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.
It's a picaresque adventure epic set across two time periods (WW2 and present day) that makes me wish I'd tried harder at math when I was in school. Any book that makes me feel nostalgic about math is truly some sort of miracle.
It's a picaresque adventure epic set across two time periods (WW2 and present day) that makes me wish I'd tried harder at math when I was in school. Any book that makes me feel nostalgic about math is truly some sort of miracle.
