The Best Book/Book Series You've Ever Read?

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KafkaOffTheBeach

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BreakfastMan said:
Am I allowed to answer House of Leaves again for what seems to be the fifty-gazillionth time? If not, screw it, I am going to mention it again. It is probably the single best thing I have read. It is one of the few pieces of media that genuinely scared me (in addition to the honor of being the only book to scare me), and it has a fantastic story/stories. I highly recommend that anyone who is 17 and up read it.
N.B - Only recommended to those willing to wade through a metric shit-tonne of postmodern Canadian bullshit. Reeeeeaaalllly fucking clever and incredibly well done postmodern Canadian bullshit, but still...

I'm gonna say pretty much anything by Haruki Murakami. Particularly After Dark or Kafka on the Shore.
Or House of Leaves. Mark Z. Danielewski by the way, if anyone is interested in checking it out.
 

Astoria

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I can't choose between the Harry Potter series and the Vampire Academy series. Harry Potter has a better plot line and overall a better story but Vampire Academy has more interesting and likeable characters
 

KrabbiPatty

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The "Air Battle Force" series by Dale Brown.

It's insane, it's like Just Cause mixed with Metal Gear Solid, as a novel.

This is a book series that includes: hypersonic cruise missiles, autonomous robot soldiers, commandos in power armor armed with railguns, flying "megafortresses" with lasers and supersonic cruise missiles, rocket planes that fight in space, orbital fortresses with city-annihilating laser cannons, "plasma yield" nuclear missiles, armadas of unmanned stealth bombers, and which depicts a global nuclear assault on America by Russian commandos in supersonic stealth bombers armed with hypersonic guided nuclear missiles.

The most recent novel involves Russia and China teaming up to launch space fighters to try and tag-team the American orbital fortress Thor's Hammer, and the only ones who can stop it are a mercenary army led by a disgraced former Air Force commander who is equal parts John Rambo and General Patton, and a billionaire former president named "no it's totally not George Bush! Swear!"

It is awesome.
 

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xFullmetalx said:
I was just going to say 'The Last Vampire', I really enjoyed those novels. Have you read any of his other works? (Master of Murder, Sari, Remember Me?)
Eh...I have a few of his books lying around. I think the only other one I read was "The Cold One", or something like that. I don't remember now. >_>
 

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At this moment, the one I find the best has to be Mistborn, by Brandon Sanderson. My 'favourites' are always changing (it used to be the Nights Dawn trilogy by Peter F Hamilton, then it became the 2 Eschaton books by Charles Stross, and now it's this. It's truly, truly excellent stuff, though. Really inspired me.
 

RowdyRodimus

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In Comics, I'd say Ambush Bug (People love Deadpool, but Ambush Bug did it all first)

Fiction novels I'd say The Castle Rock/Derry novels by Stephen King (My favorites being IT and The Dead Zone) Yes, they all tie together as a saga of those two towns.

Non-fiction would be the Wrestlecrap Series (Death of WCW, Wrestlecrap and Wrestlecrap Book of Lists)
 

Wrann

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The six part Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy trilogy. I loved all the books keep me interested and is a great read.
 

Flac00

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The Foundation Series was great, as was the Bourne Trilogy (the books, the movies were pretty good but nothing like the books).
 

DistinctlyBenign

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The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. With my favorite book being Feet of Clay.

A nearly 40 book series, still earning another book every year despite T.Pratchett having been diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2009. Along with a ton of spin off graphic novels, a cookbook, a childrens book, a few video games, and 3 feature length live action movies.

I love this series so damn much.
 

NDstephan

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I gotta go with the Scions of Shannara or The Word and the Void series; both by Terry Brooks. Scions is rather Tolkien-esque; but in a good way. And the Word series is just a great read.
The magic is very visual and the characters aren't just FREAKING WALKING FOR 3 STRAIGHT BOOKS!
 

lordnemos

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XinfiniteX said:
The Sword of Truth series wins it for me! Sure they kinda fall off a bit by the 8th book, but they are still absolutely amazing!

(There is also a terrible TV series 'based' off it but... we don't talk about that!)

(No seriously this show is bad... like fan-fiction bad...)


(uggh..)
I agree, on both counts.