Your favorite book/book series?
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I think my favourite series of books would have to be Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, closely followed by Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and Dan Abnett's Gaunt's Ghosts. I love the humour and deconstruction elements in the Discworld novels, as well as the expertly crafted characters and world and the fact that Pratchett's managed to keep the continuity going across over 30 books. As for the others, the political intrigue and Martin's attitude towards his characters' lives always keep his books lively and engaging. Abnett's Gaunt's Ghosts are easily the best and most consistently well-written books set in the 40K universe as well as being sufficiently dark. He is also the absolute master of writing action scenes.
My favourite book for a few years has been When Giants Walked the Earth: A Biography Of Led Zeppelin by Mick Wall. Got it for a secret santa present in my old job, and I remember taking early lunch breaks just to read it I enjoyed it so much. It really sets the scene for rock music in the late 60s and 70s, and I always love discovering bits of music history and how the musicians of this era lived their lives.
I agree, insomuch that they're great books (though I don't entirely agree with his representation of Alexander the Great... too cuddly for my liking), but I wouldn't really call it a 'series' per se, since they're all standalones that you really don't need the other books to get what's happening. *shrug*BathorysGraveland2 said:
For a second there, I was going to rail at you for being [insert intellectual insult here], but I just misread your phrasing. I find The Three Musketeers very silly... but that may have been the point, but le Comte de Monte Cristo is fucking epic, no question about it.TheKaz said:
Oddly, though it's just as far out in terms of mythology and hocum, I preferred the Macedon pair, and as ever: RIP David Gemmell, you died before more works of literary brilliance could be presented before mankind.MetaKnight670 said:
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Raymond E Feist's Midkemia series, though they're getting a bit formulaic lately, Magician is still my favourite high-fantasy book of all time.
Dan Abnett's Gaunt's Ghosts, Eisenhorn/Ravenor set, all great stuff.
And what WH40K fan would I be without mentioning the Horus Heresy.
As if it wasn't obvious enough, it's Tolkiens masterpiece of a work Lord of the Rings. Picked it up one day because I didn't quite get what the rage was all about *this was before the movies*, and I never looked back.
Childhood/Teenage years favorite - The CHERUB series.
Right now.
"The Legend of Drizzt."
And the "Jack Jr" series by Matthew Riley. (Just got into it)
Right now.
"The Legend of Drizzt."
And the "Jack Jr" series by Matthew Riley. (Just got into it)
Matthew Reilly is my idol, the Jack Jr books are fantastic - dare I say better than the Scarecrow books...though they need a crossover one eventually...StormShaun said:
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Despite Matthew Reilly being my idol, my favorite book series (most likely because of nostalgia and how different it was) is the Redwall Series. Favorite book in the series? Mattimeo, I liked Slagar as a villain.
Catch-22. It's a fucking masterpiece.
Also, chris bellamy's absolute war: soviet russia in the second world war.
Also, chris bellamy's absolute war: soviet russia in the second world war.
I guess you're right. It's less a series and more of a shared setting, I suppose. While we're on the topic, what did you think of Tides of War? I found it to be pretty lackluster compared to his other ones. It just seemed to be too wide and complex an event for it to be put down into a single book, and it left me confused in places. Furthermore, he went just a tad crazy with the narrations. I believe it was a narrator narrating a narrator who was narrating the narrator of the whole story, or something to that degree. It felt less focused than Gates, Virtues or even Amazons.SckizoBoy said:
The Jack Ryan series by Tom Clancy is my favorite series ever, followed closely by A Song of Ice and Fire. Also, for an individual book I recommend The Red Horseman by Stephen Coonts, a great political thriller concerning missing nukes in post-Soviet Russia.
Agreed. One simply doesn't.SomeLameStuff said:
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But... I've been reading and rereading Mark Z. Danielewski's (MZD for short) House of Leaves.
I tried reading Interview with The Vampire as an adult and found it intolerably melodramatic. All of these characters seem to want to 'possess' Louis but its never fully explained to what end. Its not like anyone was having sex... I understand this is supposed to bluid to some kind of unreliable narrative but I couldn't bring myself to read the second book.Angie7F said: