Books

Books are to teach stupid people to read.

And to give losers who have nothing to do on Friday night, something to do.

Grozzler, even though you''re a fellow Canadian, that was one of the dumbest things you''ve ever said. Go read a book, dude- it should help.

Among my favourties are Lord of the Rings, Rhapsody and Fahrenheight 451

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Original post by GroZZleR
Books are to teach stupid people to read.

And to give losers who have nothing to do on Friday night, something to do.

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Pity the poor soul who hasn''t discovered the satisfaction of reading a good book.

Gah.

Apparently you''ve had your noses in your books so long, that you''ve lost your sense of humour =)

I enjoy books.. Ya know.. Playboy and stuff?

KIDDING!

I prefer more classic plays to book, Macbeth, Hamlet, etc.

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Keith Devlin

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Original post by GroZZleR
I prefer more classic plays to book, Macbeth, Hamlet, etc.

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Sounds dreadfully dull to me. I prefer a good homicide police procedure suspense thriller myself.

I like reading. I''m not really sure what kind of books I like, though, because ever since I started to read the Wheel of Time series I haven''t read anything else. After reading such thought out and descriptive books, I don''t feel like reading anything of less quality, especially when I could just reread the series again and wait for the next book to come out. I could probably reread the series for my whole life and not get bored of it because the series is so long that I forget parts of it. School has also gotten in the way.

Before I started reading the Wheel of Time series I read mostly fantasy books. I know my music choices have changed since those times, so I''m sure my taste in books has changed as well. I''ll have to wait until the Wheel of Time series is over and I''m out of college to find out what I like now.

One of my goals in life is to learn about the world we live on. I want to be familiar with (common) vegetation, animal life, geography, and some other stuff. What I don''t learn in college I can read in books. That''s about it for my reading list.

Horror is good, though I don''t like the regulars (e.g. Stephen King). I love Richard Laymons horror books (e.g. The Beast House Series) as they are well written (I''ve read almost all his main novels, about 25 or so).

Also Mo Hayder''s two books are a good read (Birdman and The Treatment).

James Patterson writes good crime.

Also Roald Dahl actually writes some good comedy (not all his books are for kids ).

Anyone agree with the above?

And as for all you illiterate book haters, you obviously just haven''t read a decent book before.

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Horror is good, though I don''t like the regulars (e.g. Stephen King). I love Richard Laymons horror books (e.g. The Beast House Series) as they are well written (I''ve read almost all his main novels, about 25 or so).

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Try Dan Simmons. And definitely try F. Paul Wilson right away. Do not pass GO. Go straight to your bookstore and start reading F. Paul Wilson.

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James Patterson writes good crime.

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Try John Sandford, beginning with Rules of Prey. And try Dennis Lehane beginning with A Drink Before the War.

mtw,
Try one book from each genre:

Rules of Prey for suspense thrillers by John Sandford.

The Tomb by F. Paul Wilson for horror.

The Harvest by Tess Gerritsen for medical thrillers.

The Descent by Jeff Long or Inca Gold by Clive Cussler for adventure.

EDIT: Oh yeah - two more:

Try Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card for sci-fi.

And Plantet of Adventure by Jack Vance for classic sci-fi.

[edited by - bishop_pass on August 6, 2002 12:50:52 AM]

I like the Shakespeare pieces of work as well. I''ve only read a little bit of Shakespeare (Romeo & Juliet, Caeser [or something], and Macbeth). Macbeth was awesome... so disturbing, and the flow of language that Shakespeare uses is beyond amazing.

PS- sorry for ''dissin'' a Canadian brotha, I didn''t realize you were kidding

I, Robot has some excellent short stories by Asimov.

Me and my girlfriend have been hellbound lately to get and read the whole series of Magic the Gathering and Forgotten Realms/Ravenloft/Dark Sun books. We have around 75 books in our growing collection.

The Dark Elf series of books is a must read to anyone even remotely interested in the Dungeons and Dragons universe, Drizzt Do''urden is one of the coolest characters you could read about.

The Cormyr saga of books is great as well, ESPECIALLY the 2nd and 3rd book in the series (Beyond the High Road, here''s a link:
http://www.wizards.com/catalog/product.asp?TSR21436)

I gurantee you''ll be glued to the book after reading 1/2 the first chapter.

As far as authors of the DnD series'' go, anything by Robert Salvatore is great, as well as Troy Denning, or the creator of the world, Ed Greenwood.

Similarly, just about all the Ravenloft books are good, especially those covering Strahd or Soth or Azailin. Especially when a pair of them butt heads (they all battle each other at one point or another). It''s quite a battle of superpowers.

Each of those characters have a book by themselves, and a book where they butt heads with one of the other Ravenloft Superpowers. One of these days i''m going to pickup the Dragonlance books that cover Soth when he was human.

On the Magic the Gathrering front of books, The Brother''s war series is great. Counting the Prolog book (the Thran) there are 7 books that cover the history of them. If you like reading about powerful dudes, you can''t get much more powerful then Urza the Planeswalker. The last 3 books in the series (the Invasion cycle) he is basically a god, and the books are depicting gods battling gods, it''s pretty interesting to read about every single creature on their planet be it ants, moths, gorillas, lizards or whatever, battling against the Phrexians and thier god. Epic stuff

I read the first book of the legends series, and i have to recommend staying away from them.. the book i read Johan was collosal waste of reading time. The only interesting character in the book gets killed.

Other highly recommended books are Cosmos by Carl Sagan, Any and all Stephen Hawkings books, Hyperspace by Michio Kaku, Go Ask Alice (by an unknown author), and lastly See Jane Run by Joy Fielding.

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Original post by aegrimonia
We have around 75 books in our growing collection.

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And your reason for not posting any of the covers in the vintage covers thread?

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And your reason for not posting any of the covers in the vintage covers thread?

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heh.. well... no vintange covers to contribute

Most of all the books we have are from 1980 and up (with the exception of Go Ask Alice, but that's not sci-fi





[edited by - aegrimonia on August 7, 2002 3:54:52 AM]

Currently reading the Hyperion series by Simmons. The first book is fantastic; I just started the second.

--OctDev

The Tyr project is coming...

Books rule ^_^

I personally love books that... erm... aren''t set in our current time/place or a past time/place. Meaning that I love Fantasy books, and Science Fiction books, and stories that simply take place somewhere else ^_^

Books are kind of essential if a person is hoping to keep his/her imagination alive... As I''m trying to do :D

I love to read. My whole childhood has fond memories of books. I remember as a child if I got in trouble my punishment was the absence of my bedtime story. Then the older I got the more I found my nose buried in all the stories I could get my hands on. Roal Dahl was always getting me in trouble when my mother would tell me to do something and hours later I was still reading his books. Brian Jaques wrote the Redwall series that I adored greatly. Sadly I haven't had much time to read lately. Life has caught up with me I suppose. But the recent books I have found very thoughtful and/or entertaining were: Ender's Game, Rebecca, World Without End, Sea Without a Shore....etc. I am currently reading Psychic Warrior.

[edited by - zzuf on August 7, 2002 5:17:43 AM]

I enjoy discworld books. I''ve read just about every one. I also enjoy sci-fi Arthur C. Clarke is one of my favourite authors there.