Favorite Author/Book

Terry Pratchett's Discworld series are top-notch.

Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer.

George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series. The best fantasy work I've read. He needs to stop reading books about pizza and get the next book finished.

And I love The Iron Dragon's Daughter by Michael Swanwick. It's an industrialized fairy tale world with a dark ambiance. It's a surreal tale of a girl's life, starting out in an iron dragon forge with ogre bosses and finding her own life in a cynical world full of odd characters and stuck-up elves.

I looked him up today at my book store but there were SOOO many books of his there, that I couldn't decide which was the first one. Mind Listing the Name of the first book in the series (If Discworld is the name, I appologize lol).

CAn't remember who its by, but I really enjoy "Coming of Age in the Milky Way"

The major Discworld books:
The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic, Equal Rites, Mort, Sourcery, Wyrd Sisters, Pyramids, Guards! Guards!, Eric, Moving Pictures, Reaper Man, Witches Abroad, Small Gods, Lords and Ladies, Men at Arms, Soul Music, Interesting Times, Maskerade, Feet of Clay, Hogfather, Jingo, The Last Continent, Carpe Jugulum, The Fifth Elephant, The Truth, Thief of Time, The Last Hero, Night Watch, Monstrous Regiment, Going Postal.

Well I just finished Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert after reading the previous four, and I am really impressed with the series as a whole.

Regarding Sci-Fi, I highly recommend Iain M Banks' books.

Most of his Sci-Fi books are about a highly advanced race called The Culture. I recommend The Player of Games and The Use Of Weapons.

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Original post by andy-pandy Well I just finished Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert after reading the previous four, and I am really impressed with the series as a whole. Regarding Sci-Fi, I highly recommend Iain M Banks' books. Most of his Sci-Fi books are about a highly advanced race called The Culture. I recommend The Player of Games and The Use Of Weapons.

I just watched Dune not too long ago on the SciFi channel, it was really good. I'll probly buy it. ^^

Edit: The book(s) that is. ^^

I'm a big fan of Neal Stephenson. He's written several books including Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon, Quicksilver, and like two others. I've read Snow Crash and The Diamond Age, both of which are FANTASTIC novels, though I actually enjoyed The Diamond Age a little more.

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Original post by GamerSJD I just watched Dune not too long ago on the SciFi channel, it was really good. I'll probly buy it. ^^

Yeah I just watched the movie 2 days ago too.

The books are well worth reading.

Wuthering Heights..

Right now I'm reading "The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury" for my CP English 1 class. I am so hooked on this book even though it's very old. The detail he puts into this book is AMAZING.

I've been reading a book by Dan Brown, I'm almost done with "Angels And Demons". I'm definitly going to read more from him.

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Original post by boohillie I've been reading a book by Dan Brown, I'm almost done with "Angels And Demons". I'm definitly going to read more from him.

I found that reading one book by him is the same as reading them all. At least that's how I felt after reading Da Vinci Code and Digital Fortress.

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Original post by benryves The major Discworld books: The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic, Equal Rites, Mort, Sourcery, Wyrd Sisters, Pyramids, Guards! Guards!, Eric, Moving Pictures, Reaper Man, Witches Abroad, Small Gods, Lords and Ladies, Men at Arms, Soul Music, Interesting Times, Maskerade, Feet of Clay, Hogfather, Jingo, The Last Continent, Carpe Jugulum, The Fifth Elephant, The Truth, Thief of Time, The Last Hero, Night Watch, Monstrous Regiment, Going Postal.

and as I've just discovered from Oct 1st you'll be able to add 'Thud' to that list as thats when the new book is published [grin]
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Original post by zer0wolf I'm a big fan of Neal Stephenson. He's written several books including Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon, Quicksilver, and like two others. I've read Snow Crash and The Diamond Age, both of which are FANTASTIC novels, though I actually enjoyed The Diamond Age a little more.

I'll second this recommendation. He has an excellent wit and spot development of the concepts that he uses. Snow Crash and The Diamond Age are both sci-fi with Snow Crash being one of the most noted near future cyberpunk novels written and The Diamond Age taking place a couple of hundred years in the future when nano-tech is as common place as microwaves are now. Cryptonomicon is two parallel stories, one taking place in the present and the other in WWII, that eventually connect and both deal heavily with, obviously, cryptography. I'm just about finished with Quicksilver now, which is the first book of the Baroque Cycle and is a great piece of historical fiction centered around the parallel births of science (called natural philosophy at the time), secular governments (a result of Protestantism), and capitalism with a great bit of comedy and adventure to keep the story moving.

I figure I should get this one out of the way

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

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Original post by _the_phantom_ Quote: Original post by benryves The major Discworld books: The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic, Equal Rites, Mort, Sourcery, Wyrd Sisters, Pyramids, Guards! Guards!, Eric, Moving Pictures, Reaper Man, Witches Abroad, Small Gods, Lords and Ladies, Men at Arms, Soul Music, Interesting Times, Maskerade, Feet of Clay, Hogfather, Jingo, The Last Continent, Carpe Jugulum, The Fifth Elephant, The Truth, Thief of Time, The Last Hero, Night Watch, Monstrous Regiment, Going Postal. and as I've just discovered from Oct 1st you'll be able to add 'Thud' to that list as thats when the new book is published [grin] details

Assuming I buy that on Oct 1st - that's the list of the ones I have on my bookshelf [grin]

well whenever ya buy it then [razz]

I've got the children's book as well. The Wee Free Men and Hat Full of Sky are really good books, or cares if they are for people about 15years younger than me [grin]