Good Books

[Ame]

Hitchicker's Guide to the Galaxy.

I was actually sceptical when I began reading it, since everyone apparantly liked it (and the movie), and usually I hate stuff which is popular . After getting into it, I found it quite humerous.

 

[Ame]

God's Debris - Scott Adams
Imagine you meet a man who knows everything. Literally everything. What would you ask him ? Thought provoking.

Necroscope I - V - Brian Lumley
Vampire horror like you've never read before. Simply awesome. Compelling reading. Brings the Wamphyri screaming and tearing right at ya !

Poetry by WB Yeats
Painfully romantic.

The Silmarillion
My favourite Tolkein read.

Skellg - David Almond
Ubelievable power and beauty. A tiny novel but beautifully written.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0340716002/026-4068661-4964418


Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass - Robert Pullman
Awesome fantasy
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/series/-/90801/paperback/ref=pd_iis_2/026-4068661-4964418

Have to agree on the last one. Liked reading those books, so much that I read them 3 times .

 

[Ingafgrinn Macabre]

Anyone recommend any?
genre doesnt matter really so long as it isnt the romance stuff as that bores the hell out of me

Stephen King - Dark Tower Cycle (7 books)
Weis & Hickman - Deathgate Cycle (7 books)

14 wonderfull fantasy books

 

[chretien]

Iain M. Banks - Excession, Player of Games, Use of Weapons, Feersum Endjin. All superb and very thought provoking science fiction.

Neil Gaiman - American Gods, Anansi Boys, Smoke and Mirrors (short stories), Stardust, Neverwhere, Good Omens (with Terry Pratchett), very darkly humourous fantasy.

 

[Aile]

the Dark Materials trilogy is unmissable, you prolly read them alrdy though

 

[Ballard]

For fantasy i would go with Raymond E feist Some different genres below;

On the road - Jack Kerouac

The great road trip book, the plot doesnt really matter, just a great read. I found it much more enjoyable than fear and loathing in LV.

Underworld - Don delilio

Great book, heavy layers of surrealism in some places but still the best work of fiction about the (failed) american dream.

High rise - JG Ballard

Probably my favourite science fiction book, kind of like a modern 'lord of the flies' set in an apartment block.

 

[Speedr]

I would personally reccommend my favourite two books, H.M.S Unseen by Patrick Robertson. It's an espionage thriller... if i say anything else about it that would spoil the story .

And The Bachman Books , three stories by Stephen King's alt publishing name which includes the non mauled and non schwarzenegger version of The Running Man.

Another good series of books is The Wheel of Time series , although i ain't got them all, they are very good fantasy novels.

 

[Cozak]

As has been said, Terry Pratchett and the Discworld series. I started with 'Hogfather' which is quite a way into the series and thought it was quality, have nearly the entire series now

 

[Ezteq]

someone mentiones James Patterson earlier if he's who i think he is (wrote "along camr a spider") then ive just read one of his a few weeks ago, really great adventure story set in the time of the crusades (theyre in it but its not about them) called The Jester, if you'd like a bloody good exciting read you'd be wise to get this.

and i have to recommend what i'm reading atm "Watership Down" (for about the fiftieth time lol) such a damn good book!

terry pratchetts you cant go wrong with, his newest (i think) is called Thud and theres a book he did after that called "is this my cow" which featured in "Thud" bloody great author.

 

[Chronictank]

As has been said, Terry Pratchett and the Discworld series. I started with 'Hogfather' which is quite a way into the series and thought it was quality, have nearly the entire series now

dont take this the wrong way, but i found the discworld series quite childish

tnx for al the suggestions will start working my way through the ones i can get my paws on

 

[Lamp]

Oh no, I spelled a name wrong which was originally written in a completely different alphabet, I must be completely retarded. I've seen at least three different transliterations in Dutch: Dostojewski, Dostojefski and Dostojevski. I'm sorry for missing one letter in the English transliteration.

I didn't want to appear intelligent by the way. I truly enjoyed his books and suggested them to someone who asked for advise on books.

nice response

bookpwnd ) rep4joo

 

[Nedo]

I'd recommend

Jeffrey Deaver:
The Devils Teardrop
The Coffin Dancer
The Bone collector (filmed with Denzel Washington not a good movie compared to book at all :/ )
Praying for Sleep
Books after that aint bad but not the same class imo.


Trudi Canavan
Magician guild, The Novice, dont remember name of 3rd book. Fantasy theme but different.

Like others said Feist and Gemmell really good fantasy writers if you enjoy fantasy. I personally like those writers cause they focus on non magical fighting more then magic in most of their books.

 

[Rediknight]

I been getting into biog's recently

Mr Nice - Howard Marks is a good book. How much of it is actually true no-one but H'ard will ever know, but still a great read told by a very charismatic man. Seen him in stand-up too - ten out of ten, the big welsh stoner

American Scream: The Bill Hicks Story by Cynthia True is a well written tale too, it's just incredibly sad when you turn the last page and realise that's his entire story. That's all there is and ever will be to write about such a forthright, outspoken man. He will be missed

If you're into the Star Wars nerd thing then the New Jedi Order series is good. Set 25-30 years after RotJ it tells the story of an alien invasion into the galaxy. The first one is "Vector Prime" by R.A Salvatore - an author i've loved since the old Dark Elf trilogy, but it clocks up to about 20 books or something for the entire series...

 

[Eeben]

Really wish i could get my self to read but for some reason i just cant, have only finished 2 books in all of my life (that include school) harry potter 1 an some other book i cant remember i really enjoyed reading those 2 books an could not stop when i first got startet ..

 

[Inko]

I'm not a big reader. But Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett has often nailed me - Guess I'm more into the comic stuff - but I have to name one book I think deserves some spotlight... *drum-roll*

Michael Ende: Never Ending Story
Yeah, you might have seen the movie a few times. But the book just offers so much more for the mature mind. I almost feel like the movie only has 2% of the content the book offers. If you have time on your hands, I'd recommend this one.

 

[Cozak]

dont take this the wrong way, but i found the discworld series quite childish

tnx for al the suggestions will start working my way through the ones i can get my paws on

Yeah, thats part of the beauty of it though, some of the humour is rather childish, but on the other hand alot of it is 'adult' humour. The part in Hogfather where Death goes to a toy store and starts handing out toys and he has the live (HUGE) hogs and real Hogfathers sleigh in the store, and one of the hogs takes a piss which is like a river running through the store. Everytime a child comes to speak to Death, who is acting replacement Hogfather, they always say something like 'did you kn..' where Death will reply something like 'Yes I know, it is a very naughty Piggy' some of his replies are priceless, childish.. very, but funny none the less

 

[Lamp]

Tried many times to get into Terry P's books. Just didn't find them funny. Got bored very quickly with them. Everyone seems to find them hilarious. Ah well.

I can't believe more people haven't discovered Brian Lumley's Necroscope quintology (I haven't read the following 8+ books).

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos...8-4/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i4_xgl/203-6380621-2949504