BLU-RAY Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 Just two books that I haven't seen on this thread yet: Space, by James A. Michener (just a fun read) Trinity (can't remember the author); this is a historical fiction based upon the Irish Catholics and their struggles for Independance from Great Britain (basically, the descendants of the Fenians and the predecessors of the IRA)... quite a good read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironmaid Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 Classics: Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein Time enough for love - Robert A. Heinlein The cat who walks through walls - Robert A. Heinlein Ringworld - Larry Niven Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift (Not the kids version) Foundation - Empire (the full series) - Assimov The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Unbeliever Series - Stephen R. Donaldson Lighter yet not lacking for depth: The dancers at the end of time - Michael Moorkock Job, a comedy of justice - Robert A. Heinlein Thief of Time (Discworld series) - Terry Pratchett Good Omens - Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett Much loved: John C. Wright - Golden Age trilogy The Great Book of Amber: The Complete Amber Chronicles, 1-10 - Roger Zelazny Dune (+ all series) - Frank Herbert Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion and Endymion - Dan Simmons The Uplift War - from memory its Brin - might be wrong though Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson Darwin's Radio - Greg Bear Less but still good: (this could be too long a list, so am keeping it short:) Tales of Alvin Maker - Orson Scott Card Pastwatch, The redemption of Christopher Columbus - Orson Scott Card When I was much younger I loved: The Fionavar Tapestry (trilogy of Summer Tree, also: The wandering fire) - Guy Gavriel Kay The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Breadley The Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean M. Auel A Wizard of Earthsea + sequels (The Farthest shore - Earthsea Trilogy) - Ursula K. Le Guin The Neverendingstory - Michael Ende None fiction: Mircha Eliad - most of his works Joseph Campbell - Especially 'A Hero with a Thousand Faces' By auther: (That means I'll give a try to anything written by...) Neal Stephenson David Brin Greg Bear Douglas Adams Asimov And... almost Anything by Jorge Luis Borges Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CelestialRender Posted March 21, 2006 Share Posted March 21, 2006 SciFi: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress -- Robert Heinlein I, Robot -- Isaac Asimov Dune -- Frank Herbert Fantasy: American Gods -- Neil Gaiman Harry Potter -- J.K. Rowling Memnoch the Devil -- Anne Rice The Dark is Rising Sequence -- Susan Cooper Subversive Literature: Beyond Good and Evil -- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche The Illuminatus! Trilogy -- Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson The Principia Discordia -- Google it, it's free online America the Book: A Guide to Democracy Inaction -- The Daily Show The Fountainhead -- Ayn Rand ...Anne Rice is the only author who does not come with a general recommendation. Most of her books are very genre-limited in my opinion, but Memnoch transcends genre to be a really good book imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaollenaer Posted March 30, 2006 Share Posted March 30, 2006 In random order (as my personal top-ten is also a discussion of some sort ) 1) The entire Dune series, including the prequels written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson 2) "The Big over Easy" by James Fforde 3) Any novel by Terry Pratchett 4) "Hyperion" by Dan Simmons 5) "Soldier's Son" by Robin Hobb 6) "Pandora's Star" by.. er.. I forgot by whom. 7) "The Company" by Robert Littel (spelling optional) 8) "Windhaven" by none other than our own GRRM 9) The Bourne Trilogy by Robert Ludlum. Please note that "The Bourne Legacy" is not part of this series. 10) Beekman en Beekman, by Toon Kortooms (for Dutch speakers only) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ithanos Posted March 31, 2006 Share Posted March 31, 2006 Gee, 18 months ago i don't think i had read 10 fiction books. But here's my 10 recommendations in no particular order... 1. The Harry Potter series - JKRowling. I later found others series that offered more but i would not have not have looked for them if i had not started here. 2. The Dark Tower Series - Stephen King. The Waste Lands was a highlight. 3. The Lord of the Rings - Tolkien. 4. American Gods by Neil Gaiman. 5. The Life of Pi by Yan Martell. 6. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke. 7. Jaws by Peter Benchley - I loved that fish! 8. The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian - Robert E Howard. 9. Stories of your Life and Others - Ted Chiang. 10. A Song of Ice and Fire - GRRMartin. A Game of Thrones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rhaenys Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 My absolute favorites (other than ASOIAF) in no particular order: The Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and System of the World) by Neal Stephenson The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin (and anything else) The Witching Hour by Anne Rice (skip Lasher and Taltos, the other two in the series) The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roeh61 Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 read the Narnia series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 Series: 1) A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin 2) The Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson 3) The Monarchies of God by Paul Kearney 4) The Sword of Shadows by JV Jones 5) Otherland by Tad Williams 6) Sandman by Neil Gaiman (graphic novels) 7) The Night's Dawn Trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton 8) The Commonwealth Saga by Peter F. Hamilton 9) The Revelation Space Series by Alastair Reynolds 10) The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson Single Novels: 1) Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke 2) Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke 2) Dune by Frank Herbert 3) The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien 4) The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien 5) Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson 6) The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay 7) Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay 8) Fevre Dream by George RR Martin 9) Magician by Raymond E. Feist 10) Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett And a shout out to my favourite non-fiction book ever: 1) The Nine Hundred Days by Harrison E. Salisbury Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dire_Librarian Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 1. Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett 2. Neverwhere- Neil Gaiman 3. Enders Game- Orson Scott Card 4. The Liveship Traders (Book 1: Ship of Magic, Book 2: Mad Ship, Book 3: Ship of Destiny) 5. The Once and Future King - T.H. White 6. Lord Valentine's Castle- Robert Silverberg 7. Windhaven- George R.R. Martin and Lisa Tuttle 8. Fevre Dream- George R.R. Martin 9. Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury 10. The Screwtape Letters- C.S. Lewis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smeech Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 5) The Portable Henry Rollins – Henry Rollins (great intro to the man, the myth, the legend) Hell yeah. I didn't expect to see that book on this forum. Hyperion Cantos ASoIaF Heroes Die Perdido Street Station The Scar The Forever War Snow Crash Flowers for Algernon The Hollow Man (depressing, and a lot of people hate it, but I thought it was superb) Dying Inside ...a few more The Elegant Universe Fabric of the Cosmos Ilium Altered Carbon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ealasaid Posted April 26, 2006 Share Posted April 26, 2006 Glad to see people are reading Gaiman (ah, Neverwhere) and Pullman (His Dark Materials). So aside from The Tolkein and Narnia and GRRM - The Adventures of Peter and Wendy by Sir Barrie (written after the play) The Well at the End of the World by Wm Morris Tigana The Mists of Avalon The Door in the Hedge Grendel by John Gardner The Magic of Atlantis (probably out of print) The Princess & the Goblin and The Princess & Curdie by Geo. MacDOnald C.S. Lewis' space triology (That Hideous Strength) Tam Linn (set in the 1970's) So many books, so little time. All I can think of as fantasy right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yana Posted April 26, 2006 Share Posted April 26, 2006 to update my list with one book I read recently (probably was mentioned before): Armageddon Rag by George R.R. Martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ObiJohn Posted May 3, 2006 Share Posted May 3, 2006 5) Travis McGee series, John D. MacDonald Another vote for John D. even though the Travis McGee books are not fantasy (they're brooding PI-style mysteries). There are 21 books in the series and I read at least one every month, and have for the past 10 years (I'm on my 5th read through the entire series -- and there's only 1 out of the bunch that I don't absolutely love, but I re-read it every time anyway). A couple of non-fantasy but grand-scale selections everyone should read once: War and Peace - Tolstoy/Briggs (the new translation) Les Miserables - Hugo/MacAfee (unabridged Signet edition) The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky/Pevear & Volokhonsky The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas/Buss (best unabridged translation) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sologdin Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 the dilettante's sexology syllabus vatsyayana's kamasutra & yashodhara's jayamangala on same ovid's ars amatoria rochester's sodom cleland's memoirs of a woman of pleasure de sade's 120 days of sodom & philosophy of the boudoir sacher-masoch's venus in furs krafft-ebing's psychopathia sexualis freud's three essays on sexuality foucault's history of sexuality (3 vol) dworkin's intercourse the prestige epic syllabus the mahabharata (rumored to have been narrated by immortal vyasa and scribed by ganesha) the ramayana (rumored to have been inspired by brahma and scribed by valmiki) homer's iliad and odyssey hesiod's theogony virgil's aeneid ovid's metamorphoses valerius flaccus' argonautica silius italicus' punica statius' thebaid lucan's pharsalia tasso's jerusalem delivered ariosto's orlando furioso spenser's the faerie queene milton's paradise lost super-prestige: manas, 500K lines, the epic of kyrgyzstan, probably composed 1000 years ago hyper-prestige: the epic of king gesar, 20M words (i.e., 120 vol.) written by tibetan monks 1000 years ago the introductory marxist theory syllabus marx' & engels' manifesto of the communist paty, the german ideology, and das kapital (3 vol.) luxembourg's the accumulation of capital lenin's state and revolution, imperialism, left-wing communism, and what is to be done? trotsky's revolution betrayed, stalin school of falsification, & permanent revolution gramsci's prison notebooks lukacs' history and class consciousness althusser's for marx and lenin and philosophy adorno's prisms, minima moralia, culture industry, and negative dialectics horkheimer's dawn and decline and dialectic of enlightenment (with adorno) marcuse's eros and civilization and one dimensional man fromm's escape from freedom and the anatomy of human destructiveness meszaros' the power of ideology and beyond capital callinicos' against postmodernism, marxism and philosophy, and against the third way zavarzadeh's seeing films politically and theory as resistance (with morton) negri's marx against marx and empire (with hardt) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kissed_By_The_Sun Posted May 14, 2006 Share Posted May 14, 2006 Fiction, in no particular order: A Song of Ice and Fire, George R. R. Martin The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie The Moor's Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie The Deluge, Henryk Sienkiewiec The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco L'Assommior, Emile Zola The Human Beast, Emile Zola Les Miserables (complete and uncut), Victor Hugo Lady Chatterly's Lover, D. H. Lawrence The Night Trilogy, Elie Wiesel Non-Fiction, in no particular order The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom, by Slavomir Rawicz The Last Run, Todd Lewan Dark Star Safari, by Paul Theroux Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson The Lawless Roads, Grahame Greene The Shameless Diary of an Explorer: A Story of Failure on Mt. McKinley, by Robert Dunn Escape from Lucania: An Epic Story of Survival, by David Roberts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mackaxx Posted June 6, 2006 Share Posted June 6, 2006 I know theres a thread on it, but, I'd recomend Bakkers Prince of nothing series. Also, check out Mary Gentles' newere Title, A sundial in a grave. Great stuff, and, both require a bit more than going along for the ride enjoying exciting sword fights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
direwolf Posted June 7, 2006 Share Posted June 7, 2006 the AKIRA graphic novels, published by dark horse. On par with Song of Ice and Fire, but in a whole different dimension. I've pretty much spent my life waiting to read these two series (well, also Tolkien) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mackaxx Posted June 9, 2006 Share Posted June 9, 2006 Graphic novel? Dont you mean comic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calibandar Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 They've been collected in Akira graphic novels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Young Lion Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 I have been missing for about 6 months, but thought id log in to get an updated list of new books to read. WOW, so many new books to go buy on my list now! Thanks to everyone for the suggestions! The Young Lion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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