Books!

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » August 2, 2002, 4:58 pm

What is your favorite series and what are you reading now (besides this)?

My favorite series is either the Rift War Saga or the Iron Tower series.

Currently I am reading the Lost Regiment series.

Eligorn · Post by **Eligorn** » August 2, 2002, 5:22 pm

The Wheel of Time series is my favorite atm. I'm reading Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series right now though...and laughing my ass off all the way

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Jice Virago · Post by **Jice Virago** » August 2, 2002, 5:26 pm

Only time I read is when stuck in a hotel for work. My favorite books are still-

Wishsong of Tanara
The Stand
The Last 100 Days
And Eternity
Lucifer's Hammer

Currently rereading Needful Things

masteen · Post by **masteen** » August 2, 2002, 6:00 pm

Currently, I'm reading Rhapsody: Child of Blood by Elizabeth Haydon. Really good fantasy book, and I'm really looking forward to the rest of the series.

My favorite book ever is Neuromancer by William Gibson. The book that started cyberpunk. I've read this book over 15 times, and it hasn't lost its edge.

Fallanthas · Post by **Fallanthas** » August 2, 2002, 6:03 pm

Lucifers Hammer was great. Take a look at Wolf and Iron by Gordon Dickson. Sort of a different twist on the Apocolypse idea.

My favorite series? Probably the Guardians of the Flame books by Salvatore. Good stuff.

masteen · Post by **masteen** » August 2, 2002, 6:12 pm

The Guardians of the Flame series was by Joel Rosenberg, not R.A. Salvatore.

Homercles · Post by **Homercles** » August 2, 2002, 6:19 pm

"Enders Game" series is the best Ive read. Orscon Scott Card.

Im currently reading Wheel of Time. Just got done with Fires of Heaven. (he seems to be losing focus on the story. totally left out a main charcter thru the 1st four books.)

Lucifers Hammer was a great book.
Pastwatch is another good one. Probably my favorite non-series novel

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » August 2, 2002, 6:22 pm

Loved Ender's Game but didn't really like the next book in the series so I stopped.

Wheel of Time was great for the first 5 books then it started getting long winded. Taking 3 pages to describe a tree kind of shit. You can tell he was getting paid by the word there.

Fallanthas · Post by **Fallanthas** » August 2, 2002, 6:28 pm

My bad, Mast. Thanks for the correction.

One of these days I will get around to buying the rest of the series instead of wearing out the ones at the local library.

Drolgin Steingrinder · Post by **Drolgin Steingrinder** » August 2, 2002, 7:06 pm

For fantasy/sci-fi: Almost anything by William Gibson, Tad Williams' "Memory Sorrow and Thorn" trilogy and "Otherland" series, John Myers Myers' "Silverlock" and almost anything by Terry Pratchett.

Durew · Post by **Durew** » August 2, 2002, 11:20 pm

My favorite series ever is "A Dream of Eagles" by Jack White. It's 7 books long and each book is around 500-800 pages long. It deals with camelodian mythology, the days of Merlyn, but takes it REALLY in depth and starts out generations before Merlyn was even born. The books were absolutely amazing!

Currently I'm reading The lord of the rings =) Read the Hobbit, which was awesome, and now getting through the others... so far A Dream of Eagles beats it outright, I dont think I'll ever find a better series.

Gamei · Post by **Gamei** » August 3, 2002, 4:26 am

Hmm. My favorite series would be tied between Wheel of Time and Sword of the Truth(Terry Goodkind I believe.)

It's all about tastes on the WoT thing. Some people bitch about his verbose descriptions and some people love it. /shrug Personally I think it adds more than it subtracts.

If you sorta like WoT I suggest checking out Sword of the Truth. Great series.

Oh and Jordan will completely leave out main characters in books and come back to them in an amazing way the next book. Just trust me when I say he doesn't leave people out due to lack of focus. =P

Wolfina · Post by **Wolfina** » August 3, 2002, 12:14 pm

For a good S&M try the Sleeping Beauty triligoy by Anne Rawlings (aka Ann Rice)

For some good history reading, try Earth children series By Jean Auel
Clan of the cavebear
Valley of the horses
Mammoth Hunters
Plains of passage

Just finished ready a series by Linda Lay Shuler, similar to Jean Auels writing but it's centered around Native Americans
First book is called She Who Remembers.

Lastly the Baker boy was excellent Midevil/fantasy reading. Can't recall the name of the book, but it's a series of 3.

I enjoy reading and have found mushy love stories, fantasy, semi horror and American history to be my favorite stuff.

Wolfi

edit: added correct title

Cotto · Post by **Cotto** » August 3, 2002, 12:37 pm

Favourite would have to go

Riftwar Saga : Raymond E Fiest
Krondor Series : again
Serpent War Saga: same

Discworld : T Pratchett

Drisanna · Post by **Drisanna** » August 3, 2002, 1:19 pm

Jean Auel's latest addition to The Clan of the Cave Bear series is due out this month, iirc. Of course, it's been so long now, I'm going to have to go back and re-read all the previous ones.

Neost · Post by **Neost** » August 3, 2002, 2:37 pm

Anything by Robert Heinlein, particularly The Number of the Beast or any of the Long family stories. The release of Stranger in a Strange Land in it's original, uncut is up there also.

Read all of the Wheel of Time stories, they started out pretty strong then kinda faded. But they were good.

Dragonriders of Pern series are also great. I'm re-reading Moreta now.

The obvious of course is Lord of the Rings and it still remains my all-time favorite.

A couple of David Eddings series are pretty good. Belgaroth is a great grumpy, old wizard.

Ray Bradbury and Isaac Asimov are still on my list. As well as Jerry Pournelle, CJ Cherryh (who wrote as CJ to cover the fact she was a woman). Phillip K. Dick is pretty good.

The Eternal Hero series is pretty good, especially the Elric of Melnibone stories.

Adelrune Argenti · Post by **Adelrune Argenti** » August 3, 2002, 3:11 pm

I am partial to anything by Philip K. Dick. I have probably 3 copies at least of each of his seminal works. "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said" and "A Scanner Darkly" give a good view into some of his later more psychological, drug induced work. "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", also known as "Blade Runner", "Ubik", and "Time Out of Joint" are all wonderful stories.

Roger Zelazny's Amber series is a great read. Full of intrigue, backstabbing and suspense. As mentioned by others, Raymond Feist has some really good stories, specifically his first series as well as "Faerie Tale", a very dark story involving not so nice faeries.

For Science Fiction, I heartily recommend "The Reality Disfunction", "The Neutronium Alchemist", and "The Naked God" by Peter Hamilton. You can't go wrong with a story that has zombies, a reincarnated Al Capone, sentient starships, and tales of religious fanatics.

There are so many other books and series but OMGIAMRETARDEDCAUSEALOTISTWOWORDS of you are hitting some key ones.

Adelrune Argenti

Zvenn Eaglefist · Post by **Zvenn Eaglefist** » August 3, 2002, 7:35 pm

books? what are books?

Cadienie · Post by **Cadienie** » August 3, 2002, 8:56 pm

Anything by Charles DeLint, if you're looking for a 'series' type feel, go for the Newford Stories.

Robert A Heinlein is great my favourite was 'The Cat that walked through Walls.

Wonko Wenusberg · Post by **Wonko Wenusberg** » August 3, 2002, 10:10 pm

A clockwork Orange
The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
Isaac Asimov books
RÖDE ORM
Karl XII life / Frans G Bengtsson

and lots of lots of history books.

Drasta · Post by **Drasta** » August 4, 2002, 11:43 am

From the corner of his eye
Dark Tower series
DreamCatcher
Door to December

Fumita · Post by **Fumita** » August 5, 2002, 10:02 am

Loved the riftwar series, Magician:Master had to be the best. But all of Feists books were excellent.
David Eddings is another great author currently finishing up the series w/ Sparhawk, but alrdy read his 1st couple sets of books with Belgarion and them =) Loved em, then we'll move on to whatever I find next hehe

Fumita · Post by **Fumita** » August 5, 2002, 10:03 am

oh gotta add, you have to love the part in Magician: Master, as Milamber in the assembly...if you read it you know what I am talking about

won't spoil it if u haven't hehe, true power of the casters!

Canelek · Post by **Canelek** » August 5, 2002, 10:12 am

Hmmmm, here is my list....not all series..

The Dark Tower series
A Clockwork Orange
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Stand
The Eyes of the Dragon
Heir to the Empire series (Timothy Zahn > George Lucas)
The early Weiss and Hickman Dragonlance stuff

Funkmasterr · Post by **Funkmasterr** » August 5, 2002, 10:25 am

Definately the dark tower series. I cant wait for the last 3 books.
I have never read another book/series that has even come close to being as involved as these books are. And then, when you take into thought, that all of his (stephen king) books are linked together , some directly, and some indirectly, it just makes it even cooler.

Lor · Post by **Lor** » August 5, 2002, 10:31 am

The Belgariad
The Mallorean
Dark Elf series
Zorrachus
Nightmare of God
The Seal Team 7 series
LoTR and Hobbit

Looking forward to the new dark elf books, salvatore isn't writing them but he is the "reference person" on the project

Deward · Post by **Deward** » August 5, 2002, 11:25 am

Feist is definitely one of my favorites and I go back and re-read them a lot. LotR is always a good classic and it is easy to see where they started the genre nearly single-handedly in my opinion. Edgar Rice Burroughs is also master. I loved his John Carter of Mars series. If you ever want a fast reading series then look these up. They are great.

If you want to read a little shocking series then check out Piers Anthony's Bio of a Space Tyrant series. Definitely not a children's set of books.

WoT was awesome and I devoured the first 4 books in about 2 weeks. Since then it seems he is just trying to drag it out way too much. I will buy the next book but I wish he would close the series and start a new one instead of making us all wait 3 years between books so he can write Tarzan novels.

Jassun · Post by **Jassun** » August 5, 2002, 12:23 pm

Read most of what I see above and liked it. Here's some not mentioned yet...

Clancy's Jack Ryan series. Don't care for of the crap he co-authors.

Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever series by Stephen R. Donaldson

Maverick. Not a series, but a damn good non-fiction book about a helo pilot in 'nam. For anyone interested in military books, I highly recommend this one.

Funkmasterr · Post by **Funkmasterr** » August 5, 2002, 12:56 pm

Another good millitary book is - One shot, one kill. a non fictional book with several different sniper stories.

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » August 5, 2002, 1:05 pm

William Forstchen's Lost Regiment Series
Synopsis
When Union Colonel Andrew Keane and his soldiers were swept through a space-time warp, they found themselves in an alternate world where their rifles were centuries advanced over swords, spears and crossbows. But they also found themselves up against creatures who considered humans mere cattle to sacrifice.

Dennis Mckiernan's Iron Tower Trilogy
Synopsis
Mr. McKiernan is the creator of the world of Mithgar, a world of epic tales. Herein lies the struggles of true heroes of varying races. Once you read a few of these books, you would soon notice that he put many carefully placed history events in the story. These snippits of history would intertwine with all of other books, or actually become the book itself. This makes for wanting to go back and read the old ones just so that you might catch these references.

Raymond E. Feist's Magician: Apprentice
Synopsis
To the forest on the shore of the Kingdom of the Isles, the orphan Pug came to study with the master magician Kulgan. But though his courage won him a place at court and the heart of a lovely Princess, he was ill at ease with the normal ways of wizardry. Yet Pug's strange sort of magic would one day change forever the fates of two worlds. For dark beings from another world had opened a rift in the fabric of spacetime to being again the age-old battle between the forces of Order and Chaos.

All three series are damn good reads.

Hayley · Post by **Hayley** » August 5, 2002, 1:24 pm

OMG Wolfi I LOVED the Sleeping Beauty trilogy. A friend introduced me to it a couple of years ago and I just couldn't put the damn books down.
I think I'm going to have to get them out and read them again this week.

Definitely sexciting for me! ^_^

Pubin · Post by **Pubin** » August 5, 2002, 1:35 pm

I used to really dig Patricia Cornwell's work from the early/mid 90's. Her writing started to lag once she came out of the closet and took up the feminist dike cause. The themes of female independence, male opression, etc. seemed to work their way into her novels. Other than that I like Joseph Wambaugh, Anthony Bruno, and Jeff Deevers. They are mostly cop stories about things that might actually happen in real life *gasp!!*.

Excuse my lack of coherence with this thread. Jackoff fantasy books never made my Pubin Winfrey book list.

P.S. Hi Hayley

Drustwyn · Post by **Drustwyn** » August 5, 2002, 1:43 pm

Two series I'm reading right now:

Tad Williams: Otherland
Incarnations of Immortality: Piers Anthony

Lor · Post by **Lor** » August 5, 2002, 3:11 pm

Holy shit grizz, I completly forgot about the Lost Regiment series! that was some great reading.. very decriptive how the tugars, bantags etc gutted the "cattle"

Mak · Post by **Mak** » August 5, 2002, 4:22 pm

I can't believe people are still spending money on that tired Wheel of Time monstrosity. There have been so many crappy filler sub-plots added to it, for no other purpose than to create more books- at about $30.00 a shot. I really enjoyed this series for the first 4 or 5 books, then it just got ridiculously bloated.

Do yourself a favor and go get "A Game of Thrones" by George RR Martin.

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » August 5, 2002, 4:30 pm

Yeah Lor, I am on book 8 now. I am captivated by it and will be sorry when I finally catch up to the series end.

I forgot to mention Fred Saberhagen's Lost Sword series though I think it was mentioned earlier.
Has anyone read the Amber series or the Elric Saga?

Ravenwind · Post by **Ravenwind** » August 5, 2002, 4:46 pm

The Black Company series by Glenn Cook
anything by Alan Dean Foster, The Ice Rigger series was very good
Raymond E Feist has a lot of good books to read
hummm so many books I can't remeber what I have

Rav

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » August 5, 2002, 8:20 pm

Lots already mentioned:

Lucifer's Hammer - Niven/Pournelle
Ender's Game - Card
Claiming of Sleeping Beauty - sex sells, great book(s)
Jon Norman's GOR series - Tarl Cabot and friends.
Thomas Covenant Series - like the anti heroes
A World out of Time - Larry Niven
Startide Rising - David Brin (hard Sci-Fi)
Narnia Books - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (good series to give young kids to read)
The Stand - King.

Hmmm plenty more but I mostly read non fiction.

KilornCloudwalker · Post by **KilornCloudwalker** » August 5, 2002, 9:40 pm

My favorite book series is the Guardians of the Flame series by Joel Rosenberg, as mentioned above. Also what I am currently reading after replacing the books my ex kept (read stole) when we seperated in 99.

Next favorite is the Eddings' Belgariad and Mallorean series...

David Gerrold's Warr Against the Chtorr series also ranks in the top five. Ecological invasion of earth by aliens..with great character development and they are impossible to put down..

David Weber's Honor Harrington books. Those are some damned fine reading..and I highly recommend them to any and everyone:)

Also like about 1/2 of the Star Wars extended universe books. Some hit, some miss.. it's potluck really. The Stackpole X-Wing books are at the top of the list.

I read too much, I could go on and on about stuff to read.. As for guilty pleasures of reading..nothing beats some trashy true crime books. Great bloody pics in the center usually advertised in such words as Shocking, Horrifying!, Never Before Seen!... and tales of murder, betrayal and the ways criminals get caught..great stuff...light reading but enjoyable.

Agreed on the Beauty books, Wolvi, but if you want good S&M stuff, read Story of O or The Collector...better story, less fluff...

Drolgin Steingrinder · August 5, 2002, 10:20 pm

Can't believe I forgot The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant! Hrm, I think I'm gonna dig those out and re-read them, they were good when I read them many years ago.

The Mirror of Her Dreams and A Man Rides Through, also by Stephen R. Donaldson, are pretty good too.

And Drustwyn, you are a philistine! Mentioning "Otherworld" and *anything* by Pierce Anthony in the same post is heresy, unless you do it like this:

"Otherworld is a great series and it doesn't suck ass like Pierce Anthony's books do."

twinkedmama · Post by **twinkedmama** » August 5, 2002, 11:25 pm

anything by nora roberts
jKRowling's Harry Potter series (I started it very reluctantly, but she's damn good)
Janet Evanovich
jd robb
Laurell Hamilton
et al

KilornCloudwalker · Post by **KilornCloudwalker** » August 5, 2002, 11:28 pm

As tempting as it is..I have reformed my ways... It's all yours, guys. No more jack ass for me. Life is too short:)

Canelek · Post by **Canelek** » August 6, 2002, 3:48 am

I am just so happy that Drolgin can read now. Yay!

Gamei · Post by **Gamei** » August 6, 2002, 4:35 am

CLAN OF THE CAVE BEARS

I swear to God I was thinking of this series when I posted first but couldn't recall the name of it for the life of me.

This is honestly a well-written series. It kind of drags out a bit in some places but was worth reading for me.

And for the guy bitching about Wheel of Time's length..if you don't like the series, fine, don't read it. Or at least criticize about something specific other than the tired "it's too long/big" spiel. It's a quite involved series that most people who are avid readers seem to enjoy.

In other words, we don't need your expertness to tell us it's a long fucking series with a lot of subplots and therefore we shouldn't read it. Thanks and go spout your holier-than-thou "people shouldn't be out to make money on my interests" crap somewhere else.

If you're really upset that some company/person is out to make the most money off you he can via a product you enjoy I hope to God you haven't paid a dime for EQ(grats 3 largely ridiculous storyline extensions.)

Wow, I feel better.

GaretJax · Post by **GaretJax** » August 6, 2002, 12:07 pm

Stephen Brust books are my favorite.

Jhereg, etc

Garet Jax lvl 60 rogue

Fredonia Coldheart · Post by **Fredonia Coldheart** » August 6, 2002, 1:34 pm

Others not mentioned above:

George R R Martin - in the middle of the series but are very good
Katherine Kurtz - all things Deryni
Patricia McKilllip - Riddle-Master trilogy

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » August 6, 2002, 1:41 pm

Ooooo I forgot about the Deryni stuff. That is good reading too.

I can't believe I forgot about the Terry Brooks novels. The Shanara series was great for the first 3 books but then got kind of weird.

Anyone else notice that a lot of books seem like remakes of LotR? The Sword of Shanara and The Iron Tower books are very much like LotR.

Adelrune Argenti · Post by **Adelrune Argenti** » August 6, 2002, 3:31 pm

I have a couple more to add that I thought would have been mentioned by now.

Hyperion series by Dan Simmons. This is an incredible saga. The first book reads as a futuristic Canterbury Tales but the next 3 books are beyond description. Very captivating and just imaging a Shrike can give me chills. Won both the Hugo award.

Last Call by Tim Powers. A book about poker that is played for higher stakes than just money. Very good read. Won the World Fantasy Award.

Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear. Hard Science fiction involving genetics. Also check out Blood Music if you like his stuff.

Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card. I loved Ender's Game and its sequels. However, I was blown away by the retelling through the eyes of Bean.

Adelrune Argenti

masteen · Post by **masteen** » August 6, 2002, 3:44 pm

Adelrune, you should know how I picked this treehugger's name then

Fallanthas · Post by **Fallanthas** » August 6, 2002, 4:43 pm

Heh, I forgot The Chronicles of the Unbeliever as well.

Kind of ironic, considering all my surnames come outta those books.....

Off to pick up Wolf and Iron from the library again. I gotta buy a copy someday.....

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