Favorite books!

I've never been big on reading fiction books, I prefer to be learning something or thinking at all times. My runner up choice goes against that a bit but is only fictional to what you want to accept or reject, but a good read no doubt.

Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock
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The author does a wonderful job of linking ancient civilizations through known time. It is a well written book and presented well, If you want something to read that will make you stop and contimplate everything that ever was then this book will do it. Warning upon reading this you will probably also be convinced the world will end in 2013 when the Myan calendar finishes its countdown of this cycle.

And of course my favorite book ever. If every human read this book people might actually use their brains...

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
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This book can push the limits of thinking, it is just best to take it all in and sort it out later. I've read this book front to back a large number of times, each time I feel newly awakened and conscious in some new way. It is book about logic, logically evaluating human thought and creativity. The name of the book is Godel, Escher, Bach but the book is not actually about them although it does use their works and talents as part of discussion. Read this book, please, your mind will thank you (or hate you for having to actually work).

Mein kampf

Inside Hitlers Bunker

Catcher In the Rye

The Grapes of Wrath

Light in August

Ethan Frome

Air Frame

The Shining

Misery

Christine

Point of Origin

The Song of Ice And Fire series by George RR Martin is the best fantasy series ever written. Even if you don't really like Fantasy (you're all EQ players though so I'm sure 95% of you like it) you should read it anyways because it reads more like historical fiction than fantasy, and the writing is just above and beyond anything else I've ever read.

I really liked "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer. It's about a Mt. Everest expedition that goes horribly wrong. The author was on that expedition and this his account of it. It's awesome.

You just can't leave off Ender's Game

Anything by RA Salvatore pretty much for me

Dark Elf Trilogy, Icewind Dale Trilogy, Legacy of the Drow and now Hunters Blade Trilogy. All great books/series imo

Favorite all time book is Legacy.

Ditto that.

Also a big favorite of mine is the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series. Can't wait for the movie!!

My favorite author is actually a Canadian...and not because he's a Canadian (in anticipation of the "oh sures" from you folks), but because he's a phenomenal writer and thinker. His name is Robertson Davies and he's written a number of books and short stories which I've enjoyed. However, the series of books that stands out for me is called the Deptford Trilogies (because the crux of the story takes place in Deptford, Ontario). The series, starting with the book "Fifth Business" follows the lives of 3 men and describes how their lives are affected by one childhood accident. Ultimately one of them is murdered in their old age because of it.

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I'm also a sucker for all the classics: Jane Eyre, Little Women, A Tale of Two Cities (huge fan of that book), etc. etc.

One of my favorite authors is Marrion Zimmer Bradley, a close runner up is Maggie Shayne. Anything by those two women, I've read it once, if not twice.

Favorite books:
Mists of Avalon by Marrion Zimmer Bradley
The Pillars of Creation by Terry Goodkind (freaky ass book that ya gotta read twice to understand)

There are waaay too many to name, but Ill try

I think the best book Ive ever read would have to settle for being a series, they were all good, The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. Dragon Tears by Dean Koontz was good too. Diana Gabaldon's Outlander was pretty friggin cool too. oh hell I better just stop there or this post gonna be longer than ZZtops guitarist's beards

I have always loved big and long books... It was a horrible movie, but I loved Battlefield Earth - Also the Bible is a really good book, all the violence and drama and suspence... Its like a very long soap opera. (SPOILER ALERT) for those who havent read it, the good guys win in the end, go figure...

Most of the books i love now are stuff paul made me read when I was younger. I remember you read Dune and got me to read it when I was like 13 and back then I was like, 'WTF AM I READING?'. I reread it again when we moved up here in october and OMFG I LOVE THAT BOOK.

Hell - Ive been tryn to get you to the read the Bible & that hasnt happened yet either... Ok, i just cursed & used the Bible in the same sentence...

ITs ok The Bible says it all the time! No Really! I looked!

It IS violent! Someone oughta make a realistic movie about Jonah, or worse yet Soddom and Gomorrah and the story of Lot (soddomy, rape, and incest oh my!) or some artsy movie about the book of Revelation, or a frighteningly graphic movie about the assassination of Jesus and the torture he was put through during his last days on earth...

...oh wait they did that last one.

My favorite books have always been "The Secret Garden" and "Little Women" Every 5 or 6 years I pick them up and read them returning to the fantasies of my early teenage years. (I read them both for the first time when I was 13)


Right now my favs are the Harry Potter Series and anything by Nora Roberts.





(I know I am soooo intillectual)

Ive been wanting to read Harry Poter, I wanted to wait till she finished the series out & I can buy the whole series in one swoop. I hated it when I started the Otherworld series & had to wait months for the next book to come out...

Otherworld or Otherland?

Ooops! Right you are! Otherland!

Wow Kay, I have re-read those books too, and also The Little Princess. That was my favorite book as a child.

Goodbye Micky Mouse by Len Deighton is a Awesome book...one of my personal fav's