I'm aware there have been several threads like this over the months I've been here but there have been lots of new faces...er names sence the last time I saw one.

What kind of books do you like? Any special favorites?

Mine are in order:
1) Robin Hobb's books [Tied With] George R.R. Martin
2) Elizabeth Haydon's Rhapsody Trilodgy
3) Tolkien [Tied With] Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth
5) Dougless Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
6) Raymond E. Fiest's RiftWar Saga & Krondor Books
7) Jonathan Shroud's Bartimaeus
8) Robert Jorden's Wheel of Time
9) Tamora Peirce
10) Terry Brooks

There are more but I can't think of them, If you can't tell my Favorite style is Sci-Fi Fantesy

My Favorite Books?


All Tolkien-Books at the top (LotR, Silmarillion, Hobbit, Unfinished Tales...)

From then on the following:

1. "Dune-Series" Frank Herbert
2. "Foundation-Trilogy" Isaac Asimov
3. "Otherland" Tad Williams
4. "Redwall-Series" Brian Jaques
5. "Out of the Silent Planet", "Perelandra", "That Hideous Strenght" C.S. Lewis
6. "Herz des Waldes" Wolfgang Hohlbein
7. "Nacht des Drachen" Wolfgang Hohlbein
8. "Die Templerin" Wolfgang Hohlbein
9. "Narnia-Series" C.S. Lewis
10. Books of Jules Verne
11. Books of Karl May
12. "Darkover-Series" Marion Zimmer Bradley

Sword of Truth series is my all time FAVORITE

Wheel of Time and Sword of Shanara(Sp?) is next

LotR and Voyages of Shanara come next I couldent really get into them

Redwall is good, I read all of them but 1 and my dog ate it right before I was about to.... [mutters]

Bill O'Reily books are ok but Catholics start to anoy me after a while

If you're attempting to group Bill O'Reilly with the rest of us Catholics, 4n+13[]D0p, then you're more screwed up then how you spell your name.

He may not say it outright, but I'm sure the Pope would prefer real Catholics to not be contemptable filth.

But hey, I'm biased. I read alot of books by liberal authors.


EDIT: I know, I know, this is really OT, but O'Reilly really gets under my skin. I apologize if anyones overly offended.

EDIT: EDIT: As to what the thread starter was asking:

Big fan of Tolkien's books, of course.

Have read a few of the classics, Homer and old Shakespeare even though I can't say I greatly love Shakespeare.

Just today finished "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations" by Al Franken. Even though most of it is just as bad as it's conservative counterparts, I do love the Liberal books. Michael Moore, Al Franken, etc etc.

"The books that shall remain nameless" on these forums are another of my guilty pleasures. Read the forum rules if you don't know what I'm talking about here.

And hm, what else.. Eh, when something else comes to me I'll post it.

As soon as one of these thread pop up, I post, then stsrt reading a new book and cant post again. Grrr.

1. George R.R. Martin (Song of Ice and Fire)
[tied] Robert Jordan (Wheel of Time)
[tied] Douglas Adams (the Guide Series)
2. Tolkien (duh...)
3. R.A. Salvatore (First Demonwar Saga)
4. Lisa goldstien (Alchemists Door)
5. John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men so far)
6. Goethe (OK, so I havent read Goethe. So sue me.)

i dont read many books, but recently ive shown interest into the occult crap, it can be quite a laugh if you ask me, of course, i aint reading those books at school...i might be accused of being in a cult again, but uhh, one book in particular has caught my eye, its about Black Metal (music), called Lords of Chaos if i recall correctly....some strange writing.

Hmmm... so many books and so little time!

1. Tolkien
2. Clive Cussler (Dirk Pitt rulz!)
3. Kim Stanley Robinson (Mars trilogy)
4. anything by Larry Niven (especially when co-authored w/ James Pournelle)
5. Orson Scott Card (the whole collection)
6. Asimov (a master)
7. Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child (Relic, Reliquary, Thunderhead...etc)
8. Robert Ludlum
9. Dan Brown (Angles & Demons, Digital Fortress...etc)
10. Jeff Long (Descent, Year Zero...)

Okay, so I listed authors...sue me! Too many books to just list so I went for breadth instead of depth. I highly recommened those books by Jeff Long, they are excellent.

Here are the books I like most, as they come to my mind, in no particular order though... so the firts ones are not necessarily the ones I prefer.

J.R.R. TOLKIEN - "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings".
Well, I just couldn't help putting these ones in the list!

DOUGLAS ADAMS - "The Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy"

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE - Well, actually I've liked everything I've read by
him so far; most notably, "Hamlet", "Macbeth",
"The Merchant of Venice" and other classics.

JOHN STEINBECK - "Tortilla Flat" --- The only book I've read by him so far,
but I mean to read some more.

GEORGE ORWELL - "1984" and "Animal Farm"... I think everyone should read these
two novels, as they are truly great.

HENRY FIELDING - "Tom Jones" --- A brilliant and witty novel.

STEPHEN KING - "The long walk" --- This was my favourite book when I was
around 16, and it has been one of my favourites ever since.

ALESSANDRO MANZONI - "The Betrothed" ... ok, it's an Italian book and I am
Italian so I may be biased, but I love the way
Manzoni writes.

OSCAR WILDE - "The Picture of Dorian Gray", "The importance of being Ernest".
These two works are very different; the former makes you
think, the latter makes you laugh. But they're both great.

WILLIAM GOLDING - "The lord of the Flies" --- one of the first books I've ever
read.

JANE AUSTEN - "Pride and Prejudice" --- IMHO, brilliant.

JOHN BUNYAN - "The Pilgrim's Progress" --- ... ... ... OK, OK! I was just kidding

ISAAC ASIMOV - the whole Foundation cycle.

PHILIP K. DICK - his short stories, and "The man in the high castle".

ROALD DAHL - I loved the short stories this guy wrote!

I could go on with my list for pages and pages, but these are the first few titles that came to mind. Suggestions as to what I should read next? Comments?

Favorites? Too many to list, however, at present I'm reading a hardback anthology of short stories published by Playboy. Quite a worthy read, despite any misgivings you may harbor for Playboy. Upper crust authors as well (Updike, Mailer, Dubus, Heller, Nabokov, Gabriel G. Marquez, Bradbury, Roth, Kerouac, just to give a sampling.