Favorite Books or Series!

Post by **Kymvir Raemiz** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 10:03 am

For those of you who love to read, List your favorite books or series so we can all talk about/mock them!

Some of my favorite series, and I won't rank them:

- Colleen MacCollough's Republic of Rome Series(Grass Crown, Caesar, First man in Rome)
- Patrick O'Brien's Aubrey/Maturin Series(Master and Commander)
- George R. R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire Series
- David Eddings Belgariad(only the Belgariad)
- Luo Guanzhong's Romance of the Three Kingdoms
- Louis Cha's Deer and the Cauldron
- Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy
- David Wingrove's Chung Kuo

And, of course,

- JK Rowling's Harry Potter

I'd probably put a lot of others on here, but this should do to get things started.

Cao Chao · Post by **Cao Chao** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 10:15 am

Oh! Colleen McCullough is 1337 when it comes to her Rome books!

Anyways, my favorite books are:

Frank Herbert's Original Dune Series
My School's Yearbook known as Annals for its so many inside jokes and for spelling my name wrong...
Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged
Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace
Jon Stewart's A Citizen's Guide to America
Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game and sequels
William Gibson's Neuromancer
The Chinese version of Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Dan Simmons's Hyperion

Post by **ann** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 10:15 am

I like all of the above - except I haven't read Colleen McCullough's Rome Series, despite much urging, because I did read the Thorn Birds.

In terms of series - I like Elizabeth Peters' Egypt mystery series featuring Amelia Peabody - very funny. I like mysteries.

Lots of candidates for favorite book - I like to recommend Venedikt Erofeev's Moscow to the End of the Line (also called Moscow to Petushki or Moscow Circles)

I like Italo Calvino a lot as well - and Eco less well but still like him. I had a cat named Italo Calvino in college. What a dweeb I was! Cat was cool though.

Post by **ann** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 10:17 am

Probably a Double post

Cao Chao wrote:Oh! Colleen McCullough is 1337 when it comes to her Rome books!

Anyways, my favorite books are:
Frank Herbert's Original Dune Series

My School's Yearbook known as Annals for its so many inside jokes and for spelling my name wrong...

Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged

Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace

Jon Stewart's A Citizen's Guide to America

Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game and sequels

William Gibson's Neuromancer

The Chinese version of Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Dan Simmons's Hyperion

I can't believe I forgot Ender's Game!

Hate Ayn Rand passionately - the writing the pseudo philosophy - gack!

I liked War and Peace a lot - in fact I used it successfully to dodge a masters thesis for weeks once. But I don't like Tolstoy's moral man characters - so boring and long winded!

Cao Chao · Post by **Cao Chao** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 10:21 am

I detested Ayn Rand's other books, since they were so freaking long-winded... The only one of her books that I managed to enjoy was Atlas Shrugged.

Orson Scott Card's latest series about Bean is crap, pure crap. Compared to the original series, it's pathetic and much less fulfilling. Even though Bean's storyline is interesting, he becomes this insanely brilliant and insanely big person, in other words a genius and giant without limits... Which is wrong.

I can almost not forgive him for writing such things, but because of Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, and Xenocide, I can.

Post by **ann** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 10:23 am

Yeah -- Bean was a let down in his incredible power. But Enders Game is just a great book!

fallen_saint · Post by **fallen_saint** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 1:06 pm

hmmm the series I like are

DragonCrown WarCycle by Michael Stackpole
Ice and Fire Saga by George R. R. Martin
Runelord Series by David Farland
The Great War by Harry Turtledove (alternate history)

Purple Tiger · Post by **Purple Tiger** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 1:36 pm

I need to throw out some Tolkien love here, The Lord of the Rings being my all-time favorite book series. I'm also a fan of Richard Adams' Watership Down.

But actually ... now that I look at it, my fiction section isn't all that big. (It's a little larger if you want to include graphic novels like Watchmen and V for Vendetta. I'm not much into comics, but these are great.)

For non-fiction, I do have a lot of Richard Dawkins' books on evolution and biology, like The Blind Watchmaker and The Selfish Gene. Also Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel. And a great book on the history of piracy, Under the Black Flag by David Cordingly.[/list]

Galagros · Post by **Galagros** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 2:14 pm

A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin (Nothing is better!)

DragonCrown War series by Michael A. Stackpole
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell (Not sure of the series name, only 1 book out)

Xiasiwang · Post by **Xiasiwang** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 2:32 pm

- Luo Guanzhong's infamous novel
- Albert Camus' The Stranger
- Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
- Douglas Adams' entire The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
- F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

Most of this stuff was actually recreational reading. I had to read Heart of Darkness for English this past year and just so happened to enjoy it. Also The Stranger; probably my favorite book that I'd read in a while.