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Deb,
Great minds think alike :D
It is one of my favorites as you can gleen from my avatar\handle
Marion Zimmer Bradley wrote many books....FireBrand (Troy saga) was another good one.
....My original paperback actually disintegrated..from being read so many times....so I bought the hard cover re-issue.
Currently reading Stephen King...Dark Tower Series
MLF
The harry potter series (yea i know, so what )
The dark elf series by R.A. Salvatore
Anything and everything by Terry pratchet
Timeline by michael chricton ( another of my favorite authors0
The ashes series by william w. johnstone (dont read if you are a hanky waving liberal.)
The vampire chronicles by ann rice
The hitchikers guide to the galaxy by douglas adams
I could go on for another 2 or 3 posts. I read ALOT
I didn't really realize that she'd written other books Morgan! I'll have to check them out. I really enjoyed her style. I'm such a tard...Morganlefay, Avalon and your av...I probably should have put it together by now, but I'm oblivious to most things. :rolleyes:
Zombie, I love the Harry Potter books too. They're good in their own right, but I really like having something I can relate to my son about. We've got 2 copies of the new one reserved, one for me and one for him! :D We tried sharing the last one when it was released, that didn't work out too well.
I've never read the Hitchhikers Guide, but after talking to Microburn about it and hearing from you guys, I'll have to try it.
Clouds - Aristophanes
LOTRs - Tolkien
Narnia - C.S. Lewis
Wheel of Time series - Robert Jordan
The Door Into Summer - Robert A. Heinlein (Heinlein is genius at his variety and skill. I like most of his books a good deal.)
The Puppet Masters - Heinlein
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (BTW, Deb, you said you were considering this book. DEFINETLY read it. It's most excellent. The sequals were ok, but this one is absolutely classic. 42! It's a pity they made a movie of it. :-( )
Sword of Truth series - Terry Goodkind
Dune - Frank Herbert
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
- Xierox
thanx xierox i almost forgot one.
The cat who walked through walls, and stranger in a strange land by robert heinlen
I liked "A Cat Who Walked Through Walls" (recently bought it, but haven't read it a second time yet.)Quote:
Originally posted here by ZomBieMann77
thanx xierox i almost forgot one.
The cat who walked through walls, and stranger in a strange land by robert heinlen
I read the uncut version of "A Stranger in a Strange Land." Basically, it was how Heinlein wanted it published (roughly 450 - 500 page, I think.) It was so-so. It seemed to drag on a lot and the issues and questions it raised were probably out of my league at the time. (I was like 14 or 15.) Now I'm 17 (turning 18 in a month), and having been a school that teaches critical thinking (and philosophy and whatnot) for the past eight months I'm anxious to try reading it again and see if most of what the book is about didn't just fly over my head the first time. I'll probably re-read it this summer or the next.
- Xierox
Ph definitly, i read the first three, diodnt get a chance for the last ones yet....Quote:
The harry potter series (yea i know, so what )
yeah so what ?!?! huh who wants some.....
/me eyes the room
thats what i though
Humm lets see [Authors] :
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Mark Twain , William Shakespeare , Jules Verne , Homer [ No not the character from the Simpsons ... ] , Fyodor Dostoyevsky , Jane Austen , H.G. Wells
Mark Twain , C.S. Lewis , Tolkien ....
Many many more ....
The DaVinci Code- Dan Brown [ Read it but well lets see how can I put it ... sucks ... ]
Dune, how could I forget that one.
I've read some of the sequals but I thought they were....well... crap. But Dune is a great book. Took me two or 3 reads to actually get most of it. Like reading a historical novel in the future absolute calssic.
I've read a couple of Dan Brown books, (DaVinci Code and Deception point) they are page turners but not books I'd read twice.
Decypher by Stel Pavlou might appeal to a lot of people here.
Sven Hassells war books - Tiny, Porta etc written from the point of view of a crew in a German Penal Tank battalion.
I'm rereading lotr at the moment.
I second that. Amazing books. I have yet to read Deception Point... but I just picked it up the other day. He keeps the books moving so fast that you can't put them down. I read them in under 2 days...Quote:
Originally posted here by ©opy®ight
Digital Fortress, Deception Point, Da Vinci Code, ANgels & Demons....all by Dan Brown, all are awesome. He's currently my favorite writer. Maybe because those are all the bokks i read :-D
I also really liked The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Clifford Stoll. I think MsM recommended that book to me.
Reall... all I have time to read are Text Books. They aren't quite as much fun. :(