Favorite Books

[Imamu]

not sure if this thread has been done before.
probably, but who cares.

as the title says, what's your favorite books?

as for me, I'm a very avid reader. anything by Kurt Vonnegut or Ray Bradbury is awesome. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is good. Flowers for Algernon was a great one. all the Max Brooks zombie books and S.D. Perry's Resident Evil novelizations. so many great books, I don't think I can pick just one. oh, and you can't forget the classics: To Kill a Mockingbird and The Catcher in the Rye.

how about the rest of you?

[Veilside]

I love Fight Club, and anything written by Erikson, Bakker, Lynch and Martin. Just about to read Fear and Loathing, saw the film a couple nights ago so I'm borrowing the book from a friend.

[Harken_Pherae]

Anything written by Steven Brust

[Sephinor]

As for me I always loved the Elric saga, or anything wrote by Michael Moorcock.

[Rowhin]

not sure if this thread has been done before.
probably, but who cares.


Actually, Lucy says it hasn't. Not books in general, anyway.

Well, my favourite books are still the Liber Chaotica and the A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin ;)

[Wolfman]

To Kill a Mockingbird and Huckleberry Finn are two of my favorites.

[Imamu]

Actually, Lucy says it hasn't. Not books in general, anyway.

yeah, I searched for it too and didn't see it.
kind of figured at least some people on this forum enjoyed reading. :P

a good book > a good movie every time.

[marzipan]

I really enjoyed Faith & Fire by James Swallow but my favourite book is Drachenfels. I also really like a Swedish book called "Kim Novak badade aldrig i Genesarets sjö".

[Mordeth]

Wheel of time for me..

have been for years and will be for years.

[Avien]

You know...since the description of "Gamer Culture" has the term books in it, let's move this thread there...

*moved with a very specific tome*

Oh, and believe me: reading the massive amounts of posts you guys leave here every day is more than enough to keep the reading skills of us mods occupied ;)

[rheinberger]

I'm a huge Alistair MacLean fan. Don't really know what is really, his stories just click with me and I like the fact that they take place during a very narrow timeframe and in a very restricted area with a handful of people.

Then there is Orchids written by Thomas H Cook. Amazing piece of literature filled with cynicism and bleak notions about humans and life. In the book a fictional nazi doctor lives hiding somewhere in the Amazon and goes through the main events of his life.

Brian Callison also wrote great naval books rich with sardonic humor.

I'm not too big on the fantasy book department, mostly because almost all of them focus on either humans or elves and neither of them are really interesting fantasy wise.

[Imamu]

You know...since the description of "Gamer Culture" has the term books in it, let's move this thread there...

*moved with a very specific tome*

Oh, and believe me: reading the massive amounts of posts you guys leave here every day is more than enough to keep the reading skills of us mods occupied ;)

oh, I see. sorry about that, Avien. :[
but shouldn't that also mean the "Your favourite movie" thread also be moved into Gamer Culture?

http://www.warhammeralliance.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20494

[Avien]

oh, I see. sorry about that, Avien. :[
but shouldn't that also mean the "Your favourite movie" thread also be moved into Gamer Culture?

http://www.warhammeralliance.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20494

No need to be sorry, that's what we mods are here for ;)

Holy camoly, you are right! I'll see to that asap :D

[Ryuuku]

All of Jame's Clavell's books, but particularly Shogun.

GRRM's A Song of Ice and Fire.

And Eiji Yoshikawa's Musashi.

[Rime]

I don't really know, but Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace is probably the most "rewarding" book I've ever read. It's like 800 pages long +300 pages of endnotes(that need to be read) and I needed to consult a dictionary many, many times.

most fun I've ever had while reading a book

edit:here's a sample SENTENCE from the book...oh btw it was published in 1996 and is set around 2000

The facial stills that Mario lap-dissolves between are of Johnny Gentle, famous Crooner, founding standard-bearer of the seminal new ‘Clean U.S. Party,’ the strange-seeming but politically prescient annular agnation of ultra-right jingoist hunt-deer-with-automatic-weapons types and far-left macrobiotic Save-the-Ozone, -Rain-Forests, -Whales, -Spotted-Owls-and-High-pH-Waterways ponytailed granola-crunchers, a surreal union of both Rush L.– and Hillary R.C.–disillusioned fringers that drew mainstream-media guffaws at their first Convention (held in sterile venue), the seemingly LaRoucheishly marginal party whose first platform’s plank had been Let’s Shoot Our Wastes Into Space,[150] C.U.S.P. a kind of post-Perot national joke for three years, until — white-gloved finger on the pulse of an increasingly asthmatic and sunscreen-slathered and pissed-off American electorate — the C.U.S.P. suddenly swept to quadrennial victory in an angry reactionary voter-spasm that made the U.W.S.A. and LaRouchers and Libertarians chew their hands in envy as the Dems and G.O.P.s stood on either side watching dumbly, like doubles partners who each think the other’s surely got it, the two established mainstream parties split open along tired philosophical lines in a dark time when all landfills got full and all grapes were raisins and sometimes in some places the falling rain clunked instead of splatted, and also, recall, a post-Soviet and -Jihad era when — somehow even worse — there was no real Foreign Menace of any real unified potency to hate and fear, and the U.S. sort of turned on itself and its own philosophical fatigue and hideous redolent wastes with a spasm of panicked rage that in retrospect seems possible only in a time of geopolitical supremacy and consequent silence, the loss of any external Menace to hate and fear.

[Nathar]

I am amongst the grandest anti-abnetts when it comes to lore but for a good read I like darkblade ahead of everything else. Especially bloodstorm is marvellous.

[Graven]

I recently picked up The Dark Tower, have parts 1-3, it's pretty well-written. Stephen King is best at horrors, but does a pretty good job with gritty fantazy settings too it seems. Don't know how it works out after, but the third part was definitely nice. Another series worth reading are "Earthsea" by Ursula Le Guin. Fantazy, dark, good characters, interesting plot, no generic nonsense.

[Paintbrush-WHA]

H.P. Lovecraft mostly.

Thinking of getting into some Dark Tower and Wheel of Time, as they have been consistently recommended to me.