If you guys enjoy fantasy you should check out the warrior-priest series by Scott Bakker - it's a fantasy trilogy with heavy philosophical overtones.

My only beef was it was hard to get through the first chaper but after that it takes off.

Can't be worse than WoT 9's 86 page long prologue.*>.<

I read all the time. I'm currently on Women in Love (DH Lawrence) and A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini). I also bought Generation Kill back in August and I've been reading it over and over since. I used to be really into sci-fi, not so much anymore although there are a few books in the genre I still like.

I also like to read the Neverending Story Thread.

**** yeah! Altered Carbon was goddamn epic.


Haven't read either, though I'm in the middle of Cryptonomicon at the moment. I wouldn't consider Neal Stephenson cyberpunk--he goes off into tangential topics too often.

About to start on Neverwhere, I think that's supposed to be considered cyberpunk. After I finish this starcraft novel by...


Yes! Christie Golden's awesome, Margaret Weis is great, and there's a couple other female fantasy authors I thoroughly enjoy.

But the best fantasy author of all time is a tie for me--between David Gemmell and David Eddings. The two are geniuses...just can't figure out which one moreso.

I read a lot

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I used to hate reading, and then I discovered John Green. I now read a book a week. Paper Towns is one of my favorite books of all time. Just throwing that out there.

**** yes!

but yea you definitely need to check out classics like snow crash/neuromancer

I've read George R R Martin's Song of Ice and Fire as far as he's written it. They're amazing books I just wish the fat git would get on with writing the next one. It's been "almost finished" for how long now? 4 or 5 years?

If any of you think about the war in Iraq and have no clear idea what is happening there and what has happened since 2003, I strongly urge you to read The Strongest Tribe by Bing West. I'm almost finished with it now. I found it after I realized that I could tell you the entire course of WWII but I couldn't tell you a single valid piece of information about what we're doing in Iraq. This book goes through the entire war from beginning to sometime in 2008 (like I said, haven't finished it yet, don't know exactly where it stops).

Great book.

Was that by chance or do you watch Vlogbrothers?



I've not read Paper Towns or An Abundance of Katherines yet, but Looking for Alaska was great.

i enjoy reading long series of books.

i'm never satisfied with one shot characters for some reason.

some series i've read: The Dark Tower, The Myth Adventures, Phules Company, Sword of Truth, most of the foundation series, most of the ender series, the lazarus long books, including all those obliquely related, the crystal cave series, the vampire cronicles and the mayfair witch books, currently working through the wheel of time, considering doing discworld next.

and i havent read a star wars book since 2000 or so. they got boring, and i'd only read like 6 of them.

I know I'm missing so many, but here's a little list of books that were really enjoyable to me:

Catch-22 - A must read
Prey - I liked it best out of the Critchon books I've read
Blind Man's Bluff - Awesome book about covert US submarine operations
(Anything by Chuck Palahniuk) - duh
1984 - Great classic book, everyone needs to read it. Even if you don't enjoy it, it's just something you need to read.
Ghost Soldiers - I love reading about history - it's about rescuing a bunch of POWs.
Dan Brown's books. - They really suck, but I enjoy them for some reason.

also, i dont read books anymore i listen to audiobooks. i dont really have time for physical books anymore.

the compte of monte cristo was pretty good :x

I read constantly. I started the X-wing books this week. I'm up to the second Wraith Squadron book, Iron Fist[. I'll be done with that and then I'll read the last two. I read The Stand every so often, just cause its an awesome book. And I read comics.

In the past couple months I've read a couple books by Philip K. Dick, Nehemiah's Foundations of Psychopathology, about half of Sartre's Being and Nothing (not even sure why I picked that up in the first place) and Eco's Foucault's Pendulum.

I read 1984 recently and thought that whilst it was enjoyable, it was utterly flawed nonsense.