What's your favorite book(s)?

[ShadowMaker]

What's your favorite book(s)? Genre? If there's any Fantasy fans out there, i suggest Melanie Rawn's series Dragon Prince and Dragon Star. Anyone else have any suggetions on good books?

[Dj_StarChild]

My favourite book is probably Choke by Chuck Palahniuk.
I'm a big fan of Chuck, and also Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

I think My favourite Fantasy Series is Elizabeth Haydon's Rhapsody...sextelogy, or whatever you call those groups of six.
Sara Douglass' Axis/Wayfarer Redemption stuff is pretty good too, says me.

[shiney]

i always did like The Worthing Saga by Orson Scott Card.

[Mashirosen]

Everything PG Wodehouse ever wrote about Bertie and Jeeves.

".... His entire genius was for being funny, and being funny in such a sublime way as to put mere poetry in the shade. .... What Wodehouse writes is pure word music. It matters not one whit that he writes endless variations on a theme of pig kidnappings, lofty butlers, and ludicrous impostures. He is the greatest musician of the English language, and exploring variations of familiar material is what musicians do all day."

[ApathyMan]

I usually read political treatises and the magazine The Economist...

... I like Salinger's style, though.

I'm also a fan of Alternate History books - I've read quite a bit of the "master of alternate history" (according to the cover of each of his books), Harry Turtledove's, books. I usually prefer his more "down to earth" books (i.e. NOT his books about "what if" magic was used in the Civil War or "what if" aliens landed during WWII).

I also like Woodrow Wilson's "The State," particularly for how dynamically it switches from strong academic language to a plain, blunt, almost conversational or verbal language (though I disagree with quite a few things he says in there).

[lifebecomeslessdefined]

Probably Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.

That and Richard Morgan's Takashi Kovacs series, Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, and Woken Furies.

Cyberpunk, FTW.

[ShadowMaker]

I like Elizabeth Haydon's books as well. I'm not sure what they call six books either, unfourtanuly(?).

[Shishio]

The A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin. (http://www.georgerrmartin.com)

[Onion Knight]

I like theTerry Pratchett diskworld books, especially the ones with the City Watch in them. I like humorous books like these. Aside from these I like fantasy stuff, Robin Hobb is good I think.

[Gabriel Frostfell]

I shall forever, and utterly, be an Orson Scott Card Fangirl. Second to that, maybe The Abhorsen Trilogy.

Can anyone recoment good Fantasy Book series'? (Something with alot of goodness with which to inspire the RPG Fanatic, kinda like The Abhorsen Trilogy).

[Mirai Gen]

I think My favourite Fantasy Series is Elizabeth Haydon's Rhapsody...sextelogy
Yeah, having read that book, I can safely say that "sextology" applies well to it. And not because it comes in a series of six.

Jokes aside, as I have mentioned before, my all time favorite book is Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. Matthew Stover was brilliant.

[Kitana Paladine]

Can anyone recoment good Fantasy Book series'? (Something with alot of goodness with which to inspire the RPG Fanatic, kinda like The Abhorsen Trilogy).

Yes, Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar series of books. There's nearly 30 in the series, and she's not done writing it yet. This (http://www.mercedeslackey.com/text/1mlchron.shtml) will take you to the list of the books. Its mostly trilogies, a duology with an antholgy attached, some singles, and few other antholgies.

Mercedes does have a reccomendation for reading order, and that is start with the Heralds of Valdemar trilogy(and the three books preceeding it), followed by The Last Herald-Mage trilogy. From there, read in any order, but if you wanna follow up where the Heralds of Valdemar trilogy left off, read By the Sword, Mage Winds, Mage Storm, Darian's Tale(the three Owl books). If you want to learn about what caused the incident in Mage Storm, read Mage Wars. After Darian's Tale, go back and read the "older" books Brightly Burning and the Vows and Honor duology(which gives you some background for By the Sword) and its antholgy.

Two warnings. First is that several books have moments that can bring a tear to your eye. The second is The Last Herald-mage trilogy involves a lead character who is gay. If that offends you, feel free not to read those three books.

[Invisible Queen]

"Evil" by Swedish outlaw reporter (really) Jan Guillou. I don't know if you can get it in english but it might just be worth learning swedish for. :)

[Gabriel Frostfell]

Yes, Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar series of books. There's nearly 30 in the series, and she's not done writing it yet. This (http://www.mercedeslackey.com/text/1mlchron.shtml) will take you to the list of the books. Its mostly trilogies, a duology with an antholgy attached, some singles, and few other antholgies.

Mercedes does have a reccomendation for reading order, and that is start with the Heralds of Valdemar trilogy(and the three books preceeding it), followed by The Last Herald-Mage trilogy. From there, read in any order, but if you wanna follow up where the Heralds of Valdemar trilogy left off, read By the Sword, Mage Winds, Mage Storm, Darian's Tale(the three Owl books). If you want to learn about what caused the incident in Mage Storm, read Mage Wars. After Darian's Tale, go back and read the "older" books Brightly Burning and the Vows and Honor duology(which gives you some background for By the Sword) and its antholgy.

Two warnings. First is that several books have moments that can bring a tear to your eye. The second is The Last Herald-mage trilogy involves a lead character who is gay. If that offends you, feel free not to read those three books.

Sounds good, need to hit my work and steal those (I work at a Borders, and no I'm not ACTUALLY stealing them). As for those twow arnings: A) no book has ever amde me cry, and I kinda find it sad... and THAT makes me cry (lol, no, I'm kidding). Actually Sap doesn't penetrate me, I don't know why, but I probably will feel slightly depressed about whatever happens. And B) Ever read Sing the Four Quarters? Yeah. I don't mind gay/lesbian characters.

[Kitana Paladine]

Working at a Borders certainly helps out in this situation, but be warned, I've seen Borders have maybe a third to half the books in the series on the shelves at a given time.

As to the warnings, I thought I'd give a heads-up, mostly because there are people out there who have a problem reading stories out gay and lesbian characters and I wasn't sure if you'd be one.

Aside from that, enjoy! :)