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This ones simple: whats you favourite Book, Favourtie Author, and favourtie Genre of book?

Mine is a tie between Tom Clancy and Terry Pratchett. I dont have favourites in the other two categorys... cos its too hard to choose between thign slike 'Sum of all Fears' and 'Monstrous Regiment'...

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I like Alexandre Dumas' books. He is a french author who is known very well. His most famous book revolved around the trilogy of the Three Musketeers. I need to find some time to read Count of Monte Cristo. Never get the time though, since its over 700 pages long.

My favorite one that I did read was The Man in the Iron Mask. I don't recomend his works to everyone though. It is very difficult to read French books and I had to reread chapters often. But it is a great book.

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fave author: Llyod Alexander
fave book: The Book Of Three
fave genre: anything dealing with meideval times and fighting

My favorite author is Terry Pratchett as well, the Discworld series is genius and I've read them all. I am also a closet Harry Potter lover, they are very well written. The Robotech novels are also some of my favorites.

My favorite genre would have to be sci-fi or satire.

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my favorite book is a tossup between the adventures of tom sawyer, the adventures of huckleberry finn (both by mark twain, as if you didnt already know), or the shadow over innsmouth by h.p. lovecraft.

my favorite authors are mark twain, h.p. lovecraft and jules verne, i also like tom clancy but i havent had a great chance to read too much of his work yet.

i dont really have a favorite genre of book, if its good, its good.

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I feel like I have too many favorite books now to just choose one, so I'll list one for each category:

Sci-Fi: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Children's Lit: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Classics: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Contemporary Fiction: The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Non-fiction: Our America by LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman
Education: Educating Esme by Esme Codell
Autobiography: Black Boy by Richard Wright
Philosophy: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulgham

My favorite author is probably Orson Scott Card. As you can see above, there's no way I'll be able to pick a favorite genre.

This post has been edited by Gears on 9th December 2003 20:14

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My favorite series is DragonLance, which has like 100 novels by many authors. My favorite is probably Dragons of Winter Night, because Sturm serves a bigger role.
I liked Animorphs by K. A. Applegate when I was younger. I still like it, but never finished it. I read the final book, but not the previous ten. I need to find those...

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As has been stated, there are just to many good books out there to be able to form any definit opinion. However, there are some books which I would recomend to anyone:

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
This book stands as the very highest point in Russian liturature, and some would say the very highest point in the history of the novel, though many reserve that spot for War and peace. This book will change your life.

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
This book is a good laid back read, however, it effects one's thoughts and philosophy long after the last page has been turned. Over time, it challenges the former reader to live life more fully, leaving behind many of the shadows of dispair and complatency.

I am of the opinion that books change people, and that there are few things more edifying than a good book.


I don't think that I could pick a favorite Genre, but I will say that I do happen to have a taste for victorian novels... well, any vitorian writting, I guess. And as for favorite author, well, that would be me. The truth of the matter is, that I don't normally read more than one book by an author, there are just to many good authors out there, each with their own unique style.

This post has been edited by Iain Peregrine on 9th December 2003 08:09

I love DragonLance (pre-Age Of Mortals). All the writer's for it are wonderful. Ed Greenwood's Elminster books are good to. Also Salvatore's book about Drizzt Do'Urden (god i hope i'm spelling this write.) The Wheel Of Time line by Robert Jorden are exelent, at the begining, but the storyline drag after the 7th. And I can't believe I'm the first to mention Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's ever increasingly mistitled Hitchhiker's Trilogy.

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My favorite authors are Ray Bradbury, Terry Goodkind and Terry Brooks. My favorite book of all time is Farenheit 451. I would suggest anybody goes out and read it. Other books i like are the Sword of Truth series (terry goodkind) the shannara series (terry Brooks) and enders game (orson scott card). Oh and i have a quick question, is the rest of the enders game series any good? I know it exists, but i've never heard anybody say anthing about it, good or bad. So if you read it, what do you think?

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I must admit to not having read many books (I should seriously read more), but my favorite book up to now is a toss-up between Catch-22 and Pride and Prejudice. My favorite author is probably Ray Bradbury. I can't tell if I have a favorite genre.

Edit: My favorite genre might be fantasy, though I haven't really read enough books in it to tell. Does anyone here know if Through the Darkness is any good? I was thinking of reading that.

This post has been edited by Glenn Magus Harvey on 9th December 2003 17:27

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or the shadow over innsmouth by h.p. lovecraft.

THANK YOU! I'm bonkers about Lovecraft, and happen to think that the Shadow over Innsmouth is probably his best (The Dream in the Witch House, and The Shadow out of Time are close behind).

My favorite author is Clive Barker. I reccomend his books to anyone and everyone. They're full of unique imagination, history, and thought-provoking plot.

Though I can never pick just one, some of my favorite books have been George Orwell's 1984, Richard Adam's Watership Down, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omen's, Stephen King and Peter Straub's The Talisman, and The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler.

Books are great: they're what I want to make in my life.

This post has been edited by Ejoty on 9th December 2003 20:03

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Oh and i have a quick question, is the rest of the enders game series any good? I know it exists, but i've never heard anybody say anthing about it, good or bad. So if you read it, what do you think?

None of the rest of the books by themselves is as good as Ender's Game, but they all are pretty good. Speaker for the Dead is almost as good, although it's very different than Ender's Game. Xenocide moves a lot slower, but it's worth reading just to get to Children of the Mind which wraps everything up very nicely. You might want to read Ender's Shadow first, as it's most like Ender's Game. It's basically a parellel novel to it, but written from Bean's perspective. Shadow of the Hegemon is worth reading too, but it's more of a military thriller than a sci-fi book.

If you like the rest of the series, I would reccomend OSC's Alvin Maker series. Which I think as a series is better than the Ender series.

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I like the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. My favorite genre would be fantasy (unless you're counting manga, in which case it would be shoujo, but I'm gonna stick to book books)
I also like the Wit'ch War series, five books long, but I don't remember what the authors name was.

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or the shadow over innsmouth by h.p. lovecraft.

THANK YOU! I'm bonkers about Lovecraft, and happen to think that the Shadow over Innsmouth is probably his best (The Dream in the Witch House, and The Shadow out of Time are close behind).

ahh a fellow lovecraft fan...

if youre interested in hearing how lovecraft's work has influenced other branches of art, go on kazaa or something like that and download "the call of ktulu" and "the thing that should not be", both by metallica. the first song is an instrumental, and since youre familiar with the particular book in question, the name is more or less self-explanatory (Cthulhu was changed to ktulu i guess to follow the storyline about how cthulhu's name can never be spoken). metallica won a grammy in 1999 for best performance when they played this on the s&m album with the san francisco symphony orchestra, its a very good song with a lot of different musical textures to it.

the second song more or less completely covers the storyline of shadow over innsmouth, and is pretty much the whole reason i discovered the book (and author) in the first place.

i dunno if metallica's music is really your cup of tea like it is mine, but you might enjoy both of these as a lovecraft fan anyway, particularly the second one.

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Say goodbye to gravity and say goodbye to death
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I'm on a big Clive Barker kick right now. I went to Amsterdam in May, and I asked people on a MUSH I play to recommend a nice thick book for me to read on the 8-hour-long plane trip over there. One person recommended "The Great and Secret Show", so I picked that up from the library where I work, read it, and loved it to pieces. Since then, I've read Cabal, Everville (the sequel to tGaSS), and Sacrament, and I'm in the middle of Imajica now. My goodness, this man is a genius. Is there anything he can't do??

I love the Harry Potter books; I've got the newest book in the series waiting for me once I finish Imajica. I also love the Redwall series, and the DragonLance books, although I think the whole Fifth Age idea is stupid. Lovecraft is also very good; I need to read more of his stuff. So far, some of my favorite stories of his are "The Horror of Dunwich" and "The Dreams in the Witch-House".

Genre isn't a big issue for me, as long as it's good. Some of my other favorite books are Jane Eyre, Flatland, the Narnia series, and just about anything by Terry Pratchett (I especially loved "Good Omens"). For the most part, though, I'm a voracious reader, and will most likely read anything you plunk down in front of me.

Mine would be "The Killer Angels" by Michael Shaara. It is a historical novel on the battle of Gettysburg. If anyone has seen the movie "Gettysburg" it was based on that book.

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I'll go with A Brave New World for my favorite book. For all you fantasy fans, do yourselves a favor and pick up George R. R. Martin's A Song of Fire and Ice series. It seriously outclasses Robert Jordan's series.

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ahh a fellow lovecraft fan...

Ok that makes three, between us three we should go out and search for a means to contact Father Dagon on Imboca. We just need a sacrifice....


Have you seen the movie Dagon yet? It's really good. It's based on the book. There is also a movie by John Carpender movie called In the Mouth of Madness, it's awesome. I loved reading the Call of Cthulu and am working on The Shadow over Innsmouth.

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My favorite book is a Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
My favorite author... I'd probably say J.K. Rowling..
Genre... I dunno.. I'll read anything but romance... I do, however have to say that I read romance graphic novels. I dunno if that's worse.. but the ones I read aren't graphic.. I like the old Goosebumps books and Fear Street... I actually also love the Nancy Drew books, and the Hardy Boys... The Little House on the Prarie books are good too... I can't pick.. I love books too much..

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I'm kinda torn, but my favorite genre is definitely sci-fi. My favorite authors are Douglas Adams, Robert Heinlein, and Orson Scott Card. As for books - I gotta list 'em - from Douglas Adams, the whole 6 book Hitchhiker's Trilogy; from Card, the entire Ender series, including the newest ones; as for Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Stranger in a Strange Land, The Cat Who Walked Through Walls, and Starship Troopers. But these guys write so amazingly that their books are like Lays potato chips - betcha can't read just one!

Here's a hurrah for therandyrhoads, Syndarr, Anarchist Dream, and myself: Lovecraft rocks! Yes I heard those Metallica songs before I new they were based on Lovecraft, and I think it's really good music (though I still haven't heard the symphonic Call of Ktulu which is probably spelled like that because of copyright hooplah).

Oh by the way, I guess I'm more of a horror nut than I realize, but has anyone noticed that Stephen King just put out a new installment to the Dark Tower series? I've been jones-ing for that for so long, but probably won't get to read it until this summer (the 1rst 4 books kicked royal derriere if you ask me).

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everyone needs to stop and go read some yeats.


then read a people's history of the united states by howard zinn.

then more yeats, and then some wilde.

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Favorite book is "I, Jedi" by Michael A. Stackpole. How often do you see a Star Wars book written in the first person?
Favorite author is J.R.R. Tolkien. Can't believe no one's mentioned him yet.
Old old Classics: The Illiad. Damn long book... but easy reading that can draw you in.
Classics: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. It makes me feel all schweeeet at the end.
Political: People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn. Though he obscures the truth times, he shows what many history books have obscured for many years.

I love to read, and my list of favorite books is fairly long. If I had to cut it down to three, I guess I'd have to say the Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1984 by George Orwell, and The Art of War by Sun Tzu.

Favorite author is easier. Tolkien.

I can't say I have a favorite genre. The quality of the book itself will usually appeal to me more than any specific literary subdivision.

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Favorite author: J. R. R. Tolkien
Favorite Book (series): The Thrawn Star Wars Trilogy
Favorite Genre: either fantasy or sci-fi

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I miss you all now that I'm in boarding school! ;_;

I'm on a big Mercedes Lackey.... "thing" right now. I'm working on the Winds trilogy, but I'd have to say that my favorite of her trilogies (which is what her stories tend to be written in) and perhaps my favorite books, period, is the Last Herald-Mage trilogy. Close second for favorite would be The Snow Garden by Christopher Rice (I read both of his books, the other one being A Density of Souls, in one night each, ).

My favorite author..... Mercedes Lackey?

I guess I would have to say that my favorite genre is fantasy. I used to think I hated it, but two different friends got my hooked on Terry Goodkind and Mercedes, and, to my amazement, I discovered I loved it.

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One of my favorites is Sabriel by Garth Nix.

Its a fantasy novel about a girl who belongs to a family of necromancers who use thier powers to send the dead back into the underworld rather than summon them out of it, and her search for her father who sends her a message from the brink of death while she is studying abroad.

Some others . . .
Memories of Silk and Straw by Junichi Saga, Garry O. Evans
Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
Mugged by the State by Randall Fitzgerald

I would have to give special recognition to Lloyd Alexander, whose Prydain Chronicles really sparked my interest as a young reader. I don't know if I would call him my favorite, but certainly an important creative force in my life.

I used to have a ton of paperback sci-fi and fantasy novels on the shelf until the roof leaked and thoroughly "watered" my collection. Unfortunately most of the books were ruined.
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I'm a bit of a military history buff myself, I love the works of Hugh-Trevor Roper, John Keegan and others. I also dig alternate history stuff, like Harry Turtledove's American Front series, based on a Confederate victory in the American Civil War. The series chronicles the 2nd Mexican War of 1881, then jumps to WWI in 1914 where the USA is allied with the Central Powers and the CSA is part of the Entete, along with Canada. It's really trippy to imagine the horrors of a World War all across the North American continent, and even more amazing to imagine how relatively easy it could have been. I highly reccomend this series for broad minded people with historical interest.

Also, I reccomend The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. Great book, and it WILL make you think about Christianity as we know it. Another book I really got into was Fatherland by Robert Harris. It's about a German police detective who finds the body of a high ranking Nazi official in the river, leading him on a week long investigation to uncover the Reich's most terrible secret before President Joe Kennedy flies to Berlin for peace talks with Hitler to end the Cold War. Another alternate history book, but it has elements of Thomas Harris (Red Dragon, Silence of The Lambs) and is a great fast paced but thought provoking book.

On the lighter side, I enjoy Ex-Myster Science Theater 3000 writer Mike Nelson's books, "Mike Nelson's Movie Megacheese" and "Mind Over Matters". Movie Megacheese is a great, comedic look on some reeeaaalllyy bad movies/actors, and Mind Over Matters is alot like Tim Allen's "Don't Stand Too Close To A Naked Man", really. And Kevin Murphy's "A Year At The Movies" is a great book: it is very funny, and its not about movies so much as it is movie watching, and how to enjoy it.

Reading is highly under rated. Even though I'm not a huge fan, God bless Harry Potter for getting young kids interested in reading again. Same goes for the Lord of The Rings movies. Without them, the young kids might all turn out like those sebaceous little creatures from Good Charlotte. And no one wants that...except maybe Satan. Or Kefka.

Edit: Bwa ha ha ha, i'm a Mag Roader! I hope i'm the little beige midget one and not the big deformed Barney.

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Blood & Fire

Book would be The Hobbit and author would be the man responcible. Mostly though, I'm horror/fantasy.

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