Favourite Authors & Books

I was sad when Micheal Crichton died, his stuff was very enjoyable.

It's funny I've seen the movie about a gajazillion times but never read the book. The movie I love^^

Sucks to your asmar!

Garth Nix, Sabriel series.

This. Also I believe it's Abhorsen triology, and supposedly more are in the works

technicalities. The first book was called sabriel, so thats what I call them. I really wish he would do more. I read abhorsen about a million times.

Oh snap were both wrong. The series is call The Old Kingdom.

Yeah he said he would do more... um like a few years ago I think... and they keep getting pushed back /sigh
Hmm it used to be called Abhorsen triology... maybe that he's changed it means he is serious about making more

Off the top of my head.... Michael Chricton, Harry Turtledove, William R. Fortschen, R.A. Salvatore, Neil Gaiman, and Yann Martel....

H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow over Innsmouth.
Dante's Inferno
and The Lovely Bones.

:3

I know he just recently passed away, but I read his book in High school , near my grade 12 yr, and re read it during college. Was certianly a good book..

Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger

Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catcher_in_the_Rye

very contraverial book in the 60- 80's most of you were prolly in diapers then.. John Lennon's murder had this book on him when he was caught after he was shot.

and one cannot resist a contraversial book about a murderer's wife who helped commit a heinous crime in all of Canadian History...

Karla: A Pact With the Devil you can read all about her on the wiki i'm also listing..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karla_Homolka by Stephen Williams


Enjoy!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_L._McKiernan

Loved the Iron Tower Tril.

Just picked up:

Under The Red Flag by Han Jin

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Oh and Marion zimmer Bradley. Though she died 10 years ago stuff still comes out in her name. Part of that is people finishing up what they started with her since she did alot of collaborative works

I love the way Carl Sagan writes. I'm not trying to sound like a snubby science nerd either. He just writes really beautifully and always makes things interesting. Sometimes the topics are a little biased but they are always really informative and interesting.

Who is John Galt?


see if any of you get that...

I'd be shocked if someone doesn't get that.

Almost all of the books I read are Military Science Fiction <.< so...

Two good series are...
David Weber, and his Honor Harrington.

Lois McMaster Bujold and her Vorkosigan.

Universes with multiple authors can be good too, such as the Bolo universe first created by Keith Laumer

Battletech has some really excellent stories in the novels, although to be honest I haven't read any of the recent ones as my father mentioned they have jumped a hundred years or so in the timeline and it's just not the same. I would recommend The Legend of the Jade Phoenix (sorry for the hard-to-read page with synopsis, wiki didn't have an article) trilogy by Robert Thurston. (This page is merely a list of his books, internet doesn't seem to have much about him)

had to be said though its only the 2ed most read book ever and no one has said anything about it

I find it hard to believe it's the second most read book

But anyway, this books looks like something I'd enjoy, so thanks

Ooooooooooooooooh Hes a good one!
Loved that series :x

My favorite book is Lost in Time, by Lois Duncan.
My favorite author is Kathryn Tucker Windham.

R.A. Salvatore - Legend of Drizzt

David Eddings. Pretty much everything but my favorite was The redemption of Althalus

I've read all of Eddings's work as well as Wheel of Time. Most of my literature is plays and military nonfiction tho.

The greatest underdog story of all time IMHO: The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors by James D. Hornfischer.

And I've been meaning to look into this guy who wrote a book or two using the same source as I do for character names (the Royal Navy)...does anyone know his name?

people keep assuming this is where I got my character name from. I didn't even know what they were talking about until I got curious and looked it up. still haven't read it though.

anyway, couple of my favorites are "Lullaby" by Chuck Palahniuk and "The Sirens of Titan" by Kurt Vonnegut.

J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings

-- Don't care if it's "popular", LOTR's high fantasy settings inspire to never be content with my own writings.

George Orwell - 1984

It's always relevant, such a timeless book.

Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club

- Read the book first years ago, just because Brad Pitt was in the movie and I didn't want to watch some Brad Pitt movie... but the book was almost some 'religious' experience for me, it was sort of like a reaffirmation that it was OK to hit rock bottom. Fight Club was my first real literary look at "nihilistic" topics.

J.D. Salinger -- The Catcher in the Rye

"...Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, Many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them -- if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry."

"I'm not trying to tell you that only educated and scholarly men are able to contribute something valuable to the world. It's not so. But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they're brilliant and creative to begin with -- which, unfortunately is rarely the case -- tend to express themselves more clearly, and they usually have a passion for following their thoughts through to the end. And -- most important -- nine times out of ten they have more humility than the unscholarly thinker."

It's a nice read, I suppose I read it a bit late into my "life crisis", or it might've had a larger impact on me.

Jean-Paul Sartre -- The Transcendence of the Ego

I haven't gotten around to Being and Nothingness yet, I'm saving that for later, but Sartre's one of the few who's ever "shown me anything new" that I haven't already "realized" by research, or empiricism, over the years.