Parker Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 I'm sure many of you are avid readers as well as gamers, so post some of your favorite books for your fellow forum goers. I'm a huge Tolkien fan and The Lord of the Rings series (The Hobbit as well) are some of my absolute favorite books. I'm also an engine enthusiast (I prefer diesel engines) so I like to pick up shop manuals and read through them as well, although I'm sure that would bore most people here to tears. I'm always looking for some great books to read so post some up and I'll check them out, Parker 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PSXtreme_ Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 Check out The Foundation Series by Asimov. http://www.vavatch.co.uk/books/asimov/ but you need to make sure you read them in proper order. The first book written is not the actual first book in the series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PSXtreme_ Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 I saw those....all named after colors? ummm, you must be thinking of another series. The series goes: Prelude to Foundation, Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation, Foundation's Edge, Foundation and Earth and Forward the Foundation... but that's not the order that they were written. The Foundation trilogy (when it was just 3 books) actually won a Hugo for best series, beating out the Lord of the Rings, which happily surprised Asimov. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ille1234 Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 My favorite book is called "Edward Finnigans Upprättelse". It's obviously a Swedish book, don't know if it exist in English or not. It's basically about a guy who locked up on death row, and just a few days before he's about to be executed he dies. You read the book from his perspective one year later and weirdly enough, he's still alive... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielVT Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 I love The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, all of the Chronicles of Narnia books. I also like pretty much any Star Wars novel and I also like sports novels that are related to my teams. To be honest though, I do not read much on the side, rather I read in college or in my free-time play video games LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 - 'The Dark Tower' series by Stephen King - 'Jurassic Park' by Michael Crichton - 'The Lost World' by Micheal Crichton - 'Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince' by J.K. Rowling - 'Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows' by J.K. Rowling - 'Fallen Angels' by Walter Dean Myers - 'Watchmen' by Alan Moore - 'Resident Evil' series by S.D. Perry - 'Night' by Elie Wiesel - 'Native Son' by Richard Wright - 'Cirque Du Freak' series by Darren Shan (the first 3 books were a bit childish, but the rest of the series seemed to get more serious and darker with each new book.) I haven't really read anything in a long time thanks to video games. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeyItsSpanky Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 Tuesday's With Morrie and a lot of the Ghost Recon stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wade_VC Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 Here are mine, in no particular order: War of the Worlds The Invisible Man The First Men in the Moon The Comet - H.G.Wells From the Earth to the Moon 20 Thousand Leagues Under the See Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne Beyond the Farthest Star The Monster Men Venus Series - Edgar Rice Burroughs Sherlock Holmes (all) The Lost World The Land of Mist When the World Screamed -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Farenhight 451 - Ray Bradbury The Plainsmen Series - Terry C. Johnston 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscar_383 Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 not much of a reader but I loved this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PSXtreme_ Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 Did you like the TV Show...Heroes? Do you follow graphic novels w/ superheroes? Then you really should read: The Wild Card Series. Into a world hungry for peace, comes a spaceship ferrying chaos...An alien bomb is detonated above the planet, shedding an indiscriminate gene virus on an Earth barely recovered from the horrors of World War ll. The result: Wild Cards. ACES blessed with superhuman powers and JOKERS cursed with bizarre physical and mental disfigurements. This is their story. And so began a series of shared-world anthologies that would bring the metahuman into the real world - our world. Everything up until 1946 is how we remember it. After that watershed year, many things will have changed. http://www.wildcardsonline.com/books.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunglikeamuppet Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 The last book I read was the Little Little Golden Book of Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends. But not for me - for the kids, I swear! My last books were Balkan Ghosts, by Robert Kaplan and A Long Way Gone, by Ishmael Beah (autobiography of a child soldier). Haven't read much lately due to the big move; hope to catch-up on some, though. I have this ritual where from Spring onwards, I would begin reading Stephen King's It. But I save it as a treat for when I need to have my daily pit stop. Well, as an additional treat, you can say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bush Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 For me, easily Where the Red Fern Grows ... as well as Catcher in the Rye and To Kill A Mockingbird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingOctoberXVI Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 The Hunger Games Series (More specifically, Mockingjay) Eragon series: The movie butchured the books left and right. They might take a while to read (600+ Pages a book, 4 books) but well worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XarliaKoneko Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 This is my favourite book: Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neputyunu Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 As RPG-Gamer you dont need books... Some games really have nearly too many text-scenes. So, as non-shootergamer I have enough to read. But, I guess Histyy is my favourite book, buddyyys nah, seriously... ... as child I loved "Knickerbocker Bande" books. This series have many books and is about four detectivekids. I know they get translated to other languages but actually I have no idea how they get called in english. Which book of them exactly is my favourite is hard to tell... its some years ago. Later I readed some of the Warcraft books for the plotholes around the games, because the games are just a small part of the whole thingy. But... yeah... dunno. books and freetv are pretty boring for me, because I loose concetration and motivation when Im doing too long nothing. So probably Im never going to understand japanese, because books are boring for me... And while reading books or watching televion, you are doing basicly nothing. Maybe this is the reason why I love RPGs. Its like playing a book... but better... because music, voices and stuff you will probably fail to imagine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wulfie Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury War Of The Worlds - HG Wells 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightstream88 Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 These are my favoritesWarriors by Erin HunterHarry PotterThe Chronicles of NarniaThe Inheritance Cycle Percy Jackson & The Olympians/Heroes of Olympus Left Behind Series Stephen King's Under the Dome, Firestarter, Full Dark, No Stars, Dreamscapes Horse: How the Horse has shaped civilizationThe Next World WarThe New Temple and the second comingCountdown to the Apocalypse MoongateThe Darkest Evening of the Year Dragon Riders of Pern Dragonheart Prophecy 20/20The Ocean DarkTom Clancy's Splinter CellTiger's CurseHowling MoonHalo the Fall of ReachNephilim Stargates and the return of the watchersRobopocalypseTerminator Trial by Fire and Cold WarTimeline HolesAnimorphs Remnants And I haven't actually read these yet but I'm almost pretty sure they'll be added to my favorites as wellDragon QueenThe Splintered godsAssassin's Creed ForsakenThe Fire WithinThe Thirteenth UnicornBlack DragonThe TwelveThe Last Days-Joe C RosenbergHalo CryptumThe Dark GriffinFiredrakeOne Second AfterStorm CycleCowboys & AliensResistance the Gathering StormDragon WingThe Lost World Jurassic ParkThe Children of Oden Dragon in ChainsTouched by Venom, Shadowed by Wings and Forged by Fire DragonspellLegacy of LightDragon ChampionThe Hidden RealityThe Dragon Lance ChroniclesReturn of the DragonsThe Smoke ThiefI am Legend11/22/632132OutlawThe Serpent SeaFringe The Zodiac Paradox, Burning Man and Sins of the FatherMLPFIM Daring Do Trilogy setand maybe survivorswell having seen this list looks like I got some catching up to do, and here I usually read each book I have 1-3 times except the ones that really bored me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JinCombo Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Love this book to death, read it so many times when I was growing up still my favourite book to date; Another two books I have recently read that were just terrific both about famous singers; Kurt Cobain: Anthony Kiedis: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoushi Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 (edited) Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien The Demon Cycle by Peter V. Brett Erebos and Saeculum by Ursula Poznanski Dancing Jax by Robin Jarvis Codex Alera by Jim Butcher For the Win and Little Brother by Cory Doctorow Age of the Five by Trudi Canavan Totentrickser by Jan Oldenburg Das Vermächtnis der Schwerter by Michael Rothballer Die Zwerge by Marcus Heitz Has anybody read "Night Watch" by Sergej Lukjanenko? If yes, is it worth reading? Edited March 6, 2015 by Zoushi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FilmFanatic Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 (edited) My favourite author is Stephen King and I also like Robin Cook, Tom Clancy, John Gribbin and Richard Dawkins. My favourite books include: It by Stephen King Insomnia by Stephen King Dreamcatcher by Stephen King A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins The Greatest Show On Earth by Richard Dawkins On The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin Edited March 6, 2015 by FilmFanatic 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coburnrobards Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, love this book so much, funny and dark all the way through Anything by Cormac McCarthy his books are so beautifully told and intense, Blood Meridan one to watch out for Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
le7Samurai Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 The Invention of Morel - Adolfo Bioy Casares Tell Tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe The Colour out of Space – H.P. Lovecraft The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas Pedro Páramo - Juan Rulfo Macbeth - William Shakespeare Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien 1984 – George Orwell The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slava Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 (edited) Another thread worth reviving. Was looking for something similar to "25 Favourite Films" but for books. This is one of the two threads I found. If there was a newer one, I apologise 😅. I can't lie, I'm not much of a reader these days, but I realised I've read enough books for a decent enough top 10 list: 1. Neuromancer by William Gibson 2. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 3. The Godfather by Mario Puzo 4. The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J. R. R. Tolkien 5. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 6. Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury 7. The Twelve Chairs by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeniy Petrov 8. Three Comrades by Erich Maria Remarque 9. The Martian by Andy Weir 10. Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk Edited January 12 by Slava 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulpine9Tails Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 I agree, nice post to revive. My favourite books: - Firewing by Kenneth Oppel (I love the whole series but especially the third book. The ending never fails to make me cry) - Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke These are some old favourites from when I was a lot younger. I have read more recently but nothing that's really captured me the way these did. I think it's time to reread them! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CairdyBoyBeats Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 The Hobbit Harry Potter and the Half-blood prince. Diary of a Wimpy Kid The Long Haul. Lol don't worry I have read adult books but I don't read much anymore. Anything with Sherlock Holmes is also a favorite. Shout out to the Tintin series as well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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