Topic: The Book Thread

You can use this thread to talk about books and the like. I will try to keep this thread going so that it can actually be found, unlike every other thread that may have been similar to this. ^{We need stickies lol}

Anyhow, I like quite a few different kinds of books, and when I find an author I am really into, I tend to continually read the author's various books. I have read quite a bit of Stephen King and Dean Koontz. I actually started with those Goosbump books when I was a kid; I had so many of them. I loved everything horror (still do), so I naturally moved onto the bigger ones. I did read some fantasy as a kid, but if they were a series, it never kept me. I read one redwall book (and enjoyed it), but I actually started reading Tom Clancy books alongside the horror ones. It was a strange change when I look back, but I still very much enjoy Robert Ludlum's books (especially his bourne book).

Right now, I have finally gotten into some fantasy, although not very mainstream fantasy. I had a friend recommend me a book (part of a 4 book series with a fifth addition added) called Shadow of The Torturer by Gene Wolfe. Simply put, the most gripping novel I have ever read. The series is called The Book of The New Sun. Anyone interested in it can ask me later or look it up themselves as I don't want to keep this ramble going any further. Be warned though, it is not an easy read, 'nor does it use common methods.

Also, I would like to add that historic fiction is quite interesting to me and I know someone who is really into a book series that I may be able to recommend if that is up your ally.
Dystopian novels are also a favourite of mine.

Once you read Kurt Vonnegut, it makes everything else look like garbage! Trash! Filth!

I read Slaughterhouse Five - as did everyone who's ever studied English at University - and remember quite liking it. Then I read 1984 and everything else looked like garbage.

Apart from The Great Gatsby, which I really loved.

I need to finish a book i got a couple of years ago called Adolphus Tips. I stopped for some reason but now i'm gonna finish it.

I read Leviathan this past summer. Of course, that's more a book for teens.... you sophistimucated adults wouldn't enjoy it.
_{Well MAYBE ya would}

I just finished Head First PHP & MySQL. It's a literary masterpiece with a gripping cliffhanger ending.

_{Yeah, I really need to go to Waterstones soon and pick up some fiction. Stupid coding D:}

Well, the new Percy Jackson book (called The Lost Hero) is coming out in October! I'm a big fan of the series, so I hope this new series based on the same timeline does justice to the franchise
_{Unlike the crappy movie...}

I read The Floating Island for the first time before college started. Don't know if anyone else has read it, but I thought it was a good novel. I remembered seeing a preview for the novel's follow-up: The Queen Thief's Daughter (at least, iirc, that's the title of the follow-up), and I'm very interested in reading the sequel.
_{If you've read The Floating Island, raise your hand}

My top favorite novel is Holes, and my least favorite novel is 1984.

I don't read books Though I read a lot from http://www.fanfiction.net/ if that counts

I need to get myself a Kindle. Spend a lot of time travelling and with free time to kill, but since I'm at uni in most of that free time, don't want to be carrying a ton of literature around with me. And my laptop, and all its wires, and my reference books, and all my uni stuff... yeah, my backpack's pretty crammed D:

I must agree with James, 1984 was awesome. I don't know entirely what it was, but it did it all right. Loved the ending; maybe I'm just grim like that

Not been reading much lately, but... I have been looking at my big book about the Universe, it has pretty pictures, mmmm.

I just finished The Iliad.

I've been kind of curious about reading the Iliad, that stuff always interested me...

So true...so oh so true.

I'll chime and concur that 1984 is phenomenal. I reference it in one way or another on a fairly regular basis.

Currently, i'm finally reading the final Dark Tower novel, I put it off for so long because i just didn't want the series to end. I'm a huge Stephen King fan, own all of his stuff. And having a sister who lives in central Maine (not all that far from Mr. King) adds to it all, as he is dead-on in his characterizations of what the people and towns up there are like.

Have you read The Eyes Of The Dragon? I think it was my first King novel, but I could be wrong... Good book; it ties into the Dark Tower series (more so than the cameos from other novels kind of thing). I think my favourite one was either The Gunslinger or The Wastelands, although, The Dark Tower was phenomenal. I know a lot of people who didn't like the end... they were warned lol

If you like reading pick up the Lost City of Z.

When I feel smart, I'll read a few pages of Foucault.

When I don't (most of the time), I recently finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy (great dumb fun), and are currently looking for the next thing to read.

I just finished rereading Hero by Perry Moore, it might just replace And Then There Were None as my favorite book. I never knew a book about a gay super hero in training could have such an impact on me.