Favorite book?

[impostal22]

Originally posted by xatle
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
its about uncommonly bright children playing military sponsored zero g laser tag on a space station...sorta
funny thing is i've read a bunch of his novels, they werent that good, go figure.

second favorite for me...i highly recommend it to all. it's quick yet emotional read! just look at the amount of amazon reviews it has (i think it's around 1000) and it is averaging 4.5 stars. eh, just go buy it for 10 bucks, you'll be done with it in two hours or so and thank yourself for buying it. i also suggest at least the first parallel novel to ender's game (called ender's shadow).

close runners up would have to be catch-22 and 1984.

however, what takes the cake is Grendel by John Gardner. it's a parallel novel to beowulf, told from Grendel's perspective. it's very deep, and very awesome, if you get into it. also a quick read.


ABOUT THE WHEEL OF TIME...first, it was far more than 2000 pages..i'd say it was more like 5000-8000...and it was DEFINITELY a BIG disappointment....*sigh*

oh ya, another great quick read is the martian chronicles by ray bradbury...

[aaron_mag]

Originally posted by Kai
Interview With The Vampire - Anne Rice.

Great book. First two books were good then got really bad. The Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov is the same way. First three books are awesome then gets really bad.

Originally posted by Miscue
Everytime a girl says she wants a nice guy... I don't want to hear it. It just pisses me off. Call me disenchanted if you may.

Yes it all comes back to me now. But lets be honest and say many nice guys have nice girls wanting to jump from the friend ladder to the romance latter. Nice guys are just as good at focusing on those that may not be the best for us. The book wouldn't have the same effect on me now as I am married and don't have all the relationship angst as I did in college (where you often have friends that are girls in addition to your girlfriend, etc.). At boring middle age I actually can look back at all that angst with envy!!!

[MiniMag84]

Things They Carried, Stalingrad, Lenin (biography).

[WangHunter]

Originally posted by MarkM
.......Currently reading Harry Turtledove's series of The Great War,World War and American Empire. Don't know if I will continue onto the others in his libary but time will tell.

I love Turtledove's writing right until the action stops... it's the action that makes the bad narrated quasi-porn bearable. Once the wars end, it's all about politics and bad narrated quasi-porn..... needless to say it's hard to stay motivated during those American Empire novels.

If you like Mark, you may want to check out "How Few Remain". It's the first book in the How Few Remain-Great War-American Empire saga.... lets you know how it all went pear shaped.

[MarkM]

Originally posted by WangHunter


I love Turtledove's writing right until the action stops... it's the action that makes the bad narrated quasi-porn bearable. Once the wars end, it's all about politics and bad narrated quasi-porn..... needless to say it's hard to stay motivated during those American Empire novels.

If you like Mark, you may want to check out "How Few Remain". It's the first book in the How Few Remain-Great War-American Empire saga.... lets you know how it all went pear shaped.

Well I have the first two in the series on order I already have the 3rd to read, I picked up the 4th? one when a team mate bought it for the last long haul flight we took and he throws books once he has read them so it was nice and cheap and after I started the book I realised I needed to read the backgound to appriciate the series better, so hence the book order. I got a call last week to tell me they were out of stock so they will continue to place the order. The ones I was talking about maybe continuing were the ones that appear to be a war of the worlds type thing....if they carry on from the american series then perhaps I will read them but if they are a stand alone series then not.

So which is the correct order for the books then?

[N_R_Z]

HARRY POTTER

[-=Squid=-]

I would really like to read mein kampf...any body tell me how it is?

[MarkM]

Squid, if you are serious any libary will have it...be prepared for inaccurrate ramblings and plagarism though and "altered" history....historical records have shown that Hitler couldn't have been at certain places he claims etc etc plus he started to write the book when he was hospitalised following being gassed not when he was imprisoned as claimed in the book....oh and he was a communist before he saw the light (extreme sarcasm in that last sentence btw before anyone starts to flame me)

[WangHunter]

Correct reading sequence for the "Great War Saga" by Harry Turtledove.

1. How Few Remain (Depicts the fictional "Second Mexican War", and explains a Soouthern 1862 Victory in the Civil War, Set in the 1880s)

2. Great War Trilogy (Alternate WW1 scenario)

3. American Empire Trilogy (Depicts post WW1 North America. Politics and Characterisation, and of course, bad porn. Not too much action here, but in order to follow what happens to the characters, the books need to be read I guess.)

I can only assume he'll be writing an abridged WW2 trilogy after these ones.

As for Mein Kampf, Gotta agree.... it's a clapped together heap of BS badly disguised as intellectual theory. Read it at your own risk, all it did was make me want to study quantum sciences so I could explore the possibility of time travel to the end of hanging Dolfie-Boy by a strand of piano wire.

[MarkM]

Thanks for the order of books...the porn I can skim