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What's your favorite book or series of books?

Discussion in 'Books and Anime Discussion' started by Mock Moniker, Dec 26, 2011.

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  1. Mock Moniker

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    Dec 26, 2011 #1
    Or even favorite author. I Got a Nook Touch for christmas, and I'm looking for books to load it up with.

    Not looking for anything particularly specific with this (sorry if the request is too vague), I just want to build up a big "To Read" list.

    Don't neglect to mention something because it seems too obvious (ie, if Lord of the Rings/Harry Potter/Dresden Files is your favorite, tell me even though you'd be right in assuming I've probably read it). While I'm bound to get a lot of reccomendations for things I've already read, I'm certain there are loads of very popular books I've missed. Same goes for books reccomended in other topics: while I have been looking through old threads on this forum for reccomendations, I'm sure I have missed/overlooked some excellent books.

    Looking for things from all genres. I'm a big fan of both fantasy and sci-fi, but I don't want to miss out on good books from other genres that I typically neglect to read.
     
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    Asimov - Foundation
    Lem - Cyberiad
     
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  4. Portus

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    All-time favorite? Toss-up between To Kill A Mockingbird and The Shining.
     
  5. Oz

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    The Harry Potter series by JK Rowling. ;D
     
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    Favorite series is A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin. Favorite book is And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie.
     
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    Supposedly there are some pretty large fan communities dedicated to the darker aspect of the books. Sounds like an interesting place to check out.
     
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  8. Mock Moniker

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    If you like Harry Potter you may want to check out this stuff called "fan fiction".

    :p

    (I knew someone would do it, but I did invite it)
     
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    All-time favorite? Toss-up between To Kill A Mockingbird and The Shining.
     
  10. Ash

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    An hour and 13 minute difference. Not too sure what's going on there.

    Anyway, definitely A Song of Ice and Fire by GRRM.
     
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    Dec 26, 2011 #11
    The Darren Shan Saga by Darren Shan.
     
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    Wow, tough one. Right now, my favorite would be VALIS by Philip K. Dick.
     
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    It's always been a toss up between The Dresden Files and The Kingkiller Chronicles for me. Right now, I'll definitely have to go with The Dresden Files.
     
  14. JWH

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    A few favourites :

    The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski (from the series the game The Witcher is based on)

    The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

    Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

    And, for local flavor : Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac, The Plague and The Outsider by Albert Camus, any play by Jean-Paul Sartre, and Promise at Dawn as well as The Life Before Us by Romain Gary (I can't guarantee you'll find translations for those latter two).

    EDIT : also thirding (I guess) Portus' rec for To Kill a Mockingbird
     
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    Have to second Albert Camus, anything written by him.
     
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    The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
     
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    Limit by Frank Schätzing
    Quite good and with interesting prospects for the future of mankind
     
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    Wizard of Earthsea series - Ursula leGuin
    The First Law trilogy - Joe Abercrombie
    Jeeves and Wooster books - P.G. Wodehouse
    Dresden Files - Jim Butcher
    The Pyrates - George MacDonald Fraser
    Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
    Discworld series - Terry Pratchett
    Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
    Kingkiller Chronicles - Patrick Rothfuss
    The Book of All Hours duology - Hal Duncan
    The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg
    Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome
    Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
    The Matthew Swift series - Kate Griffin
    The Time-Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
    To Kill A Mockingbird
     
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    Going entirely by how much I liked it at the time that I first read it:

    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

    I don't think I've since loved a book as much as I loved PoA upon first read at age 11.

    Of course, now there are several books that I think are better. But then those books are all more recent. In 10 years time I'll surely like other books more than them. So if I have to say which book my favourite is, I'll try to do it in a time-independent way, by making it relative to first-read.

    And I do still love PoA, though I know it inside-out. If I ever need comforting, reading PoA can send me back to happy days.
     
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    Darreb Shan... By Darren Shan. I thought DLP disapproved of Self Inserts? D:

    This seems a good list to start with. Especially the bolded ones.

    Also; I AM DISAPPOINT, DLP. Why no Scott Lynch and Gentlemen Bastards?
     
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