Abq Books: Fav/Least Favorites

We have been talking alot about movies lately but I figured: what about books? I am an avid, avid reader.

So, what are your fav or least fav books/authors

 

Favorite books
They Thirst by Robert McGammon (most books by him)
The Dirt by Motley Crue
All the EU books

 

My favorite book is Making Love the Bruce Cambell way!

 

Tom Clancy novels are my favorites very detailed nothing like reading someone getting blown away by a door breaching charge. (Rainbow six)

 

I've been reading alot of Carl Hiaasen, and also Jack Mcdevitt. I used to read Robert Jordan books. I really liked his story, but it seems it'll never end. His last book didn't progress it at all. That and he's taking too long between books.

 

the longest I have waited for a book is 12 years... by one of my fav authors no less

 

Wow! What a revelation! Book taught sex? Sounds like a great idea.......... NOT!

 

Any early Steven King
JRR Tolkien
The Witching Hour (Anne Rice)
John Grisham

 

Varza, you must have read my mind, I was going to post a topic on books, what people like and recommend to read. I'm such a picky reader. If the book hasn't got me interested by the third chapter I don't finish it. I'm always looking for a book that grabs me from the beginning and makes me read it through to conclusion.
Some of my favorites are:

Early Stephen King, especially "The Stand", (I also loved the mini-series they did, have it on VHS, it made me cry at the end)
Lord of the Rings
Harry Potter series
Ender's Game-Orson Scott Card, what an awesome book this is! I highly recommend it to anyone who has not read it.
Rhapsody-Elizabeth Haydon
Robot books by Isaac Asimov
Dragonflight, Dragonquest and The White Dragon-Anne McCaffrey
All the Weyrs of Pern-Anne McCaffrey
Lord Foul's Bane and the other 5 books after it-Stephen R. Donaldson-one of my all time favorite series
Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune-Frank Herbert
Darkover Novels-Marion Zimmer Bradley
Parable of the Sower,Parable of the Talents-Octavia Butler
Dreamsnake-Vonda McIntyre

There are so many it's hard to remember them all.

 

books are my fav thing to discuss - next to movies of course:

Earths Children Series by Jean Auel
the EU until Vector Prime
Anne Rice
HP Series (thats a shocker!)
Enders Games - awesome! and Speaker of the Dead
Battlefield Earth (awesome book, crappy movie)
anything by Jane Austen
Shakespear
trashy romances by Johanna Lindsey, Jane Feather, Judith McNaught
Tami Hoag
Joseph Campbell....

I have a bunch more though

 

I also like Jane Austen books, and still have my copies of the early romances by Johanna Lindsey, Rosemary Rogers, Kathleen Woodiwiss. Some of them are first edition paperbacks. I can't seem to let them go and have been carting them around since I bought them back in the late 70's and early 80's.
I also loved Joseph Campbell's "The Power of Myth". That's the only I have read of his works so far.

 

Enders Games was awesome. The Worthing Saga is good too.

Almost anything from Asimov, The Foundation series is one of my favorites.

 

all tolkien, some stephen king and tony hillerman are the faves
i absolutely hated the tommynockers and a few other king novels also disliked hannibal...the biography of ronald jeremy is also a pretty good read.

 

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and Stranger in a Strange Land, both by Heinlein. I have always enjoyed his writing. (has anyone actualy read Job: A comedy of Justice? I really enjoyed that one, but no one seems to know about it.)

Also, Sun Tzu's Art of War and some of the other Military Works of China. It is a bit dry but very interesting to analyze.

 

the Sunne of Spenldor is a great book as well - about Richard the 3rd, but it goes from another point of view that Richard wasn't evil and killed his nephews. It was wonderful! A little hard to get started but its worth getting thru it

 

<<Obi-Chris-Kenobi wrote:
Almost anything from Asimov, The Foundation series is one of my favorites. >>

I had forgotten about the Foundation series. That's a great set of books to read.

 

All my favorite books are by John Saul.

I like Of Mice and Men also.

 

Labyrinth of Evil was a great EU book
Tales of the bounty hunters is another
Tales from Jabba's palace
Shadows of the Empire
Cestus Deception

and a Non-EU book:
Lords of Chaos-this book is an interesting one that talks about the Norweigen Black Metal scene and how before it was popular, explains about how members of certain bands commited crimes like murder and arson. It is crazy how that whole scene turned into chaos after it was made. If you are a metalhead and are into the crazier side of metal, it is a must look at book.

 

Jango I've read Lords of Chaos. I'll read almost any book about music. That one was really good. There is another called Sounds of The Beast, The history of heavy metal. It starts at Sabbath, and goes all the way through to todays metal. It's a great read, lots of good stories, and bands you may have forgotten about.

 

My all time favorite is:

"One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish" by Dr. Seuss


Most hated:

"Miss Spider's Tea Party" by David Kirk

 

Instead of individual books, I pretty much love anything these authors write:

Love anything by George R.R. Martin

Stephen King (except you're right, Melkor, he sucked for a while there, but now he's back)

Tolkien

Lloyd Alexander

I like Robert Jordan, but you're right, Chris, it is interminable!

Terry Goodkind

Brian McNaughton

Robert Bloch

Patricia A. McKillip

Barbara Hambly

David Eddings

 

Eddings is awesome!! My favorite series of books

 

Yeah, buddy!
So, if you like him, you have to try George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series...
best books I've ever read!

 

No I haven't. I'll have to get those!

 

Gecko, how could you hate Miss Spider's Tea Party? It's a great read! How all these characters were effectively "judging a book by its cover" only to have the protagonist be redeemed by showing mercy on a perceived enemy. It gets me here every time!