Favorite Books?

[Yankyal]

Give your favorite books or good books you've read recently and describe them.

Night by Elie Weasel. TL;DR a jew jogs impossible lengths, becomes atheist, and says !@#$ off to humanity. I thought it was going to be yet another silly jewish holocaust book filled with needless metaphors and boring emotions, but I was honestly surprised at how straight forward this book was. And I felt rather sad for Elie's father.

The Odyssey by Homer. This was one of our reading books in 10th grade, and after reading a ton of shitty poetry and pretentious books, this book just blew me away. Did not expect the wave of manliness and epic language in this book. Basically, a guy tries to get home and shits all over Poseidon's reputation. May be difficult to read if you are an idiot or not good with the english language.

Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. I've expressed hatred for metaphors before(about an inch above this sentence actually) and this book actually pulled them off well. Just wonderful story telling. Essentially it's 4 mothers passing down their stories to their 4 daughters. Another surprisingly good book.

Your turn! And if someone mentions Twilight, please do not go on a massive rant about how shitty Twilight is and how it seems like it was written by a 14 year old girl with a shallow and pathetic imagination. Twilight hate is more annoying than Twilight fans, just like with Justin Beiber and the Jonas brothers and all that.

[venuse]

i got alot, too many to tell. i would say around 50 or more
however any book by the author kay kenyon, china mieville.

[Titan]

Would take awhile to list all of them so here's a few.(I reccomend these highly)

The Lies of Locke Lamora - A book set in a city that I would imagine to be much like Venice in the 1400-1500's. Its about a group of theives being badass and stealing some mad $.

The Name of the Wind- A boy with fiery red hair goes to a University to learn Naming and possibly find out who killed his parents.

A Song of Fire and Ice(Seris, books are A Game of Thrones, A Storm of Swords,(Can't remember this one),A Feast for Crows)- This book seris is so riduclously amazing. It basiclly takes place in a land like medieval Europe(Knights, Honor, Kings, etc.). The only down side is the author George R.R. Martin has been writing the next book in the seris for like 10 years or something. And theres suppose to be two more books or something like that. Still great books.

[EpicPhailure]

I think the most age advanced book I've ever read is Digital Fortress by Dan Brown :l

I recently read Mockingjay, so if you like having the main character being stoned from painkillers 50% of the time, this is the book for you.

[T-Rok]

I think the most age advanced book I've ever read is Digital Fortress by Dan Brown :l

I recently read Mockingjay, so if you like having the main character being stoned from painkillers 50% of the time, this is the book for you.

I was going to suggest that series. Hunger Games -> Catching Fire -> Mockingjay

[Yankyal]

Ah, forgot to add:

To Kill a Mockingbird. I loved the style of the book, I especially loved the names she gave her characters.Scout? Jem? Atticus Finch? Boo Radley? Bob Ewell just screams southern redneck trash. God damn, I want her to name my future 700 children. Even the author's name is incredible, Harper Lee. Scout's narrative is kawaii.

All these books have been on my reading list some time or another, thank god I took honors classes. It appears if you are in a class not chalk full of idiots they actually decide to make things fun every now and then. My friends in on-level classes are reading shit like books about how the Nazis are bad people! Or little girl's narrative of horrible event#548.

[Mr Pwnage]

The Grinch
The Little Engine that Could
Where's Waldo?
Anger Management for Dummies
All the Places you can Go by Dr Suess
Curious Gorge

[DarkTrinity]

The Host by Stephanie Meyer-(yes, by the same woman who wrote the Twilight series). It's a more grown up novel about these "souls" that are taking over Earth to basically clean it up, stop war, etc. So they enter human bodies and take them over and basically control their bodies and make them peace loving happy aliens. Anyways, the book follows this "soul" who enters a human host who is rebellious and won't disappear.

Percy Jackson Series- Haven't read them all, but they're really good adventure books and especially enjoyable if you know anything about Greek mythology.

Trickster's Choice & Trickster's Queen- again, good adventure books, haven't read them in so long though. (calls for a reread!)

Harry Potter series- It took me a while to get into them, the first few books are a little bland to me compared to the last 3 or 4 books. I love the movies but the books are waay better and explain many more things. My boyfriend hated the movies until I started explaining things to him as one of them was playing on TV.

Twilight Series- (Don't care what you all say, I've already heard it) Like Harry Potter, they are also much better than the movies and explain way more things. I think fantasy just sounds so much better on paper and when put in movies it seems so... cheesy. Especially the 4th book in the series(Breaking Dawn). I'm a little scared to see how they turn THAT into a movie... O_o

There's more... I'll have to edit later...

[Draxx]

My favorite series is "The Dungeon Vol. 1 - 6"

It's a bit off the wall sci-fi fantasy series:

In order the books are:
The Black Tower, by Richard A. Lupoff (1988)
The Dark Abyss, by Bruce Coville (1989)
The Valley of Thunder, by Charles de Lint (1989)
The Lake of Fire, by Robin W. Bailey (1989)
The Hidden City, by Charles de Lint (1990)
The Final Battle, by Richard A. Lupoff (1990)

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[Forum]

Fahrenheit 451, The lightning thief..ownage books.

[Seifer]

A Song of Fire and Ice(Seris, books are A Game of Thrones, A Storm of Swords,(Can't remember this one),A Feast for Crows)- This book seris is so riduclously amazing. It basiclly takes place in a land like medieval Europe(Knights, Honor, Kings, etc.). The only down side is the author George R.R. Martin has been writing the next book in the seris for like 10 years or something. And theres suppose to be two more books or something like that. Still great books.

And the upside is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ixEWrTLiZg next April.

Anything by Orson Scott Card, specifically the Ender game Series, and it's Shadow series. The tales of alvin maker are also exceptional.

Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan

The Belgariad by David Eddings is good.

The entire Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov is splendid.

Dan brown's three "Langdon" books are always an enjoyable read.

Almost anything by Dean Koonst I can read casually.

Harry Potter, who doesn't love it?

Twilight.

A dream of Eagles series by Jack Whyte is an amazing telling of Arthurian Legend with a logical and historical side to it that will make you wonder.

Ps, I like series.

PPS. If you didn't catch it from my first line, I also love love love the Song of Ice and Fire series.

[Matty_Richo]

The Door Within Trilogy
Isle of Fire Series
Circle Trilogy
Lost Books
The Infernal City
Order of the Ancient

And many more that I can't be bothered writing in.

[EpicPhailure]

Dan brown's three "Langdon" books are always an enjoyable read.

I thought Lost Symbol wasn't very good compared to Angels and Demons. I haven't read The Davinci Code yet.

I liked Digital Fortress better than Angels and Demons though. Especially since the technological terms made sense to me :D

[Seifer]

Dan brown's three "Langdon" books are always an enjoyable read.

I thought Lost Symbol wasn't very good compared to Angels and Demons. I haven't read The Davinci Code yet.

I liked Digital Fortress better than Angels and Demons though. Especially since the technological terms made sense to me :D

I actually really enjoyed Lost Symbol, I thought the whole theory of noetic science was an interesting one.

[11clock]

The Circle Trilogy (not Green, that book stunk) by Ted Dekker
A guy called Thomas Hunter gets shot in the head and gained the ability to switch between 2 different realities by sleeping. They are Christian novels, but anyone can like the series. I don't recommend reading Green.

Redwall Chronicles by Brian Jacques
Each book in this series is a different story about a place that is called Redwall. Fantasy novels about animals at war.

Maximum Ride Series by James Paterson
This series is the #1 of my list. It's about a group of kids that are 2% bird (they have wings). The series is packed with Action, Fantasy, Humor, and some Romance.