Books You Enjoy

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 1:11 pm

I barely get time to read but I have managed to read 'The silence of the lambs' and 'Red Dragon' recently, so much better than the films.

pdwyer · Post by **pdwyer** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 1:15 pm

Anything by Neal Stephenson

Cryptonimicon, Snow Crash, Zodiac, In the beginning was the commandline etc. Don't have the spare time to start his trilogy though

xgp · Post by **xgp** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 1:17 pm

Agatha christie, i read a lot of her works long time ago and loved it!

Paul auster's "the new york trilogy" and "oracle night", but i am looking forward to read more books from him.

Apart from this, i've only read technical books.

MrMat · Post by **MrMat** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 2:33 pm

I like any Sherlock Holmes, Poirot or Edgar Allan Poe and i'm currently reading The Club of Queer Trades by G K Chesterton.

Edit: I can't spell lol, must read more...

oldBear · Post by **oldBear** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 2:39 pm

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

bembulak · Post by **bembulak** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:21 pm

Oh, also forgot about H.P. Lovecraft, R.A. Salvatore as well as Andreas Eschbach.

Lovecrafts "Cthulu" is great! I love these novell he wrote.

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

http://www.cthuugle.com/

Joakim Christiansen · Post by **Joakim Christiansen** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:25 pm

I never read books actually. Well, just insanely few. But I guess I would like to read a good sci-fi book!

Kaeru Gaman · Post by **Kaeru Gaman** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:35 pm

Joakim Christiansen wrote:I guess I would like to read a good sci-fi book!

try Asimov's "The End of Eternity"
one of the best Sci-Fi novels ever written, and not too long.

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:44 pm

Science fiction? Larry Niven

LuCiFeR[SD] · Post by **LuCiFeR[SD]** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:53 pm

Anything by Jack L Chalker (R.I.P). Some of the best sci-fi I ever read! And one of the nicest human beings I have ever spoken to!

Kaisen2100 · Post by **Kaisen2100** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 10:23 pm

Arthur C. Clarke!!!!!!!!!!!! ... Rendez-Vous with Rama ... and all the books from the Rama Series

are very good books.

And books from Isaac Asimov ... i love Sci-Fi

Kaeru Gaman · Post by **Kaeru Gaman** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 10:35 pm

Kaisen2100 wrote:Arthur C. Clarke

oh yes, I almost forgot. "Midworld" is a brilliant Sci-Fi/Fantasy mix.

bembulak · Post by **bembulak** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:07 am

Williams - Otherland!!!

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:43 am

Just a few other suggestions...

Roger Zelazny - Amber series, _Call me Conrad_, _Creatures of Light and Darkness_, and _A night in the lonesome October_ (to me Zelazny was one of the best authors ever, even if his cooperations with other authors were not that good, his own work easily thousendfold compensates for this, IMHO etc. etc.)

Stephen Brust - Jhereg series, _The Phoenix Guards_

Tomothy Zahn - the first three 'new' StarWars novels (the only good SW novels perhaps?) _Dark Force Rising_, _Heir to the Empire_ and _The last command_

Robert Sheckley - try his short story _The same to you doubled_

Donald Kingsbury - very good but somewhat disturbing _Courtship Rite_ (dutch _Communiteiten_)

Fritz Leiber - his Lankhmar books

Tanith Lee - _The Birthgrave_ and her Princes of Darkness series

Ursula LeGuin - _City of Illusions_

Bob Shaw - interesting and often mentioned but not that often read, try for example _The Ceres solution_, old but still readable

Robert Sheckley - I'm not much into short stories, but _The same to you doubled_ is a great read

Clifford D. Simak - _Time is the simplest thing_

Andrew S. Swann - I haven't read enough by him yet, but his Moreau series is not bad. Light reading space opera, or action covered with a sprinkling of SF, yes indeed, but still

William H. Keith Jr - try the Warstrider series

Keith Laumer - _Dinosaur Beach_ and _Space Odysee_ (I'm not that impressed with the (later) Retief books)

John DeChancie - the Castle Perilous series, _The Kruton interface_

Peter S. David - _How much for just the planet?_ (ah, Star Trek from a very different point of view!)

Diana L. Paxson - _Bringsamen_, and the very dated but still so good _The Paradise Tree_

Lawrence Watt Evans - _Cyborg and the Sorcerer_, _Wizard and the war machine_

Pat Cadigan - _Synners_

Pamela C. Dean - _The secret country_, _The hidden land_, _Whim of the dragon_

Fred Saberhagen - Berserker series, Sword series

Joel Rosenburg - Guardians of the flame series, _Emile and the Dutchman_

Piers Anthony - not that impressed by this guy, but one book stood out: _Omnivore_

Robert Lynn Asprin - the earlier Myth books are good, stay away from the later ones

George Alec Effinger - _When Gravity Fails_

Vernor Vinge - _A fire upon the Deep_

Just to name a few...

Rook Zimbabwe · Post by **Rook Zimbabwe** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 4:32 am

It is obvious the BlueNzl knows of what to read!!!
let me add:
Almost anything by Larry Niven or Robert Heinliein...

Dispossessed by Ursula LeGuin
Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin
Passage at Arms by Glen Cook
Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement(?)
The Forever War by John Varley
Steel Beach by Varley
The Barbie Murders (Short Story Collection) by Varley
Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge
Lacey and His Friends by David Drake
Acts of Consience by Wm Barton
The Space Merchants by Fredrick Pohl
Gateway by F Pohl

and I admit I like a great deal of the Magic books by L.E. Modesitt Jr

Most of my list is simply a MUST READ