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I read a lot of books, mainly intelligent action, zombie apocalypse, adventure, sci-fi. What good books do you recommend? These are mine.
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline - Best book I have read in years
The Martian by Andy Weir
Daemon by Daniel Suarez
Freedom by Daniel Suarez
The Mountain Main Omnibus by Keith C. Blackmore
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Re: What are your favorite books?
2018/03/08 19:55:06
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Confederacy of Dunces
A Hymn Before Battle
The Ghost of Hooker Alley
The Liaden Universe Series
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Re: What are your favorite books?
2018/03/08 19:59:27
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Confederacy of Dunces
Yes! Such a funny book, and one of the books that really got me into reading. The other was Heart of Darkness because it just connected with me for some reason. I'm too busy now to keep up with anything dense so I'm reading the ASOIAF novels again...maybe TWOW will come out one day. My all time favorites are probably Confederacy of Dunces The Master and Margarita War and Peace The Iliad The Great Gatsby
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Re: What are your favorite books?
2018/03/08 22:09:46
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I like reading game guides. I know it sounds weird, but I do. I like self help books too. I have a huge book called "Windows 10 in depth". Will take me forever to read it's so big. LOL.
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Re: What are your favorite books?
2018/03/09 02:34:54
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Personally I love fantasy and adventure books.
Sabriel and Lireal by Garth Nix
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Re: What are your favorite books?
2018/03/09 14:26:49
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Re: What are your favorite books?
2018/03/09 18:16:13
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Confederacy of Dunces
Yes! Such a funny book, and one of the books that really got me into reading. The other was Heart of Darkness because it just connected with me for some reason.
I'm too busy now to keep up with anything dense so I'm reading the ASOIAF novels again...maybe TWOW will come out one day.
My all time favorites are probably
Confederacy of Dunces
The Master and Margarita
War and Peace
The Iliad
The Great Gatsby
If you liked Confederacy of Dunces and don't have the time/energy for dense material I highly recommend Robert Bevan. It's lowbrow humor but very well written. The Ghost of Hooker Alley is one of his latest ones and I laughed coffee out of my nose while reading it :) He's a very good author, crude and twisted in a funny way and unapologetic about it.
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Re: What are your favorite books?
2018/03/11 11:42:22
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currently reading The Expanse books, Just started with Leviathan Wakes... I'm enjoying it so far. Some high profile authors (George RR Martin comes to mind) love them.
I started reading it because the show of the same name got me interested. It's changed a few things from the books -- some for the better actually and a few for the worse.
I usually read non-fiction, self improvement type books but the show got me wanting to read them.
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Re: What are your favorite books?
2018/03/12 16:58:02
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Animal Farm
Zetetic Astronomy
You are God
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Re: What are your favorite books?
2018/03/26 11:48:12
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I am a literature nerd.
Favorite book ever is Beloved by Toni Morrison
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Re: What are your favorite books?
2018/03/29 21:09:09
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Patricia McKillip - 3 in one edition of "The Riddle-Master of Hed" trilogy will be the first hardbound book I manage to wear out, closely followed by Mercedes Lackey 3-in-one editions of the "Vanyel" and the "Arrows of the Queen" trilogies from her Valdemar series.
I suspect "Mote in God's Eye" will be the first "single novel" hardback I wear out - I've already worn out *2* paperback copies of that - though some of the early David Weber "Honorverse" series are starting to argue that one, and "Guns of the South" by Turtledove might get into that competition.
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Re: What are your favorite books?
2018/03/31 18:14:48
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I'm into scape sci-fi. Isaac Asimov - foundation trilogy is probably my favorite. Star wars took a thing or two from there.
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Re: What are your favorite books?
2018/04/01 13:10:37
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I'm into scape sci-fi. Isaac Asimov - foundation trilogy is probably my favorite. Star wars took a thing or two from there.
Star Wars was a tribute to Space Opera in general, with more than a few nods to other parts of Science Fiction.
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Re: What are your favorite books?
2018/04/01 13:17:59
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I'm into scape sci-fi. Isaac Asimov - foundation trilogy is probably my favorite. Star wars took a thing or two from there.
Star Wars was a tribute to Space Opera in general, with more than a few nods to other parts of Science Fiction.
That is true. From Foundation they took Corusant, the planet covered with one big city. There it was called Trantor. There were numerous other things too.
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Re: What are your favorite books?
2018/04/01 21:11:03
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I have too many mostly all 40k books
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Re: What are your favorite books?
2018/04/10 05:13:28
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Never really liked reading a lot, but back in the day it was Gary Paulsen books. Thinking about picking up The Witcher Books.
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Re: What are your favorite books?
2020/07/23 04:25:24
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My favorite book is The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. Incredible book, I'm delighted.
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Re: What are your favorite books?
2020/07/23 05:00:29
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Don't read much these days. I spend hours a day reading through legal opinions and documents and just do not have the desire to read for pleasure the way I used to as a result. Having said that, my favorite was without a doubt Shogun by James Clavell. This is the one prior movie/miniseries i really want to see remade, the 1980 miniseries did not do the book justice, and I am sure that a remake would fall short as well, but I would still love to see it. Edit: Appears that FX is working on an adaptation. Article I read discussed a number of the issues of producing an authentic experience whilst filming in Japan. High hopes for this one.
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Re: What are your favorite books?
2020/07/23 09:48:50
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I like "My Family and other animals"
As for Ready Player One it's a book worth reading. The movie didn't do it justice at all and most of the movie is totally different from the books.
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Re: What are your favorite books?
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Haunted, Invsible Monsters, Fight Club: Chuck Palahniuk
The Stand: Steven King
Any Asimov book
the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons
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Re: What are your favorite books?
2020/07/23 18:13:27
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Any Mitch Rapp novel by Vince Flynn, any Reacher novel by Lee Child and I also have 3 Clavell books under my belt, King Rat, Shogun and Taipan. Give me a McMurtry western or a crooked lawyer story from Grisham! To mention a few. 
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Re: What are your favorite books?
2020/07/25 19:21:00
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Chariots of the Gods
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