The great books you have read...

I have read many books many of which I can name right off the top of my head...hmmmmm.

Have you read any truly interesting books that inthralled you deeper int o the tale to where you you could not put it down?

MOBY DICK RIGHT NOW!

I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories by Dr. Seuss

From this I learned about the dangers of bragging, hierarchies, and thunking.

Dreamcatcher FTW

The Gap Into Conflict: The Real Story

Twilight and A última Feiticeira

*moves to The Lounge*

Pretty much every book by Stephen King or Dean Koontz.

Dune. Still the only book I read the full way through.

Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons.

Currently the Brightonomicon by Robert Rankin (all his books are great), Terry Pratchetts books are always enjoyable. The last book that i truly could not put down was Metamorpheses by Kafka.

Nightrunner series by Lynn Flewelling is addictive. When I pick up the books I cannot stop reading them, even on my second time through.

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Originally Posted by Dreddz

Dune. Still the only book I read the full way through.

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Ditto except that I've read more than just that book. In fact, I'll just go with the whole Dune series myself. I'm on Chapterhouse right now. I love Frank Herbert's writing to death.

The A Song of Ice and Fire series, as well as the first three novels in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Slaughter House Five is fantastic. So is Catch 22. I highly recommend Dave Barry's Guide to Guys as well as any of Goerge Carlin's three novels (really just a collection of sketches).

Probably the first three books of the Wheel of Time series, 1984 (especially when Winston is taken to Miniluv, I've never been equally enthralled and disgusted with a book) and the first Dune novel.

Brave New World is the best book ever written. But if you want other dystopian fiction that isn't 1984, then We is the father of the genre and is absolutely sublime. The Handmaid's Tale provides another, very interesting look at the genre.

The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z are not just awesome for zombie fans, but actually ridiculously well written. If Brooks wrote 'serious' stuff, he'd be winning major awards.

Then you can bridge from those two genres into post-apocalyptic fiction. I'm thinking The Postman here.

Anything by Frederick Pohl, but especially The Coming of the Quantum Cats, which not only has a fantastic title, but is a fantastic novel.

Tumithak of the Corridors and Tumithak in Shawm are some of the best early sci-fi I've ever come across. Short stories, but excellent and I only wish I'd read them first. But they're not necessarily easy to track down. There's another one in the series, apparently, but I've never come across it, nor can I remember the name.

Lucky, The Lovely Bones, Tuesdays With Morrie, and The Five People You Meet In Heaven are all profound and important in various ways, even if the latter two can be a little saccharine at times.

And you can never go wrong with Flowers for Algernon.