Do you read books often? If so, what are some of your favorites? Post your favorite book.
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I've just recently started reading books for fun, and I find it quite enjoyable. Recently, I've been very interested in Stephen King books. I've only read two of them in the past month or so, which were "The Long Walk" (about a group of 100 kids who sign up for a walk to the death. You walk non-stop on and on, until every other person dies off. If you lag behind the group 4 times, you're shot by soldiers. Very interesting read)and "The Dead Zone" (about a man who goes into a coma for four years after a car accident, and can see the futures of people and everything that's been happening to them recently upon touching them).
oh fucking hell, I posted this thread a minute ago
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This is the third in the series but i have yet to read it:
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I read books a lot.
My favorites, in no particular order (only posting first book of series; I've read all of the series produced thus far, finished or otherwise)
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[i](Never read the trilogy that it follows, though; didn't even know it was a trilogy following a trilogy until I was almost halfway done with the first book)[/i]
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These two books aren't a part of a series, but I highly recommend both of them:
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Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm heading off for the night to continue reading my current book:
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God damnit, I am late. FUCK.
Nobody posted redwall books yet? I am disappoint.
I tried to read a book before but the lack of pictures and excess of words discouraged me.
I am half way through The Plague at the moment. I really don't read as often as I should, though.
[QUOTE=gamefreek76;21537478]I tried to read a book before but the lack of pictures and excess of words discouraged me.[/QUOTE]
Pffft, hahaha.
I know what you mean.
I started Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut a few days ago and the first bit is really slow, and I hope it picks up soon, because I'm a bit let down from what I keep hearing about him, and from reading Cat's Cradle a few years and really digging it.
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I read most of the Wizards Rules series, and it was good, but the politicalness of it kinda pissed me off
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A socialist theocracy! Why not?
I'm reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas right now. Just finished Long Hard Road out of Hell- The Autobiography of Marilyn Manson.
Good books I've read as of late are:
The Things They Carried
With the Old Breed
The Magnificent Bastards
Venus in Furs
No One Here Get's Out Alive
The Walking Dead
1984
War books, autobiographies, ect.
"Twilight sucks" -Stephen King
I love the futuristic dystopia genre, including Starship Troopers, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, along with some "I'm gonna fuck up your dreams for a year" stories, especially Lovecraftian novels.
The Ravenor Trilogy, the Eisenhorn Trilogy and the Gaunt's Ghosts series are all awesome.
All by Dan Abnett.
I read a ton, right now I'm on the last Dark Tower book by Stephen King
If you haven't, read Ender's Game followed by the other 7 books in the series. Best series ever. Gotta love OSC.
Fahrenheit 451
I fucking love the Ringworld series.
Hell, all of the Known Space stories are good.
[QUOTE=Smeetin;21538071]If you haven't, read Ender's Game followed by the other 7 books in the series. Best series ever. Gotta love OSC.[/QUOTE]
Yeah. Enchantment is good too, along with the Maker series.
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Too bad he's a Mormon bigot, though.
Holidays in Hell - P.J O'Rourke
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This and a few early ones were his best books before he turned rotten and ended up selling his name to Ubisoft.
1984, The Invisible Man, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
World war Z
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Oh fucking snap, love those.
My favourite would have to be The Third Policeman, best mindfuck ever IMO.
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