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Preston C
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Probably already posted, but I dont think I was involved in it. What are your favorite books? Here are mine:

The Harry Potter Series
The Pendragon Series
The Giver
The Lord of the Flies


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TKF15H
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Tom Clancy Rainbow six
Tom clancy The Bear and The Dragon
Tom clancy Sum of all fears
ANYTHING by Tom Clancy!!!

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Tom Clancy writes excellent documentary work on the US Military. I'm not sure about his novels-- they're a bit too drab for my tastes.

The only series I'm really following right now is the Wheel of Time. I've been dissapointed by most other authors somewhere along the way between then and now. I'm still a big fan of Jordan's work however.

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Cronicles of Narnia is REALLY GOOD!!!

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I read the whole collection of "Cronicles of Narnia" some years ago. It really is nice. Pitty I read them all out of order .

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hmm, I still have like two left. I never read 'em now because I read 300+ books on computers

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Yikes, guys, really, it's chronicles

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lol

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I think
I Am the Cheese
The Giver

Those were awsome books. It's a good thing I had to read them for shcool.

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I read one of Clancy's novels, and I couldn't get through it. So overly technical, the action was a description of physics, everything was just over-written.

I read the giver in 8th grade, it was OK.

Stephen King's IT is an amazing book. So are the Harry Potter series, especially book 4. The Ear, The Eye and the Arm is also a great book.

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I enjoy the following authors:
Mercedes Lackey
Terry Goodkind
Terry Pratchett

Mercedes does the Valdmer series, Terry Goodkind does the Sword Of Truth series, and Terry Pratchett is lord of DiscWorld
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probably Ship of Fools by Richard Paul Russo...great book...

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Any Steven King book (It, Carrie..ect), and the DBP refrence manual.

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not a particularly big reader anymore considering it takes time, something which i don't appear to have in abundance anymore.

however my favourite book of all time was Jedi Academy : Dark Apprentise

i liked Lord of the Rings + The Hobbit, Redwall series is good too ... and then there is any book by Terry Pratchet.
i liked Douglas Adams books, but for some reason i always prefered his stuff on TV or Tape than reading it in book form.

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Tough one.... Enders game for Sci-fi probably.... erm.... Dragonlance series 1 I actually preferred read than LOR actually (although I still rate LOR above nearly all else as a serious fantasy read).

The Island was probably the best last line of any book I've ever read. Anything by King (Christine is my fave), although I prefer Laymon these days. And don't forget good old Jimmy Herbert.

Darn... too... many... books!!!!!!

Oh, and for a great series of top notch sci-fi books (3000+ pages in 3 books) read, erm, think it's called the Nights Dawn trilogy. Is amazing once you get into it. But it takes a while to get into it (bit like LOR, which is like loads of chapters before he even gets out the bloody door).

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Oh, and if you want quirky original(ish) sci-fi then try Kiln People. Is really good. In UK they cunningly made it Kil'n People. Which put a bit of a darker light on it. Essentially is the idea of cloning yourself to do all your boring tasks throughout the day. And they are totally disposable (die after a day, when you upload their experiences). Excellent. With cool nicknames. eg. Rox is a name for a clone (Xerox).

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I liked Philip Pullman's Dark Materials Trilogy quite a bit.


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Come on now. A book. I hate books. book is stupid.
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I like phillip pullmans trilogy, the hobbit and lord of the rings, and the harry potter books

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The Hobbit blew me away, so that's probably my all time favourite.

I love the Discworld series, but the best Terry Pratchett book was definately Guards Guards, it's so funny you'd never think a fantasy book could pull it off. Stephen King is cool too, I liked The Running Man and The Green Mile best though.

Stephen Gallacher wrote an excellent serial killer book, better than any of the Lecter books, but I can't remember it's name. It was about a man who kidnaps women and keeps them in a sorta cess pit, centers around a woman who escapes from him, only to be caught by him again. Doubt anyone will know, but worth a try .


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'Come on now. A book. I hate books. book is stupid.'

Hahaha Good one!!!


I forgot to mention above, but the His Dark Materials trilogy was indeed excellent.

LOTR is of course classic, although I'm not quite as much a fan now as I was before.

I loved the Redwall series when I was 8-11. A few years ago I realised that all the books were basically the exact same thing-- but I still think they're good books. I couldn't name a better fantasy series for younger readers. Well; possibly excepting some Diana Wynne Jones' excellent fantasy books.

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And the magic:the gathering seris
harry pothead wzu pretty good too though.

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i`l have to go with

-His Dark Materials trilogy
-Any thing by neil gaiman
-Dune

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Hobbit
Lord of the Rings series
Harry potter series
science books
national geographic 20th century book
anything involving astronomy



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The Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers
The Lord of The Rings: Return of the King
The Hobbit

all by John Ronald Ruel Tolkien

I have read the trilogy 3 times during the course of my life. I always wondered if anyone was balls enough to attempt a movie, and actually get it right. Luckily for all of us, they waited until the technology caught up with Tolkien's brilliance! The first two movies so far were amazingly done. imho

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2001: A space odyssey
Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
Jurassic Park
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A completely mindblowing series is from Greg Bear which consists of three books: Eon, Eternity & Legacy. Really screwed my brain!

I like anything sci-fi, specially by Greg Bear, Iain Banks, Ben Bova.

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Ack. Raven beat me to it - Douglas Adams books. Also the Red Dwarf novels are quite good.

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"Wilt" by Tom Sharpe (although "Vintage Stuff" is as good)

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Harry Potter
Phillip Pullmans Dark Materials Trilogy
The Da Vinci Code

I quite enjoyed listening to the Hobbet on tape, but I could never manage to read it.

Brains are for idiots.

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i liked the lord of the rings books, but i havnt touched a reading book for many many years now.

i prefer to read something on the computer now.

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Right now, I'm into classical ones :
Alexandre Dumas or Dickens.
But I sure did read LotR

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Airframe by Micheal Crichton is a very, very good book.

I strongly recommend it.

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anything by that man Pratchett again, I particularly like'Good omens' that he cowrote with Neil Gaiman, also most books by Iain Banks and I enjoyed the first two in the moonlight bay trilogy from Dean Koontz(still waiting on the 3rd a few years later)
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