What books have you been reading?

[JIMMYBUFFETT]

I've been hesitant on Wheel of Time--it's quite the undertaking.

It really is, and I certainly didn't read them consecutively. I actually never read the prequel so I would't say I've gotten all the way through them yet. Read The Eye Of The World and you'll be hooked though.

 

[jterrell]

I started A Fire Upon the Deep and it's been engrossing so far. I'm still lazily working my way through the NPR Sci-Fi Fantasy list that will probably take me the rest of my life.

# 1 The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
# 2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
# 3 Ender's Game
# 4 The Dune Chronicles
# 5 A Song of Ice and Fire Series
# 6 1984
# 7 Fahrenheit 451
# 8 The Foundation Trilogy
# 9 Brave New World
# 10 American Gods
# 11 The Princess Bride
# 12 The Wheel of Time Series
# 13 Animal Farm
# 14 Neuromancer
# 15 Watchmen
# 16 I, Robot
#17 Stanger in a Stange Land
# 18 The Kingkiller Chronicle
# 19 Slaughter House Five
# 20 Frankenstein
# 21 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
# 22 The Handmaid's Tale
# 23 The Dark Tower Series
# 24 2001: A Space Odyssey (novel)
# 25 The Stand
# 26 Snow Crash
# 27 The Martian Chronicles
# 28 Cat's Cradle
# 29 The Sandman Series
# 30 A Clockwork Orange
# 31 Starship Troopers
# 32 Watership Down
# 33 Dragonflight
# 34 The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
# 35 A Canticle for Leibowitz
# 36 The Time Machine
# 37 20,000 Leagues under the Sea
# 38 Flowers for Algernon
# 39 The War of the Worlds
# 40 The Amber Chronicles
# 41 Riva (The Belgariad)
# 42 The Mists of Avalon
# 43 Mistborn Trilogy
# 44 Ringworld
# 45 The Left Hand of Darkness
# 46 The Silmarillion
# 47 The Once and Future King
# 48 Neverwhere
# 49 Childhood's End
# 50 Contact
# 51 The Hyperion Cantos
# 52 Stardust
# 53 Cryptonomicon
# 54 World War Z
# 55 The Last Unicorn
# 56 The Forever War
# 57 Small Gods
# 58 The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
# 59 Vorkosigan Saga
# 60 Going Postal
# 61 The Mote in God's Eye
# 62 The Sword of Truth Series
# 63 The Road
# 64 Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
# 65 I Am Legend
# 66 The Riftwar Saga
# 67 The Sword of Shannara
# 68 Conan the Barbarian
# 69 Farseer Trilogy
# 70 The Time Traveler's Wife
# 71 The Way of Kings
# 72 Journey to the Center of the Earth
# 73 The Legend of Drizzt Series
# 74 Old Man's War
# 75 The Diamond Age
# 76 Rendezvous with Rama
# 77 The Kushiel's Legacy Series
# 78 The Dispossessed
# 79 Something Wicked This Way Comes
# 80 Wicked
# 81 The Malazan Book of the Fallen Series
# 82 The Eyre Affair
# 83 The Culture Series
# 84 The Crystal Cave
# 85 Anathem
# 86 The Codex Alera Series
# 87 The Book of the New Sun
# 88 Thrawn trilogy
# 89 The Outlander Series
# 90 The Elric Saga
# 91 The Illustrated Man
# 92 Sunshine
# 93 A Fire Upon the Deep
# 94 The Caves of Steel
# 95 Mars trilogy
# 96 Lucifer's Hammer
# 97 Doomsday Book
# 98 Perdido Street Station
# 99 The Xanth Series
# 100 The Space Trilogy

I am a nerd and my BA was in English so I have read an insane amount of those books.
Wheel of Time and Game of Thrones are arguably the best series ever written.
Dark Tower and Lord of Rings are close behind.

Given your other selections you should read Snow Crash!

 

[jterrell]

Character device in Ayn Rand's fantastic Atlas Shrugged (sorry for the delay in my response, Brian)

I wrote my college entrance essay on Ayn Rand and the Fountainhead.

Yet, I am egoless right?!?!?

 

[Corso]

House of Leaves.
Mark Z. Danielewski


The Great Shark Hunt
Hunter S. Thompson


The Dante Club
Matthew Pearl


The Tao of Physics
Fritjof Capra

 

[Corso]

I am a nerd and my BA was in English so I have read an insane amount of those books.
Wheel of Time and Game of Thrones are arguably the best series ever written.
Dark Tower and Lord of Rings are close behind.

Given your other selections you should read Snow Crash!

I remember the Wheel of Time series...
I loved the 1st book.

 

[Corso]

OMG!!! How could I forget???

Foucault's Pendulum
Umberto Eco



The Name of the Rose is utterly wonderful also.

 

[Corso]

The Illuminatust! Trilogy

• The Eye in the Pyramid
• The Golden Apple
• Leviathan

Robert Anton Wilson



I like his books, but I love listening to his monologues and interviews even more.
Talk about a guy who knew a lot of obscure things!

 

[Corso]

It really is, and I certainly didn't read them consecutively. I actually never read the prequel so I would't say I've gotten all the way through them yet. Read The Eye Of The World and you'll be hooked though.

"Skinwalker"?


Hunter For The Skinwalker
Colm Kelleher and George Knapp

 

[jterrell]

I remember the Wheel of Time series...
I loved the 1st book.

I read them all a couple times through.
The first 6 or 7 hold up.
As his health failed and things were rushed then handed over it wasn't quite the same but the author was a historian writing sci fi so you had the game of houses stuff that was massively political and honestly paved the way for game of thrones.

 

[Corso]

The Illuminatust! Trilogy

• The Eye in the Pyramid
• The Golden Apple
• Leviathan

Robert Anton Wilson



I like his books, but I love listening to his monologues and interviews even more.
Talk about a guy who knew a lot of obscure things!

So much good stuff:
"I wrote my 1st novel at the age of 12. It was called The Age of Miracles and it was intended to be adapted into a musical starring Danny Kay..."

Lol!

 

[Denim Chicken]

Given your other selections you should read Snow Crash!

They don't have it at my library, so I need to wait until I get a new kindle. I have ebooks of all the books on the list, but my gen 1 reader finally bit the dust last summer.

 

[Denim Chicken]

It really is, and I certainly didn't read them consecutively. I actually never read the prequel so I would't say I've gotten all the way through them yet. Read The Eye Of The World and you'll be hooked though.

14 books in all

 

[yimyammer]

The Gulag Archipelago

when you think you've had a bad day or think the US is going to hell in a hand basket, thank your lucky stars you weren't born in Russia in the early 1900's

 

[Cowboy Brian]

I wrote my college entrance essay on Ayn Rand and the Fountainhead.

Yet, I am egoless right?!?!?

I wrote my honors thesis in senior year attempting to disprove Hayek and Keynes while also arguing that Freud and Nietzsche did not publish a single thing worthy of the time it takes to read them. I was the only person in my university to ever receive a 100 on my thesis. I gave the commencement address.

#Contrarian4life

 

[Longboysfan]

Michael Connelly - Harry Bosh series - I don't watch the shows.

 

[JIMMYBUFFETT]

"Skinwalker"?


Hunter For The Skinwalker
Colm Kelleher and George Knapp

Yep, read it. I've got a thing for Native American folk lore. Not a very good book by the way. I prefer books like Louis L'Amour's Haunted Mesa.

 

[jterrell]

I wrote my honors thesis in senior year attempting to disprove Hayek and Keynes while also arguing that Freud and Nietzsche did not publish a single thing worthy of the time it takes to read them. I was the only person in my university to ever receive a 100 on my thesis. I gave the commencement address.

#Contrarian4life

I applaud your 'nerdiness'.
I once was in a high school "club" at Science and Engineering Magnet called (NIT) non-conformists in technology.
The group leader actually went on to MIT... and is a weird govt agent of some sort now.
I transferred back to my sad "home" school because of football and girls....
At the time I wanted to be a nuclear physicist and even visited the reactor in Waco... but they shut it down and it kid of killed that dream off for me.

 

[jterrell]

I wrote my honors thesis in senior year attempting to disprove Hayek and Keynes while also arguing that Freud and Nietzsche did not publish a single thing worthy of the time it takes to read them. I was the only person in my university to ever receive a 100 on my thesis. I gave the commencement address.

#Contrarian4life

I was a Philosophy major early on and took Great Books humanities classes that were triple credit: English, Philosophy, History. I loved those profs and courses, I always hammered Nietzsche who I always felt was "fake deep".

For that class my term paper was on the true essence of human nature which I argued was potentiality.

 

[cwbyfn88]

I really need to start.
The most reading I do is here on cowboys forums and other articles on work related stuff aka home improvement websites. Dang electronics hurt my passion for reading. I used to stay up all night reading when I was younger

 

[jterrell]

I really need to start.
The most reading I do is here on cowboys forums and other articles on work related stuff aka home improvement websites. Dang electronics hurt my passion for reading. I used to stay up all night reading when I was younger

yea i go in waves now. i am a voracious reader but it is in cycles.
i can read every night for 3 weeks straight and kill off like 10 books.
then go a month without reading anything.

i have an old ipad that is nothing but a book reader with wifi lol.

easiest thing to get me going again is a mindless read like jack reacher... fluff of course but its a couple hours top to blow through and gets the reading juices flowing.