Top 5 favorite books.

[mightyp]

without remorse-clancy
salems lot-king
red storm rising-clancy
the horus hersey series-various

[LaserSVT]

Hitchhickers Guide to the Galaxy 4 book trilogy.
Rama series
All of Tim Dorsey books with Serge Storms in it.
Complete series with Alex Cross (Along Came a Spider, Kiss the Girls etc etc)
Tom Clancy - Teeth of the Tiger.

[talisman]

Hitchhickers Guide to the Galaxy 4 book trilogy.

Have you read the 5th book Mostly Harmless? I loved it. Adams died awhile back unfortunately, but another satirist took up the challenge of a 6th book and it was remarkably good.

[ceyko]

Term Limits < especially in this day and age, people should read this fictional book

-A bunch of Jack Ryan/etc based Clancy books

[kanetrain]

1. The Wheel of Time series - Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
(FYI for anyone who's read this series, they just came out with a series of short stories called "Unfettered" and has a short story about Demondred in it, it's pretty neat)
2. Enders Game series(books 2-4 are better than 1 IMO) - Orson Scott Card
3. I Am Legend - Richard Matheson
4. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series - Douglas Adams
5. This may sound childish but I REALLY liked the Percy Jackson books(Rick Riordan) haha

Has anyone who's read the Enders Game series also read the Enders Shadow series? Can you tell me if it's worth reading?

[kanetrain]

This plus;
Pastwatch; The redemption of Christopher Columbus - Orson Scott Card
Digital Fortress - Dan Brown
Dark Lover - J R Ward
Ender's Game - Orson Scot Card

My wife's favorite book series is that JR Ward series with the Vampires and the sex(I THINK "Dark Lover" is the first one if I'm not mistaken) I read the first one and it actually wasn't that bad.

[Chili]

Yup. Over half these douches read it because I told them to. lol

<- book hipster.

Psh.. I read that shit in 1992.. Right after reading The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Poser.

I've never been one to really rank / rate books. Especially when I'm in a heavy reading phase.. I know I have read hundreds, if not thousands, so keeping up with them is virtually impossible.

[Chili]

Required reading for middle managers.

Or people going through acquisitions.. My employer(s) gave me that book twice. And I've seen the movie 3-4 times in various training courses.. Lol.

[A+]

Catcher in the rye
Death of a salesman
Nutrition facts

[Moose242]

I like short books:

1. Black People I Have Met While Yachting
2. Great Irish Cooks
3. The Polish Book of Knowledge
4. Modern French Battle Methodology
5. Jewish Sports Legends

[talisman]

I like short books:

1. Black People I Have Met While Yachting
2. Great Irish Cooks
3. The Polish Book of Knowledge
4. Modern French Battle Methodology
5. Jewish Sports Legends

lmao

[Nash B.]

4. Modern French Battle Methodology

You can't use that one.

[talisman]

Psh.. I read that shit in 1992.. Right after reading The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Poser.

I've never been one to really rank / rate books. Especially when I'm in a heavy reading phase.. I know I have read hundreds, if not thousands, so keeping up with them is virtually impossible.

I was demolishing Stephen King(hence the screen name invented in 1993ish), Mark Twain, Clive Cussler and Tom Clancy's entire body of work back then.

[Geor!]

Term Limits < especially in this day and age, people should read this fictional book

-A bunch of Jack Ryan/etc based Clancy books

I really, really, really like that book, along with all of the other books he has written. Don't think it's up there with the all time greats though.

[Chili]

I was demolishing Stephen King(hence the screen name invented in 1993ish), Mark Twain, Clive Cussler and Tom Clancy's entire body of work back then.

I have not read one Stephen King book. Not sure why, especially since I like several of the movies based on them. Just never had the desire to read one.. I do like Mark Twain, Clive Cussler and Tom Clancy, and have read several of each of their books, but didn't read those type of books until the last decade.

Since I could read, I have always read a lot, but the first couple of books I read that really impacted me were already mentioned or are what might be considered modern "classics":

1984
The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Lord of the Flies

I have read a lot of throw-a-ways.. Star Wars series books and stuff like that. But I also read a lot of non-fiction. If I made an effort to actually "study" what I read, I would probably have been a historian of some sort. I take a whole lot more out of non-fiction than fiction. Much of what I read I do so much like most would watch a movie; purely as entertainment.