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[moogle]

Feist,Chrichtion,and King are all awesome....
Now: Tom Clancy, kardinal at the kremlin
Is love craft good? I looked him up on Amazon/BarnesandNoble but all I got was collections of short stories.... :tai: and Harry Poter is ick, its...borring....Oh Oh OH!!!
Whell Of time 11!!!!!
Oct. 11 mark your calendars!!!!!
:Brain: :Brain:

[Shifter]

I have a problem with reading, it puts me to sleep, even if I enjoy the book. Just something in my body doesn't let me do it.

I like to read fantasy though..

I have only finished a few novels/books in my life..voluntarily: The Hobbit, and the Lord of the Rings..

[Jimbo the Legend]

Sephen E Ambrose these days.
he not done many books but the ones he has done are awesome

J

[BeefontheBone]

Is Lovecraft good? I looked him up on Amazon/BarnesandNoble but all I got was collections of short stories

That's all he wrote; some of them are long enough to count as novellas though, and some just a few pages - the ones in between those lengths tend to be his best IMO.

[omg]

evryone should go through a lovecraft stage at least once in there lifes, mmm squiggly faceless ainchent things that sliver around. they taste good roasted with a medly of vegetables and gravy.

[mm_pie]

Frederick Forsyth! :bleh:

[chickenman]

J.K.Rowling
Robert Ludlum
Philip Pullman
Ranulph Fiennes
JRR Tolkien
Dan Brown
Jonathan Lunn
Tom Clancy
Conn Iggulden
Colin Forbes
Terry Goodkind
Clive Cussler
Chris Ryan
Ian Fleming
Robert Harris
Colin Dexter
Anthony Horowitz
Karin Slaughter
Stan Lee

Thats all i can think of at the moment

[Stroggy]

Anthony Horowitz, I remember reading his books back when I was... younger. Does he still write?

[Timpsi]

Books are a topic always worth discussing. I didn't want to start a new thread as there have been several of them in the past, so I decided to *bump* this one. Besides, the recommendations above are still valid, I'm sure.

My girlfriend is a real history buff, and so some time ago I bought her a bunch of Horrible Histories books (as she once showed interest to one of them in a book shop). I was pleasantly surprised of the way the authors had managed to make even the dullest parts of history entertaining and fun. While they're not comprehensive at all, they do make the study of history far more accessible for kids - and yet they're not too childlish.

Currently our favourites in the series are The Rotten Romans and The Frightful First World War for their splendid humour and accurate information. A special mention go for The Woeful Second World War; while it obviously recognizes the issue being far touchier than the others and thus tries not to step on anyones toes, it still mentions some very controversial issues such as the Katyn massacre.

One of the other fine recent findings has been The Count of Monte-Cristo by Aleksandre Dumas the older. While it drags a lot about halfway into the book, it still manages to entertain. A problem for me was that I never really got to like or even properly understand the main character, as the development of his persona was largely ignored. Also, his nearly superhuman abilities were annoying, no matter how true this was to the common style of adventure literature.

[A. J. Raffles]

Ah, yes, Horrible Histories rock. :w00t: My favourite was The Vile Victorians, I think. And Wicked Words is quite good as well. I still check the bookshops for new ones from time to time, and I always get strange looks from the booksellers. But the books are well worth a bit of embarassment.