Fave Book?

[RPGfreak]

What is your fave book or book series right now? For me its the Heritige Triligy, Eragon book 1 and Eldest book 2 and book 3 isn't out yet that i know of. second fave is the Sword of Truth series.

If we get a lot of the same books we can start another thred about that book. I'll let you know if I'll start that.

 

[Tariel]

I thought it was the "Inheritance" trilogy

anyway, don't get me started on those books They drive me insane.

Let's see, I like the Song of Albion Trilogy by Stephen Lawhead.
Book One: The Paradise War
Book Two: The Silver Hand
Book Three: The Endless Knot

 

[Jehane]

Guy Gavriel Kay - the Fionavar Tapestry

Rumour Godden - China Court

Jessamyn West _ the Friendly Persuasion

It just depends on the mood I'm in; these are all long time favourites & re-read regularly.

 

[RPGfreak]

I thought it was the "Inheritance" trilogy

Your right, I'm sorry bout that.

 

[Lessien]

Don't get me started on the Inheritance Trilogy, either. Those books drive me insane.

Some of my favorites...

Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis--My favorites are The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and The Magician's Nephew.

Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Eve's Daughters, Hidden Places, Refiner's Fire trilogy, and All She Ever Wanted by Lynn Austin

Mark of the Lion trilogy, The Atonement Child, and the Lineage of Grace series by Francine Rivers

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum

Thr3e and Blink by Ted Dekker

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

 

[RPGfreak]

More of my faves:

Redwall saga, Taggerung and The Legend of Luke, by Brian Jacques,

The Door Within triligy, The Door Within, by Wayne Thomas Batson

The Sword of Truth series, The Naked Empire and Chainfire, by Terry Goodkind

 

[elf_lady_9]

oh, way to many to list them all! here's a few:

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

The Anne of Green Gables series by L.M. Montgomery

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

Beauty by Robin Mckinley

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

Sorcery and Cecelia or the Magic Chocolate Pot by Patricia C. Wrede

 

[elf_lady_9]

Don't get me started on the Inheritance Trilogy, either. Those books drive me insane.

lol what's the big deal about those books? i started reading Eragon once but it was one of the few fantasy books i just couldn't get into. so i don't know what happens. does something really horrible happen later in the book? or is it just the writing style that annoys you?

 

[thecarlyjean]

i dont read a lot anymore... but a fantastic book that everyone should read.. even though it would be really really really really really really easy.... is frankenstein.... by mary shelly dude that book was awesome! much better than the movie... another book that is good is Ear, Eye, and Arm.... i read that in 7th grade so it is a pretty simple book but a good detective... sci-fi type of novel... and of course who can't love the Scarlet Letter? Or the playwright teh Crucible! but overall.... my favorite story of all time (besides the story in the future, revelation)... is the entire story of David int he bible.. you have to read 1 and 2 Samuel for the whole story basically... it is so completely awesome.

 

[Lessien]

lol what's the big deal about those books? i started reading Eragon once but it was one of the few fantasy books i just couldn't get into. so i don't know what happens. does something really horrible happen later in the book? or is it just the writing style that annoys you?

Well, Eragon was good. I liked Eragon. But in Eldest, Paolini started making the book incredibly cliched and describing things that didn't matter all that much. And the main character was pretty annoying, too.

i dont read a lot anymore... but a fantastic book that everyone should read.. even though it would be really really really really really really easy.... is frankenstein.... by mary shelly dude that book was awesome! much better than the movie... another book that is good is Ear, Eye, and Arm.... i read that in 7th grade so it is a pretty simple book but a good detective... sci-fi type of novel... and of course who can't love the Scarlet Letter? Or the playwright teh Crucible! but overall.... my favorite story of all time (besides the story in the future, revelation)... is the entire story of David int he bible.. you have to read 1 and 2 Samuel for the whole story basically... it is so completely awesome.

The movie Frankenstein made it so no one would ever take the book seriously again, and that really makes me mad. The book was awesome, and it had so many messages about parent-child relationships, science overstepping its bounds, abandonment, isolation, rejection....the list goes on and on. In the Bible, I think one of my favorite stories is that of Esther. I like the story of Ruth, too, as well as Moses and Joseph.

 

[RPGfreak]

Well, Eragon was good. I liked Eragon. But in Eldest, Paolini started making the book incredibly cliched and describing things that didn't matter all that much. And the main character was pretty annoying, too.


What are you talking about Eldest was just as good as Eragon. Paolini was able to describe things without making the book a long boring read, I think that it made it a little more real. And even if he did mess up there the ending completely made up it.
The only parts that made it a little slow for me was Roran he made up for it in the end but it started really slow.

 

[Lessien]

What are you talking about Eldest was just as good as Eragon. Paolini was able to describe things without making the book a long boring read, I think that it made it a little more real. And even if he did mess up there the ending completely made up it.
The only parts that made it a little slow for me was Roran he made up for it in the end but it started really slow.

I have to disagree. Roran was the only character worth reading about. The book was veeerrrryyyy looooonnnng, there were too many useless subplots, and I could see the ending and the final plot twist with Murtagh coming from Chaper 2. The ending was expected, the writing was dull, and the characters (esp. the elves) were irritating.

 

[Tariel]

I have to disagree. Roran was the only character worth reading about. The book was veeerrrryyyy looooonnnng, there were too many useless subplots, and I could see the ending and the final plot twist with Murtagh coming from Chaper 2. The ending was expected, the writing was dull, and the characters (esp. the elves) were irritating.

once again, Lessien gets here before me and posts my exact opinions

 

[Lessien]

once again, Lessien gets here before me and posts my exact opinions

....And once again, Tariel laments that she didn't read my mind in time.

 

[RPGfreak]

I have to disagree. Roran was the only character worth reading about. The book was veeerrrryyyy looooonnnng, there were too many useless subplots, and I could see the ending and the final plot twist with Murtagh coming from Chaper 2. The ending was expected, the writing was dull, and the characters (esp. the elves) were irritating.

Ok I'll agree that the elves were very irritating, except Arya though she had her moments, but everything else I have to disagree. So I guess we just have to agree to disagree.

 

[Kayla4Yeshua]

Chronicles of Narnia

 

[Lessien]

I suppose, though I also found Arya annoying. Yeah, I know, she's a hundred years old and would naturally be pretty mature, but does she have to be so dang perfect?! Like Oromis (the most annoying elf of all) said, "Until now, I've never seen her lose her temper." Surely, in the course of a hundred years, you think she would have lost her temper at least once?

 

[Locket]

Don't get me started on the Inheritance Trilogy, either. Those books drive me insane.

Btw, Car, Frankenstein was the only Wishbone show I refused to watch as a child. I'm scarred for life. *sniffles*

Right now? Mmmm...

O'Malley Series. That's it because that's the series I was cut off from thanks to my required school reading list. But let me try and list more...

Inheritance Trilogy

O'Malley Trilogy

Agatha Christie books featuring M. Poirot

Tahn and Return to Alastair (by L.A. Kelly)

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Thr3e and the Circle Trilogy by Ted Dekker

The Bug Man Series by Tim Downs

Rilla of Ingleside (and really the whole Anne of GReen Gables Series)

Chronicles of Narnia (Voyage of the Dawn Treader! Woohoo!!)

The Thief, Queen of Attolia and King of Attolia (all by Megan Whalen Turner- beware of some profanity in the first book. I personally use a permanent marker )

Tarzan of the Apes

 

[Nienor]

My list is a tad bit long and incomplete, but that's ok

1984, Down and Out in Paris and London (George Orwell)
Black Sun Rising, When True Night Falls, Crown of Shadows, This Alien Shore (CS Friedman)
Anansi Boys, American Gods, Sandman (Neil Gaiman)
Dune (Frank Herbert)
Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows (George RR Martin)
Lord of the Rings (JRR Tolkien)
All the King's Men (Robert Penn Warren)
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
Stranger in a Strange Land, Starship Troopers (Robert A Heinlein)
Mort (Terry Pratchett)
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
Chronicles of Narnia (CS Lewis)
Farenheit 451, Something Wicked this Way Comes (Ray Bradbury)
A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door (Madeliene L'Engle)
Century Rain (ALastair Reynolds)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
Catcher in the Rye (JD Salinger)
Ishmael (Daniel Quinn)
Blue Like Jazz, Searching for God Knows What (Donald Miller)
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
Good Omens (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman)
Captain Blood (Rafail Sabatini)
Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk)
Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice)
Storm Front (Jim Butcher)

 

[NeoScribe]

My fav's include:

Magic: the Gathering, Invasion Cycle
War Between the Provinces series
Chronicles of Narnia (Duh!)
DragonLance series
... uh, there's more but I forgot them.