Who Likes Books?

Nonsense Man · Post by **Nonsense Man** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 8:04 pm

Well I personally really like books. And I have been looking for some specific ones like assaination books, military fiction, and stuff like that. Also has anyone ever read the Artemis Fowl series?

gamemasterAS · Post by **gamemasterAS** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 8:08 pm

I think we had a thread just like this.

But Solider X is good.

benol · Post by **benol** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 8:19 pm

I like science fiction, fantasy, and cyberpunk.

EDIT: @Nonsense Man: Yes, and the newest one was total crap. The other 4 rule though.

Post by **Triton** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:19 pm

scifi, historical fiction, fantasy, dean koontz and steven kings dark tower series etc, if you want some ebooks i can hook you up perhaps. here is a list of some of my favorite authors books and series:

steven king - the dark tower series
peter f hamilton - nights dawn trilogy
julian may - galactic milieu series
dean koonts - odd Thomas and a bunch of other books too
anne mccafrey - all of the pern books pwn
james patterson - the maximum ride books and their predecessors and the alex cross books
mark z danielewski - House of leaves is a total mindf*** and is totally awesome for it
kim stanley robinson - the mars trilogy
rudyard kipling - the jungle book is awesome, not the crap disney turned it into!
johann david wyss - the swiss family robinson is a classic
sir arthur conan doyle - shirlock holmes of course! all of them
and probably my favorite book of all time:
The Long Run by Daniel Keys Moran is AWESOME!
also good is the 1632 series by eric flint and others

DK · Post by DK » Fri Nov 16, 2007 11:33 am

I like books

Nothing can beat a good horror book

Stephen King rocks, but sorry Triton, never got into the Dark Tower much. All his oldest stuff is great though, especially when he wrote under his penname of Richard Bachman.

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 3:26 pm

Books are for old people

gamemasterAS · Post by **gamemasterAS** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 3:34 pm

Harshboy wrote:Books are for old people

Ebooks are the new age.

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 4:08 pm

If you want military fiction, Tom Clancy is the way to go. I'm currently reading Red Storm Rising by him, its a very good book. Hunt For Red October is good, too. Be warned, they are fairly advanced books (like a ton harder than Artemis Fowl), so if Artemis Fowl is in the higher range of your reading level, you might want to wait a couple years.

The Artemis Fowl series is pretty good, I've only read the first three, though.

benol · Post by **benol** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 4:17 pm

Have you ever read The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer?

Nonsense Man · Post by **Nonsense Man** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 6:53 pm

vskid wrote:If you want military fiction, Tom Clancy is the way to go. I'm currently reading Red Storm Rising by him, its a very good book. Hunt For Red October is good, too. Be warned, they are fairly advanced books (like a ton harder than Artemis Fowl), so if Artemis Fowl is in the higher range of your reading level, you might want to wait a couple years.

The Artemis Fowl series is pretty good, I've only read the first three, though.

My highest reading level is not artemis fowl not to sound like a ass but when I was tested for AR i received a 10th grade reading level. And I have read many more books that are way more advanced than Artemis Fowl.

Sir Games-A-Lot · Post by **Sir Games-A-Lot** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 6:56 pm

Triton wrote: sir arthur conan doyle - shirlock holmes of course! all of them

Very YES! I even read the fanfiction...

Other than that I love satire, particularly anything by Terry Pratchett. So far I've read Thud!, The Truth, Going Postal, The Fifth Elephant, and am currently reading Soul Music, all of which are excellent, with The Truth and Going Postal ranking at the very top.

And yes all my books now live on my Handspring Visor Neo for easy access, although I am considering a PRS-505 for future use, pending further testing of the screen materials' longevity.

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 7:09 pm

Nonsense Man wrote:My highest reading level is not artemis fowl not to sound like a ass but when I was tested for AR i received a 10th grade reading level. And I have read many more books that are way more advanced than Artemis Fowl.

Ah, ok, I just wasn't sure. Tom Clancy stuff will be ok for you, then. Michael Crichton is good, too. I don't know what my reading level is now, two years ago it was so high I couldn't really find any books my level, I'm guessing I'm about college level right now (I'm in 11th grade). Not really uncommon to be at least a grade above your reading level, I don't know where they tested to get such low averages.

gamemasterAS · Post by **gamemasterAS** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 7:33 pm

vskid wrote:
Nonsense Man wrote:My highest reading level is not artemis fowl not to sound like a ass but when I was tested for AR i received a 10th grade reading level. And I have read many more books that are way more advanced than Artemis Fowl.
Ah, ok, I just wasn't sure. Tom Clancy stuff will be ok for you, then. Michael Crichton is good, too. I don't know what my reading level is now, two years ago it was so high I couldn't really find any books my level, I'm guessing I'm about college level right now (I'm in 11th grade). Not really uncommon to be at least a grade above your reading level, I don't know where they tested to get such low averages.

I know, according to the school i have a large vocabulary and a good reading level but to tell the truth I think what I'm at should be the average for my grade because according to them I have always been a few grades above.

Jongamer · Post by **Jongamer** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 7:41 pm

Umm.... I`ve only completly read three books in my lifetime (sad i know) Michael Crichton`s Jurrasic Park (like 10 times better than the 1st movie IMO.) And 2 Hairy pothead books.

And read a bunch of books half-way through and was never really finished.

1 I`m about to start reading again, The Lost World by Michael Crichton (Which has to be my favorite author ATM)

Off topic but my 2 favorite movies of all time.

Jurrasic Park (first one, but the 2nd was good and the 3rd was alright but had almost NOTHING to do with the first 2 movies)
and Independance Day ("Now thats what I call a close encounter." lol)

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 8:57 pm

Cats eye was a good science fiction book, many many years ago. I'm not sure how it compares not. It's about humanoid aliens who are feared and supressed by human because they have tele-**** abilities. Some have telekinetic, telepathic, etc. abilities.