Who Likes Books?

[Black Six]

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.

Terry Pratchett rocks. Another good author in that vein is of course Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy.

In addition, I read a lot of other sci-fi and fantasy. I'm a big Tolkien fan, and really enjoy Kevin J. Anderson as well (his current Saga of Seven Suns series is amazing). Let's see, other authors I read are Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, other classic sci-fi like that. I also enjoy the Halo novels and other things like that.

[Triton]

crap now i have to do another huge list!

micheal cricton - the andromeda strain is my personal fave, the jurassic park books are also good, state of fear, disclosure etc all good!
the sholan alliance novels by lisanne norman are decent scifi books, telepathic anthropomorphic cat aliens and whatnot
everything by douglass adams is great!
more dean koontz, the odd thomas books are amazing and the strangers is also good!

as to reading levels here is a small insight into mine, in 11th grade we had to take this STAR reader test on the computers at school, my english teacher (who also teaches college english) scored 180 (the absolute highest completly unobtainable score is 200) and i scored a 156 with a lexile range of i think 1600 which is college POST GRAD level . i read the 5th harry potter book in one day! i love to read and i do read mostly paper books but i have read thousand of pages on my gp2x, probably tens of thousands actually. the nights dawn trilogy twice (thats over 7000 pages right there) plus 4 or 5 other books that had page counts in the thousand page range

[legoboy]

Huzzah!

Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
Isaac Asimov's Robot and Foundation books
Orson Scott Card's Ender series
Frank Herbert's Dune books
Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series
Ray Bradbury's- Fahrenheit 451
Various Jules Verne books
Various C. S. Lewis books
Mark Twain's Huck Finn books
and of course Douglas' 5 book trilogy, the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Ah, Great science fiction and a few fantasy books.

[Charlie]

I'm reading Perfume right now. Great book, and packed with disturbing descriptions to boot.

[Triton]

forgot about dune, good series! same with verne etc

[ZN13]

I had to take that STAR test(or something like it) in 5th grade... I was post high school.

I just finished reading The Loch by Steve Alton. It was pretty good.
But yeah, I love to read, but it comes second after hacking/modding!

[Nonsense Man]

A while ago I got Dune from a yard sale.

[Sangheilios]

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.

Heh... I was rated as having a "Post-High School" reading level in kindergarten, and I read LOTR in third grade. So obviously I like books. What kinds of books? Scifi, fantasy, fantasci, futurism (realistic scifi), and as for nonfiction, future theory and videogame-related material.

I like the Halo books, and I've been meaning to get the audiobooks of them. For scifi military fiction, try StarFist. I've read Artemis Fowl as well, it's one of the few "young adult reader" books that don't suck. My favorite series is The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan who recently died from amyloidosis while writing the twelfth and final book in the series. Star Trek, Star Wars, and Dragonlance are megaseries with well over a hundred books each.

[DK]

Haven't read Terry Pratchett for ages, really loved Mort by him

Oh, any one here read H.G Wells. Had to read The Time Machine at High School and sorta got hooked. The War of the Worlds is amazing Wells was decades ahead of authors and even scientists. Came up with some of the theories of time travel before Einstein.

[gamer2]

Battle Royale-Koushun Takami
Logan's Run
The novelization of Caddyshack, lol.