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vskid · Post by **vskid** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 11:47 am

I'm reading through Harry Potter again, I'm on the 5th one, I've gotta pick up the pace if I want to finish by the time the 7th comes out.
Other good books/series/authors
Eragon series
Lord of the Rings
Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, Lost World, Timeline, Sphere)
Halo series (ones by Eric Nylund are best)

Gump-in-space · Post by **Gump-in-space** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 1:21 pm

You guys are NERDS!

I just finished reading the Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

sgtpepper · Post by **sgtpepper** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 1:40 pm

Well I've read all but one of the Pendragon books (awesome series!), and now I'm rereading all the Harry Potter books in preparation for the 7th book.

Oh and on the subject of iWoz, Steve Wozniak is one of the most annoying self-centered nerds to ever walk the Earth, consider yourself warned!

Extreme_Jesus · Post by **Extreme_Jesus** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 5:18 pm

The Great Shark Hunt by Hunter S Thomson

very good, its a collection of his various articles. Once im done with that im gonan go for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Also im readin Cautionary Tales for Dead Commuters by the Attlia the Stock Broker and Seething Wells. Some very witty poerty and social commentary (from the 80's)

khaag · Post by **khaag** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 5:37 pm

sgtpepper wrote:Well I've read all but one of the Pendragon books (awesome series!), and now I'm rereading all the Harry Potter books in preparation for the 7th book.

Oh and on the subject of iWoz, Steve Wozniak is one of the most annoying self-centered nerds to ever walk the Earth, consider yourself warned!

Which one havn't you read?

Sir Games-A-Lot · Post by **Sir Games-A-Lot** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 7:09 pm

Any of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, truly LOL funny those. They're a little bit like HHG2TG, just with more plot and instead of parodying SciFi they go after the traditional fantasy setting (LOTR, D&D, etc.), plus a lot of side splitting jabs at modern life. Defineately pick up any you can find! ("The Truth" and "Going Postal" are my personal favorites).

Post by **marshallh** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 8:09 pm

sgtpepper · Post by **sgtpepper** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 8:17 pm

khaag wrote:Which one havn't you read?

Whichever the latest one is... And I should read it soon before I forget what happened in the other books.

gamemasterAS · Post by **gamemasterAS** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 8:41 pm

marshallh wrote:

that looks cool

Ecksem Diem · Post by **Ecksem Diem** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 8:44 pm

At the moment, I'm reading The Seven Sisters: The Great Oil Companies and the World They Made by Anthony Simpson, Maus by Art Spiegelman (I picked up a nice hardcover edition that contains both volumes while in San Francisco), and The Assault on Reason by Al Gore. All of those are going pretty slowly, though, because I'm also reading through The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe series (Amazon has a very nice hardcover collection of the five novels and a short story for dirt freakin' cheap).

ganonbanned · Post by **ganonbanned** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 8:54 pm

anything stephen king, his older work. john bellair's wrote a trilogy of stories called "the house with the clock in the walls" thats really good. Mark twain has some really good stuff to, even though most of its somewhat racist

jackfb13 · Post by **jackfb13** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 9:34 pm

gamemasterAS wrote:I have read House of the Scorpion for school, its OK. How far into it are you ? And the last books I have been into are the Eragon series and the Cirq Du Freak series.

It's called the "Inheritance trilogy"

dragon · Post by **dragon** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 1:03 pm

I like the Inheritance trilogy.

benol · Post by **benol** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 1:58 pm

The best book I ever read was Ender's Game. I would suggest it to anyone.

Post by **Triton** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 2:48 pm

i LOVE to read, and read probably too much for my own good at times i will list off some authors and books that i suggest for ya!

Daniel keys Moran - emerald eyes and the long run (the second is probaby one of my favorite books of all time, been mostly out of print since 1989 tho, very good book)
*Dean Koontz- odd thomas series and any other books by him for the most part.
*kim stanley robinson - the mars trilogy is a pretty good read
*R. Scott Bakker - the prince of nothing trilogy
*Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman - the death gate cycle (and also the dragonlance novels they wrote)
*Anne mccafrey - the pern books are cool!
*steven king - the dark tower series
*orson scott card - enders game etc
*Robert heinlein - have spacesuit will travel etc
ill have more suggestions later
currently reading - House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski which is awesome