Any Book Readers? Post up your fav SciFi and Adventure Novels

[drew33998]

Just as it says. I read about a book a week. Mostly sci-fi and adventure. My favorite sci-fi of all time right now is the Wheel of Time series. Post your fav's. Im always looking for new reads.

 

[0soyoung]

My top 5 list:

1. Foundation and Empire trilogy by Isaac Asimov
2. Dune by Frank Herbert
3. The Minority Report by Philip K. Dick
4. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
5. Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells

 

[Dav4]

The Trilogy of the LOTR
Everything by Michael Chrichton, Robert Ludlum, and Tom Clancy
Dune
Not sure if Steven King's The Stand is considered sci-fi...

 

[Paradox]

The Black Company Series by Glen Cook
The Dragon Never Sleeps also by Glen Cook
Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard The original not the movie based one. The book was awesome. The movie wasn't in the same universe as far as doing it justice.

 

[Eric Group]

Used to read the Clive custler/ Dirk Pitt Novels for Adventure stuff... a little cheesy, but good clean "hero always saves the day" adventure stuff. Light reading...

"Sirens Of Titan" was a great Scifi Book... Gold star for the first person who can tell me who REALLY wrote it and the assumed name he wrote it under...

 

[0soyoung]

"Sirens Of Titan"

Kurt Vonnegut (Geraldo Revera's ex-father-in-law).

--> Chronosynclastic Infundibulum (sp?) reminds me of a favorite episode of The Twilight Zone

 

[Eric Group]

Kurt Vonnegut (Geraldo Revera's ex-father-in-law).

--> Chronosynclastic Infundibulum (sp?) reminds me of a favorite episode of The Twilight Zone

What a classic book... Jerry Garcia at one point owned the rights to make a movie out of it, but died before it could be made... There are still people trying to get one done... Apparently a screenplay was approved by Vonnegut as recent as 2007- so says Wikipedia...

It was certainly an early Vonnegut Novel, but it was originally penned under a fake name. My father had the first paperback run I think and it was not Kurt Vonnegut listed as the author and the pic on the rear jacket was Vonnegut all dressed up in a funky party mask with a disguise on... Wish I still had that book! Trying to see if anyone can come up with the name for me, because it seems stricken from any record of this book's history!

Anyway... Vonnegut was always a favorite... Harrison Bergeron was- in my opinion- one of the best stories ever written, though a (VERY) short story not a full novel. Satire and social commentary so insightful and forward thinking... Because it is basically only a slight exaggeration over what we see in society today IMO. Any uncommonly talented person is literally weighed down by the guilt of being different in modern society where everyone is supposed to be equal... Public schools hold gifted kids back and literally force them to sit through classes that are painfully boring to them, most get mis-diagnosed as "ADHD" and literally DRUGGED until they "fit in" with the rest of the class... it is all about being PC and giving everyone a trophy, let kids retake a test, no singling out kids even if they are trouble makers... Our world has- in ways not quite so obvious as the story- become nearly as backwards!

Just in case anyone has not read it:
http://tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html

That oughta be a legal copy BTW... Not a "pirating" website and nobody giving away John Naka's book for free... So, please I hope people will spare me the BS this time, thanks in advance!

 

[Eric Group]

The Trilogy of the LOTR
Everything by Michael Chrichton, Robert Ludlum, and Tom Clancy
Dune
Not sure if Steven King's The Stand is considered sci-fi...

I used to love Stephen King's books. The Dark Tower Seris-!!!! How have they not made a bunch of epic movies out if this yet!?
Salem's Lot- THE SCARIEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN. PERIOD. No,.. Don't even try to argue... I won't listen. I read it when I was around "tweenager" range and... Sitting in a fully lit room, middle of the day... I still couldn't read that one alone sometimes! THE single scariest book I ever read, probably the single best Vampire story ever written- easily a top 5er... I get some pissed off with these teenybopper fake- ass Vampire shows and movies they are churning out right now that my wife LOVES! They stroll around in the light of day, and remorse over the tragedy of their lives and their afflictions... When the light hit that dude in Twilight and he started to f*%#ing GLITTER all over the place, I about jumped up and started booing in the theater! I have yet to let my wife live that shit down, and yet I get drug to every one of them... GLITTER, SERIOUSLY!? DAMNIT! Vampires are MONSTERS! They aren't made of f%#*ing PIXIE DUST! What IS THAT!? GTFO... SERIOUSLY...
I blame Ann Rice... Interview was a good book... A little too Whiny... "Ohhh woah is me, poor Mr filthy rich immortal Vampire"! Cry me a bloody river! But after that one... They series became UNREADABLE! I tried to listen to the second or third book on tape with a couple friends on the way to Chicago and we literally had to cut it off... It was like boarder line gay porn! I think she ruined Vampires with that touchy feely shit.

Sorry... Rant over... Yeah so, I said USED TO love King books... He was once a master or terror and suspense and even fantasy... All his most recent books I have tried to read were slow, boring DRAMA! They out me into a a state of depression. That is not entertainment for me. I read fiction to escape not to be depressed. JMHO

 

[sorce]

Clive custler/ Dirk Pitt

I read the one with the molecular transportation device, a suitcase?

I remember they transported oil.

Anyway. Good stuff!

Sorce

 

[sorce]

a little cheesy,

Such is Sci-fi!

Sorce

 

[jk_lewis]

Any of Modessit's fantasy genre. Charles Delint's Newford series, and, of course, LOTR.

IMHO "Wheel of Time" badly needed an editor. Story great, BUT . . . Books too long, too wordy, too cute. And too many.

 

[Robert E Holt]

1. Lord of the Rings
2. Foundation and Empire trilogy by Isaac Asimov
3. Dune by Frank Herbert
4. Methuselah's Children by Robert A. Heinlein
5. The Chronicles of Thomas Covanant: The Ill Earth Wars series
6. The Game of Thornes
7. The lensman Series by E.E. "Doc" Smith

I also liked the Wheel Of Time books, but agree it could have used a better editor. There was a lot of repetition of phrases that could have been left out at say the 100th time it was repeated.

 

[Eric Group]

Nobody said 1984 or War of the Worlds yet...

 

[M. Frary]

R.A. Salvatores Drizzt.
Tolkiens Bagginses
The chronicles of Amber.
Dragonlance series.
Both series of Thomas Covenant.
Anne Rice vampire series.
Peirs Anthony Xanth series.
Terry Brooks Spar hawk books.
James Clavell. All.
More. Many, many more.

 

[ColinFraser]

Heinlein all the way! Most people know Stranger in a Strange Land, and it's great, but I really loved The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

 

[CamdenJim]

Wheel of Time -- fantasy, not science fiction -- is one of my all time favorites. I was introduced to the series by my grandson when he was maybe 13. followed it through to the end.

Heinlein -- Stranger in a Strange Land. One of the few I've reread more than once over a 50-year period of reading this stuff. Add in the Lazarus Long books and I Will Fear No Evil, another I've reread a couple of times, and you've got a body of work rivaling Jordan's WOT.

I'm partial to the Ender books. The whole lot of them. The best of Card's books is Songmaster, though I acknowledge an understandable prejudice, being an academic and church musician.

The Grey Lensman series. Someone mentioned that -- haven't thought of it in decades. Wow! Saving the universe with a super slide rule. I need to find those books and read them again.

Piers Anthony's Xanth books. Fun as they could be, but after the first four or five, I was bored. Still think of them when I see a map of Florida.

Dune -- Wow. I read it when it was first printed and couldn't put it down. Wow. All the original Dune books were influential -- even on the set design for Tatooine in the first Star Wars movie. And what great reads, great ideas, complexities confounding confusion.

The Stand -- one of my favorites books of any genre. King writes great horror, and that one is a fantasy/scifi blend that seems more probable every time I hear about a new or drug-resistant virus. His attempts at Science Fiction don't always work, but reading Kujo scared my pants off. Damn! I don't expect a toy clown to attack me, but a rabid dog!? In a heart beat.

Asimov's Foundation trilogy, robots, and the final reconciliation of those universes. One fantastic achievement intellectually cogent and coherent. Not an easy thing to pull off for a writer. Maybe I'll reread all his works, too!

Hmm. I think I'll go find a book to read now!

 

[Robert E Holt]

Heinlein all the way! Most people know Stranger in a Strange Land, and it's great, but I really loved The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

I think I have read all of Heinlein work, and loved most of it. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress was one of my favorites.

 

[0soyoung]

Since you'se guys have been bringing up lots of stuff, I realize that I forgot to mention my all-time favorite, though it is #42 on my list:

Douglas Adams' 4-part Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy.

 

[mattspinniken]

Some of my favorites from the last few years:

The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastards Series) - Scott Lynch
The Name of The Wind (Kingkiller Chronicle Series) - Patrick Rothfuss

 

[Giga]

R.A Salvatore- Been reading drizzt since his first book
Terry brooks - his Shanarra series are rather awesome

I'm currently in wheel of time book 6-very good but the author loved to describe minor details over and over again- but very good none the less