Favorite books / What are you reading now?

[thez]

Because I read way, way too much, I often run low on reading material. As such, I frequently need to search for suggestions. Figured I'd post the sorts of stuff that I've gotten in to, and see if anyone has any tips on places to look.

Stephen King - read almost all of his stuff, absolutely love The Dark Tower
Bernard Cornwell - Warlord Chronicles, Archer's Tale
George RR Martin - Song of Ice and Fire
Stephen R Donaldson - Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever (all of the books to date)
Robert Jordan - Wheel of Time
Terry Goodkind - Sword of Truth (though I'll admit, my excitement about these faded after the 4th or 5th one)
Neil Gaiman - Bad Omens, American Gods
L.E. Modesitt Jr - Chaos stuff, though I got bored after the first couple of books about the same character with different names; the Alector trilogy
Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon
SM Stirling - The Emberverse series
Jim Butcher - Dresden Files and Codex Alera
Orson Scott Card - All of the Enderverse, but preferred the Bean stuff, Empire
Tad Williams - Otherland series
Dan Simmons - Ilium/Odyssey, Hyperion/Endymion
Raymond Feist - first couple of Riftwar books, got bored after a while
Iain M. Banks - The Algebraist
R. Scott Bakker - Prince of Nothing trilogy
Frank Herbert - Dune et al
Read through the first Shannara book and didn't have any desire to continue.

There's a lot more, but that's the sort of stuff that I have sitting on my book shelf. I tend to enjoy epic fantasy, but the sort of books that have a continuous plot where characters develop over many books -- one of the turn offs for me in the Chaos series and the Riftwar series was the lack of character continuance. I'm also a huge sci-fi fan, but it's harder to pin down series of sci-fi books...I've got almost every Star Wars book, but I haven't touched those in years.

Anyways...yeah...any suggestions?

[JimJohnson]

Sword of Truth
Wheel of Time (last book comes out in 09)

[johnnylongmire]

MISSION EARTH

[Zajiku]

I am reading the trilogy by Philip Pulman called "His Dark Materials" they made a movie out of Book 1 called The Golden Compass, anyway its:

The Golden Compass - Book 1
The Subtle Knife - Book 2
The Amber Spyglass - Book 3

Fantastic books, if you enjoyed the movie you will enjoy the book(s) even more.

-Zaj

[elric]

This might be an obvious answer for me, but Michael Moorcock's series The Elric Saga is an excellent fantasy series. The entire Eternal Champion line from Michael Moorcock is a good read.

If you're a fan of Sci-fi I'd recommend Frank Herbert's Dune series...all of them are excellent books...his son Brian Herbert put out a few prequels which are also a good read.

[Dragonthorne]

Finished Sword of Truth and I was pleased with it.

I actually need to read more. Always wanted to read Wheel of Time series, but haven't been able to find any copies.

[PRWraith]

The Wheel of time is good but for me it runs into the problem of to many books.

[thez]

Yeah, DT -- I was surprised by how well he finished the series, as the past couple of books before the last one hadn't really been that good for me.

The list *is* long, but Wheel of Time is on there somewhere =p

I tend to think of HDM as more of children's books, but those are great books as well.

Will look into Moorcook.

[Anthrax]

Check out David and/or Leigh Eddings, he has a great series revolving around a character named Belgarion.

Also would check out Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon line with the character Takeshi Kovacs. Really enjoyed these books.

[thez]

Completely forgot about Richard Morgan -- loved all of the Kovacks books, and Market Forces completely blew me away.

Guess we can also add Gibson's Neuromancer on there, too.

I've heard the name Belgarion brought up before, and will also look into that!