Cool, I'll keep an eye out for that one.
Speaking of great Sci Fi, check out Peter F Hamilton!
Cool, I'll keep an eye out for that one.
Speaking of great Sci Fi, check out Peter F Hamilton!
I love crime and fanatsy books. Ofcourse the dark tower rank really high. But there is only one series I could count up there with the DT books. And it's the thrilogy about The Last Nightwarrior.
It's a series written by a norwegian writer, they are translated to English and German. I can truly recomend these books if you are looking for some books to read. Truly great books.
Read the eight first chapters of the book here:http://www.havnes.com/Translated/Eng...Chapter1.shtml You will not regret it!!
/Peace!
/You Suck!
This is really hard, well here goes...
1. The Dark Tower (all the books)
2. The Lord of The Rings
3. A Scanner Darkly - Philip K Dick
4. The Stand - Stephen King
5. Magician - Raymond E Fiest
6. The Vampire Lestat - Anne Rice
7. The Straw Men - Micheal Marshal Smith
8. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter Thompson
9. The Catcher in The Rye - J.D Salinger
10. High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
And what did you think of Fatal Revenant? (just finished it last week myself - good as he ever was!)Originally Posted by CPU
1. Dark Tower Series - Sai King
2. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
3. The Silmarillion - Tolkien
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series - Douglas Adams
5. The Stand - King
6. The Hero With a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell
7. Miles, the Autobiography - Miles Davis & Quincy Troupe
8. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Adams
9. The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
10. The Time Machine Did It - John Swartzwelder
That last one sounds like a good book, I may need to look it up.
<--loves time travel stories.
The kindness of close friends is like a warm blanket
In case you didn't recognize the author's name, Swartzwelder is one of the original writers for The Simpsons. His novels are hilarious! Very Douglas Adams-esque.
And what did you think of Fatal Revenant? (just finished it last week myself - good as he ever was!)
I wasn't aware Fatal Revenant was out yet! (scurries off to local book store...)
I know some people that didn't/don't like the Thomas Covenant books, but they've been some of my absolute favorites for more than 20 years now. The Gap series was also incredible in my opinion.
Thanks for the heads up on the 2nd book of the last Chronicles!
[1] OK - I'll give you a brief synopsis.....[1] I wasn't aware Fatal Revenant was out yet! (scurries off to local book store...)
[2] I know some people that didn't/don't like the Thomas Covenant books, but they've been some of my absolute favorites for more than 20 years now. The Gap series was also incredible in my opinion.
Thanks for the heads up on the 2nd book of the last Chronicles!)
[2] Brilliant series indeed - & I too have been hooked for over 20 years.
I only ever read 1st book of The Gap. Everyone says you have to go to the 2nd book to 'get' it - I ain't got that far yet!
Wow! Really?In case you didn't recognize the author's name, Swartzwelder is one of the original writers for The Simpsons. His novels are hilarious! Very Douglas Adams-esque.
I didn't recognize that. Makes it on the list for sure now. Thanks R of G
The kindness of close friends is like a warm blanket
you're solid gold // i'll see you in hell
I was suprised when I found out they were making a movie (aka - the Seeker) from the series. I always figured I was the only kid to have read those books back in the mid-70's
The Gap series is definitely different from anything else Steven R Donaldson had/has written. I went into it expecting Thomas Covenant in Space
Yeah, but sadly, it sounds like it's not going to be much like The Dark is Rising. I loved those books too much to go see them butchered by Hollywood. Apparently Cooper's disassociated her name from the movies, too, so if that's any indication.... yeah.
you're solid gold // i'll see you in hell
Crap, that's too bad. I hadn't heard about her not wanting to be tied to the movie(s). I'm sure my memories of the stories are probably a lot better than the movie would have been anyway
**bumpity bump**
1. the dk series - sk
2. imajica - cb
3. the stand - sk
4. desolation road - ian macdonald
5. lightening - dean k
6. odd thomas - dean k
7. the time travellers wife - audrey niffenegger
8. it - sk
9. the magic cottage - james herbert
10. weaveworld - cb
it was a tough choice to get it to 10, and i'm sure that if i review this in a month i wil have changed my mind!!
1 The Dark Tower Series- Stephen King (couldn't pick just one)
2 The Regulators- Richard Bachman
3 Whats eating Gilbert Grape?- Peter Hodges
4 The Children's War- JN Stroyer
5 The Great and Secret Show- Clive Barker
6 The Wasteland and other poems- TS Elliot
7 Necroscope (whole series)- Brian Lumley
8 The Silmarillian- JRR Tolkien
9 Choke- Chuck Palahniuk
10 Gasoline- Gregory Corso
if the worlds gonna end then let's get it over with, i got shit to do
Order, schmorder. Depends on my mood.
Dark Tower Series of course.
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
The Titan Series by John Varley
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy
Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove
Foundation series by Isaac Asimov
Clan of the Cave Bear series by Jane Auel
Mountains of Madness by HP Lovecraft
Conan by Robert E. Howard
Elric of Melnibone by Michael Moorcock
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Diffence Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
The Nightmare Years by William L. Shirer
The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
La Mort D'Arthur by Thomas Malory
The Uncanny Xmen, the Phoenix Saga by Chris Claremont
Oh. That's nineteen. Fancy that. Somewhere in there is a top ten list. And even that may change.
Top 10, huh? I'll limit King to only 3 spots so he doesn't Bogart my list.
The Stand (I think this will always be #1)
Wizard & Glass
'Salem's Lot
As for the rest:
Re-Birth (aka The Chrysallids) -- Wyndham
Starship Troopers (Heinlein)
Crime and Punishment (Dostoeskvy)
The Bonfire of the Vanities (Wolfe) -- probably will always be either #2 or # 3
Memoirs of a Geisha (Golden) -- no matter what, this will always be in my top 5. Absolutey compelling story.
The Stars My Destination (Bester)
King Lear (ok, it's a play not a novel, but Shakespeare has to make an appearance--he writes so well and is tapped into human nature to an extent that will never be matched, although King at his best comes close)
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