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The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan...i always like teh personal 1v1 fights in fantasy writing...and i like the style he puts them in.

 

The Pearl Saga by Eric Van Lustbader
The Rigante Series by David A. Gemmel
Anything by Anne Rice besides her earlier works on erotic fiction(left me with a headache and a totally twisted view on The Sleeping Beauty)
Many and many of Salvatores books!

 

Servant of the Shard can race with any fantasy book!
Entreri and Jarlaxle forever!
(found Artemis Entreri fan club)

 

Beside fantasy I like most of all "Catch 22", "Picture this", "Good as Gold" - almost everything of Joseph Heller...

The last think I read beside fantasy was "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck. It was magnificent book... Just magnificent... It almost made me cry

 

Lord of the Rings. Period.

It was after all voted Book of the Century

 

LoTR of course.

Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons.

Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein.

Strangers in a Strange Land by Heinlein.

JOB: A Comedy of Justice by Heinlein.

A Song of Ice and Fire by Geogre R.R. Martin.

Wheel of Time by Jordan, though I wish he would finish it!

And finally most of the Redwall book by Brian Jacques.

 

The first three Dune books, I think they're better than LOTR.

 

Not one book, but a serie. R.Jordan: "The Wheel of Time." Although the protagonist is a typical "Oh, she died! I guess I must now jump over a cliff! The misery!" -hero, the story is just too good to be passed. A pity that it has taken a turn to worse with the newest book.

 

Hmmm, definately one of the R.A. Salvatore books. I've only read parts of the series because my friend has the books and let's me borrow random ones. The Thousand Orcs might be my favorite, but I can't remember the name of the others I read.

 

Mine are the 2 first books of Terry Goodkind's "Sword of Truth"- series and maybe "The Riftwar Saga" By R.E. Feist...

It's really hard to just pick books like that, but right now i can't think of any other.

EDIT: I just remembered a book, reather two wich i loved, "Ogniem i Mieczem" - roughly translated it means With fire and Sword, it's written by a polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz

[ June 12, 2003, 20:41: Message edited by: Ameorn ]

 

Applying the criteria of "books that I re-read the most" as my definition of best, here's my top few favorites in no particular order:

Witch World Series - Andre Norton
Duncton Wood - William Horwood
Emergence - David R. Palmer
Warlock Series - Christopher Stasheff
Dune Series - Frank Herbert
Foundation Series - Isaac Asimov

 

Mission Earth books 1-10 - L Ron Hubbard

A Song of Ice & Fire - George R R Martin

The Sword of Shannara - Terry Brooks

A Darkness at Sethanon - Raymond E Feist

Hyperion saga - Dan Simmons

 

The Dig - Alan Dean Foster.

It struck me as a very odd book, and when you read through it the second time it all begins to make sense. I love the ending, though they do leave it a tad unclear.

Trivia:
Steven Spielberg wanted to make The Dig into a movie, but gave up the project, either because the costs were too high, or not enough interest, I don't know. But it was made into a computer game by LucasArts. That's actually how I got the book. My parents saw the game, it came with a copy of the novel it was based on, they knew I liked both computer games and reading, so they bought it for me.

 

The Lord of The Rings. I first read it way back when I was in grade two and have read it at least once a year ever since. It was what got me hooked on Fantasy novels which led to RPGs, computer games, movies etc. It is now twenty years, and eight seperate book reports for various English classes, later and I still love it.

I currently own my original boxset of paperbacks (which are falling apart), a large single volume 100th anniversary of Tolkien's birth edition, and the Easton Press leather bound set.

 

Can't really say for sure what the best I have ever read was, but the best I have read recently would have to be Survivor, by Chuck Palahniuk. Note that is also the author or Fight Club which by comparison is rather tame. Highly recommended to all. Lack of time is no excuse not to read it, you will finish it in one sitting. It's that good.

 

Ithink I said above the Silmarillion. I changed my mind. Now it is Gates of Fire. And I suggest all of you should read it.
It is about the Spartans who faught in Thermopyles.

 

Dante, Boccacio
Odysseia
Joyce: Ullyses
Herbert: Dune,...
Dick: Scanner Darkly, Do Androids Dream of Eletric Sheep?
Gibson: Neuromancer
Tolkien: Lotr,...
LeGuin: Earthsea books
Sapkowski: Wiedzmin cycle and short stories
Vonnegut's books
Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye
Lem: Solaris
Strugackij bros: Stalker/Pycnic by the road
Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Golding: Lord of the Flies
Burghes: Clockwork Orange (how could I forgot, Alex's slang is simply great - EDIT)

P.S.: There are so many *great* books out there and so many of you put there Salvatore's easy reading (not that I did not like it, but...)

 

Despite the many sentiments that R.A. Salvatore's work is "easy" I never really thought it was any easier than things like the Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged or Lord of the Flies and Catcher in the Rye. I think it's one of those things that the more symbolism and theories a book has, the more difficult a book seems to people but in that case why don't they consider things like C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy really tough?

In any case my favorite book series is probably the Crimson Shadow Trilogy by R.A. Salvatore. I love the characters and plot to it! I also individually loved Servant of the Shard (another R.A. Salvatore book) he defintely needs to do a follow-up with what happens to Jarlaxle and Artemis though. And I want to know the history behind Entreri and why he's so untruting.

 

Go Ask Alice (love that book...well, diary)
Nightfall (Isaac Asminov)
The Hobbit (you all know)
The Fellowship of the Ring (planning on reading the second one soon)
Darwin's Black Box (Micheal Behe)
Dragon's of Autumn Twilight (Weis & Hickman)
Sphere (M. Crichton)
Contact (Carl Sagan)
The Princess Bride (Morgenstien but the abridged version)

 

My favorite(i dont really know which book is my fav so ill just say series) would be either wheel of time or the sword of truth, i can normally finish the first 2 of each series in a day, i get that hooked on em