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what are your top ten most favorite books?

Mine are:

Forgotten Realms Series
Dragonlance Series
Planescape Series
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Any Feist Book
The Foundation Series
Any Tolkein Book
Any Kurt Vonnegut Book
Any Dale Adams Book
Red Dwarf

I like many others, these are just some that came to mind.

 

here are just a few of my favorites:

any Tolkien book, but mainly The Silmarillion, the Hobbit, and LOTR. the Dune series, all six books, and anything relating to Native American history, like Catlin's Letters and Notes on the North American Indians.


i just recieved all 8 books in the Chronicles of the Cheysuli series by Jennifer Roberson. i started reading book one in the series, Shapechangers, and it seems to be good. has anybody else read this series? just curious if its any good.

 

unfortunately i havn't.

 

my fave books are the dune series(anyone seen the film cuz i havent, what is it like), david gemmel and terry pratchett.

 

great sci-fi movie. If you can get it, GET IT.

 

oh yea, good movie, and if you are a Sting fan he's in this fine flick. i just wish it was a little longer, and went into a little more detail.

 

I completely agree, a great movie, but in terms of sci-fi there are better movies, namely :

Blade Runner
Any Mad Max
Max Headroom
The Man Who Saw Tomorrow
Nostradamus
Damnation Alley
The Day the Earth Stood Still
and of course, STAR WARS (other than phantom menace) there are some other movies as well, but I don't really care to name them, although Dune is a great movie.



[This message has been edited by The Fat Egg (edited October 22, 2000).]

 

'Dragonheart: The Book of the Film' is an excellent read.

 

Lord of the rings and the Wheel of Time.

Live yourself in them.

 

Wheel of Time, Tolkien, Serpent War saga, Rift War saga, Magic of Recluce...

I heard that a new Dune movie is in the works. I don't know when it's due out, but it's supposed to be the same old story with all new effects. And no, it's not going to be a super-charged Dune re-make either. It's supposed to be completely re-shot, new actors, new props, everything.

 

hang on ther Fat Egg, you saying that ANY of the Mad Max films are better than Dune? the first one, well that was a good film, but the cash-in stuff that followed? i mean Dune was like a sort of short trailer for the book, but Mad Max 3? your not a big fan of the whole Highlander series of films too are you?
must agree about the day the earth stood still though.
anyone seen 'Quatermass and the pit'?

 

Wheel of Time is an awesome series. Great depth, character development and multi-lined plots make this a very worth while read.

Syl...

 

I'm also going to have to disagree with you Egg man. The first Mad Max movie was good, Road Warrior was great, in my top ten list, but the third one lacked a whole lot. Dune is a great movie and in my opinion it doesn't need to be remade. As far as Highlander goes there is only one movie. It was one of the best movies ever. After that I'd rather not even talk about it.

 

sapiryl: scifi chan is doing a dune miniseries to be shown this december.

 

It's just gonna be a TV show? Blast, I thought it was going to be a movie.

But then, they turned Merlin into a movie after it was a TV show. I hope, I hope, I hope.

 

If any of you can read Spanish, I seriously recommend checking the Manga ' Berserk' out. It's in Japanese but so far has only been translated to Spanish and Chinese.
It's a true classic and one that will go down in Manga history as a legend.

 

A good series not mentioned:

The Death's Gate Cycle.

 

The Death's Gate Cycle was awesome. I hated that it had to end!

 

How about Tad Williams' books-the Dragonbone Chair trilogy? Excellent literature, and the entire series is one big plot twist. I didn't really care for Williams' other series Otherland. I think that was the name, anyway.