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Offline Andreas

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I guess I still haven't asked this :D So what are your favorite books (fiction)? And as for me, I just simply love Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and R.L.Stevenson's Treasure Island.
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Offline Rictor

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All of Tolkien's books and The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.
and some assorted children's books that bring back fond memories.

 

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LOTR - Tolkien
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant - Stephen Donaldson
Coldheart Canyon - Clive Barker
Weaveworld - Clive Barker
Imajica - Clive Barker
The Faded Sun Trilogy - C J Cherryh
Once - Jame Herbert
The Shannara series - Terry Brooks
All Dicworld stuff - Terry Pratchett (Genius)
Black House - Stephen King/Peter Straub
Dune - Frank Herbert
Gai-Jin - James Clavell
The Choirboys - Joseph Wambaugh
Mirror - Graham Masterton
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Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
First Evidence by Ken Goddard
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The Sword of the truth series by Terry Goodkind
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Runelords series by David Farland, great stuff.
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Offline aldo_14

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Hitchhikers Guide (the big 4 book trilogy-in the onebook- version, but especially ), 1984 (for ideas rather than entertainment value), Calvin & Hobbes "It's a magical world" (sentimental reasons; it's the lastbook I have from what could be considered childhood - i.e. just about the point where before life stopped being all about fun - and also because it;s the last one ever as well.)

 

Offline diamondgeezer

Anything marked 'Tolkien'
Narnia series (Lewis)
Discworld series (Pratchett)
Amtrak (Tiley)
War of the Worlds (Wells)
Gormenghast (Peake)

 

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Gormenghast rocked on TV!

I have to add that to my book list now....
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Offline Janos

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Birds of Europe.
lol wtf

 

Offline redsniper

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Star Wars: X-wing books by Michael Stackpole and Aaron Allston
Eragon by... someone
Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
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Offline Aspa

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Perdido Street Station and The Scar by China Mieville.

 

Offline Rictor

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Originally posted by aldo_14
Hitchhikers Guide (the big 4 book trilogy-in the onebook- version, but especially ), 1984 (for ideas rather than entertainment value), Calvin & Hobbes "It's a magical world" (sentimental reasons; it's the lastbook I have from what could be considered childhood - i.e. just about the point where before life stopped being all about fun - and also because it;s the last one ever as well.)


"A trilogy in five parts."

Thats the omnibus edition that I have.

 

Offline Zarax

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Dune
1984
The Road Ahead
Animal Factory
most stuff by Tom Clancy (although the recent one is getting too politically driven)
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Great Expectations
The Phantom Menace
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The New jedi Order series from the expanded Star Wars universe
And All the star wars books from Timothy Zhan

 

Offline NGTM-1R

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Star Wars: Heir to the Empire trilogy, Spectre of the Past and Vision of the Future (Timothy Zahn), all of the X-Wing books save Isard's Revenge (Micheal A. Stackpole and Aaron Allston), I, Jedi (Stackpole again).

BattleTech: Anything. Everything. But to hell with MechWarrior: Dorkage...I mean, Dark Age.

Most Tom Clancy, but particularly Red Storm Rising, and Patriot Games.

The Starfist series, by David Sherman and Dan Craigg.

Anything by Dick Francis. Haven't read a book of his I haven't liked.

The Berserker series, by Fred Saberhagen, with the exception of Berserker Fury. (Which is a thinly disguised recounting of the Battle of Midway with a crap extra plotline thrown in.)
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