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The wind knocked out our power for the last 27 hours and I was sitting there in the dark , holding a flashlight reading this boring book when I got an idea for a forum Post.

This post is to share your favorite books you have read. The reason: It’s hard to find a good read these days and you can’t judge a book by it’s cover.



Favorite Series:

Battletech 1 - 40

Bolos 1 – 8


Favorite Author: ..........Whilliam H. Keith, Jr.


Favorite Read: ............ Action Science Fiction.


List 1-5 of your favorite books you’ve read.

(1) Armor ............ .............Author..................John Steakley

(2) Enders Game ...............Author ................Orson Scott Card

(3) In Death Ground..........Author................David Weber, Steve White

(4) Bolos Book 1................Author...............Whilliam H. Keith, Jr.

(5) Warstrider .................Author...............Whilliam H. Keith, Jr.

(6) Path Of Fury ...............Author...............David Weber





Falker

1) The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (for those that haven't read it, i strongly suggest you do) by Tolkien.
2) The Mallorean and the Belgariad by David Eddings (2 series of about 4-6 books each)
3)The Riftwar and Serpent War Sagas by Raymond E. Feist (again, 2 related but distinct series of about 4-6 books each)
4) The Tales of the Drenai and the Tales of the Rigante by David Gemmel (yup, u guessed it, more series)
5) The Star Wars novels, esp the ones set after the films....there are hundreds of these

I would recommend all of these books to anyone who loves sci-fi/fantasy books.

Also, if you can get them, read some of the Games Workshop novels (u know Games Workshop, the little miniature figure things). The ones I'd recommend are the Gaunt's Ghosts series (about a specialist covert recon infantry unit), the Eisenhorn trilogy (about a guy in charge of rooting out aliens and heretics), and the Space Wolf trilogy (about a Space Marine, which is an 8 ft tall genetically enhanced bloke )

Favorite books read. Wow some have been really really good.
The dragonriders of Pern Series by Anne McCaffrey
Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard.
There's also another series by hubbard that is a 10 or 12 book series that is really good as well. Sorry I dont remember the name of the series.
The left behind series by tim lahaye and jerry jenkins.
Golly theres some many its hard to remember them all.

Since ive never read any Btech, mine is just your ordinary stuff.

Midnight Express - Yank guy caught with dope in Turkey, spends time in jail then escapes. The film is good, the book is 20 times better. True story also which makes it even better again.

Any book by Carlos Castaneda. He wrote a series of books (12 i think) about his life with a Yaqui Indian 'sorcerer' in the Sonoran desert, Mexico. Well worth reading, but start from the first and work your way up, it will make sense that way ;)

Glas

1)All the books in the Drizzt saga by R.A. Salvatore(Advance D&D)
2)"Gates of Fire" by Steven Pressfield
3)Most BT novels especialy those by Mike Stackpole(the new Ghost War is really good IMO)
4)"Proud Legions" By John Antal
5)"The Legion of the Damned" series by William C. Dietz
6)The Robotech novels by Jack McKinney

Many others but those are my fav

:rockin:

Lotta good stuff mentioned already. Lord of the Rings tops my list of all time favorites. Here are a few others, in no particular order:

Dracula by Bram Stoker. All movie Draculas are buffoons and wimps!

The Silver Metal Lover by Tanith Lee. Can a machine have a soul?

Illuminatus! by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea. A fnord non-linear novel full of drugs, sex, and rock and roll.

The Dunwich Horror and Others, At the Mountains of Madness, and Dagon and Other Macabre Tales by H.P. Lovecraft. There's no escaping Lovecraft's influence on the modern Horror genre, but for some, the scariest thing about his writing is... his writing! Great way, though, to expand yer vocabulary.

The Beast Master (and it's sequel, Lord of Thunder) by Andre Norton. Yes, the movies and the TV series really are based on this 'old school' science fiction novel... more or less... but someone managed to overlook the fact that the protagonist is supposed to be a Navajo named Hosteen Storm who was a Galactic Commando in an interstellar war which ended shortly after Earth was destroyed by the alien Xik. Storm takes his team of genetically-engineered animals with him to the planet Arzor, where he gets a job as a ranch hand. But he's really there to kill a man - the man he believes murdered his parents...

Series:

A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin. Epic fantasy that manages to avoid being yet another LoTR variant. Interesting characters doing interesting things in a well-crafted and (you guessed it) interesting fictional world.

Wild Cards - by various authors, edited by George R.R. Martin. What if some people really did have 'super powers'? Battletech author Victor Milan contributed several good stories to this series.

Bard (and it's three sequels) by Keith Taylor. A magical blend of fact and fiction, history and myth. Out of print, I think, which is a shame.

And of course, the Battletech books. Some are really good, some are really bad, some just kinda 'are'. I like Stackpole's Battletech work, but I tried to read some of his non-Battletech stuff and didn't like it at all.


TD

well lets see


book series

Hammers Slammers, by D Drake
The Casca Series, by the late Berry Sadler
BT novals. various authors.
The Helmsmen, by J Baldwin


Team Yankee
The 10,000 by Robert Coyal
The Adromina Strain

Well, some have been mentioend...

Hammers Slammers series
Bolo series
Armor
Starship Troopers
Battlefield Earth
Wheel of Time series
anything Tolkein (even the Silmarillion)
Death Dealer series
Robotech/Sentinels/etc series
Team Yankee
Dune series
Asterix ;)
Star Wars series
many reference books (hehe! - marine and freshwater biotopes, advanced sailing, advanced racing (sailing) tactics, and my favorite for nodding off - my pilot's reference set from Jeppesen)

I am sure there are many more...

I've seen Starship Troopers (Robert Heinlein) come up a few times, out of interest has anyone read any of his other books (I have them all) and if so which do you think is his best.

IMHO It's a toss-up between "To Sail beyond the Sunset" and "Stranger in a Strange Land"

My Favourites:

Wizard of Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula K Guin

Nights Dawn Series by Peter Hamilton

The Mote in Gods Eye and The Moat around Murchesons eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

Most of Heinleins and Raymond E Feists books along with David Gemmel for some light entertainment.

I'm currently reading the "Malazan Book of the Fallen" Series by Steven Erikson which is also quite good.

I spend three hours a day on trains so I tend to read alot.


Malin

Great Topic, here are some of my favorite books and series (some are not fiction but hell they are in my book shelf and I tend to re-read books alot)

the CBT books (all but the 1st one) up to the DA stuff. I cant seem to get into the DA concept.

All the CBT source books, field manuels, scenario modules.

Tolkin series (wonderful books that I really need to re-read someday)

Any of the books by Tom Clancy (reading "Into the Storm" right now about Gen. Franks and his leading the VII corp into Iraq)

The lonely girl/housewife/widow/divorcee next door series - Anyomous

Any of the books by Stephen E. Ambrose:
Citizen Soldiers
Band of Brothers
Pegasas Bridge
Americans at War
The Good Fight
Custer and Crazy Horse
D-Day

The Corps Series - W.E.B. Griffen
The Brotherhood of War Series - W.E.B. Griffen

Other books I use for reference and reading enjoyment:

Thud Ridge - Broughton (outside Hanoi, named this because so many F-105's were shot down there)
11 Days of Christmas - Marshall (Bombing Hanoi at Christmas '72 where my father was B-52 Mission Commander)
Proud American - Joe Foss (great book and wonderful guy)
Top Guns - Joe Foss (great book)
Jolly Rogers - Blackburn (Fighting 17)
Samuri - Saburo Sakai and Fred Saito (Sakai is one of Japans leading aces that survived the war)
Zero - Masatake Okumiya
Midway: the battle that cost Japan the war - Mitsuo Fuchida and Masatke Okumiya (Fuchida planed the Peral Harbor Raid)
Fire in the Sky: The Pacific Air War - Eric Bergerud
The Art of the Manuver - cant remember
Art of War - Tsun Tzu
Hot Zone - (this book scared the hell out of me, written by 2 K-Staters that worked at the CDC)
Currahee! - Donald Burgett
Devils in Baggy Pants - (British 1st Airborne<I think> Read when I was in H.S. and have never seen since, long out of print)
The Killer Angels - M. Shaara
Pickett's Charge - cant remember the author but I think it was published back in the 60's
The 13th Valley - cant remember
The Fire Dream - cant remember

Hmmm...I forgot one that has always stuck in my mind.

Have any of you read Watership Down???

Buffalo Six wrote:Any of the books by Tom Clancy (reading "Into the Storm" right now about Gen. Franks and his leading the VII corp into Iraq)

That would be an interesting read. Ive been reading a site recently, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/oral/ which gives different accounts of Desert Storm, from the likes of Powell, Schwarzkopf, Cheney etc. In it, Schwarzkopf does alot of complaining about the VII corp that they took too long to move forward and left the Marines flank unguarded, claiming he had no idea what was causing the hold up for them (he even indicated that he was being lied to by different people....i got the impression Schwarzkopf was not trusted as much by Washington as i had first thought). I wouldnt mind hearing what Gen. Franks take on the situation was.

Glas

Steel wrote:Hmmm...I forgot one that has always stuck in my mind.

Have any of you read Watership Down???

Yep! Good one.

TD

Was that the one with the fluffy bunny rabbit on the cover?

I decided to add a few more too : )


(5) Warstrider .................Author...............Whilliam H. Keith, Jr.

(6) Path Of Fury ...............Author...............David Weber



Good turn out. I saw some good ones there ,… I’m going to check them out for sure : )
There’s also some other ones posted I’ll be looking for when I decided to read something other than Science Fiction. Thinking I might Take Beo up on the offer and start reading Aubrey - Maturin series by Patrick O'Brien. There's a few more I've read that are really good too but I can't think of the name , it was so long ago. Warstrider and Path of fury are good books also . Not as good a the previous 4 but a good read none the less. I didn't want to misslead any one here so I only posted what I thought were the best ones.


Book It !


Falker

The Art of War Sun Tzu
BT novels later ones missed the earlier one read last 25 or so the others are out of print.

Star Wars X-wing series

Star Wars series

That's all I can think of right now.

here is a few from my recent lists

--the PERN series by Anne McCaffrey :is a good one. im on her last book for the whole series as i write this.
-- Crystal singers series by Anne above here is also a decent story 3 books total in this series.

--The Dark Sword Trilogy By Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.

Some realy good SciFi books are done by Peter F. Hamilton:
--The Naked God pt. 1 and 2.

-- Of course any Stephen King books

Dean Koontz wrote some good books i have read.
--Shattered
--Whispers
--Watchers

One of my faverate Authores is by far Piers Anthony and he wrote two series that i enjoyed quite alot they were:
-- The Magic of Xanth Series.
-- The Apprentice Adept Series.

--Aquamancer by Don Callander is also a fairly good story.

Now one of the best stories ive read and you can find it in both story form and poetic form is by far:
--Dante's Inferno by Dante Alighieri
its can be a bit of a mind twister in poetic form but was a good read all the same

there is also a good series of books that i can recall the series name or the author and it deals with a guy and a robotic horse named Tess i believe. there is over 15 books in this series and im sure there is more by now. the story line is set in the future but also midevil times. if i happen to find one of the books around in my book boxes i will post the series and the author.

If you like to imagine Space Battles as much as I do , Then you’ll want to read up on this .



Finally David Webber came out with the sequel to In Death Grounds. ( which was Absolutely the best Space battle book I’ve Ever read. ) It’s one of those books that is very hard to put down .

Finally ! After all these years , .. David Weber and Steve White came out with the sequel to it back in August 2003 . The book Is titled….The Shiva Option…. About time is what I say : ) I’m about half way through it and find it to be another good read.. Now it’s pay back time for the TFN (Terran Federation Navy ) to take back what is rightfully theirs and put an end to the Bug infestation.


Falker

The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. I finally got around to reading it. Excellent. I don't know how he's going to top Volume IV, 'Wizard and Glass', but so far each book in the series has been better than the one before.

The 21 original Conan stories by Robert E. Howard. Conan was conceived and created by Robert E. Howard of Cross Plains, Texas. Howard saw 17 of his Conan stories published in the early to mid 1930s; most appeared in the pages of Weird Tales magazine. 4 others were published after his untimely and tragic suicide in 1936. Since then, it seems almost every fantasy author has tried his hand at a Conan tale, for better or for worse. Mostly worse. Legal squabbles have long kept the 21 originals from being published in their original form - but recently, Millenium of Great Britain published a two-volume set containing the 21 originals, in their original form, in chronological order. By Crom, you owe it to yourself to seek out this wondrous set, and at last discover the TRUE Conan of Cimmeria!

The War of the Worlds by HG Wells. First appearance of mecha? Heh. Well, there aren't any three-legged Battlemechs that I know of, but the gigantic, tripedal, heavily-armored, energy-beam equipped war machines used by the Martians in Mr Wells' classic war story are the literary ancestors, so to speak, of the Battlemechs we all know and love.

The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Michael Crichton paid homage to this wonderful novel (by the creator of Sherlock Holmes) by using the title for his sequel to Jurassic Park. Don't let the dreadful TV series (or the equally dreadful movie adaptions) dissuade you from reading the book. You know how Hollywood operates. The adaptions make use of some of the original character names, and the title, of course, and there are some dinosaurs in both, but that's where the similarities END.

Someone mentioned Robert A, Heinlein, author of 'Stranger in a Strange Land'. Great book. I recommend his 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress' as well.

TD

yea i been reading stephen kings Dark tower series as well. the first book was a bit dry, but hey he was 19 when he wrote it LOL. yea the 'wizard and Glass' book was good. right now im reading 'The wolves of the Calla' and its pretty good too. its kinda nice starting off where they left off before. there are some nasty suprises in this book so far and im half way threw. so now i got to finish so i can figure out what happened LOL. he supposed to be getting the book 6 out in early 2004 and finaly book 7 in late 2004 so next year might be a good year after all