I need a good long book to read, must be sci-fi or fantasy :D....id prefer sci-fi i have not read any sci-fi in  a long time.

my top three authors are

Raymond E fiest

Ian M banks

David Gemmell

So recomend me something :D

Try the Dune series, it's a Sci-Fi and Fantasy blend, and moderate in length.

You should treat yourself and read the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov.  You can then proceed to I, ROBOT (nothing like the movie) and then read the Robot series and then finish with the Foundation series. 

EDIT:  Yup.  Dune is excellent as well.

I’ve read Dune, who hasn’t read dune :p it’s a great read.

I’ve looked up the Foundation series, read a little about it..sounds pretty epic :D..lets hope my book store has it hehe

iv read I Robot a few years ago, around the same time the movie came out. it was pretty decent book

The Myst novels are good, written by David Wingrove.

• The Book of Atrus (1995)
• The Book of Ti'ana (1996)
• The Book of D'ni (1997)

Also was released as an all in one in 2004.

100 Jolts by Michael A. Arnzen

Wormwood by Poppy Z. Brite

The Straw Men by Michael Marshall

In Darkness Waiting by John Shirley

Voices From The Street by Philip K. Dick

And that should keep you occupied for a while....

As well as sleepless.

Oh!! and I almost forgot:

Oryx and Crake by Margret Atwood

Yeah, it definitely has an anti-male slant, but it's still a good distopian read.

Ive been reading the Legend of Drizzit series after having a read another trilogoy with him in it. You can pick up the first 3 books in a single paper back or hardback. They are all pretty dam good and involve a lot of character building which I really like.

Twilight!

OK, just kidding. Seriously, don't read that. I mean it. Don't do that to yourself.

American Gods - Neil Gaiman

Excellent book set in the modern day, with a LOT of elements of mythology involved (In an active role, not from a history book perspective. There's a rather hot and heavy scene when the main character encounters Bast.), from cultures all over the globe, and deep roots in philosophy. I'm about 3/4 of the way through right now, and it is already quickly becoming my new favorite book, dethroning even American Psycho.

Check it out. I think you'll enjoy it considerably.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyote_-_Allen_Steele

Coyote by Allen Steele

Part of an original trilogy with the next two books being:

Coyote Rising

and Coyote Frontier

Takes place initially about 60 years in the future with the theft of Earth's first true Starship then 200-300 years of traveling through space while in suspended animation to reach the first new habitable planet where the new colonists have to first survive, then explore, and ultimately fight a Revolution of sorts.

I'm on the 4th book outside the trilogy that takes place entirely on a starship. Great Sci-fi all around.

There are 2 more books in the same "Universe" including a new Coyote book so plenty to read.

I'll throw out some quick advice though. This book has some negative comments on Amazon because the author starts the story in a new Country formed when the United States broke up into smaller countries. This particular country is made up of Southern States and was formed by Conservatives. A lot of the major buildings and Spaceports are now named after famous Republicans like Newt Gingrich whom you are to assume plays a bigger hand in our future history(I believe the book was written around the mid 90s right after Gingrich helped Republicans take back Congress). This wouldn't be a big deal except that the government is sort of fascist, though still Democratic, and has prisons where "Dissident Intellectuals" are rounded up and kept. However, if these overly-sensitive delicate readers had actually finished the first few chapters they would have realized that the more modern politics completely stopped, the main character is named Robert E. Lee, and that the ultimate bad guys end up being Socialists.

I read completely through Card's "Empire" without trashing it online, yet these people admit to tossing the book after the first chapter and still bash it and give it negative reviews.

Piers Anthony books on Barnes and Noble.

The Immortal books are good and more thought provoking, while the Xanth series is more lighthearted and funny.

I personally like the discworld series. Interesting characters and lots of humor.

Look up the following, it's by Tad Williams:

Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn

Book I: The Dragonbone Chair
Book II: Stone of Farewell
Book III: To Green Angel Tower (in paperback, this book is spilt into two separate books: part 1 & part 2; in hardcover it's one book).

Also, the series Incarnations of Immortality by Piers Anthony is really good:

Book I: On a Pale Horse
Book II: Bearing an Hourglass
Book III: With a Tangled Skein
Book IV: Wielding a Red Sword
Book V: Being a Green Mother
Book VI: For Love of Evil
Book VII: And Eternity
Book VIII: Under a Velvet Cloak (I just found out about this one a few minutes ago, will have to track down a copy)

Anything by Terry Brooks

Try "Wizards 1st rule".

If you've seen the craptastic show "Legend of the seeker " then you get the premise.

Needless to say though the book is quite epic and the series spans into so many more books.

It's like a endless epic sauce.

For fantasy the Gormenghast novels by Mervyn Peake.

Titus Groan (1946)
Gormenghast (1950)
Titus Alone (1959)

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Originally posted by Wickersham
For fantasy the Gormenghast novels by Mervyn Peake.
Titus Groan (1946)
Gormenghast (1950)
Titus Alone (1959)

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I read that series a few years ago, the miniseries didn't do it justice, and I think they need to find someone to write a fourth book to tie up the loose ends.

Originally posted by aeroplane22

Try the Dune series, it's a Sci-Fi and Fantasy blend, and moderate in length.

I still have Dune 3000 for playstation. That game was weird and I never herd of Dune till I played that game, then I think there was a movie. I saw that and it was weird too. 

you should read the Enchanted Forest Chronicles. I read two books out of that, Calling on Dragons and Talking to Dragons. I read it in high school so I thought the book was very interesting and it was one of the first books that caught my eye. The old book illustrations are cool too. I think the newer ones are cartoonish (trying to get the harry potter crowd to read I bet).

Also If you like (the story behind) Dynasty Warriors or Romance of the Three Kingdoms...you should read Romance of the Three Kingdoms. I have THIS. It's worth the read and I'm still not done with the book, but it's great.

gemmel and feist are both heroic fantasy, in that vein i would suggest Steven Erickson's Malazan books of the fallen starting with "Gardens of the Moon"

for scifi, i would say
"Altered Carbon" by Richard Morgan
"Brightness Reef" by David Brin
"Glasshouse" by Charles Stross

You might enjoy Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser by Fritz Lieber. Also, the Conan books by Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague Decamp are classics.If you're in the mood for soomething about an anti-hero you can read Elric of Melnibone if you haven't read those yet.

A nice reading list can always be found by looking at Hugo and Nebula award winners.

A long time ago a friend of mine made the comment that i must really like Hugo and Nebula award winning authors. I said "What's that?" He explained the awards, and then pointed out that almost everything in my collection had won either a Hugo or Nebula, which I hadn't noticed.