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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 Playing:SWG |
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Try the Dune series, it's a Sci-Fi and Fantasy blend, and moderate in length.  "As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call
a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly." -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) |
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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.
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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
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The Myst novels are good, written by David Wingrove.
Also was released as an all in one in 2004. |
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100 Jolts by Michael A. Arnzen 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. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2if5GYXOGyo |
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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. Hold on Snow Leopard, imma let you finish, but Windows had one of the best operating systems of all time. If the Powerball lottery was like Lotro, nobody would win for 2 years, and then everyone in Nebraska would win on the same day. AMD 4800 2.4ghz-3GB RAM 533mhz-EVGA 9500GT 512mb-320gb HD |
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Twilight! OK, just kidding. Seriously, don't read that. I mean it. Don't do that to yourself. |
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Murais
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Joined: 7/06/04
Love is benevolent evil. It is the sweet plague that devours reason, leaving euphoria in its place. |
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. |
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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.
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Piers Anthony books on Barnes and Noble.
"You know, you have such a stunningly superficial knowledge of what went on that it's almost embarrassing to listen to you." Zbigniew Brzezinski to Joe Scarborough regarding Clinton and the Middle East on the "Morning Joe" program. |
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I personally like the discworld series. Interesting characters and lots of humor. |
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Look up the following, it's by Tad Williams: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn Book I: The Dragonbone Chair Also, the series Incarnations of Immortality by Piers Anthony is really good: Book I: On a Pale Horse -- |
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Anything by Terry Brooks |
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Astropuyo
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Joined: 1/30/07
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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.
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For fantasy the Gormenghast novels by Mervyn Peake. Titus Groan (1946) |
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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. -- |
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Rikimaru_X
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Joined: 6/06/04
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Originally posted by aeroplane22
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.
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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 |
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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.
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You may also like The Abhorsen Trilogy (aka Old Kingdom Series) by Garth Nix: Book I: Sabriel -- |
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Originally posted by SgtFrog
Read in this order:
The genius himself, Isaac Asimov
The mule character from the Foundation Series |
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Oh, and the Foundation series, if you want to read it properly, should be read in EXACTLY the following order as they are more or less all related (the following can be found in its complete form at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series):
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Godliest
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Joined: 11/26/06
"There''s a time and a place for everything, and it''s called college." - Chef |
Those are the series that aren't 100% fantasy, or where the fantasy world is not the most important part of the book. I didn't mention The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy simply because I assume that you've already read it. If you want fantasy you could otherwise check out Nick Perumov for some dark stuff, if you would enjoy some historical semi-fantasy books then Naomi Novik (Temeraire) or Susanne Clark (Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell) can both be recommended.
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Originally posted by mlauzon
It's really not a series that works well with live action. The setting and characters are so strange that only stop motion or computer animation would work. |
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