Best Fiction Book Youve Ever Read

[Shogun]

The first book is wonderful - the rest go down hill quickly.

God Emperor of Dune is the second worst book I've ever endured (the worst being It by Stephen King).

Now, I don't get the Stephen King thing. What a horrible, repetitive writer.

You didn't like IT?

IT was his second best novel!

I would rather be forced to watch Kenneth Anger's "Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome" than to reread it.

Awful awful awful trite trite trite repetitive repetitive repetitive writing complete with creepy clowns, big spiders, and adolescent get in line sex.

BLEAH!!!!!!

hehehe yea.. they sure did forget to add that scene in the made for TV movie.

 

[Shogun]

Stand alone was; Of mice and men

series was; The Dark company. A series in which there were no good guys, just people that were not as bad as the other people.

Do you mean The Black company? if so, good call. If not, my bad.

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[California Girl]

Neuromancer - William Gibson
Cathedral- Nelson DeMille
Word of Honor- Nelson DeMille
Jack Reacher Novels- Lee Child
Dune- naturally...
Congo- Michael Cricthon
The Fool's Run- John Sanford

I'd agree with all those, and add:

Anything by Tom Clancy
Anything by Vince Flynn

 

[Immanuel]

Neuromancer - William Gibson
Cathedral- Nelson DeMille
Word of Honor- Nelson DeMille
Jack Reacher Novels- Lee Child
Dune- naturally...
Congo- Michael Cricthon
The Fool's Run- John Sanford

I'd agree with all those, and add:

Anything by Tom Clancy
Anything by Vince Flynn

Cathedral was excellent.

Tom Clancy got old as far as I was concerned. Some of his later writings just seemed to be much of the same ole thing, but his earlier writings were "can't put them down" fantastic.

Immie

 

[California Girl]

A Prayer for Owen Meany is a novel by American writer John Irving, first published in 1989. It tells the story of John Wheelwright and his best friend Owen Meany growing up together in a small New England town during the 1950-60s. Owen is a remarkable boy in many ways; he believes himself to be God's instrument and journeys on a truly extraordinary path.
The novel is also a homage to Günther Grass' most famous novel The Tin Drum. Grass was a great influence for John Irving, as well as a close friend.

The main characters of both novels, Owen Meany and Oskar Matzerath, share the same initials as well as some other characteristics, and the stories show some parallels too.[1] Irving confirmed this explicitly in interviews and articles.[2] "A Prayer for Owen Meany", however, is a completely independent story and in no sense a copy of "The Tin Drum".

I love that book.


Some of my favs:

- Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen (arguable the most perfect novel ever written)
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge (even better than A Fire Upon the Deep)
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Trilogy by Steig Larsson
- His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman
- Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
- The Mote in God's Eye by Niven and Pournelle
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin

Love Jane Austen. P&P is my fav of hers.... and one of my personal top 10 best books ever written.

 

[California Girl]

Neuromancer - William Gibson
Cathedral- Nelson DeMille
Word of Honor- Nelson DeMille
Jack Reacher Novels- Lee Child
Dune- naturally...
Congo- Michael Cricthon
The Fool's Run- John Sanford

I'd agree with all those, and add:

Anything by Tom Clancy
Anything by Vince Flynn

Cathedral was excellent.

Tom Clancy got old as far as I was concerned. Some of his later writings just seemed to be much of the same ole thing, but his earlier writings were "can't put them down" fantastic.

Immie

I think TC made a mistake (albeit a financially profitable one) by using ghostwriters for a his Op Centre stuff... but he's back on form (with Grant Blackwood) with Dead or Alive. No one does a plot line like Clancy.

 

[Trajan]

heck I remember one string of novels in the 70-80's that were must reads- robert ludlum....The osterman weekend, matlock paper, Gemini contenders, chancellor manuscript, the holcroft covenant, the materese circle, the Bourne Identity ( the very best), Parsifal mosaic……the Aquitaine progression lost me and though I tried he ran out of gas inho from there, but man I read everyone of those at least twice, excellent stuff…

 

[Intense]

Most of my favs are of the horror genre'
I listed them from favorite to second favorite, etc.

Swan Song by Robert McCammon (very similar to The Stand)and my favorite.
Wolfs Hour by Robert McCammon (guys will love this one as well. Go to amazon and read the reviews).
The Stand by S. King
All the Vamp books by Anne Rice
The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
Ushers Passing, Robert McCammon
Stinger, Robert McCammon
The Talisman, S. King & Peter Straub
The Black House, sequel to The talisman
Duma Key, S. King
From A Buick 8, S. King
The Witching Hour (and all spinoffs, like Lasher, Taltos, Etc) by Anne Rice
Green Darkness, Anna Seton (reincarnation)

Science Fiction???

 

[Grace]

For anyone that liked The Stand.....you GOTTA read Swan Song by Robert McCammon. Gotta. Its better, in my opinion.

 

[Intense]

In Truth I have read too many great Authors to pick and choose.

 

[WorldWatcher]

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Since this is Sci Fi - Protector by Larry Niven (and the whole Known Universe saga).



>>>>

 

[Grace]

Most of my favs are of the horror genre'
I listed them from favorite to second favorite, etc.

Swan Song by Robert McCammon (very similar to The Stand)and my favorite.
Wolfs Hour by Robert McCammon (guys will love this one as well. Go to amazon and read the reviews).
The Stand by S. King
All the Vamp books by Anne Rice
The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
Ushers Passing, Robert McCammon
Stinger, Robert McCammon
The Talisman, S. King & Peter Straub
The Black House, sequel to The talisman
Duma Key, S. King
From A Buick 8, S. King
The Witching Hour (and all spinoffs, like Lasher, Taltos, Etc) by Anne Rice
Green Darkness, Anna Seton (reincarnation)

Science Fiction???

Mixture of, plus horror.

 

[Immanuel]

Most of my favs are of the horror genre'
I listed them from favorite to second favorite, etc.

Swan Song by Robert McCammon (very similar to The Stand)and my favorite.
Wolfs Hour by Robert McCammon (guys will love this one as well. Go to amazon and read the reviews).
The Stand by S. King
All the Vamp books by Anne Rice
The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
Ushers Passing, Robert McCammon
Stinger, Robert McCammon
The Talisman, S. King & Peter Straub
The Black House, sequel to The talisman
Duma Key, S. King
From A Buick 8, S. King
The Witching Hour (and all spinoffs, like Lasher, Taltos, Etc) by Anne Rice
Green Darkness, Anna Seton (reincarnation)

Science Fiction???

No, it is art. The Art of Bullshit just like anything else coming from the lips of a politician.

Immie

 

[Phoenix]

Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan books.

My sibs had a bunch of those that I read several times. Excellent.

 

[Immanuel]

Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan books.

My sibs had a bunch of those that I read several times. Excellent.

I read all of them, but even better than his Tarzan books were The John Carter of Mars Series and the Pellicudar (Center Earth) Series.

Immie

 

[xsited1]

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[Shogun]

For anyone that liked The Stand.....you GOTTA read Swan Song by Robert McCammon. Gotta. Its better, in my opinion.

Robert McCammon has a great short story book called Blue World that is rather gnarly.

[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Blue-World-Robert-McCammon/dp/0671695185]Amazon.com: Blue World (9780671695187): Robert McCammon: Books[/ame]

 

[boedicca]

Yeah, nobody knows about it. What an ending, huh? Osak Larkas!

Hey! I know about...and I'm Somebody!

Yes you are.

Did you choke up a little while reading Osak's "preliminary report" at the end?

*sniff*

Yes!

Have you read The Dracula Tape?

 

[Grace]

Most of my favs are of the horror genre'
I listed them from favorite to second favorite, etc.

Swan Song by Robert McCammon (very similar to The Stand)and my favorite.
Wolfs Hour by Robert McCammon (guys will love this one as well. Go to amazon and read the reviews).
The Stand by S. King
All the Vamp books by Anne Rice
The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
Ushers Passing, Robert McCammon
Stinger, Robert McCammon
The Talisman, S. King & Peter Straub
The Black House, sequel to The talisman
Duma Key, S. King
From A Buick 8, S. King
The Witching Hour (and all spinoffs, like Lasher, Taltos, Etc) by Anne Rice
Green Darkness, Anna Seton (reincarnation)

Science Fiction???

No, it is art. The Art of Bullshit just like anything else coming from the lips of a politician.

Immie

Huh??

 

[jillian]

The Stand -- Stephen King
To Kill A Mockingbird -- Harper Lee
Atlas Shrugged -- Ayn Rand
The Red Tent -- Anita Diament
Lord of the Rings -- JRR Tolkien
The Once and Future King -- T.H. White