[OT] What do hearthlings read?

[ThirdEmperor]

I am a huge fan of Pratchett. But then again, who isn't?

Anyone who disagrees with this gets 3 feet of cold steel.

[Blxz]

I am a huge fan of Pratchett. But then again, who isn't?

Anyone who disagrees with this gets 3 feet of cold steel.

Never really been a huge fan. does tht mean you wanna kill me now?

Have to agree with the trav on the Peter Hamilton author though. His books for me take a lot of effort to get into but after the first 500 pages or so the remaining few thousand have me riverted to the book.

[theTrav]

Fantasy:
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman - Darksword Trilogy
Janny Wurts (Feist Collaborated, but fuck him he's a hack) - The Empire series


More sci fi:
Scott orson card - Enders game (ignore the rest of his books, they're fairly average)
Lois McMaster Bujold - The Warrior's Apprentice (awesome cheese series, I've read a whole bunch of these books and would recommend any of them)
Vernor Vinge - fire upon the deep (coolest aliens I've seen yet, ROBO PLANTS!)

[ThirdEmperor]

@Blxz: Yes, yes it does

[sabinati]

Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

i liked the dragonlance series when i read then 15 or so years ago

[theTrav]

Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

i liked the dragonlance series when i read then 15 or so years ago

Yeah, I was a dragon lance fan when I was young too, didn't pay attention to authors back then though, so I wasn't aware it was the same authors.

I'm only about a quater of the way in on the first darksword book, but so far it's proving pretty interesting in terms of the society and universe they've created. Quite different to generic Tolkien high fantasy.


Oh FUCK almost forgot!

Sci Fi: David Wingrove - Chung Kuo
Great set of books, I was disappointed by the last one, but even it was worth the time I spent reading it.

Fantasy: George R. R. Martin - A Song of Fire and Ice (saga)
Awesome sex, violence, battles, political intrigue. Pretty low fantasy

[Onionfighter]

Stuff I liked off the top of my head:

classics:
Camus, Hesse, Kafka, Poe

fantasy:
Tolkien, George R.R. Martin, Pratchett, Mervyn Peake (I have noticed multiple Gormenghast references in Pratchett's books), Sergey Lukyanenko

science fiction:
Neal Stephenson, Phillip K. Dick, Margaret Atwood, William Gibson, Dan Simmons

nonfiction:
Oliver Sacks

I am currently reading the Prince of Nothing series, suggested by Niltrias, actually. Most of the people I listed I have read multiple books of theirs.

There's also a long list of books or authors I have been meaning to read.

[burgingham]

There's also a long list of books or authors I have been meaning to read.

...and the list grows longer and longer. Also, Kafka!

[Gauteamus]

Ok, remember, you asked for it.
This list is not a compilation of my all-time favourite reads, rather the volumes (uncensored, in no particular order) I found in heaps on my night-table today, not necessarily meaning it is what I read, but at least what I skimmed through, tried to understand, failed to complete, dreamed of finishing, read over and over, used as sleep medicine or pillow the last couple of months.

Miguel de Unamuno: Saint Emmanuel the Good, Martyr
Bill Bryson: A short history of nearly everything
Sigrid Undset: Caterina of Siena
John Steinbeck: Tortilla Flat
Isaac Asimov: On numbers
Simon Singh: Fermat's last theorem
V.S. Naipaul: Among the believers
Homer: Illiad
Frank Thiess: Tsushima
Thomas Mann: Joseph and his brothers pt. I
Niels Chr. Geelmuyden: Kjempers ødeland (norwegian essayist, highly recommended, need to learn norwegian first)
John Steinbeck: Travels with Charley
Frank Herbert: Dune
Johan Falkberget: An-Magritt
Simon Sebag Montefiore: Young Stalin
Michel Focault: The order of things
Carl Grimberg: couple of volumes of his european history.
General Heinz Guderian: Panzer Leader
Andre Bjerke: collected novels
William Golding: Lord of the Flies
Nina Karin Monsen: Inntrengere
Manfred Spitzer: Geist im Netz
Murray and Dermott: Solar system dynamics
Royston Roberts: Serendipity: Accidental discoveries in science
Holy Bible, norwegian 1930 translation

[Onionfighter]

Oh, I had forgotten Steinbeck.

I remember enjoying Asimov's "Atom: Journey Across the Subatomic Cosmos" much more than "A Brief History of Time". I compare them because I read them in the same time period.

Did anyone else find the Iliad completely boring?