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[Psyco Jelly]

If you like sci-fi of any kind, then read Frank Herbert's Dune. I'm halfway into the series, and I love all of it.

[Alexhans]

Foundation trilogy by Isaac Asimov  (i know there's more but those 3 are good to start)

Any book by Robert Heinlein (Starship Troopers, Double star, Future history),Theodore Sturgeon, Isaac Asimov...

And theres so many others... Alfred Bester, Lester del Rey...

[codezero]

American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis , or if you prefer your sex scenes without violence then : The

Lunar Park doesn't have sex (IIRC) or violence, just references to being bisexual.

Yeh but it's not worth reading IMO. It's one of those novels where the only thing that redeems it is the end. Like House of Meetings (Amis) and Diary (Palahniuk).

[Jude]

Well, it's better than American Psycho, I didn't think that had ANY redeeming qualities.

[Heavy Flak]

Well, it's better than American Psycho, I didn't think that had ANY redeeming qualities.

Really?  American Psycho is one of my all-time favorite novels.  I thought it was hysterically funny, and a really critical look at the gluttony and excess and materialism of the 80's. 

[chaoticag]

Okay, I really have to recomend Lords and Ladies by terry pratchet.
"There are many recipies for [dwarven bread], but the common aim of all of them is to make a field ration that is long lasting, easily packed, and can disembowl the enemy if skimmed through the air hard enough."
Also, near the end there is a lot of iron and elficide.

[moocowmoo]

Right now I'm really enjoying Terry Pratchet's "Discworld" series. I second the recommendation for Asimov's "Foundation" trilogy and another outstanding trilogy is CS Friedman's "Coldfire" books. I liked Lord of The Rings a lot more than The Hobbit. Really liked the Silmarillion too, seems people either love or hate it.

[Mephisto]

Okay, I really have to recomend Lords and Ladies by terry pratchet.
"There are many recipies for [dwarven bread], but the common aim of all of them is to make a field ration that is long lasting, easily packed, and can disembowl the enemy if skimmed through the air hard enough."
Also, near the end there is a lot of iron and elficide.

It seems like our dwarves and those dwarves have a lot in common.

[kcwong]

I found a blog... the owner posted his thoughts on some translated Chinese novels he had read, and links to free fan-translations (some Jin Yong books and Romance of the Three Kingdoms).

http://jdiscar.blogspot.com/2006/11/jin-yongs-wuxia.html

[Flaede]

Okay, I really have to recomend Lords and Ladies by terry pratchet.
"There are many recipies for [dwarven bread], but the common aim of all of them is to make a field ration that is long lasting, easily packed, and can disembowl the enemy if skimmed through the air hard enough."
Also, near the end there is a lot of iron and elficide.

It seems like our dwarves and those dwarves have a lot in common.

Certain important ones, like the Scone of Throne, have also been stored for centuries... sound familiar?

[Samyotix]

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy is a great series. The last book is a bit of a downer ending, but I see it as him saying, "Fuck this, I'm done," which I would be too after writing four completely nonsensical books about the same character.

Oh, I've been meaning to get back to those... Although I hear that the downer ending was somewhat unintentional as I think he meant to get back to it but he died before that... So it's like... A double downer ending.

Not likely IMO.

1977 Douglas Adams has Simon Brett sign the contract for his radio series "Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
1978 The HHGTTG radio series broadcast for the first time
1979-1982 The radio series is heavily adapted and released as a book trilogy; all the material co-written for radio with John Lloyd was removed.
1984 After the three previous books became bestsellers, he added "So long and thanks for all the fish" which iirc is mostly a love novel.
1991 Doug Adams marries Jane Belson
1992 After the four previous books had become bestsellers he added the fifth book "Mostly harmless". By this time he was into environmentalism more than scifi.
1994 daughter Jane Adams born
1999 Adams moves to California to support the movie, which iirc fails at the box offices
2001 Douglas Adams dies

IMO the first three parts of Hitchhiker are one "thematic block", he later wrote a good addon to make money (So long and thanks for all the fish), and then another botched addon because he needed money (Mostly Harmless sucks).

[Osmosis Jones]

Echoing Tahin earlier in the thread, Feist's first 3 books (the riftwar saga, and I count the two magician books as one, as that's the only way I've ever found 'em) are brilliant. His rest is pretty damn good too.


Also, Robin Hobb. She's a brilliant author, just read her Assassin, Ship, and Tawny Man series (in that order).

[Wiles]

I've read a few books by Dean Koontz. Odd Thomas was decent, but I preferred his book "From the corner of his eye". Although I find that sometimes Dean Koontz tries too hard to be funny, either that or we have a very different sense of humour.

If I were to recommend an author it would have to be Neil Gaiman. I love his work, Anansi Boys is probably my favourite book. I've enjoyed every book of his that I have read. I often get tired of authors after several books, but I haven't had that problem with Gaiman. I even enjoy reading his children's books.

[Bromor Neckbeard]

I loathe Koontz.  From what I've read of his, it seems that he's pathologically incapable of writing a character whose morality differs from Koontz's own without making the character a pathetic hypocritical strawman.  But, oh well, that just means that you'll have less competition at the bookstore.

I read a lot of crime novels.  The Parker series by Donald Westlake writing as Richard Stark is consistently good.  Shane Stevens's Dead City is probably my favorite crime novel of all time.  Elmore Leonard's Swag is also pretty good.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

All of Terry Pratchett's books.
All of Robert Rankin's books
Ian. M. Banks is a damn good author as well. Oh, and buy Dune as well.