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[kilakan]

Gotta double up on  1984 by George Orwell, It's a excellent book, but not exciting by todays standards, but way deeper and it will really move you.
Also The Time Machine, and The invisible man by H. G. Wells both short, kind of tied together since they have the same slant, but excellent classics.  MORLOCKS!!!

[Nivim]

The Count of Monte Cristo

Fantastic book, and you'll probably still be reading it in a month.  Great value for your dollar there.  It's the finest revenge story ever written and the count is a total scheming badass.

I must second this; the whole series, actually. I was originally directed to it by a fantasy book series (The Khaavren Romances by Steven Brust) that made homage to its greatness.

[Vector]

. . .

There's a series?

[Enzo]

"Fantasy/Sci fi/Action/Adventure/Comedy" eh? I'll recommend two of my favourites which happen to fall nicely into those catagories:

American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Modern-day fantasy adventure, concerning gods and such. It's hard to express how much I loved this book. I had to put it down several times while reading because I was angry at how clever it was.

Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson. Cyberpunk classic, but a lighter tone and more humour than most cyberpunk. The only book I want to reread immediately after finishing it, every time I read it.

[Vector]

Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson. Cyberpunk classic, but a lighter tone and more humour than most cyberpunk. The only book I want to reread immediately after finishing it, every time I read it.

I'll add Cryptonomicon and Diamond Age to that list.

One of my math professors highly recommended the former, and the latter is just extremely good.  I own and love both of them.

[Nivim]

. . .

There's a series?

[Asks the internet.] Apparently not. It looks like my memory combined The Count of Monte Cristo and d'Artagnan into one contiguous plot tree, which the wikipage contradicts heavily. This hasn't happened in a long time, and I didn't think it would happen again. I'm sorry to have gotten your hopes up.

[Vector]

. . .

There's a series?

[Asks the internet.] Apparently not. It looks like my memory combined The Count of Monte Cristo and d'Artagnan into one contiguous plot tree, which the wikipage contradicts heavily. This hasn't happened in a long time, and I didn't think it would happen again. I'm sorry to have gotten your hopes up.

Mah D:

Well, that's okay.  Thanks for fact-checking yourself, and for reminding me about d'Artagnan.

[lemon10]

Perdido street station (good gritty bizzare steampunk world), and everything else by china mievelle (although i would recommend reading perdido street station first).
The year of our war (good bizzare fantasy, british though so it might be a bit hard to get in a bookstore)
The Lies of Locke Lamora (about a group of con artists in a medieval Venice like city, fantasy, excellent).
The Malazan Book of the Fallen, first book in the series is The Gardens of the Moon.
Wheel of time, first book in the series is The Eye of the World.
Name of the wind (excellent fantasy)
The Blade Itself
The Darkness That Comes Before
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (excellent and British)
Dresden Files (urban fantasy, love it, but lower quality (even if it is slightly more enjoyable) then most of the others on the list)
The Magicians
The Warded Man

Hm... looks like quite a list. Enjoyed all of them very much, and would recommend them to anyone that likes fantasy/high fantasy/steampunk.

[Kashyyk]

Looks like I'm sorted then! Thanks a lot, all of you

[Pandarsenic]

NO

YOU'RE FINISHED WHEN WE SAY YOU ARE

Another for Dresden Files, Perdido Street Station (and its sequels), and Snow Crash.

My unique contribution shall be House of Leaves and Neuromancer.

[Elim]

NO
YOU'RE FINISHED WHEN WE SAY YOU ARE

Yeah!

As for Sci-Fi,again...

Forever War
its great...really.
Book written by a Vietnam Vet, received many Awards, its from '75 i think.
You follow Mandella, through many Years of his Life, its mostly about Psychology and Change, and Time.
Imagine space traveling for a year, coming back to earth and you were 150 years away. Everyone you liked dead, but you are only a little bit older.

There will be a Movie, i think.
I hope someone stops it.

And sorry for my bad English, i hope its halfway understandable. *g*

[Willfor]

The Lies of Locke Lamora (about a group of con artists in a medieval Venice like city, fantasy, excellent).

I have to second this one. There is quite a lot magic, but it's done more in the conan-esque manner where the "hero" is often not the one using magic to his advantage. A good deal of magic anyone would come in contact with is alchemy -- which isn't perfect by any means -- and bondmages -- who have cornered the market on all non-alchemy magic by hunting down all other mages and making them offers they can't refuse.

It has some of the best dialogue I've come across in a fantasy book, and the characters have to overcome legitimate challenges over the course of the book. (and the series)

[Gorjo MacGrymm]

Fantasy - Stephen Ericson.  You will be blown away.  Elizabeth Moon - Deeds of Paksenarion, must read.

Sci-fi - I will always be a Ringo and Weber fan.  But for pure fun, Elizabeth Moon has some good fun fiction (two different series), or the "Starfist" series or "Orphans" series or "Clone" series....sorry, we find the authors next time, no time now.

[Sir Finkus]

. . .

There's a series?

[Asks the internet.] Apparently not. It looks like my memory combined The Count of Monte Cristo and d'Artagnan into one contiguous plot tree, which the wikipage contradicts heavily. This hasn't happened in a long time, and I didn't think it would happen again. I'm sorry to have gotten your hopes up.

Which reminds me that I really should get to reading that series.  I've read The Three Musketeers before, but I don't remember enjoying it as much as Monte Cristo.

And is it just me, or is every adaptation of Monte Cristo completely different from the book?  The only one that was even close to accurate was the anime of all things, and that had mech battles.

[Zrk2]

The Malazan Book of the Fallen
A Song of Ice and Fire
The sci fi LE Modesitt Jr writes is in my opinion better than The Saga of Recluce.