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[KaelGotDwarves]

I'll go with the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, with Catch-22, anything by Voltaire, Tolkien, Vonnegut, and Bertrand Russell's memoirs up there.

[ein]

Okay, yeah, I'm also going to have to add Douglas Adams to my list of people whose stuff I can still read~

[jc6036]

I dont even know how I forgot to mention Douglas Adams in the OP. Derp. Hes one of my favorites as well.

[Reelyanoob]

Seconding myself since nobody seems to know much about this guy. Read Robert Rankin if you like Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, Tom Sharpe etc, but want more sex and violence. And time-travelling vegetables from outer space.

EDIT: His older stuff is better, though I'd say that about Pratchett too.

[Heron TSG]

It's not something I'd sit down and read. I was recently considering re-reading the original Dragonlance books, which I read when I was a teen, but that's probably just nostalgia speaking. They were considered pretty trite. Mind you, I read these after Lord of the Rings etc, and they didn't seem that bad, at least to me at the time.

The best D&D related books i read when I was younger were the dark elf series by R. A. Salvatore. He was really a cut above the other forgotten realms authors. If you thought Dragonlance or similar was trite, some of the Forgotten Realms books are goddamn awful. I recently read on wikipedia there's now 190 novels set in the Dragonlance universe. No way I'm catching up with all that (especially considering most of them are probably written by those same terrible Forgotten Realms authors;) )

I actually really enjoyed the original Dragonlance chronicles, as well as the Defenders of Magic and Dwarven Clans trilogies. Past that, ehhh....

On the topic of R.A. Salvatore's books, the Cleric Quintet and a couple of the first Drizzt-related books were good, and then the Marty Stu set in.

The Lord of the Rings, the Silmarillion and the Hobbit are by far my favorite books.

[Vector]

I'll read The Wasp Factory, then.


Gotta say, I was also kind of fond of the Drizzt books... I have no idea why, though >_>

[Bauglir]

I really, really liked A Canticle For Leibowitz. Except for the last part. Fiat Voluntas Tua doesn't exist, except for like one or two quotes I love from it. >__________>

EDIT: It's about a Catholic abbey in a post-apocalyptic desert with a patron who was a scientist before converting during the post-nuclear-holocaust destroy-all-knowledge backlash during which the Church became basically the only safe harbor for anyone who didn't join the mobs of the angry and willfully ignorant.

[Vector]

Oooh, I loved that one, too!  My dad gave me a copy a few years ago.  Brilliant, isn't it?

[Reelyanoob]

The Lord of the Rings, the Silmarillion and the Hobbit are by far my favorite books.

Get "Unfinished Tales" for more Tolkien goodness. It's got some great short stories in it (from all 3 ages). Covers the rise and fall of Numenor (and founding of Gondor) amongst other things.

Oooh and had to mention John Wyndham. Day of the Triffids. The Crysalids, The Midwich Cuckoos, The Kraken Wakes (this is the exact plot of "X-Com II: Terror From The Deep". I swear the game ripped this Wyndham novel off).

Hmmm I could recommend awesome stuff all day, i'll recommend a couple of less-known authors here, 1960's & 70's sci-fi which I really enjoyed.

John morressey: Frostworld and Dreamfire. A contact story from the alien perspective, seems based on American indian contact with europeans / disease. interesting cultural description and atmosphere. Lots of this authors characters are best described as outcasts, wanderers. Quite a bleak novel, most of his stuff has a similar downer vibe.

Barrington Bailey. "Maths" hard-sci-fi, with reality-twisting brainfuck logic. Fukken Awesome. Surrealist Geek Heaven. Knights of The Limits was a short story compilation, showcasing the best of his work. unbelievable stuff. Unfortunately I lent this book to someone, then someone else took the book from their house. Grrr...

H Beam Piper. H. Beam Piper ruled ! Too bad he died only 3 years after he started writing novels (he wrote short stories before that).  Which actually says even more about how good he was, all the novels he produced in those 3 years are pretty good. (He went out the same way as Robert E Howard, I won't dwell anymore on that)

Philip K Dick. Well, don't need to say anymore about this guy. Won't list the obvious ones, but I quite enjoyed a less-known book by him called "Eye in the Sky"

[Heron TSG]

Yup, also read the Lost Tales, Unfinished Tales, Children of Hurin... I just forgot to list them. They're excellent as well.

[Reelyanoob]

David Brin: Sun Diver. Another "must-read".

Larry Niven Rainbow Mars. Gotta be the best Niven book eva!

[Bauglir]

Oooh, I loved that one, too!  My dad gave me a copy a few years ago.  Brilliant, isn't it?

Oh my gods. Somebody else has read it. Yessssssssss this has made my day.

[Bdthemag]

The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan, my all time favorite fantasy novel. 'Nuff said.

[jc6036]

I dont know what it is that attracts me to the red wall saga, perhaps the persistant world, unlikely heroes, or just the epic battles that always seem to take place, but I love it. Has any one else read part of the red wall saga by Brian Jaques?

[Vector]

I dont know what it is that attracts me to the red wall saga, perhaps the persistant world, unlikely heroes, or just the epic battles that always seem to take place, but I love it. Has any one else read part of the red wall saga by Brian Jaques?

Almost all of it.

My favorite one is Lord Brocktree, I think.