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txparent -> My Favorite Fiction - What's Yours? (4/28/2008 12:06:19 PM)

I thought I'd start a new thread to list some of my all-time favorite fiction. Though I'm a huge fan of things like Dune and LOTR, I won't bore you with the "obvious" choices. Below are some series that I believe everyone should at least give some consideration to:

1. The Adversary Cycle by F. Paul Wilson, in the following order:
a. The Keep (ultimate good versus evil battle during WW2)
b. The Touch (seemingly unrelated, but it's all brought together later)
c. The Tomb (Repairman Jack, one of the best characters out there!)
d. Additional Repairman Jack titles (the list keeps growing)
e. Reborn (ultimate evil returns)
f. Reprisal (ultimate evil begins his plans to destroy the earth)
g. Nightworld (final battle...if you want a picture of Hell on earth, this is it)
2. Doc Ford series by Randy Wayne White (ex-NSA agent turned Marine Biologist living on the coast of Florida and solving mysteries...FANTASTIC)
3. Mitch Rapp series by Vince Flynn (Special Forces agent combating terrorism...gripping stuff)
4. Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell (great historical fiction set during the Napoleonic Wars)
5. Belisarius Series by David Drake and Eric Flint (perhaps my favorite series. Intelligence from the distant future travels to 400 AD to wage a war and reshape history. For the bad guys is the Malwa Empire in India. For the good guys is Belisarius, a real historical Roman general said by historians to be the greatest tactician of all time. Truly wonderful characters and story. An opportunity to be totally immersed in the history of 400 AD while reading a fast-paced Sci-Fi tale...can't recommend it highly enough)

I could keep going for a long time, but this is probably enough to get started. What series/books are your favorites? I'd love to hear about them.

S



ambooks512 -> RE: My Favorite Fiction - What's Yours? (4/29/2008 10:52:06 AM)

Just got the first Mitch Rapp book but I havent started it. Working on the Harry Bosch series by Michael Connelly and also the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child!



uncabeeil -> RE: My Favorite Fiction - What's Yours? (4/29/2008 3:17:03 PM)

The Spenser novels by Robert B. Parker
The"Alphabet" mysteries by Sue Grafton
The Phillip Marlowe novels by Raymond Chandler
The Mike Hammer novels by Mickey Spillane
Anything by Terry Pratchett
The Joe Box mysteries by John Robinson
The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley, Vol 1-5
Robert Heinlein's Future History
The Complete Short Stories of Phillip K Dick
The Complete Short Stories of Isaac Asimov
The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, The Father Christmas Letters, Leaf By Niggle, - JRR Tolkien
Tom Clancy's solo novels, not the ones written by other people using his characters and therefore getting his name on them.



9drtr -> RE: My Favorite Fiction - What's Yours? (4/29/2008 7:08:19 PM)

Apart from LotR:

anything by Guy Gavriel Kay,
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris, althought the sequels are disappointing,
anything by Ernest Hemingway,
everything I've been able to find by Hal Clement,
Heinlein's less sex-obsessed novels, and certainly his short stories,
everything I've been able to find by CL Moore.



MrFribbles -> RE: My Favorite Fiction - What's Yours? (5/6/2008 10:55:29 PM)

I think my fiction triregency (which is totally a real word, and not one I made up just now that means "top three") would have to be -

C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy, especially That Hideous Strength

Stephen King, centering around The Stand, the Dark Tower series, and IT

Neil Gaiman, especially Neverwhere and his short stories



Auben -> RE: My Favorite Fiction - What's Yours? (5/7/2008 1:29:32 PM)

Peace Like a River (Leif Enger)
Ursula, Under (Ingrid Hill)
Til We have Faces or The Chronicles of Narnia (CS Lewis)
The Good Earth (Pearl S Buck)
Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austin)
The Brothers K or The River Why (David James Duncan)
How Green was My Valley (Richard Llewyllan)
The Moonstone or The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins)
The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion (JRR Tolkein)
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodr Dostoyevski)
Horton Hears a Who (Dr. Suess)
The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbles (Bill Watterson)
The Complete Plays and Sonnets of Shakespeare
The Arabian Nights
I Capture the Castle (Dodie Smith)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
The Collected Stories of Flannery O'Connor
The Giver (Lois Lowry)
The Hitchhikers's Guide to the Galaxy (Adams)
Where the Sidewalk Ends (Shel Silverstein)
The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula LeGuin)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? or Collected short stories of Philip K Dick
Cheaper by the Dozen (Gilbreth and Carey)
The Far Side Collection (Gary Larson)
Charlotte's Web, The Trumpet of the Swan, or Stuart Little by EB White (his nonfiction essays are also good)
Little House on the Prairie (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Anderson
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Kate Douglas Wiggin)
The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)
Out of Africa (Isak Dinesan)
Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Roald Dahl)
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
The Once and Future King (TH White)

I'm getting a little tired of typing so I'll just stop. [;)]



uncabeeil -> RE: My Favorite Fiction - What's Yours? (5/7/2008 3:48:45 PM)

quote:

The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbles (Bill Watterson)
And The Essential Calvin and Hobbes
The Lazy Sunday Afternoon Book
The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes
There's Treasure Everywhere
Something Under the Bed is Drooling
The Revenge of the Babysat
Yukon Ho!
The Tenth Anniversary Book
Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat
Calvin and Hobbes

And a couple more that I can't remember right now.



justme008 -> RE: My Favorite Fiction - What's Yours? (5/14/2008 1:54:01 AM)

hmm..

lotta deep readers in here.. i feel sorta juvenile in comparison..

these are mostly authors
Robert Cormier's works
Mary Stewart
Charlotte Bronte
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Frank Peretti(especially Prophet)
To kill a mockingbird
Miss Read(yes, I know they're boring but I still like them)
Rudyard Kipling
loved Miss Marple..



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