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It has been suggested, and now will be followed up.

Please list books to help expand my mind, and my general philsophies on life.

The Riftwar saga by Raymond E. Feist is good fantasy, as is the Kingmaker, Kingbreaker series by Karen Miller. The Redemption of Althalus was also pretty good.

On the Sci-Fi front, I only have two recommendations (I've not read as much SF as I would like):

- Dune by Frank Herbert - widely considered one of the best SF books ever published.
- Ringworld by Larry Niven - again, considered to be very good. One of SF's classics.

Oh, mustn't forget The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, but who hasn't read that?

Fantasy books, on the other hand... well, I've read hundreds! A few off the top of my head:

- Anything by Terry Pratchett in his Discworld series. I started with Wyrd Sisters. The series starts with The Colour of Magic (if you've seen the two-part film with David Jason, forget it - the book is far superior).
- One of my favourite series at the moment is Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen (starts with Gardens of the Moon). You've got to be in the mindset to read it, because it is a bastard to get in to (though I had no troubles). The series as a whole is slowly growing to a close, and is a fantastic example of epic fantasy. It also bucks the trend in that it's not all castles and elves and orcs. You might prefer George R. R. Martin's A Sword of Ice and Fire.
- Walter Moers is a nice example of crazy imagination - The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear, Rumo and City of Dreaming Books (he's got a fourth out soon).

I'm not sure which genre it falls under (Sci-Fi, possibly), but Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes is supposed to be very moving, and a definite one to read if you want your view of the world thrown out of kilter.

Harry freakin' Potter.

Just don't read Twilight. I haven't, myself, but my friend did, and he compaired to it screwing a fat chick. At first you're all into it, but by the time you're done, you're sitting on your bed, in the middle of the night, looking down at your feet and thinking "... did I seriously just do that!??? :("

It's a very sad thing when I can't remember the last book that i've read through and finished (it's been a logn time).

I've actually seen the movie (told you I believe) and I liked the premise of it. I would consider going to the public library and checking it out to give it a go, but I think i'll start with something non sci-fi at first.

We read the first one back in like Jr High and that was entirely enough for me. The book never has interested me in the slightest.

Don't worry, I never will.

I still have on my list is 1984, George Orwell's little masterpeice that everyone has always talked about and recommended. I'll see what I can't check out on Amazon and give something a shot.

I imagine the film was completely different to the book - the book itself has a lot of politics in it (people find the first couple of hundred pages very hard to get into because there is so much politics, all to do with the story world, obviously), and the Sci-Fi elements take more of a back seat, in the grand scheme of things.

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Another one (with film adaptations, which are completely different to the book) is Richard Matheson's I Am Legend.

Mastership: The Divine Law by Clymer

It's a more spiritual book if you're interested.

You could try reading Manga or comics. They have pretty pictures, and suprisingly long words.

Try this: www.gorgorat.com

Debatable Space

Magic Kingdom of Landover

The tattoo on your mothers ass.

Oh my god SYG is off da HOOK 2nite!!

For the fantasy genre, Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Cycle is great, imo.

The books so far are:

Eragon
Eldest
Brisingr

Well? How's it going?

Have you read any of the books people have suggested, or anything at all?

I'm going to take that as a no...

As for Twilight, apparently the book is decent (definitely a story for teenage girls, though); it's the film that destroys it all.

You didn't reply to me, D3V. :(

Are you, or are you not, reading more?

Of the graphic variety, Garth Ennis' Preacher and Grant Morrison's The Invisibles, both series are excellent.

George Eliot's Middlemarch

Albert Camus - The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus I'd suggest reading both.

For poetry, Tennyson's Ulysses and The Kraken are always good. Of course, T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land if you haven't already read it.

Isn't is scary how people practically become obsessed with how they aren't in a religion!? :eek:

Not really. I still haven't read The God Delusion. I think that may be first on my list still.