Lol Wut? A Book Recommendation Thread? Impossible!

[Zanibas]

Yesirry, I decided to make one .

Anyways, I've been thinking of reading books again (I haven't read a book in ages), so, any recommendations?

Something for a light reading, adventurous, non-trilogic, fantasy, and no horror please .

[Hikaru]

well I'm looking for someone with the 7th Harry Potter book, though I have a couple of good series to recommend.

The Death Gate Cycle by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (the writers of Dragonlance).
One of the best series I have read. A 7 book series that is just GOOD.

Shogun. A half fictional book about Japan in the 17th century (I think) as seen through the eyes of a British sailor. Really strong book.

You can read Eragon which was much better than the film, and there was a nice book called "The Sword Of A Thousand Rammas" but it seems to be one of the few books written in Hebrew (which was a rather surprise to me, most of the books are translated).
There is another 7 book series that I have just known about today, called something like the "imaginary series", another group of books that is in Hebrew. I was somewhat shocked to see a D&D-like series by a somewhat well known local celebrity. The writer has a TV series about "power", where he shows all sorts of magical stuff (I saw one of those, he drew a triangle and called it the Bermuda triangle and made people get "stuck" in it, mentally >_>). well, I suppose he has a rich imagination to create such books.

[WhiteyMcTool]

The Belgeriad series is great, along with "Assassin's Apprentice" and it's accompanying books. I forget the name of the series, I remember the first book.

[Orion]

The Misenchanted Sword

http://www.ethshar.com/themisenchantedsword.html

There are other books in the series, but this one can stand on it's own.

Myth series... Starting with...

http://risse.tierranet.com/asprin/books/another_fine_myth.html

This is a light-hearted series and a very easy read. The stories are short, and by the time you are done with them, you won't realize that you have read that many books. There may be a number of books, but it's not that important to read them, even though after reading the first one, you will probably want to read the rest. The first few books are combined into one book now I think...

John Carter, Warlord of Mars

http://johncarterofmars.phantombookshop.com/

This is a series of 11 books, but the books are small, and you  really don't need to read them all, but it is an interesting story. granted, this is semi-sci fi, it has fantasy aspects as well.

that is it for now, there is more, and I will post it when I can think of them.

[Captn' Red]

The Dark Tower - By King.

Easily the best fantasy series ive read.

[Aurix-kun]

His Dark Materials Trilogy, by Phillip Pullman. (Order: The Golden Compass/Northern Lights (UK), The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass)

This was the best fantasy series since Harry Potter.

[Captn' Red]

My favorite book of all time, The Dwarf.

[WhiteyMcTool]

We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin. The best dystopia book ever. Better than 1984 or Brave New World by far.

[sleepyjackle]

well I'm looking for someone with the 7th Harry Potter book, though I have a couple of good series to recommend.

YAY I have that book, and I loved it! Definitely the best out of the 7 in my opinion.



And anything by Terry Pratchett is a really good read, I love hit books for their comedy.

[Hikaru]

His Dark Materials Trilogy, by Phillip Pullman. (Order: The Golden Compass/Northern Lights (UK), The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass)

This was the best fantasy series since Harry Potter.

you know, that sounds like one of those book they ask about in literature class =.=
well, it's probably better

[Plasmacaster]

Personally I thought that Phillip Pullman was alright, but he just kept pushing the series too much. Didn't really have time to develop characters that I liked. So *shrugs* not too bothered about him

I recommend Terry Goodkind's the Sword of Truth series (good but can be a bit political if you don't like that sort of thing) and Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series (also good, but he kept going on about people and things that I couldn't care less about *right* when he gets to the interesting part with the one character that's actually interesting in the series.)

Some of the classics are good, I recommend Tristram Shandy if you don't mind getting a headache and have a good sense of humour.

Another good recommendation is "1066 and all that" which is a fantastic historical book, researched thoroughly by a group of people speaking to drunks in English pubs. Its hilarious.

Anything by Bernard Cornwall is good, though I particularly like his take on the arthurian legends (The Winter King, Excalibur etc... )

there's a few authors I'd recommend, for young readers I'd recommend Robin Jarvis and the Deptford Mice stories, though they are a little dark

I've been told to read Chariots of Fire, which is an examination of some of the theories about the pyramids, aliens etc... but I've not got around to reading it yet. But its meant to be very eye-opening.

Ummm... there's more, but I can't think of any right now. I'll add them sometime later.

[Orion]

Zanibas, it would be nice if you would at least thank us for telling you some books to read... Don't just start a thread and then abandon it to the cold heartless world. :p

[Zanibas]

More like "releasing into public domain"

I was looking through them, and I thank you for your suggestions. (although it doesn't seem as good if someone reminds you to T_T) I'll try my best to get my hands on those books, and possibly expand my pallet of taste

[Kashimir]

Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musashi_%28novel%29

Really a great book, one of the best books I've red, and even tho' I might not seem like it I read alot of books ^^;

The book tells an epic story (based on a real historical events)  of the legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi

from wiki about Miyamoto: "...was a famous Japanese samurai, and is considered to have been one of the most skilled swordsmen in history. Musashi, as he is often simply known, became legendary through his outstanding swordsmanship in numerous duels, even from a very young age."

Only bad thing about this book is that it might be too heavy for some people. (+900 pages) But I really enjoyed the book and truly recommend it to all who have some sort of interest in japanese history and some swordfighting action ^^

[Vertigo]

umm the legend of Drizzt By R.A Salvatore

The books are Homeland, Exile, and Sojourn yea its a trilogy but they are good books