Favorite Books

[Magna_Titan]

My favorite books now and forever would be the LOTR complete collection.

[Goji Son]

Lord of the Rings, Dune, The Shadow Over Innsmouth... that's all I can think of right now, I know there are alot of others.

[Tokyo VigilanteX]

<font color='#810541'>Easy,&quot;WARCRAFT:Lord of the clans&quot;
Aswome,if u like fantsey,or warcraft then u well love this!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SpaceGamera]

The four Godzilla books by Marc Cerasini are my favorites. The LOTR trilogy was good, but I don't consider them my favorites.

[Melkor]

'Lord of the Rings' is definitely high up there. Before that, I've never read anything I've been so engrossed before; the effect it had on me was just hypnotic I couldn't put it down. I know there are alot more, I'll just add them later.



Peace,



Melkor



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[queen_ghidorah]

<font color='#ADA96E'>Wee, It's hard to decide X), I like Dracula (sadly, I lost my book recently), Dagon and other macabre tales, The Haunter of the dark, (I read mostly horror antologies), The book of Imagination, Xi Jou ji (from the little I have read of it, I can say I love it) Saguairú (beautiful book of my chilhood).......

[Bruticus]

The Silmarillion by J.R.R Tolkein
The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan
Godzilla 2000 by Marc Cerasini
Journey To The Centre Of The Earth by Jules Verne
Cloud Of Sparrows by Takashi Matsuoka

[Jet Jaguar]

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy 5 Book Trilogy

[Melkor]

'The Silmarillion' is an awfully complicated book to read, when I first read it years ago it was literally an insurmountable task for me... Heck, it took me nearly a year to finish it. But it is an excellent read on all accounts, though take a gallon of coffee everytime you plan on reading it, cause it's that long and complicated.

I'm also quite fond of the 'Divine Comedy' for some unknown reason. Especially the first book, 'Inferno'. A true classic in every sense of the word-- and the punishment accorded to Judas and Caiaphas the High Priest are really some of the most shocking I have or have yet to read. And since we're on the subject, 'Paradise Lost' is also high up on that list, as you can see in my quote. A grand read. I just love it.

Honorable mentions include 'Dracula', 'The Lost World' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and of course, 'Jurassic Park', the first one that is. Frankly I've never read anything else before that mixed science and adventure flawlessly as Cricton did with this one. http://www.rodansroost.com/ikonboard/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/thumbs-up.gif



Peace,



Melkor



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[Bagoth]

Not in any particular order.

1.The Forgotten Realms series
2.The Dragonlance saga
3.The Wheel of Time Series
4.The Dragonoverlords books

[Aqualla]

I love the Discworld series. &nbsp;When I first started reading them when I was younger I found them funny, but now I'm more adult when I read them I can not only understand the humour that is aimed at all ages, but also the satire that is littered throughout most of the books (especially The Truth).

I also like LOTR, and will be starting to read His dark Materials soon as they were recommended to me by a good mate and I found them cheap in a book store.

[biohazard85]

Books for the thinking idiot:

Downsize This: Random Threats from an Unarmed American
Stupid White Men and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation
Dude, Where's my Country

[Kaiju_Sensai]

<font color='#008080'>All of Cerasini's Godzilla books
Jurassic Park
Footprints of Thunder
Sleeper
The Relic

[Gorgozilla]

Books... one of my favorite subjects! Here are a few of my favorites in no particular order.

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
Jurassic Park and The Lost World by Michael Crichton
All books I've read by Robert J. Sawyer
For A New Liberty by Murray N. Rothbard
Raptor Red and The Dinosaur Heresies by Robert Bakker
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Stranger in a Strange Land, and Number of the Beast by Robert Heinlein
Marc Cerasini's Godzilla novels

I love reading and the above list is only a very small sample.

[Morgoth]

Hmm, well, I'll have to hit just a few key books. If I did an entire list of favourites it would take too long:

The Lord of the Rings and its prelude, The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
The fiction of H P Lovecraft (there are so many differing anthology assortments, it is hard to define which collection has the best selection of his work)
The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Insidious Dr Fu Manchu by Sax Rohmer (and many of the sequels)
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (the best of his incomparable Sherlock Holmes stories)
The Return of Moriarty by James Gardner (simply the best, most well-written and ploted out non-Doyle Holmes book ever written, in fact the only one I would say should be accepted as a part of the 'canon'http://www.rodansroost.com/ikonboard/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif
Drachenfels by Jack Yeovil
Solomon Kane by Robert E Howard (and damn near all the rest of Howard's stuff)
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Living Shadow by Walter B Gibson (and many another of his wonderful Shadow stories)
Godzilla Returns by Marc Cerasini
Return of the Wolf-man by Jeff Rovin
and of course the collected ghost stories of M R James.

I am sure there are some others I should mention, but I can't just now.

[Gorjirus]

<font color='#FF0000'>My favorite books would have to be my Star Trek book collection (only the ones from Pocket Books, since that is the official series). I easily have around 200 of them.

[Aragorn_Strider22]

I am currently reading the Wheel of Time series, and it's a great series.

LOTR is great, but I prefer the JP books over them, mainly well, I like Dinosaurs more than fantasy.

[Andross]

Well, I'm a pretty big fan of William King's 'Gotrek &amp; Felix' series, not to mention a lot of other Warhammer books (including 'Blood Money' and 'Blood &amp; Steel'.

[MothraMan]

<font color='#0000FF'>I like
HUNT FOR THE RED OCTOBER
ANDROMEDA STRAIN
REDWALL SERIES
GAME OVER : PRESS START TO CONTINUE

[Cole Deschain]

<font color='#0000FF'>LotR
The Silmarillion
The Chronicles of Narnia
Lloyd Alexander's Prydain series
Fup
The works of H.P. Lovecraft
Some of Stephen King's stuff (Dark Tower, the Stand)
The Iliad
Catch-22
Cat's Cradle, Galapagos, and some other Vonnegut
At Dawn We Slept
Miracle at Midway
The Thousand-Mile War
The Winter War
Sun Tzu's Art of War
To Lose a Battle
The Arctic Grail
The Book of Five Rings
Sometimes a Great Notion
Cannery Row
Of Mice and Men
Tortilla Flat

[Doctor Whu]

UBIK by PHILIP K. D1CK (D!CK was one of the greatest scifi writters of the 20th century, only now is his greatness being realized.. his short stories are fantastic! )

I, ROBOT by Asimov (and any of his other robot stories)
Stranger in a Strange Land and Starship Troopers by Heinland

Island of Dr Moreau *and Food of the Gods by HG Wells

The Holmes and Challenger stories of Doyle
The Gladiator &amp; When World's Collide by Philip Wylie
Frankenstein by Shelly
The collected works of Jack London
LOTR by whats his name?

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
Journey to the Center of the Earth (and just about anything else) by Jules Verne

and, when I want to kick back and relax, I like to read the philosphies of Thomas Merton...or the TeckWar series by &quot;William Shatner&quot;.

[Dark Warrior]

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Lord Of The Rings
Battle Royale
Hagakure:The Book Of The Samurai

[Aqualla]

Another book that's amazing is &quot;The Long Walk&quot; by Slavomir Rawicz, though most people haven't heard of it.

[Goji Son]

I have currently delved into some classics recently, notably 'Of Mice and Men' and right now 'Don Quixote'. *Also have been reading short stories from by Ambrose Bierce, some pretty chilling stuff that somewhat predates Lovecraft. *Great stuff.

[SandwormPhish]

The Obsidian Chronicles (Dragon Weather, The Dragon Society, Dragon Venom)

[Kaiju Artist]

<font color='#008080'>Godzilla 2000 and others
Pet Semetery
Hannibal

[Dante]

<font color='#FF0000'>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy
LOTR Trilogy
The Silmarillion (My most favorite book ever.)

[Shadow]

<font color='#0000FF'>dante the hitchikers guide to the galaxy is not a trilogy, it's a quintology (five books) and it has a special short story too. oh if you can't tell this is my favorite series.

[MechaV]

&quot;Fire Bringer&quot; by David Clement. Excellent book.

[Archaic_Avenger]

MothraMan, good choices! &nbsp;i'm another huge fan of the Redwall series (read them all) &nbsp;and though i've never read the book, Hunt For Red October is a great movie. &nbsp;i really love Jules Verne's many books, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde is a great book. &nbsp;the Dinotopia books are amazing and colorful. &nbsp;i'm sure i'll think of more, later, so i'll post them then.

Rodan2000

[Dark Warrior]

Quote[/b] (shadow @ Mar. 26 2004,21:15)]dante the hitchikers guide to the galaxy is not a trilogy, it's a quintology (five books) and it has a special short story too. oh if you can't tell this is my favorite series.
You know its called a trilogy of five(or four,depending on version),right?I know it makes no sense,but if the author says its a trilogy(in its wierd way),I'm gonna go with him(R.I.P Douglas Adams).

[Dark Warrior]

Sorry to dredge up this old topic(and to double post aswell),but as of late I have got back into reading and stumbled upon a great book(factual) going by the name of Black Edelweiss:Amemoir of Combat and Conscience By A Soldier of the Waffen SS.Here's a synopsis from Amazon.co.uk:

Synopsis
When a 20-year old Waffen-SS veteran of two years' combat against the Soviets and Americans is confronted with the awful, undeniable truth of the Holocaust, he must reconcile it with his pride in his comrades' battlefield sacrifices. The author served in SS Mountain Infantry Regiment 11 &quot;Reinhard Heydrich&quot;, part of 6th SS Mountain Division &quot;Nord&quot;. The book is mostly an account of his extensive combat service against the Soviets in northern Karelia and Finland, with a shorter section describing combat against the Americans in the Vosges and in the Saar-Moselle triangle. Voss reflects on the totality of his wartime experiences, from the origins of his reasons for enlisting in the Waffen-SS to his experiences in US captivity. The result is a compelling and honest account.

At the moment,I am only halfway through it,but it is a good read,and if your interested in World War 2,it is a great insight into the expierences of one footsoldier and his attempts to come to terms with what has happened in his country.Excellent stuff.

[Emperor Violenjiger]

The Outsiders.

[Godzilla Forever]

Quote[/b] (Jet Jaguar @ Jan. 10 2004,23:30)]The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy 5 Book Trilogy
Awesome book! &nbsp;http://www.kaijuphile.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[Morgoth]

Sounds like a fascinating book DW, I may have to track down 'Black Edelweiss'.

[Dark Warrior]

Quote[/b] (Morgoth @ April 08 2004,22:31)]Sounds like a fascinating book DW, I may have to track down 'Black Edelweiss'.
Cool.As far as I know,you can get it fromAmazon.co.uk (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0966638980/ref=sr_aps_books_1_1/026-1098569-3714838) and Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0966638980/qid=1081518980/sr=1-1/ref=pd_ka_1/002-1809700-9120836?v=glance&s=books).

The Amazon.com one is better cause theres more detailed reviews and you can look inside the book first,seeing if its for you or not.Im sure theres other places to get the book,but there the most obvious ones I know of.It is quite expensive and only about 200 pages long,but it is a good account of the war and dispels the commen myths about the Waffen SS.

[Goji Son]

I have gotten into Franz Kafka's stuff. &nbsp;Very interesting and very twisted. &nbsp;I am currently reading The Trial and I have read many of his short stories. &nbsp;If you like weird tales about a man turning into a beetle or a man who's art is starving himself to gain recognition then Kafka is the guy for you.

[Mothraleo]

Quote[/b] (Lord Khandejifer @ April 08 2004,22:41)]The Outsiders.
<font color='#0000FF'>Wow. I thought I was the only person on this board who likes that book.

[Morgoth]

Anybody using a Tyranid Carnifex for their avatar has to have some decent tastes, so I'll have to look for that book now. (of course, I suppose that could be a Hive Tyrant with some weird biomorphs...)

[UltraGojira]

Tied for Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and Godzilla 2000

[Dark Warrior]

Quote[/b] (Morgoth @ April 17 2004,09:23)]Anybody using a Tyranid Carnifex for their avatar has to have some decent tastes, so I'll have to look for that book now. (of course, I suppose that could be a Hive Tyrant with some weird biomorphs...)
Yeah,it is a Carnifex.On a side note,this summer hopefully I am going to build myself a Tyranid army(since I'll have alot of time on my hands,also hoping to learn bass guitar,learn Japanese and get a job...summer should be fun).

On another side note,I actually had built a Dark Eldar force but hadnt painted it,and just left it,And before I could say Mum dont throw it away,she threw it away.90 or so quid down the drain there.

Anyhow,since Ive gone madly off topic,I've recently got addicted to Love Hina(God knows why).Great books with humour,good artwork,and(this is me being totall shameless on my part)...attractive women.Yeah,so inconclusion,Love Hina is a great series(even though I'm only at book 4at the moment)

[Mothraleo]

Quote[/b] (UltraGojira2004 @ April 17 2004,17:35)]Harry Potter
<font color='#0000FF'>Didn't think any one on this board liked it. Good to see that some one else does.

[MeWantFudgeSickle]

<font color='#728FCE'>I mostly like to read MechWarrior and Star Wars books, particularly those written by Micheal Stackpole. &nbsp;I also like Anne McCaffery's Dragon Riders of Pern series. &nbsp;I've also recently gotten into the Shadowleague series by Maggie Furey, and the Ender's Game series by Orson Scott Card is pretty god, too.

[Lord Jimifulss]

The Ender quartet and the Bean trilogy by Orson Scott Card. Anthem by Ayn Rand, Jurassic Park by Michael Critchon. My all time favorite, however, is none other than the Bible.

[MechaV]

I'm just glad this many people still read.

[kent]

The Godzilla books
the Mortal Kombat books
Natural Science books
Lies, and the Lying Liars that Tell Them
Bill Clinton: An American Journey
Party of the People
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie and War Years
Franklin Roosevelt
The Natural
Presidential Campaigns
Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot

[Morgoth]

Somebody is way too into politics http://www.kaijuphile.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

I mean, even &quot;Mein Kampf' didn't make my list...

[Cole Deschain]

<font color='#0000FF'>A few more to append to my earlier list...

The Martian Chronicles
Many of Ray Bradubury's other anthologies (although some stories I can take or leave)
Seabiscuit
The Dragonlance Legends trilogy
Tarzan the Terrible (Carnivorous Triceratops! Wheeeee!http://www.kaijuphile.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif
Almost any Damon Runyon collection
The Stepford Wives

[DragonLord]

Quote[/b] (MechaVaran @ May 02 2004,21:01)]I'm just glad this many people still read.
<font color='#FF0000'>Here here!

any way, my favorite books are:

Godzilla 2000
The Hobbit
The Future is Wild
The Star Wars Essential Guides
The Pendragon Series
How to Keep Dinosaurs

[Da Gojirafan]

<font color='#FF0000'>THEE GREATEST BOOK IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD MY PRISON LIFE WITHOUT BARS THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL BOOK OF THE LIFE OF PETE ROSE

[MechaV]

Quote[/b] (kent @ May 03 2004,01:24)]Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot
There's actually a book called that?

[Morgoth]

Yes, I think it is by Al Franken, who is also an idiot, only not so fat (and probably alot better at buying drugs than Limbaugh).

[Gorjirus]

<font color='#FF0000'>Now that I have gone back and read my favorite books, I would have to say that my favorite is THE RETURN. I love that book.

[Andross]

I have really been starting to get into Westerns as of late, and would recommend just about anything by Lous L'amour. I just recently finished a book by a different author, Lyle Brandt, called &quot;The Gun&quot;, and am busy reading the sequel, &quot;Justice Gun&quot;.

For anyone looking for good westerns, I must warn you to stay away from several series: &quot;Longarm&quot;, &quot;The Trailsman&quot;, &quot;The Gunsmith&quot;, and &quot;Slocum&quot;. These series have about 300+ books in each, but not only are they poorly written, they're little more than crappy action books with a ton of awful pornography thrown in for lack of actual, good material.

[Wiz]

I'd have to say that my favorite books are the Animorph books. I loved the way K.A. Applegate writes. It's as if she is talking to the reader, not just telling a story. They are really good books.

[Mothraleo]

Did I ever post here? Anway, my fav. books are, Witch Hunter (Really, really loved it), True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Harry Potter 3 ect.

[The Great MM]

Godzilla vs. The Robot Monsters
Godzilla At World's End
The Flies
The Spiders

[Gorjirus]

I must say now, after reading the first 10 books in the series, I absolutely LOVE Peter David's Star Trek: New Frontier series. Captain Calhoun is a great leader, and the crew is just hilarious in the trouble that they get into. A wonderful series.

[kent]

Yes, I think it is by Al Franken, who is also an idiot, only not so fat (and probably alot better at buying drugs than Limbaugh).

Better informed than Limbaugh is. Not to mention his record is cleaner than Limbaugh's. :dozing: But that is for another debate.

[godofPH]

I'd have to say that my favorite books are the Animorph books. I loved the way K.A. Applegate writes. It's as if she is talking to the reader, not just telling a story. They are really good books.

Agreed, I was disappointed when she stopped doing Animorphs. Then she pumped out the Remnants crap.

But heres a list of my favrit books

Hidden Talents by David Lubar
Dunk by David Lubar
Silverwing by Kenneth Oppel
Shadow People (I can't remember the author now)
Holes by Louis Sachar
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
Apollyon by Tim Lahaye and Jerry Jenkins

[Bagoth]

Additions:

The Whisper in Darkness
Dune
Dune Messiah
Children of Dune: Didn't like Leto II much, but I liked Paul as the Preacher very cool.

[Figment]

The Lord of the Rings
The Hobbit
The Captain Underpants series
Dinotopia
Jim Henson: The Works
Walt Disney Imagineering: A Behind the Dreams Look at Making the Magic Real
Haunted Mansion: From the Magic Kingdom to Film
The Bionicle Adventures series (especially Maze of Shadows, can't wait for Book 8 which has a kaiju called Zivon)
Japan's Favorite Mon-Star
Tales From Jabba's Palace
The Godzilla Novels (the Kid's ones and World's End were the only ones I've read)
The Cat in the Hat
The Lorax
Yertle the Turtle
The Sneeches
Green Eggs and Ham

[Morgoth]

Better informed than Limbaugh is. Not to mention his record is cleaner than Limbaugh's. :dozing: But that is for another debate.

I dunno about that, they both are a pair of morons who have such a skewed view of reality that one sometimes has to wonder if they aren't some sort of alien experiment gone horribly horribly wrong. Limbaugh disgusts me for several reasons, not least because he was supposedly the 'voice of the right' - more like a bloated pompous arrogant egotistical cretin who apparently thought the very issues of common decency and morality he vilified others for lacking had nothing to do with his own conduct (his attack of Chelsea Clinton was the final straw for me - I hate Billary too, but absuing a kid on a nationaly syndicated show is about as low as a snake's belly, and I've never cared to hear anything else the slob has to say ever since).

Al Franken is another pompous, arrogant, egotistical blowhard with the same 'fast and loose' handling of reality as Limbaugh. Granted, he might not be quite as off in la-la land as Michael Moore and Garafilo (the Democrats really need to stop allowing these two idiots to speak in public because they really make their party look bad), but Al Franken is certainly cut from the same cloth - and with the same quality of hypocrisy that makes Limbaugh such a worthless dreg. And he also gets an extra boot for being one of the writers on the miserable crap-heap that has become SNL.

[Cole Deschain]

Further Additions...

Ocean of Words, by Ha Jin. It's a collection of short stories about Red Chinese soldiers on the northern border during the PRC's falling-out with the U.S.S.R. in the early 1970s. Very good stuff.

The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien.

The Gestapo, by Jacques DeLarue. A history of the infamous Nazi secret police, and a pretty good overview. Mostly, however, I like it for the way it deals with the power struggles within the Nazi hierarchy. A den of monsters, to be sure.

Battleship Bismarck, by Baron Burkard von Mullenheim-Rechberg. A memoir of the ship, as written by the highest-ranking German officer to survive the Bismarck's only voyage. I have yet to find a better account of events.

Stalingrad, by Antony Beevor. A quite detailed account of the battle that helped seal the fate of the European Theatre in WWII. Beevor's other stuff is fairly good... particularly Crete, the Battle and the Resistance; The Fall of Berlin; and The Spanish Civil War.

[Morgoth]

I love Battleship Bismark! Great book! I might have to look for that Gestapo book if I can ever get caught up enough to start reading non-fiction again.

[Cole Deschain]

Just be advised, the edition I have ( Paragon House, 1987) is replete with typographical errors... not enough to make me throw the book away (it was in French, originally, so I can forgive them), but enough to notice.

[Zigra]

Well, now that I've finally finished it, Witch Hunter by our very own C.L. Werner ranks among my favorites. Now, to read Dragon's Blood.

[Wiz]

To add to my list:

All of the Left Behind books. Tim Lahaye and Jerry Jenkins make a good team. :thumbs:

[Soundwave]

At the moment, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams, The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker, and the Blade: Trinity novel by what's-her-name (definately better than the movie).

[Megabyte]

Here's my list thus far

Grendel by John Gardner
Godzilla 2000 by Marc Cerasini
Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa
Jurassic Park by Micheal Crichton
Hiroshima by John Hersey
Japan's Favorite Mon-Star:The Unauthorized Biography of "The Big G" by Steve Ryfle (hey it has to be in there somewhere ;))
Intruders by Budd Hopkins
Hating America- The New World Sport by John Gibson
Dogma by Kevin Smith (so what if it IS a screenplay :D)
The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe (yeah it is a short story but its still a favorite of mine)

[MirrenDono]

I don't read too much anymore, but I'm getting back into stuff like the Icewind Dale Trilogy, and I'm trying to pick up a copy of Godzilla vs. the Robot Monsters. Plus sometimes I grab one of the Redwall books from my shelf ;)

The Dark Elf Trilogy- by R.A. Salvatore

Godzilla 2000- by Marc Cerasini
Godzilla At World's End- by Marc Cerasini

Redwall, Mossflower, Mariel of Redwall, Salamandastron, Martin the Warrior, The Bellmaker, the Pearls of Lutra, Marlfox, the Legend of Luke, Triss- all by Brian Jacques

Yeah, I'm still a big fan of Redwall, good series. I was reading Lord Brocktree for a while, and then I stopped. Though I plan to get back to it soon, and then I'll re-read Pearls of Lutra, since I kinda flew through it to get it done when I was 11

[kent]

The Godzilla books
the Mortal Kombat books
Natural Science books
Lies, and the Lying Liars that Tell Them
Bill Clinton: An American Journey
Party of the People
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie and War Years
Franklin Roosevelt
The Natural
Presidential Campaigns
Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot

I just want to add to this list here...
Alien Vs. Predator: Prey
Alien Vs. Predator: Hunter's Planet
Alien Vs. Predator: War
AVP Novelization (Got into Aliens and Predator again after seeing the film if you can't tell ;) )
My Life
Never Die Easy
Monster of the Midway
Papa Bear
One-Car Caravan
Stallone!
The Dinosaur Heresies
All Things Possible

[Zigra]

Limbaugh disgusts me for several reasons, not least because he was supposedly the 'voice of the right' - more like a bloated pompous arrogant egotistical cretin who apparently thought the very issues of common decency and morality he vilified others for lacking had nothing to do with his own conduct


Agreed. But, Limbaugh is nothing compared to Michael Savage. Basically, I feel the same sort of contempt for Mr. Savage as he feels for the entire world. Even when I agree with him on something, I loathe the manner in which he goes about flaunting his opinion. Yeah, disconnecting anybody who calls in on your show that you don't agree with and not letting those people voice their opinions is really the way you should get someone on your side:sarcasm:

[Morgoth]

Well, now that I've finally finished it, Witch Hunter by our very own C.L. Werner ranks among my favorites. Now, to read Dragon's Blood.

You'll be happy to know that the sequel Witch Finder will be out in the US in March. More of everybody, pretty much, with some really nasty new villains as well...

Drop me a PM sometime, I'd be interested in knowing exactly what aspects of Witch Hunter left a favorable impression.

[Zigra]

Drop me a PM sometime, I'd be interested in knowing exactly what aspects of Witch Hunter left a favorable impression.

I'll be sure to do that, probably tomorrow. It's a little late for that tonight. Now, for other favorites-

Marc Cerasini's Godzilla novels
Frank Herbert's Dune novels
The works of Tolken
Forgotten Realms: The Ring of Winter by James Lowder
Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Porkchops? by Geoge Carlin
The True Tenchi novel series by Masaki Kajishima
The collected works of H.P. Lovecraft

That's about all I can think of for now.

[Darth Reaper]

Okay, here are some of my favorites:

RELIC by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

THE INCREDIBLE HULK: WHAT SAVAGE BEAST by Peter David

KINGDOM COME by Elliot S. Maggin (a novelization of the comic book mini-series by Mark Waid and Alex Ross)

MEG and THE TRENCH by Steve Alten

CAIN by James Byron Huggins

the GODZILLA novels by Marc Cerasini

ALIENS VS. PREDATOR: Prey by Steve Perry and Stephani Perry

CYCLE OF THE WEREWOLF by Stephen King

Well, those are the ones that I can remember right now. There maybe others that I can't remember. Does anybody share my feelings? Morgoth, Zigra, I'm looking at you. :D

[Morgoth]

Sorry to be a bummer Darth, but two of the books on your list actually make my 'most worthless books ever' list. Yeah, 'Cycle' was one of the Stevie the Wonder Dolt books I read before realising the guy is absolute crap. 'The Relic' made a bad movie, but an even worse book. 'Let's have the ending occur as a flashback'. I have to wonder if this guy even had an editor - I mean there areen't too many things I can think of that could possibly be more insulting to a reader.

I don't read comic book novelizations, so I can't comment on the others. The Godzilla novels were an ecclectic mix, I thought 'Godzilla Returns' and 'Godzilla vs the Robot Monsters' were really well done, 'Godzilla 2000' a bit less so, and 'Godzilla at World's End' actually pretty bad.

[Faith]

Here are some of mine: The Vampire Lestat by: Anne Rice, Night Shift by: Stephen King, Watchers by: Dean Koontz, the Resident Evil series by: S.D. Perry, and lots more.

[foster boy]

i would have to say james bond the moonraker it is really great :O

[MirrenDono]

Originally posted by Morgoth
I don't read comic book novelizations, so I can't comment on the others. The Godzilla novels were an ecclectic mix, I thought 'Godzilla Returns' and 'Godzilla vs the Robot Monsters' were really well done, 'Godzilla 2000' a bit less so, and 'Godzilla at World's End' actually pretty bad.

It figures, the two books that I like :laugh:

[Denizen]

KINGDOM COME by Elliot S. Maggin (a novelization of the comic book mini-series by Mark Waid and Alex Ross)

They also made a hilarious, but serious radio-play, with voice-acting and sound-effects that made the Kingdom Come story seem like a parody of the Super-Friends.

[Darth Reaper]

Here's something that I forgot to mention earlier:

KOUMAJUTSU: The Coming of Bagan; by C.L. Werner- Hey it's practically a novel, and everybody knows it. :D

[Cole Deschain]

A novella. :D

A big, scary novella...

[MirrenDono]

Just wait until "Godzilla: Culmination of Kaiju" comes out this Christmas, that's all I have to say ;)

Yeah I wish though :sarcasm:

EDIT-

But yeah, The Coming of Bagan is a very impressive tale, and the best Kaiju epic I've ever seen. I give Clint a lot of props for that

[Gorjirus]

I have one to add to my list:

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

That was a great book.

[Goji Son]

Well it's been a while since I posted them so here I go again.

The Old Man and the Sea - Earnest Hemingway
The Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Dune - Frank Herbert (have the whole series but haven't had time to read them all)
LOTR - J.R.R. Tolkien -
Don Quixote - Miguel De Cervantes
The Metamorphesis - Franz Kafka
1984 - George Orwell
The Trial - Franz Kafka
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe
The Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce
The Complete Works of HP Lovecraft
Blood Money - CL Werner (Not ******** you either, CL... ok, maybe a little)

[Mothraleo]

Some of my favorites:

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
The Shining by Steven King
Witch Hunter by Morgoth (C.L Werner)

Those are 3 favorites that come to mind right now.

[Cole Deschain]

Witch Hunter.... very, very good read.

Anbd it actually rewards a repeat reading quite nicely. A lot of the dialogue is fun to pick apart once the truth is known...

[state alchemist]

though i admit i'm not as erudite as some of you the best books i've read to date are the dune chronicles. also, the foundation trilogy. the talented mr. ripley series, neuromancer trilogy, lord of the rings, chronicles of narnia series.

[Mecha-Rodan]

I used to read the Animorphs series, but after they ended on a bad note I kind of lost interest in reading all-together... However, now with me moving and raiding my brother's stuff to take with me, I grabbed "Prey" by Michael Chricton. I liked it so much that I grabbed a few more books off his shelf (heheh), and now I find myself unable to stop reading books... Anyway, here are the ones that I am most fond of as of now:

Godzilla Returns - Marc Cerasini
Godzilla 2000 - Marc Cerasini
Jurassic Park - Michael Chricton
Prey - Michael Chricton
Aftermath - Charles Sheffeild
Mars - Ben Bova
Return to Mars - Ben Bova

And thats about all the books I own at the moment... lol. I plan on getting Meg and The Trench sooner or later. I started reading Trench because my brother had it (forgot to "borrow" that one...), but I lost interest because I was still under the impression that no books could topple the Animorphs as my favorite series (HAH!). Well, I do thank them though. I made a near 100 bucks off of 'em at eBay, which I now use to buy better books........ lol.

Forgot to mention that at the moment, I am reading Moonrise by Ben Bova. His Mars books really impressed me (my favorites at the moment), so I decided to try out one of his other books. So far it has me mildy interested, but not nearly as much as Mars, so I'll be looking for something different next time I go to Barnes & Noble...

[darthzilla99]

The entire scott ciencin godzilla novels.

Godzilla at world's end (I am working on getting the others)
The outsiders
That was then, this is now

And I also enjoy reading politic books (from both sides of the issues) but sence there has been alot trash talking on it, I won't get involved.

By the way, Is the books "Why I hate the demcrots" and "Why I hate the repulicans" any good?

[godofPH]

Hmmm

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
Godzilla at World's End by Mark Ceransi
Thief of Souls by Neal Shusterman
Shadow People by (I cannot remember the name)
Hidden Talents by David Lubar
Dunk by David Lubar
The Vampire Hunters by (cannot remember name)
The Giver by Lowis Lowry
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer
Holes by Louis Sachar
The Rising: Antichrist is Born by Tim Lahaye/Jerry B. Jenkins

[Kaiju_Sensai]

Jurassic Park & Godzilla 2000

Hoping to read Mothman Prophecies & The Primortals: Target Earth whenever I get the chance to.

[Gorjirus]

Just finished a great book: "Quo Vadis" by Henryk Sienkiewicz (Translated from Polish by Jeremiah Curtin).

I recommend it to anyone.

[Kiryu goji]

In no Particular order, here're my favorites:
-The Hobbit
-The LOTR trillogy
-The Dune series
-Anne McCaffrey's 'Pern' series
-Terry Pratchett's 'Discworld' novels, especially 'The last hero'
-Brian Jaques' 'Redwall' saga
-Robert T. Bakker's 'Raptor Red'
-The Jurassic Park series, as well as Timeline, Prey, Sphere, and The Congo.
-Peter Benchley's 'Beast', 'Jaws', and 'White shark'
-Marc Cerasini's Godzilla series
-The Harry Potter series
-The inheritance Trillogy (Eragon, Eldest, and un-named third book)
-Holes
-Ella Enchanted
-Most of Edgar Allen Poe's short stories
-James Gurey's Dinotopia series
-Where the Red fern grows (I'm not sure why I like it, but I like it)
-Sir arthur Connan doyle's 'Sherlock holmes mysteries' and 'The Lost world'
-Loch by Paul Zindel
-Dinoverse by scott Ciencien (hope I spelled that right)
-Of Mice and men (again, not sure why I like it, but I do)


I'll add more as I think of them

[Roehm]

Well I don't really read books...but I do have one that I really like out of the few I have read. So my choice would be The War of the Worlds, and I did read it before the recent release of the Spielberg film actually a very long time before that. But that junk aside I would have to say its very good and my favorite. Peace

[packmule]

I do quite a bit of reading. Some of my favorites: Lucifer's Hammer-Larry Niven/Jerry Pournelle, Footfall-Larry Niven/Jerry Pournelle, World War I-S.L.A. Marshall, Red Storm Rising-Tom Clancy, Watchers-Dean Koontz, and Night Shift-Stephen King http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/7392/ntur1donkey0rp.jpg

[Archaic_Avenger]

In no Particular order, here're my favorites:
-The Hobbit
-The LOTR trillogy
-The Dune series
-Anne McCaffrey's 'Pern' series
-Terry Pratchett's 'Discworld' novels, especially 'The last hero'
-Brian Jaques' 'Redwall' saga
-Robert T. Bakker's 'Raptor Red'
-The Jurassic Park series, as well as Timeline, Prey, Sphere, and The Congo.
-Peter Benchley's 'Beast', 'Jaws', and 'White shark'
-Marc Cerasini's Godzilla series
-The Harry Potter series
-The inheritance Trillogy (Eragon, Eldest, and un-named third book)
-Holes
-Ella Enchanted
-Most of Edgar Allen Poe's short stories
-James Gurey's Dinotopia series
-Where the Red fern grows (I'm not sure why I like it, but I like it)
-Sir arthur Connan doyle's 'Sherlock holmes mysteries' and 'The Lost world'
-Loch by Paul Zindel
-Dinoverse by scott Ciencien (hope I spelled that right)
-Of Mice and men (again, not sure why I like it, but I do)


I'll add more as I think of them

wow, so many books of those i've read and loved. the ones on the list i have to disagree with would be Harry Potter and LOTR, though i have read (heard on tape actually) the Hobbit. and, i didn't Ella Enchanted. but i do love the Redwall books, the Dinotopia books, Loch was very fun, Holes was great, and Marc Cerascini's Godzilla books are cool.

as for other books i love i'd list pretty much anything and everything by Mark Twain, king of satire; Charles Dickens has some good stuff; Jon Scheizka is absolutely hilarious; I read Tom Clancy's Hunt for Red October cause i love the movie so much, and the book was even better; and my new favorite author, Edgar Rice Burroughs with the Tarzan books, and even better, his Martian Tales series. dude, those are awesome books. the first one, Princess of Mars, was just plain great. but then, when i read the Gods of Mars, i had been sold to ERB as my new favorite author. i have the first three Martian Tales books, and the first four Tarzan books, and i'm about to get a couple more books of his, just in a mixed set. his stuff is great.

Rodan2000

[Kiryu goji]

wow, so many books of those i've read and loved. the ones on the list i have to disagree with would be Harry Potter and LOTR, though i have read (heard on tape actually) the Hobbit. and, i didn't Ella Enchanted. but i do love the Redwall books, the Dinotopia books, Loch was very fun, Holes was great, and Marc Cerascini's Godzilla books are cool.

as for other books i love i'd list pretty much anything and everything by Mark Twain, king of satire; Charles Dickens has some good stuff; Jon Scheizka is absolutely hilarious; I read Tom Clancy's Hunt for Red October cause i love the movie so much, and the book was even better; and my new favorite author, Edgar Rice Burroughs with the Tarzan books, and even better, his Martian Tales series. dude, those are awesome books. the first one, Princess of Mars, was just plain great. but then, when i read the Gods of Mars, i had been sold to ERB as my new favorite author. i have the first three Martian Tales books, and the first four Tarzan books, and i'm about to get a couple more books of his, just in a mixed set. his stuff is great.

Rodan2000

I know what you mean, Mark Twain his hillarious. My folks recently inherited a collection of over 100 classic works of litterature, and I find Twain's work among the easiest to read, and the most entertaining. I quote him all the time, especially in school. Some of my favorite Twain quotes include:

'If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything'
'The holy passion of friendship is so cherished and loving that it will last forever, unless it is asked for money.'

And my personal favorite-

'I have mixed feelings about being called a great writer, because they have an unfortunate habit of dying off. Shakespear's dead, so is Homer, and I'm not feeling too well myself.'

[Archaic_Avenger]

I know what you mean, Mark Twain his hillarious. My folks recently inherited a collection of over 100 classic works of litterature, and I find Twain's work among the easiest to read, and the most entertaining. I quote him all the time, especially in school. Some of my favorite Twain quotes include:

'If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything'
'The holy passion of friendship is so cherished and loving that it will last forever, unless it is asked for money.'

And my personal favorite-

'I have mixed feelings about being called a great writer, because they have an unfortunate habit of dying off. Shakespear's dead, so is Homer, and I'm not feeling too well myself.'

"God created the idiot for practice; then he created the schoolboard." and man, that has to be one of the truest statements i know.

yeah, he has some great quotes. a friend of mine somehow got a book of his about Hawaii, the state, and it mentioned some pretty funny stuff about them being "heathens". he said that he wondered how for so many years the people of the island had lived without even knowing that they were heathens. then he talked about surfing, and mentioned how he wasn't good at it, and ended up conceding that it was a sport only for heathens. the guy was hilarious.

Rodan2000

[Cole Deschain]

Since the old thread seems to have vanished...

Sun Tzu's Art of War.
John Tolland's The Rising Sun

More to follow... too sleepy to think straight...

[Dark Warrior]

Hunter S Thompson's Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas
Phil Lesh Searching For The Sound My Life With The Grateful Dead
Richard Wright Black Boy
Wes "Scoop" Nisker The Essential Crazy Wisdom
Got a Revolution The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane Jeff Tamakin
Battle Royale Koushun Takami
Lord Of The Rings JRR Tolkein

[Goji Son]

The Metamorphesis - Franz Kafka
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Dune - Frank Herbert
The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
Out of the Silent Planet - C.S. Lewis
The Trial - Franz Kafka
The Shadow Over Innsmouth - H.P. Lovecraft
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkein
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

[Mecha-Rodan]

I don't read all that much, but I do like a few books (no particular order):

Jurassic Park by Michael Chricton
Days of Infamy by Harry Turtledove
The Meg Trilogy by Steve Alten
Domain also by Steve Alten
Halo: First Strike by Eric Nylund
Godzilla Returns (of course) by Marc Cerasini

[Mecha74]

I'm afraid that my list does not contain anything remotely as exsquisite, classy, thought provoking or masterful as the previous lists but anyway....

The Marc Ceracini Godzilla novels.

Select Marvel comic based novels.

'The Zombie Survival Guide' by Max Brooks.

Novelization of the first 'Resident Evil' game.

Select Angel and Buffy books.

'The World of Kong, A Natural History of Skull Island'.

Any books that chronicle sci-fi and horror films dating back to the earliest known cinema up untill the 80s.

[Cookson]

I havent really read to many books in my life so I'll just post the books I own.

Star Wars: The Joiner King(Dark Nest 1)
Star Wars: The Unseen Queen(Dark Nest 2)
Star Wars: The Swarm War(Dark Nest 3)

Star Wars: Heir to the Empire(Thrawn 1)
Star Wars: Dark Force Rising(Thrawn 2)
Star Wars: The Last Command(Thrawn 3)

I read these SW books just to keep the story going. The Thrawn trilogy is freaking awesome.

I do have Godzilla: At Worlds End by Cerasini

[Morgoth]

Currently an assortment of Weird Wars RPG books (right now Afrika Korpse) and, fiction wise, 'Valnir's Bane', a Warhammer novel by Nathan Long. On the top of the reading pile are Man-Kzin Wars X: the Wunder War and 'Hitler's Escape', a nonfiction book that makes a pretty good case that the painter with the funny moustache did not die in Berlin in 1945.


Uh, disregard that, thought this was the 'Whate are you currently reading' thread.

[Raptor]

Since the old thread seems to have vanished...Not really. ;)

1. Go to your User Control Panel
2. On the left, select Edit Options
3. Go down to Thread Display Options
4. For Default Thread Age Cut Off, select SHOW ALL THREADS
5. Be sure to click SAVE CHANGES at the bottom of the page.

Using anything but, you don't know what you might be missing on the forum.

[godzy]

Though kinda obscure, I am really into the book "Prey" by Micheal Crithen. [ I don't know how to spell his name] I could swear I've read that book like 5 times!:laugh:

[Seer235]

Yeah, Prey is a good book. Crichton is the author of probably my favorite book, Sphere. It's been far too long since I've last read it, I'll probably get it out after AP exams.

[Raptor]

Speaking of Michael Crichton, check out TIMELINE. Time travel is involved, but with some nice twists. If you like medieval history, it's in there, along with present day commercialism and its various breeds of entrepreneurs. And yes, it's also a movie (http://www.timelinemovie.com/home.html).

[Cyndi]

The Mists of Avalon
Light a Single Candle and Gift of Gold
The Indian in the Cupboard and The Return of the Indian
Dragon's Blood and Heart's Blood
The Animorphs books
The Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon and Hannibal
and of course the Godzilla books by Cerasini and Ciencin


Yeah I read a lot ^_^;