Favorite book genre?
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Favorite book genre?
What's your favorite genre of books?
I like Fantasy the best; fantasy writers seem to generally be more talented and imaginative than writers from other genres.
I like Fantasy the best; fantasy writers seem to generally be more talented and imaginative than writers from other genres.
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I like all books that teach you a bit about something, whether it's relate to a location, a time in history or about the human condition. Kind of books that open your eyes up.
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Gandalf I like those books too. Have you ever read Siddhartha, for instance? I'll never forget that book, it taught me much.
Also The Life of Pii is an intense thinker. Every turn of the page I would set my book down and go 'wow...that was intense...now I have to re-think everything...'. It pits Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity against eachother, all within the mind of a single boy from India. He decides to adopt pieces and ideals of all three religions. It's an awesome book. Also makes you think about animals and zoo treatment; the book presents good points on both sides of that argument.
Hmm The Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe or Galaxy or whatever it was called, and the two after it are Farking awesome. Those are major thinkers too. They make your head spin with the shit they talk about, like quantum mechanics and all of this crazy stuff. Oh, and there's a talking cow. And some kinda farm-animal that is the size of a galaxy with a mouth the size of many worlds, if I remember right.
LMFAO books are the shiiiitttttt.
Also The Life of Pii is an intense thinker. Every turn of the page I would set my book down and go 'wow...that was intense...now I have to re-think everything...'. It pits Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity against eachother, all within the mind of a single boy from India. He decides to adopt pieces and ideals of all three religions. It's an awesome book. Also makes you think about animals and zoo treatment; the book presents good points on both sides of that argument.
Hmm The Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe or Galaxy or whatever it was called, and the two after it are Farking awesome. Those are major thinkers too. They make your head spin with the shit they talk about, like quantum mechanics and all of this crazy stuff. Oh, and there's a talking cow. And some kinda farm-animal that is the size of a galaxy with a mouth the size of many worlds, if I remember right.
LMFAO books are the shiiiitttttt.
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Reise wrote:Historical fiction, or realistic fiction, etc. My favorite books are those set in wartime.
Ever read All Quiet on the Western Front? It's set in the German perspective, rather than the American of World War One. I love that book. It provides crazy insight into the mind of a soldier.
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Burakumin wrote:fantasy novels and mangas... right now reading sword of truth series by terry goodkind its AWESOME
DUDE. THAT'S ONE OF MY FAVORITE SERIES EVAR. LOL EVARRRRR.
Which book are you on mane? My favorite would be ummmmm well I'll say two since they're all awesome: The Stone of Tears and The Faith of the Fallen. That's the second and the fifth. I own every single book out to date, which would be the 9th. The final book doesn't come out till freakin next year!!!!!
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I used to read more fantasy - Eddings, Salvatore, Weis/Hickman, Pratchett. Gradually got tired of that, but I have always been a big fan of SF. I don't read nearly as much as I used to. Old favorites are the Foundation series (well, pretty much Asimov's entire catalog), Bradbury's early short story collections (Martian Chronicles, R is for Rocket, S is for Space, Long After Midnight). Catch-22 isn't SF but it's one of my favorite novels of all time. The only nonfiction I read is pretty much Socratic dialogues and other philosophical works.
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Bakemaster wrote:I used to read more fantasy - Eddings, Salvatore, Weis/Hickman, Pratchett. Gradually got tired of that, but I have always been a big fan of SF. I don't read nearly as much as I used to. Old favorites are the Foundation series (well, pretty much Asimov's entire catalog), Bradbury's early short story collections (Martian Chronicles, R is for Rocket, S is for Space, Long After Midnight). Catch-22 isn't SF but it's one of my favorite novels of all time. The only nonfiction I read is pretty much Socratic dialogues and other philosophical works.
What about the Ender series? It's one of the few Sci-fi books that I can really enjoy.
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