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Re: Great Books
« Reply #15 on: August 27, 2011, 05:45:33 pm »
I think "Les Misérables" is a great book, though it's a hefty read. The unabridged version is about 1,450-something pages.
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Re: Great Books
« Reply #16 on: August 27, 2011, 05:54:04 pm »
The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks is absolutely godly.
The Black Prism by the same author was also great.

The Pendragon series was very good. Very looooonnngg, but I enjoyed it.

Finally, the Innocent Mage series by Karen Miller was great as well.
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Re: Great Books
« Reply #17 on: August 27, 2011, 05:55:35 pm »
Amos Daragon by Bryan Perro, really good series. It's 12 books. Also Wariwulf, by the same author.
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Re: Great Books
« Reply #18 on: August 27, 2011, 05:56:27 pm »
Pathfinder, Empire and it's sequel, The Ender series, + Ender's Shadow series, and plenty of others by card

Thank you for mentioning battlefield earth Qwerty. Best Scifi evar!

The rest are already posted :P
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Re: Great Books
« Reply #19 on: August 27, 2011, 07:39:56 pm »
Edner's game is great.  The sequels aren't nearly as good though.  I like pretty much all the books on Qwerty's List, and the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini.  ;)
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Re: Great Books
« Reply #20 on: August 27, 2011, 07:41:26 pm »
The young samurai is good.
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Re: Great Books
« Reply #21 on: August 27, 2011, 07:44:49 pm »
Qwerty's list has a lot of good ones. Over the summer I read The Brothers Karamazov. It was very, very good.
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Re: Great Books
« Reply #22 on: August 27, 2011, 08:03:54 pm »
Here are a few that I really, really like and are the first to come to mind (there are tons more):

Ellen Hopkins
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   -Impulse
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Robert Jordan
   -The Wheel Of Time series
J.K. Rowling
   -The Harry Potter series
Eoin Colfer
   -Airman
   -The Artemis Fowl series
   -The Supernaturalist
   -The Wish List
Nancy Farmer
   -The House of the Scorpion
J.R.R. Tolkein
   -The Lord of the Rings series
   -The Hobbit
Lewis Carroll
   -The Chronicles of Narnia
Suzanne Collins
   -The Hunger Games books
Terry Goodkind
   -The Sword of Truth series
Tess Gerritsen
   -Bloodstream
Christopher Paolini
   -The Inheritance series

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Re: Great Books
« Reply #23 on: August 27, 2011, 08:33:48 pm »
Wow, those are some of my favorite books also. In fact, I like almost every book that has been listed in this thread. I just got a kindle, so I have been reading a lot of the older free books. Old science fiction is really fun because of how strange some of the ideas presented are.
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Re: Great Books
« Reply #24 on: August 27, 2011, 09:33:11 pm »
Quote from: Xeda112358 on August 27, 2011, 08:03:54 pm

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Re: Great Books
« Reply #25 on: August 27, 2011, 09:44:52 pm »
My personal favorites:

Darren Shan:
  -The Demonata series (amazing series, kinda sucky ending, though)
  -The Cirque du Freak series
  -The City series (mature content)
  -The Thin Executioner
  -Pretty much everything by him. This man is a genious.

Chris Wooding
  -The Storm Thief (awesome book. Literally the only one I could read more than once.)

Cornelia Funke
  -The Thief Lord

Linda Buckley-Archer
  -The Gideon series (time travel and all that good stuff)

Previously mentioned ones that I wholly agree with:
Quote from: NecroBumpist on August 27, 2011, 05:54:04 pm
The Pendragon series was very good. Very looooonnngg, but I enjoyed it.
Quote from: Xeda112358 on August 27, 2011, 08:03:54 pm
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Eoin Colfer
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   -The Artemis Fowl series
   -The Supernaturalist
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Lewis Carroll
   -The Chronicles of Narnia
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Re: Great Books
« Reply #26 on: August 27, 2011, 10:31:18 pm »
How did I forget Harry Potter?

BTW, I preordered Inheritance for all you Paolini Fans.  ;D

I read Mandela's Way over the summer, while it wasn't very exciting, it made a nice read.  ;) Animal Farm is pretty good too.
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Re: Great Books
« Reply #27 on: August 27, 2011, 10:37:40 pm »
"Gödel Escher Bach" is the most amazing book I've ever read.  Check it out sometime :)
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Re: Great Books
« Reply #28 on: August 27, 2011, 10:49:24 pm »
The Hunger Games Series is really good too.
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Re: Great Books
« Reply #29 on: August 27, 2011, 11:03:42 pm »
Quote from: willrandship on August 27, 2011, 10:49:24 pm
The Hunger Games Series is really good too.

Sadly, I have never gotten the chance to read the series :( I want to so bad, though.
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