Books?

George RR Martin -- a song of fire and ice....
Book one is a game of thrones...

You may have watched the first book on HBO-- A Game of thrones....
It is a great read and will keep you up late if you dont watch it lol....

Wow! So many suggestions! Most of them a series, if I read all of them, I don't think I'd be done until next year!

Not to mention I also have a few books I'm required to read for English. 1984 being the next one I believe... Right now we're reading the Canterbury Tales... It's... eh, I'm not a poem-style book fan. Beowulf may be the exception to that, but it was also explained, and can be re-explained in about 3 sentences...

The hunger games trilogy is what i just got done reading :) it was very very good

A little known author I couldn't put down was Brent Weeks. Middle ages assassin plot. Really good. Also Terry Brooks and his Shannara series. The Dark Elf books are incredible. Margaret Weis and Tracey Hickman, the Dragonlance series.

For something a little darker try Brian Lumley and the Necroscope series. Of course for vampire fiction Anne Rice kinda set the bar.

Ok I'll stop I could talk books all night:)

I have to concur...Brent Weeks is GREAT.

And King's Dark Tower series is awesome, too. It's a bit hard to get into at first, but once you get into it, you get sucked in hard and it won't let you go. (That was my experience, anyhow.) It's not at all like his usual popular works that get made into cheesy Hollywood movies. :P

The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan is quite good. The first book in the series is The Eye of the World...that series would keep you going for a while.

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Originally Posted by Jacob Pfaller

George RR Martin -- a song of fire and ice....
Book one is a game of thrones...

You may have watched the first book on HBO-- A Game of thrones....
It is a great read and will keep you up late if you dont watch it lol....

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Came here to say this, but Jacob beat me to it. Awesome books, but that recommendation comes with two warnings:

1. He takes FOREVER to finish books - it was several years from the time I finished the fourth book to when the fifth came out, and I read the fourth a few years after it came out.

2. Characters die. Get used to it. :)

NEIL GAIMAN!!!!!!!!!!!! "Neverwhere" and "American Gods," both really truly fantastic.

Also, I second the Orson Scott Card Suggestion. The Ender Quartet, "Ender's Game," "Speaker for the Dead," "Xenocide," and Children of the Mind" as well as the spinoff/interim books "Ender's Shadow," Shadow of the Hegemon," and "Shadow Puppets." I think there is a new one after Shadow Puppets. Gotta go check that out.

C.S. Lewis' Narnia Chronicles are classic.

I have to read the George RR Martin series, I keep getting yelled at by people because I haven't had time to read much while taking a huge course load in comparative literature and developmental psychology and animal behavior.

One of my favorites in the Spellsinger series by Alan Dean Foster.

One of my favorite stand alone books is Hasan by Piers Anthony

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If I choose to challange myself with all these books... I'll NEVER finish! I'm seriously wondering how long it'll take me to finish the first book in the Outlander series...

And I still want to get Inheritence (oohhh how I wanted that book yesterday, couldn't put it down in the book store, but The Outlander was cheaper, and I can wait until Inheritence comes out in paperback...Maybe)