[Tyloric]

Originally Posted by PhilistineEars

^ Zombie Survival Guide... Greatness

All the books on that list are 'greatness'.

[Angel]

Book Club...sweet

Pre-ordering the latest Wheel Of Time book soon - just hope it's not an epic let down. I read Dune, Dune Messiah and the third one (Children of Dune, is it? Can't remember) recently and although I spent much of that time going "what??", I did enjoy them.

Haven't read Cole Protocol yet although I have all the other Halo books - re-read Sabriel yesterday and also all the Splinter Cell books (I read a lot and I read fast )

I'd pick reading over any other form of entertainment, given the choice

[Trawgdor]

Right now, I'm reading The Sea of Trolls for my Language Arts Class.

The "theme" is The Journey of the Hero, or protagonist, 'cause the main character isn't always a "hero".

Have you guys got any Post-Apocalypse books that are good?

EDIT: Or Realistic Fiction?

[Walker]

Originally Posted by PhilistineEars

I was covering myself in the case they published a book based off of the movie. I couldn't find it myself, but that does not mean it wasn't done. If you never heard of it either, then I would say that it most likely wasn't.

I wanted to elaborate and specify that I was speaking about the first book published in the series and not any made from movie version they may have synthesized.

Too many instances of seeing a book adapted from a movie that was adapted from a book. The Green Mile comes to mind, which was originally S. King's work, then made into a movie that was then republished into a novel based off of the movie.

Really? I'd never heard that. I don't see why they'd do it, when they could just republish the original. When I just glanced at Wikipedia it didn't mention it, but [shrugs].

Originally Posted by Tyloric

Books I've finished in the last month:

Weather Warden Series (All of them)
Outcast Season: Undone
Doctor Who: The Eyeless
Doctor Who: Beautiful Chaos
Doctor Who: Prisoner of the Daleks
Doctor Who: The Slitheen Excursion
Life of Pi
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Daemon Eyes
Daemon: Book 1
Star Trek Enterprise: Kobayashi Maru
Ghost in the Mirror
Haunted America
The Zombie Survival Guide

What? I like to read.

Weather Warden... I think I've seen that at my library, or at least one of them, but I neve read it. How is it?

The Doctor Who books are pretty good, though not entirely my area, and I keep having people tell me that Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is great. And the other one, too.

Haunted America? What's that? Anything like the "Weird [insert state name here]" books?

Originally Posted by Angel

Book Club...sweet

Pre-ordering the latest Wheel Of Time book soon - just hope it's not an epic let down. I read Dune, Dune Messiah and the third one (Children of Dune, is it? Can't remember) recently and although I spent much of that time going "what??", I did enjoy them.

Haven't read Cole Protocol yet although I have all the other Halo books - re-read Sabriel yesterday and also all the Splinter Cell books (I read a lot and I read fast )

I'd pick reading over any other form of entertainment, given the choice

Yeah, when's the next Wheel of Time coming out? I know they had... what, somebody they hired or his wife or something finishing it.

The Splinter Cell books are pretty good, even if Tom Clancy is getting on my nerves these days.

So would I... if college wasn't eating my life.

Originally Posted by Trawgdor

Right now, I'm reading The Sea of Trolls for my Language Arts Class.

The "theme" is The Journey of the Hero, or protagonist, 'cause the main character isn't always a "hero".

Have you guys got any Post-Apocalypse books that are good?

EDIT: Or Realistic Fiction?

Sea of Trolls... rings a bell-- it's by Nancy Farmer, right? I don't think I ever read it, but I've considered it a few times.

My favorite post-apocalyptic stories are probably "The Postman," by David Brin (way better than the movie, I swear) and... well, there's a few Philip K. **** short stories and novels that deal with outright post-apocolypse scenarios or just really ****ed up worlds.

"I Am Legend," the book, is also pretty good, even though it's really weird. By something-or-other Mathieson.

Oh, and Shade's Children, by Garth Nix.

EDIT: Oh, and for realistic stuff, I just read a few short stories by a guy named Anthony Doerr, for one of my classes. He has a few short story collections and a novel coming out. I really liked them. Junot Diaz is another one-- I actually haven't started the one book of his (hers?) I got, "The Brief and [something-or-other-I-don't-remember-maybe-glorious] Life of Oscar Wao," but my classmates have told me it's really good, and the short story I read was... entertaining. Not really my kinda thing, but realistic, if that's what you're looking for.

[Angel]

Next Wheel of Time is out this year...not long now, I think. But it's going to be one of three books charting the end of the series so it won't be all finished until 2011, if memory serves.

Not that I can remember what's been happening - I'll have to re-read the other ones to freshen up on the details...

[Pirate X]

Just read Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry. Any The Giver fans should read it!

[Firis]

Well crap... My reading mood ran out at 49 pages into Dune... So I don't enjoy reading anymore atm... Gimme a couple weeks or months, I probably should have read more instead of watching TV.

[Angel]

Maybe try something lighter than Dune?

[Trawgdor]

Originally Posted by Walker

Sea of Trolls... rings a bell-- it's by Nancy Farmer, right? I don't think I ever read it, but I've considered it a few times.

My favorite post-apocalyptic stories are probably "The Postman," by David Brin (way better than the movie, I swear) and... well, there's a few Philip K. **** short stories and novels that deal with outright post-apocolypse scenarios or just really ****ed up worlds.

"I Am Legend," the book, is also pretty good, even though it's really weird. By something-or-other Mathieson.

Oh, and Shade's Children, by Garth Nix.

EDIT: Oh, and for realistic stuff, I just read a few short stories by a guy named Anthony Doerr, for one of my classes. He has a few short story collections and a novel coming out. I really liked them. Junot Diaz is another one-- I actually haven't started the one book of his (hers?) I got, "The Brief and [something-or-other-I-don't-remember-maybe-glorious] Life of Oscar Wao," but my classmates have told me it's really good, and the short story I read was... entertaining. Not really my kinda thing, but realistic, if that's what you're looking for.

Yeah, by Nancy Farmer, it's really good so far.

I might pick up The Postman or Shade's Children, they seem very intriguing.

[Tyloric]

Originally Posted by Walker

Weather Warden... I think I've seen that at my library, or at least one of them, but I neve read it. How is it?

The Doctor Who books are pretty good, though not entirely my area, and I keep having people tell me that Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is great. And the other one, too.

Haunted America? What's that? Anything like the "Weird [insert state name here]" books?

The Weather Warden books and its spin off, Outcast Season, are outstanding. If you like the Dresden Files you'll like it.

Allow me to share a quick excerpt from Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, page 14:

---A few guests who had had the misfortune of being too near the windows, were seized and feasted on at once. When Elizabeth stood, she saw Mrs. Long struggling to free herself from as two dreadfuls bit into her head, cracking her skull like a walnut, and sending a show of dark blood sprouting as high as the chandeliers.
---As guests fled in every direction, Mr Bennett's voice cut through the commotion. "Girls! Pentagram of Death!"
---Elizabeth immediately joined her four sisters, Jane, Mary, Catherine, and Lydia in the center of the dance floor. Each girl produced a dagger from her ankle and stood at the tip of and imaginary five-pointed star. From the center of the room, they began stepping outward in unison--each thrusting a razor sharp dagger with one hand, the other hand modestly tucked into the small of her back.
---From a corner of the room, Mr. Darcy watched Elizabeth and her sisters work their way outward, beheading zombie after zombie as they went. He knew of only one other women in all of Great Britain who wielded a dagger with such skill, such grace, and deadly accuracy.
--By the time the girls reached the walls of the assembly hall, the last of the unmentionables lay still.

If that doesn't make you want to read it, nothing will. I typed that all up, straight from the book, just for you. <3

As for Haunted America, it's an anthology of true ghosts stories from all 50 states, and a few from Canada. It's by Micheal Norman and Beth Scott.

[Dagzey]

I've just recently finished reading Trudi Canavan's Black Magician Trilogy
I like Jeff Lindsay's Dexter Series (but I like the TV series more)
I've just bought Dan Brown's 'The Lost Symbol' but I'm in a bit of a Gunk ATM and can't really be bothered reading anything right now.
Tried to read Robert Jordan, but he was trying too hard to be Tolkein when all he was doing was boring the crap out of me!!

[Walker]

Originally Posted by Pirate X

Just read Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry. Any The Giver fans should read it!

Maybe. I liked Gathering Blue and Messenger, but you can't really say that anyone who liked The Giver would neccesarily like them. There were little references to The Giver, but the stories themselves weren't all that similar beyond sharing an author and some related themes.

Originally Posted by Firis

Well crap... My reading mood ran out at 49 pages into Dune... So I don't enjoy reading anymore atm... Gimme a couple weeks or months, I probably should have read more instead of watching TV.

Yeah, read something more fun than Dune. I suggest Baen science fiction or Terry Pratchett. Pratchett has more redeeming value, but basically anything from that publisher or Pratchett is highly amusing.

Originally Posted by Tyloric

The Weather Warden books and its spin off, Outcast Season, are outstanding. If you like the Dresden Files you'll like it.

As for Haunted America, it's an anthology of true ghosts stories from all 50 states, and a few from Canada. It's by Micheal Norman and Beth Scott.

Yeah, I like the Dresden Files-- they're extremely... iunno, call it lowbrow, but they're extremely fun to read, too. I'll have to look into the Weather Wardens.

Yeah, that's what I suspected-- I have a bad habit of getting books like that even though they creep the **** out of me. Lemme guess-- Maryland's entry was the Goatman? Not a ghost, but still.

And the Zombies one... [shrug.] I've been thinking about it. Absurdity is usually right up my alley.

Originally Posted by Dagzey

I've just recently finished reading Trudi Canavan's Black Magician Trilogy
I like Jeff Lindsay's Dexter Series (but I like the TV series more)
I've just bought Dan Brown's 'The Lost Symbol' but I'm in a bit of a Gunk ATM and can't really be bothered reading anything right now.
Tried to read Robert Jordan, but he was trying too hard to be Tolkein when all he was doing was boring the crap out of me!!

Yeah, I like Robert Jordan, but it definitely seemed at times like he was trying to be too much of a Tolkien lookalike sometimes. And failing.

Also, I have a low opinion of Dan Brown. This is because the one thing I have ever seen involving him was a brief portion of the Da Vinci Code movie where they were gibbering about chevrons and said basically that all of the below people were ****s:

Warning, this is a spoiler!

Warning, this is a spoiler!

Warning, this is a spoiler!

Maybe not the best examples, considering that the SEALS in the first image aren't wearing insignia, but trust me, you do not want to be calling any Chief a ****. (To explain, the scene that I saw claimed that a upward-pointing chevron represented a ****, and so military rank symbols relied on who had a bigger ****. Unfortunately, the US Coast Guard, US Navy and a lot of others all use downward-pointing chevrons. Meaning, but extension, that Dan Brown was calling them all...)

[William1193]

i wanna read some halo books but im lazy.
so i just read
The immortal by paul stewart and chris riddel part of the edge chronicles series
Both gears of war books-Aspho fields and Jacintos remnant
they were all brilliant, but i loved immortal too much as it was the finale of the series it looks childish but its just epic.
The gears books were awesome thinking about reading the authors other books the republic commando ones look good

[Trawgdor]

Have any of you guys read World War Z?

Is it any good?

I kind of want to find books with a similar story to Fallout 3; People hide down in shelters thinking a large scale war is going on, when in reality, the world is now a barren waste.

[ScareCrowReturn]

I really cant read, ay..

I read the Art of War, that was cool, learned a few things! But its a small book, I need a book about something awesome, some fantasy made-up think, but not like magic and stuff, just made up, and they do adventures and stuff.

That MIGHT be okay..