Favorite Book

[Phenylethylamine]

The (no longer) Increasingly Inaccurately Named Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy is the best (BTW, has anyone else played the Infocom text-based game? It's online, if you liked the books, google it- Adams wrote all the text of it); Douglas Adams is a genius (I also loved Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency).
Did you hear that Eoin Colfer is writing a 6th Hitchhiker's book?! I love some of Colfer's books, but no matter how good he is, you just can't match Adams. I guess if SOMEONE had to write a sequel, he's the best I can think of, but still, it rubs me the wrong way...

Anything by Tamora Pierce, Scott Westerfeld, or E.L. Konigsburg gets my vote, too.

Other favorites:
Empress of the World by Sarah Ryan
The Gate to Women's Country (argh, I forget the author's name, and I'm too lazy to go get the book and check)
The Riddlemaster of Hed trilogy by Patricia McKillip
On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen by Harold McGee (yes, a food science book. It's actually quite famous... among food scientists... yeah...)

[gneissisnice]

Haha, I love the Hitchhiker's series. It's such a unique humor, but it's so entertaining. And though I think that Colfer is a decent author, he will probably butcher the next hitchhiker's book if he writes it.
Im also a fan of Tamora Pierce and E.L. Konigsburg.

[rpattzcheersquad]

hmm
well everyone should read the twilight series by stephnie meyer
and then george orwell
and to kill a mockingbird
and jane eyre is really good
and those books by libba bray
and the bell jar!!!!!

[soobsession]

My fav series would have to be Percy Jackson and the Olympians.

ditto. its the best the new one...The Last Olympian is coming out like may 5

other awesome series...
Harry Potter (duh)
Alex Rider
Maximum Ride
Pendragon!!!!!!!!! <3
Artemis Fowl is alright too

[gneissisnice]

The last Pendragon is coming out in May too. I cant wait, I really wanna know how it ends.

[i brk a lot of eggs]

The sea of trolls, land of the silver apples, house of the scorpion
inheritance cycle
fire within
harry potter
bartimaeus
clive clussler: the trojan odyssey
artemis fowl
thief lord
dragon rider
percy jackson and the olympians
treasue island
lord of the flies
the tale of two cities
city of ember
hatchet brians return, brians hunt brians winter,the river
and the lista goes on and on.

[Mr. Cool]

Eragon books and Harry Potter FTW

[Phenylethylamine]

Has anyone else noticed that Paolini writes like he's got a high school English teacher over his shoulder? "Make sure to put two adjectives for every noun! Use a thesaurus!" Don't get me wrong, I liked the books pretty well, but the fact that his characters never send a letter, they always send a 'missive'- that kind of clinched it for me. Repetition isn't any better just because the word is less well-known; in fact, it's worse, because it draws your focus in a way that the word 'letter' never would.

[Mr. Cool]

No offense, but any average reader looking for an entertaining story probably wouldn't even notice something like that.

[croman74]

The sea of trolls, land of the silver apples, house of the scorpion
inheritance cycle
fire within
harry potter
bartimaeus
clive clussler: the trojan odyssey
artemis fowl
thief lord
dragon rider
percy jackson and the olympians
treasue island
lord of the flies
the tale of two cities
city of ember
hatchet brians return, brians hunt brians winter,the river
and the lista goes on and on.

I love House of the Scorpian. It was such a great book. I also love the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. Those are fantastically written and have such a good plot. Rick Riordan came up with a great idea for that series. Whenever somebody asks for a good book, I recommend those.

Has anyone else noticed that Paolini writes like he's got a high school English teacher over his shoulder? "Make sure to put two adjectives for every noun! Use a thesaurus!" Don't get me wrong, I liked the books pretty well, but the fact that his characters never send a letter, they always send a 'missive'- that kind of clinched it for me. Repetition isn't any better just because the word is less well-known; in fact, it's worse, because it draws your focus in a way that the word 'letter' never would.

I didn't really notice that, no offense. He's a good writer, but he takes forever to come out with a new book. I forgot all about eragon by the time brisingr came out, so I had to reread the first two books. And now he's coming out with a 4th book, so that basically takes away the whole "Trilogy" idea. We'll just have to wait another 3 years for the next book.