Thread: Books worth Reading

half way through reading the new Ender book (Ender in Exile) by Orson Scott Card - loving it so far, set directly after the events of Ender's Game, it's interesting to watch the characters growing towards those in the sequels.

Anything by Jack Higgins is a good read; particularly the eagle has landed and the eagle has flown.

If you like star trek, anything by michael jan friedman or Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens are stand outs among the masses of trek fiction

Originally Posted by paladin

I'd also heavily recommend some Steven King - The Dark Tower series is quite good, IT is a fantastic book and The Tommyknockers is hands down the creepiest book I have ever read (okay so it was 20 years ago, my opinion may change if i were to read it again, but it was still an awesome, awesome book)

Just ordered the seven books in the Dark tower series, will give an update when I've read them

allow me harb: awesome fucking awesomeness. there was talk of the dark tower becoming a tv show awhile back - shame it didnt pan out :/

no mention of david gemmel yet? I was always fond of the jerusalem man chronicles. Also Brandon Sanderson Mistborn is really great so no surprise they got him to finish off the wheel of time

One of the best fantasy authors I have read to date is Robin Hobb. The Farseer Trilogy, The Liveship Traders Trilogy & The Tawny Man Trilogy (best read in that oder) Don't be thrown off by the first person writing its easily up there with my favourite series of all time. Liveship traders is written differently about different people but intersects with the assassin.

The farseer books were good, though there was a point there it felt like Hobb was just killing time 'til the next book

Originally Posted by DoWhatUWant

no mention of david gemmel yet? I was always fond of the jerusalem man chronicles. Also Brandon Sanderson Mistborn is really great so no surprise they got him to finish off the wheel of time

lion of macedon was good.

2 Good Australian Authors

Robert G Barrett, his character Les Norton will have you in stitches with his home grown humour and antics, his other books are good reads

Matthew Reily, HIGHLY addictive, fast paced action, very good tho I do recommend that you buy the series (when it is a series) as a whole and not be waiting 18 months to find out what happens on what is sometimes literally a cliffhanger.

An also decent read is Lee Child, the Jack Reacher series has been pretty good so far ( still reading ), a well paced murder/mystery/thriller

okay this thread needs locking - Matthew Reilly is a travesty unto literature and all his 'works' (can't seriously call that rectal sputum work) should be individually burnt at the stake. It's like reading the playtime ramblings of a bunch of children in a school yard - "wouldnt it be cool if he swung a lamborghini on top of a wall and balanced it there while it slid past an exploding truck!!!!!!" - with all the attention to continuity, character development, and even rudimentary physics you would expect from said ramblings.

edit: sorry, I'm still really cut over the $5 I utterly wasted on one of his books.