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Some books that I like:

Lord of the rings.
All Dan Brown books.

have not read that many....

Films that I like:
Inception.
The prestige.
startwars (IV,V and VI)
Lord of the rings.

Anything that resembles that kind of book or film is what I am looking for.

Today I went to the bookstore and picked up these 3 books.

The hobbit(read it before)

Alastair Reynolds CHASM CITY

and
Richard Morgan, ALTERED CARBON

the bookstore dude told me they would be a good start...

Anything else worth reading??
 
Man, sci-fi and fantasy are such broad genres I could recommend you a ton of books, so i'll just pick a few of my favourites at random;

River of Gods & Brasyl by Ian McDonald

The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolf

Lankhmar: The tales of Fafhrd & The Gray Mouser by Fritz Leiber

Anathem by Neal Stephenson.
 
Bootaaay said:
Man, sci-fi and fantasy are such broad genres I could recommend you a ton of books, so i'll just pick a few of my favourites at random;

River of Gods & Brasyl by Ian McDonald

The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolf

Lankhmar: The tales of Fafhrd & The Gray Mouser by Fritz Leiber

Anathem by Neal Stephenson.
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thanks gonna google them and see what the plot is.


Songs of ice and fire sounds like a typical knight tale and kings tale... is it?

I prefer more of mystic magical worlds...
 
robertsan21 said:
Songs of ice and fire sounds like a typical knight tale and kings tale... is it?

I prefer more of mystic magical worlds...
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Well, yeah, it is about knights and kings, but describing it as typical is really doing it a disservice. Its quite deep and has interesting politics. Its the most entertaining fantasy book I have read in a long time. Hell, HBO is making a series based on it.
 
Only one recommendation for Dune? GAF surprises me.

Get Dune. A really good book. I also suggest books by my personal favorite author, Michael Crichton, bless his dinosaur bones.
 
Meteorain said:
The Foundation Trilogy - Isaac Asimov

Some like him, some don't, but I believe he's a brilliant author.
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Yep.

Might as well read the whole series (all 15 books). Such as great universe.
 
ConfusingJazz said:
Don't follow this man's advice. This is a terrible idea, and your soul will pay for it.
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Go jump off a bridge!

Prelude and Forward are okay, and Foundation and Earth rocks. Hard. Incredible cliffhanger too.

Actually, he can skip The Empire books, which are also just okay.
 
gdt5016 said:
Go jump off a bridge!

Prelude and Forward are okay, and Foundation and Earth rocks. Hard. Incredible cliffhanger too.

Actually, he can skip The Empire books, which are also just okay.
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I only jump off bridges if the cool kids do it, suck it!
 
If you're a fan of the classic Star Wars universe, you can try out some of the novels. The Heir to the Empire trilogy by Timothy Zahn is the closest there is to an extension of the movies. Then there's my personal favorite, the X-wing series. Particularly Aaron Allston's books, which have some great humor.

Unfortunately there are a lot of crappy books in the expanded universe to go along with the few gems though.
 
Jack Random said:
I totally agree, you'll very likely enjoy Altered Carbon.

also, drop everything and get Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
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Meh I cannot get through Snow Crash. The writing style really annoys me. It is like Stephenson cannot contain himself from giving a 50 year history of every fucking little thing in the story. I had enough when the one dude came to pick up Hero and he went to get a shower and Stephenson had to go into a long ass diatribe about the different tiers of showers and how the technology worked. Just get on with the fucking story asshole.
 
Hari Seldon said:
Meh I cannot get through Snow Crash. The writing style really annoys me. It is like Stephenson cannot contain himself from giving a 50 year history of every fucking little thing in the story. I had enough when the one dude came to pick up Hero and he went to get a shower and Stephenson had to go into a long ass diatribe about the different tiers of showers and how the technology worked. Just get on with the fucking story asshole.
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Oh, if you hate Snow Crash because of that, I would love to see you get through Cryptonomicon. From his refusal to use the word Japanese (NO ONE USES THE FUCKING WORD NIPPONESE YOU JACKASS!), to one entire chapter of an email where the writer refers to himself as "Yours Truly" for no god damn reason, and about a billion and a half other little nit picky things that annoyed me, I almost threw the damn book in the wall 63,000 times. Still finished it though, its just seems like he writes good books in spite of himself.
 
I just re-read Book of Jhereg by Steven Brust (the omnibus edition) .. and it still holds despite the time between reads is 10+ years.


Awesome wit and action.

The followup Book of Taltos (omnibus edition is good as well), but man Jhereg is sooo good.
 
ConfusingJazz said:
Oh, if you hate Snow Crash because of that, I would love to see you get through Cryptonomicon. From his refusal to use the word Japanese (NO ONE USES THE FUCKING WORD NIPPONESE YOU JACKASS!), to one entire chapter of an email where the writer refers to himself as "Yours Truly" for no god damn reason, and about a billion and a half other little nit picky things that annoyed me, I almost threw the damn book in the wall 63,000 times. Still finished it though, its just seems like he writes good books in spite of himself.
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Yeah the rest of the book seems awesome, I just hate his writing style. If he ever teamed up with an editor with some balls he would probably produce a kick ass book.
 
Hari Seldon said:
Yeah the rest of the book seems awesome, I just hate his writing style. If he ever teamed up with an editor with some balls he would probably produce a kick ass book.
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Same feeling I had with Peter Jackson and King Kong.
 
Funky Functionality said:
Ender's Game. You could probably read it in 2 sittings.

It's worth it.
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
it makes me so happy that this was the second reply :D
read ender's game. then speaker for the dead. then xenocide. then children of the mind. do it.
 
Hyperion
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It has one of the most terriifying characters in all of fiction.

I have no mouth and I must scream
A great short story. Would love to see a movie made out of it.

The hammer and cross
Excellent viking story.

Deed of Paksenarrion
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Not big on GAF. One of my personal favorite fantasy series. It's about a farmer's daughter that doesn't want to married off. She wants to go out and see the world so she runs away and joins a mercenary group. She eventually becomes a Paladin and might even become a god.
 
ConfusingJazz said:
Oh, if you hate Snow Crash because of that, I would love to see you get through Cryptonomicon.
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It took me seven years to read Cryptonomicon. I started it in 2003, got about a third of the way through before getting really pissed off with it and stopped. But finally finished it this year. Not sure if it was worth it.
 
Here's an interesting one about a 'remote viewer' that was part of a top secret government psi-ops program. Remote viewing is viewing stuff on other locations through your mind. In this book the remote viewer could view other planets and what was going on there.
However it's not written as a fictional story; the writer tells what he experienced and the things he learned while he was part of this program.
It's one of the most fascinating books I've read.
A physical copy is extremely hard to get, so here's a link to a Scribd upload:
Penetration: The Question of Extraterrestial and Human Telepathy http://www.scribd.com/doc/426672/The-Question-of-Extraterrestrial-and-Human-Telepathy-I-Swann
 
thanks all for the tips, asimov, gonna look for some books from him then.


I hated the hitchikersguide to the universe film... maybe the book is better?
 
robertsan21 said:
thanks all for the tips, asimov, gonna look for some books from him then.


I hated the hitchikersguide to the universe film... maybe the book is better?
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The film is a piece of shit.
The books are a work of brilliance.
 
this is pretty much space scifi and fantasy combined
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a lot of gaffers like it a lot, so it might be just for you
 
gdt5016 said:
Actually, he can skip The Empire books, which are also just okay.
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Except for Pebble in the Sky. It should be read because of how it ties into the Foundation series.
 
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