Top Ten Books
Since I made a list of my top ten fav movies, I thought that I'd do the same with books. Just like the movies, these books are in no particular order.
1. The Memory, Sorrow, Thorn Trilogy by Tad Williams is still the absolute best fantasy that I have ever read. This is perfection.
2. The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. A lot like #1 but longer. Much, much longer. A bit soap opery for me but a good couple months worth of reading. Hopefully he'll finish it before he dies of old age...
3. The Walking Drum by Louis La'Mour. Normally a western writer, this author wrote a story about a young Celtic boy on a quest to find and rescue his father in 12th century Europe. The author, having traveled extensively throughout his life, never wrote about a place unless he had actually been there. As a result this book is full of real places, real people and cultures, real foods, and cities. I learned more from this one book than I did in four years of history at school. And it's a fun read.
4. Fear Nothing and it's sequal Into the Night by Dean R. Koontz. A weird story about a boy, his dog, and some friends in a really weird town.
5. The Wolf's Hour by Robert R. McCammon. The story of a Russian Werewolf who is a British Secret Agent in Nazi occupied Fance and Germany during the last days of WWII. It changed my view of werewolves forever.
6. Stinger by Robert R. McCammon. An alien crashlands in a small texas town called Desolation and possesses a 9 year old girl. 10 hours later another alien, this one evil, lands and starts tearing up the town in a hunt to get the first alien. A must read.
7. Shogun by James Clavell. A look into the lives and times of 11th Century Japan as seen through the eyes of a shipwreck pilot for a Dutch ship. Surprisingly enough, this is a love story.
8. The Vlad Taltos novels by Steven Brust. A human assassin witch in an elven city plying his trade with a pseudodragon as a familiar... Priceless.
9. The Dark Elf and the Icewind Dale Trilogies by R. A. Salvatore. Book three of the Dark Elf trilogy and everything else the author has written is junk. But these more than make up for it.
10. The Dark Tower. A series by Stephen King. Cool...
I hope that this helps anyone looking for a good read.
1. The Memory, Sorrow, Thorn Trilogy by Tad Williams is still the absolute best fantasy that I have ever read. This is perfection.
2. The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. A lot like #1 but longer. Much, much longer. A bit soap opery for me but a good couple months worth of reading. Hopefully he'll finish it before he dies of old age...
3. The Walking Drum by Louis La'Mour. Normally a western writer, this author wrote a story about a young Celtic boy on a quest to find and rescue his father in 12th century Europe. The author, having traveled extensively throughout his life, never wrote about a place unless he had actually been there. As a result this book is full of real places, real people and cultures, real foods, and cities. I learned more from this one book than I did in four years of history at school. And it's a fun read.
4. Fear Nothing and it's sequal Into the Night by Dean R. Koontz. A weird story about a boy, his dog, and some friends in a really weird town.
5. The Wolf's Hour by Robert R. McCammon. The story of a Russian Werewolf who is a British Secret Agent in Nazi occupied Fance and Germany during the last days of WWII. It changed my view of werewolves forever.
6. Stinger by Robert R. McCammon. An alien crashlands in a small texas town called Desolation and possesses a 9 year old girl. 10 hours later another alien, this one evil, lands and starts tearing up the town in a hunt to get the first alien. A must read.
7. Shogun by James Clavell. A look into the lives and times of 11th Century Japan as seen through the eyes of a shipwreck pilot for a Dutch ship. Surprisingly enough, this is a love story.
8. The Vlad Taltos novels by Steven Brust. A human assassin witch in an elven city plying his trade with a pseudodragon as a familiar... Priceless.
9. The Dark Elf and the Icewind Dale Trilogies by R. A. Salvatore. Book three of the Dark Elf trilogy and everything else the author has written is junk. But these more than make up for it.
10. The Dark Tower. A series by Stephen King. Cool...
I hope that this helps anyone looking for a good read.
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