JudasIscariot was kind enough to fix the thread title. It will now be more clear which thread is the game vs. the signup.

Thanks for pointing out my slip.

That was rather rude of me, so: Everyone, top however many novels you've read but also liked, then? Go.

Yogsloth: I read Dune, but cannot now remember anything about it, and I haven't read either Ender's Game or the Harry Potter series.

Also, another book that I have read but also like, Gene Wolfe's There Are Doors. Looking for his girlfriend, a man stumbles between this universe and another, confused and possibly mad (as I remember it, at least).

That sounds more my speed.

Also:

Eon, by Greg Bear. Plus sequels.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams. Books 1-4. Screw 5.

2001 series, Arthur C. Clarke.

Rama series, Arthur C. Clarke.

Most Stephen King up until the mid-90s or so.

Gulliver's Travels, Swift.

The Iliad / Odyssey, Homer.

Inferno / Purgatorio / Paradisio, Dante.



Turning back the clock to childhood, and that which made us great and worldly men when we were but boys:

Hobbit / LOTR, of course.

The Chronicles of Narnia, Lewis.

Bridge to Teriabithia, Paterson.

Anything Roald Dahl ever touched.

I can echo The Fountainhead as well as her novel Atlas Shrugged.

Written around the turn of the century is The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.

Ender's Game is a very enjoyable read.

I'm currently reading a series (sort of) by Joe R. Lansdale. He wrote several books with two characters Hap and Leonard. They are very easy reads in the vain of crime drama/mystery. The characters are charming. Hap is a draft dodging ex-con with martial art skills and white. Leonard is a Vietnam vet with staunch beliefs and quite violent. He's also black and gay. They live in rural east Texas and are friends for life.

The dialogue sounds real and the characters quite believable.

Hey... no fair picking more than 3 books!

I do agree with them though (at least the ones I have read... about 80% of those you listed). I prefer Koontz to King, however.

Since we are breaking the rules now, i'll add more books too:

1) The Uplift Saga by David Brin: Sundiver, Startide Rising, The Uplift War (there are more books, but I like the original trilogy best)
2) Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
3) Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

Other Sci-fi that is very good, off the top of my head:
Conqueror's Saga by Timothy Zahn
Lost Fleet series/universe by Jack Campbell
Honor Harrington series by David Weber

I will admit to a weakness for the pulp sci-fi from the the seventies.

So pulpy....so very pulpy....

If you've ever watched Gentlemen Broncos, the beginning credits are the books I have bags and bags filled with...

I see I have a reserved spot so it would be impolite to stay out.

Sign me up, monkey man!

I find it funny/sad the GoG team has run out of "freebies" and the sale has ground to a stand still.

Some people are unhappy.....

I haven't read any of his books, but he does seem to be an interesting, productive and varied writer. I found this post (beware, bad words ahead) to be a useful primer on his career. It also made me want to really buy his books, but I haven't got around to that yet.

Yogsloth: I can never seem to get through King. The only books of his I've read are Dolores Claiborne and Full Dark, No Stars.

I like his son, Joe Hill, as a writer, though. I have a particular fondness for his novel Horns.

1) The Twilight Saga by Stephanie Meyer
2) Fifty Shades of Grey by some Twilight fanfic chick
3) Drive-by Shooting Guide for Parents by Christopher "Sumo" Pickles von Görlitz

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This. Sounds fun. :-)

I will continue to hound you about redeeming that gift until you do, I'm relentless :P

But if I redeem it, I might install it! And if I install it, I might play it tonight when I should be getting everything poised to launch :)

I was struggling to pick three individual books.. but if you can do series that makes it slightly easier

Hitchhikers Guide - just one of the funniest books I have ever read. The quality does go down hill a bit as they go on, but the first two are pure gold.

Nation - Terry Pratchett; ironically considering how prolificly he wrote the Discworld books my favourite of all his books is one of the few non Diskworld ones. Both hilarious and insightful.

A book I don't expect any of you will have read, but if you enjoy laughing until it hurts and want to learn a little about Ireland / the Irish then read McCarthy's Bar and it's sequel The Road to McCarthy by Pete McCarthy. You will not regret it.

As for fantasy, anything by Joe Abercrombie. He does dark and gritty ten times better than George R R Martin ever did.

And the Deverry series by Katherine Kerr. An absolute epic of a fantasy series that has to be read a few times (all dozen or more books) to truly grasp just how cleverly put together it is.