Z for Zachary
it is about the end of the world, or at least modern society. In a small town in America sheltered by a micro climate a young girl has survived and has all but given up hope of seeing others again until one day a stranger arrives in his hasmat suit and her entire survival strategy is thrown on its head as she watches him from afar, deciding if she should even bother contacting him.

I also enjoy Do Androids Dream of Sheep
KPax
Last and First Men


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I do not read as much as I would like these days. Most of my reading is purely educational literature or study thesis on zombie survival / possibility and technology advancement and its advantages / dangers /potential for law and criminal means.

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Used to love Hemingway when I was young. "Green Hills of Africa" was quite important to me. The testosterone overkill opened up a new world to a dainty 12 year old boy from Germany. Have to reread it one of these days.

I'm hoping those are squeals of pleasure/agreement! :P Interesting! Yea, this thread has me inkling to pick up a good book or two and start reading more regularly.

They sure are.

Well if I can name more than one:
Lord of the Rings
The Hobbit
The Stand
Hunt for Red October
Red Storm Rising

Just to name a few

There are so many....
i love LotR
Philip K. Dick
the early works of King
Tamora Pierce
Peter Straub/John Saul
Dean R. Koontz
Philip Pullman
Kai Meyer
Agatha Christie
Dorothy L. Sawyer
Jane Gaskell
and so many more

"Curtain: Poirot's Last Case" by Agatha Christie.

Papillon

Yeah i keep getting harrassed about reading that book. It supposedly makes everything better, or something.

I raise you Il viaggio della Freccia Azzurra, specifically the 1955 version. The new edition cleans up the prose, but also updates the timeframe, and the result is absolutely toothless.

Yes.

As I'm not nearly as much fond of fiction as of non-fiction, my favourite three books are non-fiction.

I like those books most, that give me most insight into the world. My top 3 would be:

1. Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene: wonderfully shows how evolution made us into what we are and it gave me far more insight into why the world is what it is than my delving into religion in my early days.

2. Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs and Steel: shows why we in the west have been so successful and powerful, not because we were better, but due to a stroke of geographical and biological luck that places the root of our success into more diversity in domesticable species of plants and animals available.

3. Jared Diamond - Collapse: most civilisations came to an end because of not respecting ecological boundaries and so will we, if we don't take care.

Difficult choice to do. I've tried, I've quitted.

I would say "John Dies at the End" by David Wong. Comedy/Horror blended impossibly well.

I can't pick just one.

I recently read the Ancient Blades trilogy by David Chandler, and that series is now one of my favorites.

"The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

"The Face in the Frost" by John Bellairs

The first two DragonLance trilogies.

Anything by Robert Asprin, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, David Foster Wallace, Brett Easton Ellis, Jay McInerney, Tim Dorsey, Carl Hiaasen, Tolkien, Poe, Simon R. Green, Joe Abercrombie, Steven Brust, Patrick Rothfuss, Neil Gaiman, Richard Kadrey, Neal Stephenson... I could go on and on but it's time for work.

As much I like my Abercrombie and Robin Hobb books, my all time favorite is "The Name of the Wind" (The Kingkiller Chronicle) by Patrick Rothfuss. "The Painted Man" (Demon Cycle) by Peter V. Brett is a close second. 2012s "The Blinding Knife" (Lightbringer) by Brent Weeks is also a great book (probably the best 2nd book of a series I've ever read.
Yup, I like fantasy books :(.

As I mostly read educational textbooks I would also like to mention "Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence" (Floreano and Mattiussi) which is a great introduction to the area of sub-symbolic AI.