[Ninkazu]

Harry Potter is actually a good series, I just hate all those bible beaters who know nothing about it, think it's the devil's book, then buy 10,000 copies just to burn 'em. Thanks for boosting the economy fellas! I'm glad no one else is retarded enough to listen to you!

[Jihgfed Pumpkinhead]

Aargh, too much to comment on! Post more slowly, you people!

Seems I have to read The Wheel of Time, since Valderman said so. Seems fairly popular, besides. Can I crack open any old book in the series, or do I have to start with the first one?

Yes, Roald Dahl's books were killer. I loved them all, and still do. In fact, I think I'm going to go read Matilda tonight.

Ender's Game was very good, I thought. I'm not usually much in to Science Fiction, but that one really grabbed me, particularly the relationship between Ender and his sister.

The Butter Battle Book, eh? A Dr. Seuss book I haven't read, and you say it's a good one at that? I'll have to check this out.

Aaah, BigMan, "refined"?! I hate that word! It's sounds so much like "inbred", like blue-blooded taste bred with blue-blooded taste. Aaah! Heh, anyway, I'm not really offended, but the books I listed are my favourites, not the only ones, nor kind, I like. The Peace War sounds cool.

Heh, anyone who says The Sound and the Fury is too "pop-novel" for him must have really odd tastes (not that that's bad). I checked out that experimental guide, Mandrake, and "You won't find any namby-pamby postmodern diatribe here" convinced me to at least try out the anthology you had listed, see what I think of it. Always nice to try new things.

I noticed a lot of programmers like the Hitchhiker's Guide. Odd that disciples of such a strict logic should like a book with such absurd humour... or maybe not. I guess programming's logic is pretty zany sometimes (recursion, ugh, freaky stuff), and the Hitchhiker's Guide always seemed to be illogical along logical lines, if you know what I mean (I'm not even sure I know what I mean). Anyway, yeah, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was much good fun, I enjoyed it. You all like Monty Python too, then?

Diesel Fundamentals, Service, Repair? Odd bed-time reading; but hey, different strokes for different folks, eh?

And Neuromancer's one of those books I'm supposed to read too, right? Sort of seminal, isn't it? Okay, I'll get around to it soon.

Man. Remind me not to start up a topic like this again. I have other things to do!

[DarkDread]

...and they're all good... though, imo, Foundation's Edge, and Foundation and Earth are the two best in the series. Prelude to Foundation is pretty damn good too, as it's a prequel to the whole thing, and goes further in depth, into all the neat legends presented in the rest of the novels. Oh, and of course, it's set in the same universe as Assimov's robot novels.
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[Quickbeam]

Ender's Game and its sequels are all amazing books. I'd definitely recommend them to anyone who's literate. The Darksword Trilogy and The Deathgate Cycle, both series' by Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman are really good as well.

I've never read the Foundation series, but my brother has it, I should read it some time. Also, I read the first half of Neuromancer but I just couldn't follow it at all. That was a while ago though, maybe I should try again...

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[LeoDraco]

Otherland - Tad Williams
The Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan
Discworld - Terry Pratchett (Walk away from Pratchett without chuckling, and you have no sense of humour)
Eye in the Sky - Philip K. Dick (Or, practically anything else by Dick)
The Dark Tower - Stephen King (Yay! The last three books are coming!)
Chronicles of the Lensmen - E. E. "Doc" Smith
Dune - Frank Herbert (Even the books written by his son are readible)
Chronicles of Narnia / The Space Trilogy - C.S. Lewis
The Neverending Story - Micheal Ende
Hitchhiker's Guide ... - Douglas Adams
The Once and Future King - T.H. White
Shakespeare

And so on and so forth. Bleh. If I were to list everything that I have read that is notable (on any level), this post would be gargantuan.

The Harry Potter books are actually quite entertaining. I, originally, had no desire to read them; I then saw the movie a Fourth of July a year ago, became intrigued, and decided to read them.

Although -- strictly speaking -- they are not books in the normal sense, various graphic novel series are worth throwing money at:

Bone - Jeff Smith
Love Hina - Ken Akamatsu
Ranma 1/2 - Rumiko Takahashi
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[Rainer Deyke]

pure text books:

Dragonlance Chronicles and Legends
Prydain Chronicles (by Lloyd Alexander)
Daggerspell (by Katharine Kerr)
War of Light and Shadow (by Janny Wurts)
Discworld series (By Terry Pratchett)

comic books:

Watchmen
Sandman series
Books of Magic series
earlier installments of Elfquest series
Understanding Comics (by Scott McCloud)