Report, edit, etc...Posted by Staredit.Net Essence on 2004-07-22 at 19:43:07
Seeing I'm in a library, I just wanted to know what books you people read. I read the Dune novels by Frank Herbert. Best damned books I've ever read...
(I know one of you is going to say StarCraft...)
(I know one of you is going to say StarCraft...)
Report, edit, etc...Posted by EzDay281 on 2004-07-22 at 20:05:59
Woot.
I like Obernewtyn series
Dragon Blood series(I believe that's the name)
Hitchikers' Guide series(DAMN FUNNY)
And Starcraft (
). Wait, Starcraft is a game, not a book. So cancel that.
'Cause I say don't get SC Novels.
I like Obernewtyn series
Dragon Blood series(I believe that's the name)
Hitchikers' Guide series(DAMN FUNNY)
And Starcraft (
). Wait, Starcraft is a game, not a book. So cancel that.'Cause I say don't get SC Novels.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Stereo on 2004-07-22 at 20:08:23
The Discworld series. I may be the first to say it but I bet a lot of other people here read it too 
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Shmeeps on 2004-07-22 at 20:18:40
Diablo books, Starcraft Books, Halo Books, And Tom Clancy books. That's about it.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Nozomu on 2004-07-22 at 21:29:18
If you're into philosophy, check out "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert Heinlein, "Catch 22" by Joseph Heller, and "Another Roadside Attraction" by Tom Robbins. They'll blow your mind.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by iamacow on 2004-07-22 at 21:31:04
Dragonlance books
Belgariad (or something, don't remember) were good books
R. A. Salvatore books (especially ones with Drizzt and friends)
Death gate cycle
Hitchhikers guide
and the book Rendezvous with Rama were all books I like reading and actually remember right now.
AND OMG CAT IN TEH HAT!!1! MEWOW
Belgariad (or something, don't remember) were good books
R. A. Salvatore books (especially ones with Drizzt and friends)
Death gate cycle
Hitchhikers guide
and the book Rendezvous with Rama were all books I like reading and actually remember right now.
AND OMG CAT IN TEH HAT!!1! MEWOW
Report, edit, etc...Posted by CheeZe on 2004-07-22 at 21:35:29
The Once and Future King
and some random math books
and some random math books
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Locke on 2004-07-22 at 21:52:30
the hobbit, the three lotr books, all 5 Harry potters, first two halo books, one or two discworld books, the earthsea trilogy, his dark materials (the golden compass, the subtle knife, the amber spyglass), enders game, speaker for the dead, xenocide, almost done wiht the book on the taboo against knowing who you are, all of narnia books, damn i can remember a lot of books i read and about nothing in them.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Probeanator on 2004-07-22 at 21:54:05
Learning C++ From the Ground up. 1997 or 8
Report, edit, etc...Posted by ShadowSnipe4 on 2004-07-22 at 22:10:07
- Starcraft Books
- Halo Books
- Wheel of time books (great series)
- Aliens books
- Aliens vs predator books
- Ender series
- Alot of books by Dean Koontz (Seize the Night, Fear Nothing= probably one of the best series I've ever read)
- Michael Criton Books
- A series that started out with a book titled something moon (second book was Fortress Draconis)
- The LOTR series
- Harry potter series (all)
- And of course Calvin and Hobbes
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Kame on 2004-07-22 at 22:15:47
book of Taltos. Damn funny book. It's about an assassin with an attitude problem.
book of the new sun. It's a deep read man, and very dark. anyone else know dark stories?
book of the new sun. It's a deep read man, and very dark. anyone else know dark stories?
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Mr.Camo on 2004-07-22 at 23:35:37
I've read all my books, but I loved Eragon.
I like the sarcastic funny moments of Laurell K. Hampton.
Also I'm a very good writer, mother says, teacher says, friends say.
I'll try and post one soon.
I like the sarcastic funny moments of Laurell K. Hampton.
Also I'm a very good writer, mother says, teacher says, friends say.
I'll try and post one soon.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Shmeeps on 2004-07-22 at 23:46:10
QUOTE(Locke @ Jul 22 2004, 08:52 PM)
the hobbit, the three lotr books, all 5 Harry potters, first two halo books, one or two discworld books, the earthsea trilogy, his dark materials (the golden compass, the subtle knife, the amber spyglass), enders game, speaker for the dead, xenocide, almost done wiht the book on the taboo against knowing who you are, all of narnia books, damn i can remember a lot of books i read and about nothing in them.
So, you haven't read the third Halo book?
Report, edit, etc...Posted by ent on 2004-07-23 at 03:16:15
Hmm
I love to read and right now i read some Fjodor Dostojevski books.
I also like Isaac Asimov books, The wheel of time, LOTR, and just about every Sci-fi or fantasy book I can lay my hands on.
I love to read and right now i read some Fjodor Dostojevski books.
I also like Isaac Asimov books, The wheel of time, LOTR, and just about every Sci-fi or fantasy book I can lay my hands on.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Xeno on 2004-07-23 at 03:56:08
ShadowSnipe, you read AvP and Aliens books?
I have the following books... (Realated to AvP)
I'm gonna type up the summarys because I love them so much.
Aliens: Earth Hive
Wilks was a space marine with a near-fatal flaw: he had a heart. Billie was a child, the only survivor of a far-flung colony outpost. Thrown together in the last hellish night of an alien invasion, Billie and Wilks helped each other get out alive.
Thirteen years later Wilks is in prison, and Billie lives in a mental institution, the nightmare memories of the massacre at Rim seared into her mind. Now the government has tapped Wilks to lead an expedition to the aliens' home planet to bring back a live alien. But the competition on Earth to develop the aliens as a new weapons system is brutal. When Wilk's team departs on their mission, a trained assassin trails them. And what follows is no less than guerrilla warfare on the aliens' planet - and alien conquest on Earth!
Aliens: Nightmare Asylum
Wilks, Billie, and Bueller were the last survivors of a devastating assault on the aliens' home planet. But their return to the solar sytem made them refugees once more, fleeing Earth and its alien infestation in a desperate attempt to stay alive. Now, in an otherwise unmanned military transport, they hurtle through space. Destination: unknown.
Little do they know that the cargo they carry with them is a legacy of death that they will ultimately have to face. Nor do they know that they heaqd toward a remote colony and military outpost. This pocket of humanity at the very edges of space is at the mercy of a general named Spears with an agenda all his own. Now Billie, Wilks, and Bueller face a new nightmare, and it is nothing they could ever have imagined: a gift of madness from an alien world, an unbalanced mind, and the experiences of a mysterious pilot and Lieutenant Ellen Ripley.
Aliens: The Female War
Lieutenant Ellen Ripley awoke from her long journey in space with a hole in her memory and an overwhelming drive to survive When she meets Wilks and Billie, two battered veterans in the war against the aliens, she realizes she's found two comrades in arms - and she's ready to take up the fight.
Only then does she discover the devastating secret that lurks behind her long sleep. When she, Wilks, and Billie prepare to meet the aliens head-on to turn a powerful alien queen against her spawn in a battle intended to save Earth, that secret becomes her greatest weapon - and her greatest liability. As the fate of Earth hangs in the balance, Ripley and Billie must come to terms with what it
means to be alien... and what it means to be human.
Aliens: Alien Harvest
This time the humans are taking the offensive! Stan Myakovsky is a once-famous scientist fallen on hard times. Now he dodges spaceship repo men and dreams of the marketability of his cybernetic ant. Then a woman named Julie Lish walks into his life. She is beautiful, mysterious, and totally amoral. She is also skilled in the arts of thievery and Oriental self-defense. What's more, she has a plan so outrageous there might be one chance in a million to pull it off.
Together Stan and Julie become the most unlikely pair of pirates in the universe. With a hijacked spaceship and a crew of hardcase misfits, they're searching for the ultimate pot of gold at the end of a bloody intergalactic rainbow: royal jelly from an alien hive. The only problem is that the fortune lies on the universes's most godforsaken planet/ And once they get their hands on it, they'll have to fight their way past the aliens to get off the planet alive.
^This one has ought to be my favorite of all the ones I've read, I absoluty love the ending.
Aliens versus Predator: Prey
Machiko Noguchi accepted the assignment of supervising the ranching colony on Ryushi as a challenge. Little did she know that not only would she have to run the colony, she'd have to dfend it with her life!
First the carcass of a spiderlike alien is discovered. Then a rancher's family is massacred. Finally a creature unlike any ever seen before is brought to the colony medical center, near death. It soons become clear that not one but two strains of alien life have landed near the settlement of Prosperity Wells. One kind - beetle black with shells as hard as steel - have been spawned as the prey in a deadly hunt. The other kind - upright like humans but infinitely stronger and just as smart - are the Predators. Between them are the human colonists, unarmed and vulnerable. With the entire colony at risk, Machiko Noguchi must choose between death and survival - and may find her greatest ally in a Predator ready to kill her...
Aliens versus Predator: Hunter's Planet
The best time of Machiko Naguchi's life came in the wake of the Ryushi colony massacre. It was then that she abandoned her human heritage and ran with the Predators as a dedicated Hunter. But it was only two years before she returned to live with humanity and work for the Chigusa Corporation.
Livermore Evanston is an ambitious developer who has built the ultimate hunter's paradise: a world just beyond the reach of human regulations, populated by ferocious, genetically engineered animals. But Evanston didn't plan on being patronized by the galaxy's most ruthless Predators - or the Aliens they brought along as prey. As his human customers fall victim to the unscheduled hunt, Evanston realizes that the Predators must be curbed, and there's only one woman for the job. But there's even more to this world than meets the eye, and Machiko Naguchi may only have one way out: to take complete control of the deadliest planet in known space!
Aliens versus Predator: War
Machiko Noguchi lived for the thrill of the Hunt. She ran with the Predators until her human ingenuity marked her as an outcast. Now the thrill is over. And the fierce warriors of her Hunting band are tracking her. Meanwhile, Jess, Lara, and Ellis, remnants of a bug-hunter team that wiped out an alien infestation in a Company space station, know too many secrets to be allowed to live. They are being sset up by a ruthlessly ambitious Company boss who will stop at nothing to silence them forever.
An outcast human Hunter and a trio of bug hunters. They are the most unlikely of allies. Yet on the swamp planet Bunda, they must join in a desperate fight. Company hit-squads are already moving in for the kill. Fearsome Predators are heading for a showdown with a ferocious colony of aliens. And between them stand four brave warriors in an all-out war between the galaxy's most savage life-forms - a war nothing human can survive.
I've read a handful of Predator books too, but I don't want to type those summarys up... ugh...
I have the following books... (Realated to AvP)
I'm gonna type up the summarys because I love them so much.
Aliens: Earth Hive
Wilks was a space marine with a near-fatal flaw: he had a heart. Billie was a child, the only survivor of a far-flung colony outpost. Thrown together in the last hellish night of an alien invasion, Billie and Wilks helped each other get out alive.
Thirteen years later Wilks is in prison, and Billie lives in a mental institution, the nightmare memories of the massacre at Rim seared into her mind. Now the government has tapped Wilks to lead an expedition to the aliens' home planet to bring back a live alien. But the competition on Earth to develop the aliens as a new weapons system is brutal. When Wilk's team departs on their mission, a trained assassin trails them. And what follows is no less than guerrilla warfare on the aliens' planet - and alien conquest on Earth!
Aliens: Nightmare Asylum
Wilks, Billie, and Bueller were the last survivors of a devastating assault on the aliens' home planet. But their return to the solar sytem made them refugees once more, fleeing Earth and its alien infestation in a desperate attempt to stay alive. Now, in an otherwise unmanned military transport, they hurtle through space. Destination: unknown.
Little do they know that the cargo they carry with them is a legacy of death that they will ultimately have to face. Nor do they know that they heaqd toward a remote colony and military outpost. This pocket of humanity at the very edges of space is at the mercy of a general named Spears with an agenda all his own. Now Billie, Wilks, and Bueller face a new nightmare, and it is nothing they could ever have imagined: a gift of madness from an alien world, an unbalanced mind, and the experiences of a mysterious pilot and Lieutenant Ellen Ripley.
Aliens: The Female War
Lieutenant Ellen Ripley awoke from her long journey in space with a hole in her memory and an overwhelming drive to survive When she meets Wilks and Billie, two battered veterans in the war against the aliens, she realizes she's found two comrades in arms - and she's ready to take up the fight.
Only then does she discover the devastating secret that lurks behind her long sleep. When she, Wilks, and Billie prepare to meet the aliens head-on to turn a powerful alien queen against her spawn in a battle intended to save Earth, that secret becomes her greatest weapon - and her greatest liability. As the fate of Earth hangs in the balance, Ripley and Billie must come to terms with what it
means to be alien... and what it means to be human.
Aliens: Alien Harvest
This time the humans are taking the offensive! Stan Myakovsky is a once-famous scientist fallen on hard times. Now he dodges spaceship repo men and dreams of the marketability of his cybernetic ant. Then a woman named Julie Lish walks into his life. She is beautiful, mysterious, and totally amoral. She is also skilled in the arts of thievery and Oriental self-defense. What's more, she has a plan so outrageous there might be one chance in a million to pull it off.
Together Stan and Julie become the most unlikely pair of pirates in the universe. With a hijacked spaceship and a crew of hardcase misfits, they're searching for the ultimate pot of gold at the end of a bloody intergalactic rainbow: royal jelly from an alien hive. The only problem is that the fortune lies on the universes's most godforsaken planet/ And once they get their hands on it, they'll have to fight their way past the aliens to get off the planet alive.
^This one has ought to be my favorite of all the ones I've read, I absoluty love the ending.
Aliens versus Predator: Prey
Machiko Noguchi accepted the assignment of supervising the ranching colony on Ryushi as a challenge. Little did she know that not only would she have to run the colony, she'd have to dfend it with her life!
First the carcass of a spiderlike alien is discovered. Then a rancher's family is massacred. Finally a creature unlike any ever seen before is brought to the colony medical center, near death. It soons become clear that not one but two strains of alien life have landed near the settlement of Prosperity Wells. One kind - beetle black with shells as hard as steel - have been spawned as the prey in a deadly hunt. The other kind - upright like humans but infinitely stronger and just as smart - are the Predators. Between them are the human colonists, unarmed and vulnerable. With the entire colony at risk, Machiko Noguchi must choose between death and survival - and may find her greatest ally in a Predator ready to kill her...
Aliens versus Predator: Hunter's Planet
The best time of Machiko Naguchi's life came in the wake of the Ryushi colony massacre. It was then that she abandoned her human heritage and ran with the Predators as a dedicated Hunter. But it was only two years before she returned to live with humanity and work for the Chigusa Corporation.
Livermore Evanston is an ambitious developer who has built the ultimate hunter's paradise: a world just beyond the reach of human regulations, populated by ferocious, genetically engineered animals. But Evanston didn't plan on being patronized by the galaxy's most ruthless Predators - or the Aliens they brought along as prey. As his human customers fall victim to the unscheduled hunt, Evanston realizes that the Predators must be curbed, and there's only one woman for the job. But there's even more to this world than meets the eye, and Machiko Naguchi may only have one way out: to take complete control of the deadliest planet in known space!
Aliens versus Predator: War
Machiko Noguchi lived for the thrill of the Hunt. She ran with the Predators until her human ingenuity marked her as an outcast. Now the thrill is over. And the fierce warriors of her Hunting band are tracking her. Meanwhile, Jess, Lara, and Ellis, remnants of a bug-hunter team that wiped out an alien infestation in a Company space station, know too many secrets to be allowed to live. They are being sset up by a ruthlessly ambitious Company boss who will stop at nothing to silence them forever.
An outcast human Hunter and a trio of bug hunters. They are the most unlikely of allies. Yet on the swamp planet Bunda, they must join in a desperate fight. Company hit-squads are already moving in for the kill. Fearsome Predators are heading for a showdown with a ferocious colony of aliens. And between them stand four brave warriors in an all-out war between the galaxy's most savage life-forms - a war nothing human can survive.
I've read a handful of Predator books too, but I don't want to type those summarys up... ugh...
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Nemus on 2004-07-23 at 04:07:59
This is a little offtopic..
I am kinda jealous at you americans since you
can actually buy Blizzard books. If i want one, i have
to order it trough the internet. It gets very expensive
that way... I am a "Blizzard game story freak" and i'd
love to read:
"Speed of Darknes"
"Shadow of the Xel'Naga"
"Lord of the Clans"
and of course
"Day of the Dragon"
...But since i live in sweden, it'll cost me a fortune just
to order one of them.. That sucks
But hey, I still got the SC and BW manual to read from
:freak: <-- oh there were no such icon..
Yoshi, make one!
I am kinda jealous at you americans since you
can actually buy Blizzard books. If i want one, i have
to order it trough the internet. It gets very expensive
that way... I am a "Blizzard game story freak" and i'd
love to read:
"Speed of Darknes"
"Shadow of the Xel'Naga"
"Lord of the Clans"
and of course
"Day of the Dragon"
...But since i live in sweden, it'll cost me a fortune just
to order one of them.. That sucks
But hey, I still got the SC and BW manual to read from
:freak: <-- oh there were no such icon..
Yoshi, make one!
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Staredit.Net Essence on 2004-07-23 at 04:12:25
I'll show you a Freak...not a smiley though...bah who gives..
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Kow on 2004-07-23 at 07:37:41
- Narnia
- Harry Potter
- LOTR
- Xanth (pronounced Zanth) (like 20 of these :P)
- Dayworld
- On a pale horse
- Enders game ( + enders shadow, and Shadow of the hedgemon, i tried speaker 4 ded but i got sooo lost...)
- Ringworld
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Clokr_ on 2004-07-23 at 08:09:31
·A VB book
·All Harry Potter books
·The 2nd SC novel "Shadow of the Xel'Naga"
Hmmm, I read more but now I don't remember them.
·All Harry Potter books
·The 2nd SC novel "Shadow of the Xel'Naga"
Hmmm, I read more but now I don't remember them.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Joey on 2004-07-23 at 12:33:40
u guys like Harry potta? 
well i have all da sc books
there sweet! and i read Dilbert comixs
well i have all da sc books there sweet! and i read Dilbert comixs
Report, edit, etc...Posted by ent on 2004-07-23 at 12:35:09
I like the harry potter books, not the movies tough.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Cloak(U) on 2004-07-23 at 16:07:24
QUOTE(ent @ Jul 23 2004, 11:35 AM)
I like the harry potter books, not the movies tough.
Wow, the movies own the books .... Well thats my opinion cuz I HATE reading -_+ so much time and btw... who reads books.....
Report, edit, etc...Posted by ent on 2004-07-23 at 16:12:45
Well I love reading books, so mutch better then movies since with books you can let stuff be as you want.. It leaves more for the imagination to figure out on its own then a movie does..
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Xeno on 2004-07-23 at 16:16:10
QUOTE(Cloak(U) @ Jul 23 2004, 03:07 PM)
QUOTE(ent @ Jul 23 2004, 11:35 AM)
I like the harry potter books, not the movies tough.
Wow, the movies own the books .... Well thats my opinion cuz I HATE reading -_+ so much time and btw... who reads books.....
yaeh clokr i no wat u men i wread and rit good witout any boocs to red and i am doin fine
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Daigotsu on 2004-07-23 at 18:40:23
I'm finished these sets...
1-StarCraft
2-WarCraft
3-Legend Of The Five Ring
4-Magic The Gathering cycle 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
5-Forgotten Realms : The Scion Of Arabar The Trilogy
6-Deltora Quest
And a couple more that I can't remember.
1-StarCraft
2-WarCraft
3-Legend Of The Five Ring
4-Magic The Gathering cycle 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
5-Forgotten Realms : The Scion Of Arabar The Trilogy
6-Deltora Quest
And a couple more that I can't remember.