Never could've guessed you just finished reading the Shanara series

As a side note, I know I'm going to get thumped for admitting this, but despite the fact that I'm not Christian I thuroughly enjoyed the Inferno. And yes, I read it willingly, it wasn't even an assignment from one of my classes! I've been having a rather hard time finding the rest of the Divine Comedy (hoping to get a hold of the translations by John Ciardi, since he was the one who translated the copy of the Inferno I read).

I'm currently reading The Passover Plot and The Devil's Armor.

hmm.... Taltos and Khaarven romance series by steven brust. Lord of the Vampires (slightly pornographic in some parts.. darn lesbians). LOTR (duh). And hmm a non fantasy one? Devils Arithmetic. (Its a 7th graders book how cute huh?)

Oh and Dantes Inferno of course. (go us non christians, sorry!) Wicked and Mirror Mirror. And eventually my brother and his woman will pull me into the wheel of time and whats the other one?? something to do with swords...

Woot! Glad to see I'm not the only one who actually liked that. Still having trouble tracking down the rest of the Divine Comedy. Think I'm about ready to resort to checking Amazon.

Could you be referring to "Sword of Truth"?

Yes THAT one heh. And Nortia you should check your public library or order it from Barnes n Noble or something.

Grarh. Our local library needs better security. The entire Drizzt series, amongst others, just got nicked out of it and they never got replacements. I wanted to read them dangit! >_<

Ooh, books. I used to sit up in the middle of the night when I was really young and read, now I don't...I should read more. But for favorites..

-Seven Froggies Went to School (it's a...children's book. It was that book for me that my mom read to me every single night. How could I leave it out?)
-Harry Potter (any of them, but especially Goblet of Fire)
-Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles
-Christopher Pike's The Last Vampire Series (<3, God, I love those. It's where I got my first MUD name, Kalika.)
-LOTR
-The Chronicles of Narnia
-The Prydain Chronicles (I read them a long time ago but...I'm a sucker for anything fantasy).
-Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Shopaholic series (God, these are SO funny. I asked for the newest one for Christmas.)

I don't know, I never have time to read much because of english reading. But so far this year the books we've read such as Crime and Punishment, The Iliad, The Odyssey, Things Fall Apart, Count of Monte Cristo, other random things.

I feel like I need to expand and get past all the books I read when I was like, 8 years old. I'll put that on my to-do list.

Has anyone here ever read The Things They Carried? Awesome book. My AP English Lit teacher in high school based our final off of it.

That link will allow you to read one of the short stories in it. They're not really short stories, but it's hard to explain it.

Lets see...

Fantasy - Dies the Fire by S. M. Stirling was good. David Weber's Bahzell's series. Janny Wurts War of Light and Shadow series. L. E. Modesitt Jr Recluce series.

Sci-Fi - David Weber, Honor Harrington series and others. Anything by John Ringo, don't remember the series names right now.

Gothic Fantasy(Vampire stuff) - Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton, The Shadow Saga by Christopher Golden(unique take on vampires).

A little here, a little there.

Some of my favorites -

James Clavell
Terry Pratchett
Piers Anthony
Douglas Adams

Patrick O'brien... Aubrey-Maturin Series is one of the best I have seen...

LOTR, and assorted random school related reading... but that is about the extent of my 'non-classic' fiction reading.

Dickens, Great Expectations, and Tale of Two Cities are my favrite.

I like Shakespeare's poetry better then his plays, and have read all of his poams that I know...

Dante's Inferno

Beowulf (In Old English...)
Mabanigion (Parts of it in Welsh, others translated... need to get better at my welsh to read all of it in welsh.)
A a bunch of others I can't remember...

Tolstey, Melville... Voltaire...

Chaucer (Cantebary Tales is the best thing written known to man...)

Now to non-fiction...

Livy's History of Rome, read in Latin... that was fun...

Quite a few works on Rome... not going to list them all, take months...

Arthur Herman. 'How the scots invented the modern world' and am currently reading his 'To Rule the Waves.'

Also Plato (not in Greek yet... still learning that...)

Plus many many many more...

I have tried to read Voltaire's 'Candide' like 10 times but every time I end up finding nothing that really stands out for me. I mean what is the attraction in that book?

Just a book I read recently, Amulet of Something, by Jonathan Faust, that was great. Now if only I could find out what all else the books in that trilogy are...

Fantasy: DragonLance, Drizzt, various other Forgotten Realms. Terry Pratchett.

Sci-fi: Douglas Adams, Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality, Robert Heinlein.

Others: Gothic Literature (primarily 19th century (Frankenstein, Dracula, etc.)), other Classics such as Gulliver's Travels, LotR, etc.

I've got a copy

Voltaire is using absuridity to showcase how screwed up western society is... read 'Bastards.' It is much more informitive.