I love to read. My favorite genre of books are sci-fi and fantasy books. There are three favorited books i have. All three are a blend of both sci-fi and fantasy. The three books are part of a triology called the Coldfire triology written by C.S. Friedman. She is a very, very talented writter and i enjoy all of her books. The books are titled: 'Black Sun Rising', 'When True Nigh Falls', and 'Crown of Shadows'. Do yourselve a huge, mega favor and check out these books, you'll be glad you did. And if you don't believe me, check out the reviews for this book here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...=glance&s=books

The book i'm reading now is titled 'A Game of Thrones' and so far the book is great. Its the first book of a saga called 'A Song of Ice and Fire' (yes you figured it out, i like reading books that has a series, because you get caught up in the world, and immersed in the characters, just like a RPG game). This book is written by George R.R. Martin. Read the reviews for this book here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...=glance&s=books

im not really into reading books..
but i love to read sports magazines newspapers...

if there would be a book that i would read, it got to be a fictional one..

hmmm...tough one.......i like a lot of books, i luv to read!! but i have to say my fav's r......Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, and pretty much anything written by Madeleine L'Engle and Stephen King....my favorite books by King would have to b the gunslinger series....

I've read some of stephen king and its good. I have the 3rd volume of the Gunslinger series, so i need to buy the first 2. LOL. Have you read Enders Game or any of Orson Scrott Card's work? Thats a very great series also.

no :( what's it about? yeah, i dont own any of the gunslinger series, but this guy i know lets me borrow em, i finished Wizard and Glass last year, and im dying for The Wolves of Kalla to come out on paperback so i can buy it!!! i looked on Barnes and Nobles and he hasnt released them, but he has all the way to the seventh book done!!! i cant wait til they come out!!! but whats Enders Game bout? and what r some of Orson Scrott Card's books?

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Before you read the description, please do yourself a favor and check out this book. Its GREAT!


In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut?young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.

Ender's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister.

Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender's two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives.

Orson Scott Card makes great, GREAT sci-fi books.

that sounds good!! i'll have to check it out!! i just ordered some books that sound really good too...the series is called His Dark Material. the first book is called The Golden Compass, the second one is called The Subtle Knife, and im not sure what the third one's called....but neways, they look really good, if u havent read them already i'll let u know how they r...

Ok thanks. Also take a look at my first post on this topic. Those also are great reads. And so far my fav books

kool!! thanx for the recomendations!!!! :) oh yeah!! and another good book i've read is Eragon. it's awesome!!!!the dude who wrote it was only 19 at the time!! i myself am working on writing a story!!!

OMG. I also am working on a story. I don't think it'll be a novel or anything, but a nice short fantasy story. I hope i can make it 100+ pages.

im trying to make it as long as i possibly can, cuz i really really want to try to publish it for real!!!!! i let my mom's coleagues at work read it and this english teacher read it and she said i should try to have it published!!!!!!!!!!!!

I would try to make mine as long as possible, but i don't have the time to do so. What would your story be about?

hmm....its bout this dude who's.....well, i'll tell u what, when i get finished, if u want to u can read it and tell me what u think...hehehe...it's very interesting, especially when things r not as they seem....MWUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

That sounds great.

ok, kool!!! :D :lol: :) B)

sorry for the double post but i just got through w/ the first book of 'His Dark Material'!! it was great!! lots of twists and turns throughout the whole book!!! im currently on the second one, and it looks promising, so i'll tell u a little bit about the first book...

Lyra Belacqua is content to run wild among the scholars in Jordan College, her daemon familiar always by her side. But the moment she hears hushed talk of Dust , an extraordinary particle, she's drawn to the heart of a terrible struggle-a strugle born of Gobblers and stolen children, witch clans and armored bears. And as she hurtles toward danger in the cold, far North, young Lyra never suspects the shocking truth: her destiny must be fulfilled not in this world, but far beyond.

Philip Pullman's award-winning The Golden Compass is a masterwork of stroytelling and suspense, critically acclaimed and hailed as a modern fantasy classic.

the second book is called The Subtle Knife.
the third book is called The Amber Spyglass. :ph43r:

Thanks alot for giving me the description of the book. It sounds great, i may have to check into it. Just like you I have finished the book i was currently reading. Its called "A Game of Thrones" part of the saga called "A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1" (it's in my first post in this section). Now i need to buy the second book called "A Clash of Kings". I really urge you to go out and buy this book. You will be glad you did. Here is what the book is about.

Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdoms protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens.

Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; and a determined woman undertakes the most treacherous of journeys. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.

cool!! that sounds good!! i shall check it out!! well theres another series that i read not to long ago, its called "The Old Kingdom". the first book of the series is called Sabriel, the second book is called Lirael, and the third book is called Abhorsen. the author is Garth Nix. ive read alot of his books, including, the old kingdom, the keys to the kingdom, and the seventh tower.

here's a description of Sabriel - After receiving a cryptic message from her father, Abhorsen, a necromancer trapped in Death, 18-year-old Sabriel sets off into the Old Kingdom. Fraught with peril and deadly trickery, her journey takes her to a world filled with parasitical spirits, Mordicants, and Shadow Hands. Unlike other necromancers, who raise the dead, Abhorsen lays the disturbed dead back to rest. This obliges him--and now Sabriel, who has taken on her father's title and duties--to slip over the border into the icy river of Death, sometimes battling the evil forces that lurk there, waiting for an opportunity to escape into the realm of the living. Desperate to find her father, and grimly determined to help save the Old Kingdom from destruction by the horrible forces of the evil undead, Sabriel endures almost impossible exhaustion, violent confrontations, and terrifying challenges to her supernatural abilities--and her destiny.

Your getting me excited to read. So i guess you are also into fantasy and sci-fi books like myself. How long are the books you're reading and suggesting and how long do you prefer a book to be? I perfer a book to atleast be 500+ pages. Thats why i like " A game of thrones" it's around 860 pages, and the next book in the series "A Clash of Kings" is around 761 pages, the third book "A Storm of Swords" is around 992 pages and the fourth "A Feast for Crows" is around 704 pages. But the fourth book isn't out yet. It releases August 1, 2005. And i believe there may be a fifth.

hmmm...of course i luv to read fantasy and scifi!!!!! Lirael has about 705 pages, and Abhorsen has about 518 pages, but im not sure how many pages Sabriel has cuz my nana's borrowing it at the moment....but i dont really care how long the book is, it just matters if its good or not!! lol!! but i do prefer a longer book....

hey, u need to go to barns and nobles and look around!! lots of stuff there!! oh, by the way i finished "Abarat" by Clive Barker last year, but he's coming out with the sequel in September and "Abarat" was really good, but if ur gonna read that i suggest waiting til "Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War" comes out on Sept. 21, 2004. or else ur gonna be waiting there and(if ur like me about books) dying til the second one comes out, and believe me, ive waited this long and its not fun....

Lol. I do go to barns and nobles and look around. But i mainly go to B. Dalton (which is own by barns and nobles) so its like going to them. Its funny because barns and nobles own around %90 of major book stores out there. People think they are going to different book stores, but they are wrong, it all comes from barns and nobles. So barns and nobles is the microsoft of the book world (and i have no problem about that).

well, true...... but i meant like as soon as u got out of here to look on there website and look at those books!!! thats what i plan to do!! cuz we dont have a barns and nobles round here sadly....id have to go all the way to the city to go to one, so i just stick w/ waldens, even though its considerabley smaller......i wonder if i can get my mom to take me up there....?

sry for the double post again, but i just thought of another book that u might like....well, i dunno, u might not like this one but i really did!!

its called "On Fortune's Wheel" by Cynthia Voight.
There are some who say that the Lady Fortune
has a wheel, and all men are fixed upon it.
The wheel turns, and the men rise, or fall,
with the turning of the wheel.

Birle has agreed to be wed to the huntsman Muir as an escape from the drudgery of life at her father's inn -- but the moment she looks into the bellflower blue eyes of the man she comes upon stealing one of her father's boats, Birle knows she cannot marry Muir. Even after she discovers the mysterious stranger is Orien, a Lord and as unreachable to an innkeeper's daughter as a star, Birle is determined to travel with him as far as he will allow.

Their travels take Birle to a world far from home, a world where Lords may become slaves, where Princes rule by fear, and where Fortune's Wheel turns more swiftly and dangerously than Birle could have imagined.

Newberry Medalist Cynthia Voigt's second novel of the Kingdom, set two generations later than Jackaroo, is a memorable combination of thrilling adventure and heart-stopping romance.

i really did like this book, even though its not what i normally like to read....

I just wrote down the titles so when i do go i'll check them out. I may just go today.

uh....no fair.....i just get to look at them on the internet unless my mom takes me w/ her, which she hardly ever goes.....

The reason i left chess was because i went out and checked the books you told me about, and i also bought "A Clash of Kings" which is the second book in the 'A Song of Fire and Ice' saga which i'm reading right now. "A Game of Thrones" is the first book in the saga (thats the book i was telling you about).

Heres the Book Description of "A Clash of Kings" from Amazon.com
In this eagerly awaited sequel to A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin (the author) has created a work of unsurpassed vision, power, and imagination. A Clash of Kings transports us to a world of revelry and revenge, wizardry and warfare unlike any you have
ever experienced.

A Clash Of Kings (this part is on the back of the book)

A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. And from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. It is a tale in which brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress; and wild men descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside. Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel...and the coldest hearts. For when kings clash, the whole land trembles.

Here is the Book Description for "A Game of Thrones"

A Game of Thrones is a contemporary masterpiece of fantasy. The cold is returning to Winterfell, where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime. A time of conflict has arisen in the Stark family, as they are pulled from the safety of their home into a whirlpool of tragedy, betrayal, assassination, plots and counterplots. Each decision and action carries with it the potential for conflict as several prominent families, comprised of lords, ladies, soldiers, sorcerers, assassins and bastards, are pulled together in the most deadly game of all--the game of thrones.

PS * I love the last line in both "A Game of Thrones" and "A Clash of Kings" the last lines are so powerful.

LOL!!! im not sure if its the last line in the book, but its a quote all throughout the series in The Old Kingdom series....in fact im using it as my sig!!

Does the walker choose the path or the path the walker?