Do you enjoy reading outside of books you are required to read? If so, what genre do you like the best and what are some of your favorite books?



I used to read a lot more often than I do now. Now adays I usually play a video game when I want to immerse myself into a different world. However, I still do enjoy a good book every once in a while. Some of my favorites:

Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Lord of the Rings
Star Wars: A New Jedi Order (or something like that, I've read around 20 books in ther series)
Slaughterhouse 5
1984
Harry Potter
Breakfast of Champions
Will add many more later

The Da Vinci Code
Angels and Demons (Dan Brown is awesome.)
Animal Farm
Twilight

Anything by Jack London is great, especially the Sea Wolf and the Iron Heel.
Tom Robbins is a great author as well, i enjoy his work, especially Jitterbug Perfume.
Bernard Cromwell writes great historic fictions.
Harry Turtledove is alright
And the Dark Tower series by Stephen King is a must read for anyone.

Also, Daedric, are you talking about Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights? The series that follows Jacen and Jaina Solo? i've read a ton of Star Wars books.

This message was edited by Byzantine on Mar 31 2009.

It was about the new order that Luke had, with the Yuzong Vong or something like that, Tsavong Lah, the "living" spaceships, the animals that couldn't be detected by the force, etc. I'll be more specific when I get home and look, but I'm almost certain it was called The New Jedi Order. Great books. It was epic when Boba Fett saved Han Solo.

I've got atleast 100 Star Wars books scattered around the house and downloaded onto computers and laptops. I also have a little place in my heart for the 'Artemis Fowl' and 'CHERUB' series.

I also like the law novels written by John Grisham.

indeed, it is epic. You know Boba Fett trains Jaina Solo to kill her brother, right?

The Yuuzhan Vong War? That shit is *bleep*ing epic. Those guys are nasty, can't be detected by the force, and most force attacks can't be used on em. Definitely a tough opponent.

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indeed, it is epic. You know Boba Fett trains Jaina Solo to kill her brother, right?

The Yuuzhan Vong War? That shit is *bleep*ing epic. Those guys are nasty, can't be detected by the force, and most force attacks can't be used on em. Definitely a tough opponent.

Oh dang, didn't know that. As long as Boba Fett never get's killed. He's been my favorite character since Empire Strikes Back.

No worries, he doesn't. He actually becomes Mandalore the Exile. He becomes the leader of the Mandalorian tribes, shortly after they are reformed by Fenn Shysha who freed the Mandalorian home world from imperial dominance. Fenn Shysha's dying wish is that Boba Fett becomes the next Mandalore.

And yeah, he trains Jaina Solo the kill her brother Jacen, because he becomes Darth Caedus and wages war on the New Jedi Order, and the newly forming republic.

I like Star Wars.

Me too, and that's awesome. Which book does that happen in? I feel compelled to read it now.

I don't really recall, but a little research would tell you. i've read so many, they all just kind of blurred together.

-Anything by vernor vinge
-Anything by paul zindel
-Anything thats interesting.

These are all books that I have read in the last few years. My favorite is The Lord of the Rings, but the one I am currently reading, Bill Clinton's autobiography, is phenomenal.

"The Lord of the Rings", by J.R.R. Tolkien

"Hiroshima", by John Hersey

"The Old Man and the Sea", by Ernest Hemingway

"Having Our Say", by The Delany Sisters

"My Forbidden Face", by Latifa

"The Iliad", by Homer

"One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest", by Ken Kessey

"Saint", by Ted Dekker

"Good Omens", by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

"The Blood of Abraham", by Jimmy Carter

"Our Endangered Values", by Jimmy Carter

"Song of Kali", by Dan Simmons

"The Time Traveler's Wife", by Audrey Niffenegger

"Stupid White Men", by Michael Moore

"The Assault On Reason", by Al Gore

"Joined at the Heart", by Al and Tipper Gore

"The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership", by John C. Maxwell.

"War As I Knew It", by George S. Patton

"Night", by Elie Wiesel

"Meet the Next President", by Bill Sammon

"Les Misérables", by Victor Hugo

"A Woman In Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton", by Carl Bernstein

"Hardball", by Chris Matthews

"Bush At War", by Bob Woodward

"Reconciliation", by Benazir Bhutto

"I Am America (And So Can You!)", by Stephen Colbert

"The Silmarillion", by J.R.R. Tolkien

"Against All Enemies", by Richard Clarke

"Reason: Why Liberals Will Win The Battle For America", by Robert Reich

"The Work of Nations", by Robert Reich

"Supercapitalism", by Robert Reich

"Fallen Angels", by Walter Dean Meyes

"Sunrise over Fallujah", by Walter Dean Meyers