obviously one msut start with Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. The Battle room and the way it works is off the hook! It is primarily why the book works so well. You can see how tactics and stragities are created in an relativily simple scenario. I found the rest of the series moderately boring as Card starts to babble in his political dialogues. Ender's Shadow wasn't bad, but just like its title, it was simply a shadow of Ender's Game, ( I think Card was trying to pay some bills and just kinda through some notes together.)

David Weber's Honor Harrington series was very good. The first book On Basilik Station was not the best in the series but it was OK. The Series starts to really take off in the following books. Some of the last books in the series start to drone a little, but overall its a good series.

David Drake has a number of compilations of short stories that are very good. The Sharp End is one of his best. Most of his good ones involve hover tanks!! Schweet!!! Recently he has gone onto some fantasy, and frankly, his fantasy is not as good as his Sci FI.

If you're into fantasy you have to read J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. This is obvious to any one who has read it, but you might be surprised at the number of people who have not read it. Fortunatley, as movies go, Peter Jackson's movie version is one of the best adaptations of a book to film. Don't read any other fantasy until you READ Tolkien!! you will find most fantasy is either a bad imitaion of Tolkien, or a good imitation of Tolkien.

One of the few fanasy authors who doesn't sound like Tolkien is Robin Hobb. She has a good series starting with Assasin's Apprentice. Then she has the Mad Ship Series. She tends to ramble a little while trying to give background or historical detail, but over all I was very satisfied.

this list is by no means conclusive, but i'm not going to go rambling on today (i'm on the clock).

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I do not think that word means what you think it means--Inego Montoya

I'm a casual reader. I just finished the Left Behind series a while back and those were great. Some of you may look at it and think it sounds stupid, but it's a great series no matter what you believe in. From what I've read, most if not all the books are best sellers and what not. Good stuff. Twelve books in all I think, they seem to come out with a new book every time I finish one =8)

http://www.leftbehind.com/channelbooks.asp?channelID=95


I think I'm going to pick up The Da Vinci Code soon. I heard that it was really good.

http://www.danbrown.com/novels/davinci_code/plot.html



I hear a lot about Enders games in Quake but no where else! I'll have to check that one out.

Ender's game is liek the cool new thing goin round my school.. some peeps gotta read it for American Lit or somethin like that and they love it soooo much... like i guess it's really good.. so you might wanna check it out sev!

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Orson Scott Card created Definitions in Ender's Game, like Tolkien did with dwarves and hobbits in his book.

The Left Behind series was cool, even though i had some doctrinal issues with it. It still filled in some the outlines of what the end of the world can and will look like.

If you enjoyed that one I would highly recommend The Hiding Place by Cori Ten Boom. Its a true story and I found it to be very powerful.

In the Christian genre, I jsut finished The Purpose Driven Life. I had started it several months ago, but the first few chapters didn't really do anything for me. But i had it out in my garage (read - smoking room) and I started reading it again. It has been real help to me in organizing focusing my thoughts.

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Oooo, I just bought the Da Vinci Code today at the book store and the girl at the counter told me they were coming out with a movie this May. I just watched the trailer and it looks like it will be good. They got Tom Hanks, so it has to be a good movie.

Here's the two trailers I found.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAVdT...20vinci%20code

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwD05...20vinci%20code

that movie is of the devil..

bad stuff

dont go see it or have anything to do with it

Last time I checked it was fiction.

Anyway's, nobody likes a spoiler.

Go burn some harry potter books or something.

do not edit my posts

and as a christian...even fiction that contradicts what the bible teaches is bad news

open your eyes brendon..this is spirtual warfare not some swim meet...take this stuff seriously...i was being serious..your harry potter comment was ouuta line...this is bad news for us