What is your favorite book or series besides Harry Potter?

It would have to be one written by Dan Brown, either the Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, or Digital Fortress.

They're all amazing books with plot twists and to make it even better, Da Vinci Code has a Harry Potter reference

What about you Amanda?

I like Sweet Valley books. I am getting into Artimus Fowl but I haven't had time to go to the library. I have a couple books that I want to read but haven't found the time or I would just be like okay, Harry Potter time. Stargirl was a good book.

The Hitchhiker Series by Douglass Adams is one of the best sets of books I have ever read. They are extremely funny, and I still love reading them. My aunt got me a book entitled The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide and it has all five books in it. All the people here should at least give it a try.

QUOTE (hockeygod @ Jan 18 2004, 06:21 PM)

The Hitchhiker Series by Douglass Adams is one of the best sets of books I have ever read. They are extremely funny, and I still love reading them. My aunt got me a book entitled The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide and it has all five books in it. All the people here should at least give it a try.

Ah... The Hitchhikers Guide a trilogy in five parts Fantastic books, well the first two are, not so sure about the last three....

I really want to read those books. I guess I'll have to steal them from my friend (who also has that life size cut out of Legolas which I still haven't stolen )

I'm telling ya DL, you have to read them. They are awesome, all five of them.

I will...so what other books do people like to read besides HP?

I also love Agatha Christie's murder mysteries. They are the Coolest of Beans!!!

Don't mind me! just bumping this over to Bookworms Anonymous

Ooh, this is hard, I like so many books. Anything by Tamora Pierce is good, she's got a fabulous set of series that involves magic, the first one's called Song of the Lionness. I also like Pride and Prejudice and The Count of Monte Cristo and I definitely reccommend them for rainy day reading!

~Starrika

Oh, I love books.
I have to agree that the first two Hitchhiker's Guide books were awesome. Someone decided to tell me the end of the series, though, so I haven't gotten the last three yet.

My favorite books of all time would have to be either George R. R. Martin's _A Song of Ice and Fire_ series (starts with _A Game of Thrones_) or Anne Bishop's _Black Jewels Trilogy_ (starts with _Daughter of the Blood_). They are the most magnificant pieces of literature I've ever read, and everyone should read them.
Just so long as your over the age of thirteen. (It wouldn't have bothered me, but I can see some kids being disturbed by the content of some of the BJT... especially males. )

My favourite standalone book: 'Goodnight Mister Tom' by Michelle Magorian

My favourite short series: 'Ice Station', 'Area 7' and 'Scarecrow' by Matthew Reilly

My favourite long series: 'X-Wing' (various novels) by Michael A. Stackpole & Aaron Allston

My favourite epic series: A tie, between 'The Lord of the Rings' by Mr. Tolkien, and Stephen Lawheads 'The Pendragon Cycle'


I also like the hitchikers guide, but I agree with bart on the fantastic but possibly only up to the end of the second. I've never managed to finish 'so long...' and I've only ever read a few lines of 'mostly harmless'. But still, a trilogy in five parts, genius

Yoda, reading lots

I'm a librarian, so you can probably guess that I love LOTS of books! I have a hard time narrowing down to a single favorite-- I'd probably do better to list my favorite authors: Here's some that I love:

Fantasy: Tolkien, Mercedes Lackey, Katherine Kurtz, Barbara Hambly, Raymond Feist
Science fiction: Robert Heinlein, Christopher Stasheff, Anne McCaffrey
Mystery: Elizabeth Peters, Lilian Jackson Braun
Horror: Stephen King
Classics/older fic: Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen

and a couple of series that I read as a kid and still love: Trixie Belden mysteries, The Tuckers, Robin Kane

I would say LOTR all of them cos i love them. But everyone knows they are the best sooo.....

at the moment i like Lireal, by Garth Nix its the sequal to a book called Sabriel.

Roxanne (and I think someone else said Mercedes Lackey as well), which of her books/series was your favorite?

Oh, definitely the first ones I read - Arrow's flight, Arrow's fall and Arrows of the Queen. I like all of her stuff, but the Valdemar books are my favorites.

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Coolest of Beans!!!

*Laughes herself boinky *

I LOVE "To Kill a Mockingbird," by Harper Lee. Absolutly the Bomb-Diggity.

Also lurve "Star Split" by Kathryn Lasky. Very thought provoking, and good.
+Dela+

QUOTE (Yoda @ Jan 19 2004, 02:52 PM)

'The Lord of the Rings' by Mr. Tolkien

May the force be with you Master Yoda.

I'm a much bigger LOTR fan than I am of Harry Potter.

Tolkien is my favourite author.

Stephen King's The Shining, The Green Mile, and The Shawshank Redemption are also pretty good.

Charles Dickens is also pretty good.

Mein Kampf was a good read. I condemn Hitler's actions but it's still a good read.

I love Animal Farm (George Orwell), must've read it about 35 times.

My other favorites are:

Midnight (Dean R. Koontz)
Flowers for Algernon - The Novel Edition (Daniel Keyes)
Holes (Louis Sachar)
The Unprotected Witness (James Stevenson)
A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking)
World As I See It (Albert Einstein)


I like to call these books 'The Seven Wonders of Literature'.

I was wondering Entropy, which of your awesome friends would do something as mean as tell you the end of the Hitchhiker's Series.

A certain smug little asshole who thought it was bloody funny! *Mutters* I wanted to read that series, too, but not so much anymore.

Now I was wondering, does anyone else have a fluff author? As in whenever they are stressed or in a bad mood they pick up one of their books because they _know_ that there will be butterflies and rainbows and everything will turn out happy in the end? Because I had Lackey as mine but the last two 'happy' fluff books by her I picked up were _Brightly Burning_ and _Magic's Pawn_ and I'm thinking maybe I need a new fluff author.

I like science books. And I also like Agatha Christie, because even though it isn't rainbows, there is lots of blood and everything works out in the end.

My favorite book?


Come on now, just guess my reaction!


Anticipated Reaction:

::has heart attack trying to decide::

But if anyone wants to know a, ahem, few , then go to fanfiction.net and check out Curiousknowitall's reviews for Standing There By You, under books, under Harry Potter.


(link above)

hello my favorite books besides harry potter are those from robin hobb. She wrote the fabulous royal assassin and then the tawny man. The story is full of magic and the characters are really fantastic. Go read those books !

The Gunblade Saga by Peptuck (It's actually a FF8 fan's novelization but something that great deserves the title of "book")

Legacy of Chimera by Peptuck (Again, really a fanfic, but that word doesn't do it justice)

The Harry Potter series by JKR.

1984 by George Orwell

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Beyond Band of Brothers by Maj. Richard D. Winters

LOTR by JRRT

Chesty (don't know the author)

To Be a US Marine

We Were Soldiers Once and Young, by Lt. Gen. Hal Moore

I love random books, other than the obvious favorites (like LOTR, and Jane Austen for example). More Than You Know by Beth Gutcheon is one that I love, Anne Rice's Original Vampire Chronology (the first 3), some Anne Tyler books, O' Henry shorts, Nicholas Sparks The Guardian, James Herriot (he's fantastic for kids), Philippa Gregory...

Now that I'm out of school, I'm afraid my reading is probably going to get less and less sophisticated