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I hate when people give their list of favorites but they don't have the balls to list one book (instead of series or an authors complete works) nor are they will to put them in order.
I am not one of those wishy-washy people.
1. Hyperion Cantos - Dan Simmons
2. Time Enough For Love - Robert Heinlein
3. The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
4. Kushiel's Dart - Jacqueline Carey
5. For a Few Demons More - Kim Harrison
6. Magic Strikes - Ilona Andrews
7. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin
8. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
9. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
10.Assassin's Apprentice - Robin Hobb
The question is, do you have the intestinal fortitude to make a stand on your favorites?
(Note that Hyperion is not cheating because it is impossible to separate the books in my mind. That is not a loop hole for you to exploit)
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1. Dragonsong - Anne McCaffrey
2. Mindkiller - Spider Robinson
3. Dreamweaver - Jonathon Wylie
4. The Number of the Beast - Robert Heinlein
5. The Chronicles of Mavin Manyshaped - Sheri S Tepper
6. Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
7. Stardust - Neil Gaiman
8. Ship of Magic - Robin Hobb (I could easily have called in the Hyperion loophole here but chose to pick one random Hobb book instead  )
9. The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
10. A Storm of Swords - GRR Martin
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1. name of the wind - rothfuss
2. going postal - pratchett
3. making money - pratchett
4. good omens - pratchett/gaiman
5. the codex alera - butcher (as far as i'm concerned it's just 1 book broken up into 6 shorter installations)
6. harry potter books despite the last one being some of the most boring reading ever
7. reaper man - pratchett
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10.
i'm having a problem with 8-10 because i can't remember what i've read.  i'm also quite lazy and am not in the mood to find my nook and go through the books on it.
edit: and yes it goes without saying that i think terry prachett is a god and discworld is my favorite world in existence. despite rothfuss being my #1 choice. and i realize wise man's fear isn't in the list and that's because it was quite boring and suffers from middle book syndrome. i suspect, however, that when the 3rd book is released that i will treat the trilogy as one book and the whole thing will be my #1.
i have not yet read the hyperion books but they're on my list. i don't think they were available for nook or kindle the last time i checked.  hopefully they will be the next time i'm ready for some scifi goodness.
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Man this is hard.... I tend to think mostly in series, i have read so many 100's of books that it is hard to remember or narrow it down. Here is some off the top of my head. Prob influnced by what I have read recently.
1. Serpent War Saga by fiest
2. The whole assassins apprentice series by Hobb
3. First 6-7 books of the wheel of time
4. The name of the wind
5. The way of shadows
6. Mistborn series.
7. The black prisim
8. Codex Alera
9. the The warded man
10. A game of thrones.
That was really quick, I am sure I will think about it and feel stupid for putting down the wrong stuff later.
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Look at how baller I am:
11. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
12. Warbreaker - Brandon Sanderson
13. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
14. A Storm of Swords - George R.R. Martin
15. Jhereg - Steven Brust
16. Friday - Robert Heinlein
17. House of Chains - Steven Erikson
18. Mistborn - Brandon Sanderson
19. Angel's Blood - Nalini Singh
20. The Vampire Lestat - Anne Rice
The one qualifier, I tried to keep it to one book per author in the top ten and no more than two per author in the top twenty. When it comes down to it, there would be more Heinlein.
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Really? I mean....really? First there's a complaint that holding a book is uncomfortable some time back and now it's "baller" to list favorite books? Good christ man, how much did you get beat up in school. Seriously.
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holding a book is hugely uncomfortable compared to holding an ereader.
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Really? I mean....really? First there's a complaint that holding a book is uncomfortable some time back and now it's "baller" to list favorite books? Good christ man, how much did you get beat up in school. Seriously.
The fact that you take Yoss this seriously is astounding.
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1.) A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
2.) Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
3.) The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
4.) The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon (The version I read was all three in one volume, so counts as one)
5.) The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
6.) Act of War by Dale Brown
7.) Without Remorse by Tom Clancy
8.) Codex Alera by Jim Butcher (Like Cao -> one book split into 6 parts)
9.) Legion By Dan Abnett (Horus Heresy Series)
10.) Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind(Yes, I know many, many people hate this book but I personally liked it)
There are obviously many more I probably would have picked, but as a rough 1-10 this is pretty close.
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I liked wizards first rule... the series did not start to suck until later.
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The first three books were good, that is what suckered us all in for the poop slide.
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The first three books were good, that is what suckered us all in for the poop slide.
Lol, I liked the whole series. It had it's faults, but I still enjoyed it. I usually recommend the first 4, because at least you kind of get a happily ever after ending to finish it.
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holding a book is hugely uncomfortable compared to holding an ereader.
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vn_jurojin posted:
Caoilin posted:
holding a book is hugely uncomfortable compared to holding an ereader.
one is considerably more comfortable than the other.
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Nice cheerios.
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Caoilin posted:
vn_jurojin posted:
Caoilin posted:
holding a book is hugely uncomfortable compared to holding an ereader.
one is considerably more comfortable than the other.
And I'm sure all of your books look like that monstrosity. I don't know about you, but 80% of my collection is paperback, 18% is a normal hardback, and 1.9999999% are a bit bigger, and .0000001% are stupidly sized, hard to read books. Normal books are no harder to hold than a nook or kindle.
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Books are easy to hold, the Kindle is even easier. No ifs buts or maybes. 
Kindle = ease of reading and instant gratification
For fun and frolicks...
My books shelves:
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I don't know, maybe because my hands are bigger I see absolutely no difference, convenience wise, between holding a paperback and my nook. None. Zero. Zip. Nada.
I do like the instant gratification part of being able to get a book whenever I want, and I also like that I can just pull a book up on my nook app on my EVO if I don't happen to have my Nook on me. The thing that bothers me is the complaints of "neck and wrist" discomfort from reading a book. I find that rather pathetic for the majority of books. We've survived without e-readers for all of human history with no complaints and now that e-readers are a decade or so old (in their current incarnation) people call books, of all things, inconvenient.
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Also, your book shelves are much neater than mine. I have several floor to ceiling shelves in severe need of some organization.
*edit* Also, Robert Asprin...good call.
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The problem is with the book you have to hold it open, which is especially tiring if you are unwilling to bend the spines. You have to place your finger in a specific way and apply a constant, light pressure. It isn't 'hard' but it is certainly less comfortable than a book reader which you can read without even holding it if you want.
When my back hurts I set it on the table in front of me and don't even touch it. Sometimes I just lean it against my arm.
Also, you would love my ADD bookshelves. Originally they were organized alphabetically but eventually that became impossible as my obsessive need to have all of one authors books on the same shelf overwhelmed the convention. Now they are meticulously set based on genre, author and quality. Whenever I get a new book that won't easily fit on the shelf where it goes I re-organize all six shelves to make it consistent.
P.S. I'm going to need those Robin Hobb hardcovers coming to me in your will.
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I think my problem is that I grew up in the country, working outdoors and helping out on my uncle's ranch. To see reading a book described with anything that resembles physical strain is just beyond my comprehension. When I was in college and had the time to do it I would read for litterally an entire day and have zero strain, crimps, cramps, or other form of physical discomfort from it. To hold a book open requires a pinky, or perhaps a thumb, even if you are preserving spines (which I do sometimes, but not always...sadly). But then, as I said earlier, maybe my hands are just bigger.
And I used to be the same way about organizing my book shelves. I had them alphabetized by author and separated by genre. Then I got married, got two step kids, and started a career. My books are now just kinda crammed in where they fit. I should take a day and organize them sometime.
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If it is any consolation I never considered the idea that books are difficult to hold until I had a book reader. It isn't like this is some gripe we have all been harboring for ages.
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If it is any consolation I never considered the idea that books are difficult to hold until I had a book reader. It isn't like this is some gripe we have all been harboring for ages.
This is exactly how I feel.
For me it's the convenience of being able to do everything with one hand. I get a lot of neck problems so I like to read lying down on my side which is SOOO much easier with an e reader, I can prop it up on the pillow next to me and then just click the button to turn the page. This isn't too much a pain with a paperback, but it's annoying as hell with a hardback.
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I read regular books mainly.
I also read books on my phone, my samsung galaxy tab, my iPad and my computer. In addition I've alread read quite alot on a sony E-ink reader. (I work in IT in an online bookstore, and we've recently started selling e-books, so I have to test all the available platforms )
I still prefer a regular book, but I don't have any big problems with any of the other platforms.
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What a stupid argument. If someone wants to read a book on an e-reader that's on them. If someone wants to pretend to be manly and condition themselves by doing yardwork to make it easier to read, that's also on them. Who cares because both your methods are inferior to the audiobook. Noobs.
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I gave away about a thousand books from 2001 to 2009 when I decided to go possessionless. Thank goodness! What I still have left is the best:
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1) Almost Every Discworld book
2) Garret PI series by Cook ( I may toss these, they didn't do well on the third read.)
3) Black Company series by Cook ( <3 Catch-22 meets LotR <3 )
4) New Sun series by Wolfe (Hands down the best pseudo-Latin evar!)
5) Armor by Steakley. (John stole my best friends' GF and the fugger will probably die before he writes Felix. )
6) Poul Anderson: Operation Chaos and The High Crusade. (fun easy reads, even after 10x re-reads)
7) Neuromancer ( every time I reread it the power of the plot diminshes and I appreciate his word-craft more.)
8) Iain Banks Culture series. (My words can't describe the flavor.)
9) I lost my copies of Stpherererssonn's Snow Crash (great easy read) and Cryptonomicon (best technical fiction I've ever read).
Any Asimov, Vinge, Simmons, Brin series are +++ but not keepers to me.
Yeah, I love that book feel. Regardless I require a reader so I CAN MAKE THE WORDS BIGGER. 
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I'm just going to leave fantasy out(with one exception), since most of those books don't really stand alone.
1. Island of the Blue Dolphins - Scott O'Dell
2. The Glass Bead Game - Hermann Hesse
3. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
4. The Magician's Nephew - CS Lewis
5. The Complete Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
6. The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyoevsky
7. The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas
8. The Time Machine - HG Wells
9. Journey to the Center of the Earth- Jules Verne
10. The Ancestor's Tale - Richard Dawkins
It's heavier on classics than is actually accurate, but I can stand behind these anyway.
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Wow. Last time I read Glass Bead Game it was uh 1976 I think.
Dagnabbit I can't find that drawling Doyle did before he died where he's an old horse pulling a huge wagon with boxes and each of the boxes is labeled with things he had done in his life. Bah. Biographies are the first books I throw away and Google has failed me. NM.
No Burroughs? Olaf Stapledon's Sirus? I hadda copy from a relative that smuggled it into the US in the late 50s. Funny, wikipedia doesn't mention it was banned in the US.
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I haven't heard of Stapledon, but I looked up some of the book descriptions and I will definitely have to check those out.
Burroughs I read only The Land That Time Forgot, which was good, but it didn't stay with me to the extent of the others I listed. He'd probably fall into a much broader 2nd tier with Huxley, Asimov, Douglas Adams, Lewis Carrol, Dickens, Lovecraft, Ira Levin, Bulgakov, some fantasy authors, etc.
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Epic Legends of the Heirarchs: The Elemenstor Saga Volume One - Midnight in the Morning of Battal is probably my favorite fantasy novel. It's pioneering in it's charm and reminiscent of works by CS Lewis and Tolkien.
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