What book do you read?

[Eraphiel]

A few I've enjoyed over the years:

Heinlein's Friday & The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (easily my favorite book).
William Gibson's Neuromancer, All Tomorrow's Parties, & Pattern Recognition.
Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern Series & the Talents Trilogy.
Neil Gaiman's American Gods, Neverwhere, & Anansi Boys.
Card's Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, & finally Shadow of the Giant. Never read any of the further Ender-centric books (Xenocide, Speaker for the Dead, Children of the Mind)..may get to them someday.
Recently started reading some David Weber, notably some of the Honor Harrington books...not bad, all in all.

Harry Potter...I read the first book before the first movie came out...wasn't terribly impressed. I read the third book shortly before the 5th book came out. I worked at a bookstore at the time, and we had a big 'release party' thing with all the staff in costume. I was Prof. Lupin, so wanted to study the character. Really don't think the books are worth the hype.

[Nikko]

the riddle master trilogy = <3 . First book is so damn good, highly recommended to anyone who likes fantasy.

[Stilgar]

I haven't read Harry Potter, and I never will. Do you hate me now?

I enjoy the movies as they come out, but then I enjoy shit like Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. You won't see me reading it, however.

edit: misspelled Ace Ventura

[Lylie]

Just bought The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury, seems pretty nice.

Also saw the Dark Tower series, and boy, how many books are there? Saw like 10ish, around $15 piece... Screw that, lol.

And are Tom Clancy's books any good?

[Stilgar]

I like Tom Clancy, but he can be kind of campy at times. Like how his characters are always the best, brightest, most clever, speak 18 languages fluently, and start out as grunts in the first books but without fail become generals and presidents in the later books. There's also a lot of AMERICA, FUCK YEAH sentiment in there, but all in all, they're pretty good geo-political suspense thriller types.

[Brendam]

I read Battle Royale about a year ago and thought it was amazing. Has anyone else read the book?