Book Opinion Needed Pleeeease.

[moon_dancing]

Give me a list of the top, say...ten books you think I should read before I die.

No need to put any HP books on the list, of course. But feel free to put something someone else may have already listed. The more I see it, the more I'll be sure to read it if I haven't already. =)

Thank you very much, I appreciate your help.

Soon, I'll actually update rather than keep asking for favors. *winks*

Comments

[twinsuns.livejournal.com]

Geez, what a commute! Definitely try them out, it'll probably make the drive more enjoyable! Plus, if you can download them... :p

Oh, and I thought of another book. (I first "read" this via audio book, come to mention it, and enjoyed it so much I bought the book later.) Dune, by Frank Herbert, another SciFi. The rest of the series gets really weird, but the first book is very good.

[moon-dancing.livejournal.com]

It's not too bad of a drive, mostly interstate, the beginnings of city traffic and lots of construction (of course), so rarely is it boring, just...annoying with the whole leaving so early to get somewhere. =)

Do you prefer the SciFi genre? Seems most of your recs are SciFi. I've never gotten too deep into them, but neither has anyone really rec'd many good SciFi books to me either.

Hmmm

[twinsuns.livejournal.com]

I'll read anything, really.

But, yeah, I really do like SciFi/Fantasy, more so than modern tales. It probably stems from my love of Star Wars, and the fact that my family owns (and watches) the Star Trek movies. (Dad's fault, I suppose? *grins*) I started reading the "extended Star Wars universe" in third grade, and kept buying the books until a few years ago, and have over 100. Heh. So, that was a big part of it. (And maybe cause I wanted to be a solar physicist? lol)

As for Dune and Ender's Game, they were recced to me, and I thought they were original and entertaining. Ask Jenna--Ender's Game is downright fascinating.

And the other Fantasy? I like history, and many fantasy novels are vaguely midieval, I suppose. And LotR and Harry Potter have a lot to do with my love of magic... and epics appeal to me.

The hardest part about SciFi/Fantasy, though, is that you get so many Tolkein spinoffs (Eragon, for example, though the book wasn't bad, and neither was the sequel) with too-perfect elves, etc.


That's a jumbled mess. But yeah.

Now I must get to med.