Favorite Book/Book Series

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What sort of writing/books/series are you guys into? Feel free to share and reccommend anything that interest you.

My favorite book is "The Jaguar That Roams The Mind" by Robert Tindall, and it's basically the story of Roberts life, having a harsh childhood, growing up a drug addict and basically being unhappy with where he was in life. After a long battle with heroin addiction and being unable to get past it with conventional techniques, he turned to travelling and looking at different cultures in order to try and find a better life for himself.

After travelling to many different countries and living with all sorts of different cultures and medicinal practices he eventually finds his way to a Peruvian shaman who offers to let Robert study under him and partake in Ayahuasca ceremonies. Teaching him how and when ceremonies should be performed, how to deal with different situations, and techniques for guiding others through the ceremonies.

Some parts of the story are quite hard to describe without actually reading the book, but it's a great story of a spiritual journey filled with some very happy and very sad tales of people from all walks of life.

I highly reccomend the book if you're looking for something a bit different, or have an interest in spiritual aspects of life.

[psychotron666]

I loved dragon Lance when I was younger, specifically the Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman books.

My new favourite series is the king killer chronicle, the name of the wind and wise man's fear. But I'm starting to feel like the final book is never coming out, it's been like 8 years, and he supposedly had them all written at once and is just editing. So either he's painted himself into a corner he can't get out, made expectations too high with anticipation, or never planned a third book and just trolled the book world.

[MissCreep]

Against the Tide by Elizabeth Camden is my favorite book ever. I own all of her work, and am currently waiting for my pre-order of her newest book.

[Ⓥenom Ⓢnake 🐍]

The Deed of Paksenarrion series by Elizabeth Moon. I reread the whole thing yearly. The Renshai Sage by Mickey Zucker Reichert was excellent, especially if you like Nordic themes. The Death Gate Cycle by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman is good if you want a longer read. Most of Robert Heinlein's books involving Lazarus Long, especially The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, which includes characters from a LOT of his other books. Someone already listed Terry Prattchet's Disk World books right away, and I HIGHLY recommend those. The Automatic Detective by A Lee Martinez. Z.A. Recht's Morningstar Strain was good even if he died and didn't technically write the last book. In the Mountains of Madness by Lovecraft is always a fave.

[Alpha_pro]

Top of the list would be The Wheel of Time series.

[Turtle McTurtleson]

I'm currently reading, The Warrior Heir, it's really good, I'm not gonna give a summary of course, though.

[Ⓥenom Ⓢnake 🐍]

Alpha_pro původně napsal:

Top of the list would be The Wheel of Time series.

-_-

Look. I really like the series. I really do. I just started Towers of Twilight. I meet my wife thanks to an old WoT Yahoo RP group called The Black Tower. But you have to give people warning when you recommend that series.

Great series to read! Robert Jordan spend the first part of every characters chapter explaining who that character and everyone else is and exactly how they are dressed. Even if he did it a chapter before. You will see the phrase "If only X were here. X knows how to deal with the opposite sex" every time a man and a women talk. Women hate men. Like a LOT. Every time a female character talks to a man, Oh, and every woman talks to men like they are functionally retarded. 98% of the issues the characters have are because the women do this. And all these issues disappear at the half way point of volume 12 because Jordan DIED!

Good series though. I wouldn't be back into it 9000 pages deep at this point if it wasn't.

[Rio]

none atm, but I used to read goosebumps, fear street, bone chillers, animorphs, ect. And some like narnia series was boss. But even when I used to read tons of books I prefered non-fiction over novels an fantasy.

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Ⓥenom Ⓢnake 🐍 původně napsal:

Alpha_pro původně napsal:

Top of the list would be The Wheel of Time series.

-_-

Look. I really like the series. I really do. I just started Towers of Twilight. I meet my wife thanks to an old WoT Yahoo RP group called The Black Tower. But you have to give people warning when you recommend that series.

Great series to read! Robert Jordan spend the first part of every characters chapter explaining who that character and everyone else is and exactly how they are dressed. Even if he did it a chapter before. You will see the phrase "If only X were here. X knows how to deal with the opposite sex" every time a man and a women talk. Women hate men. Like a LOT. Every time a female character talks to a man, Oh, and every woman talks to men like they are functionally retarded. 98% of the issues the characters have are because the women do this. And all these issues disappear at the half way point of volume 12 because Jordan DIED!

Good series though. I wouldn't be back into it 9000 pages deep at this point if it wasn't.

Yeah, I really enjoyed them all aswell, but each book would be half the size if you cut out the pointless repeated nonsense.

Each book has an annoying phrase that gets added to nearly every sentence. The first book is "He/She licked their lips" The second book is "He/She said dryly" The third and 4th books are Nynaeve tugging that braid of hers. At one point I wondered how she even had a scalp left lol.
Robert was an excellent storyteller but an average writer.

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Glory the rainwing původně napsal:

I really like wings of fire

I've never heard of WoF before, is the whole series done from the point of view of dragons? that's a pretty cool idea.

psychotron666 původně napsal:

I loved dragon Lance when I was younger, specifically the Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman books.

My new favourite series is the king killer chronicle, the name of the wind and wise man's fear. But I'm starting to feel like the final book is never coming out, it's been like 8 years, and he supposedly had them all written at once and is just editing. So either he's painted himself into a corner he can't get out, made expectations too high with anticipation, or never planned a third book and just trolled the book world.

I don't quite remember which Dragonlance books I read. But I really enjoyed the ones I had. I started off further on in the series though because the books I had just came in a huge box of miscelaneous stuff.

MissCreep původně napsal:

Against the Tide by Elizabeth Camden is my favorite book ever. I own all of her work, and am currently waiting for my pre-order of her newest book.

Cool. It's not one that I've ever heard of, or anything by Elizabeth Camden. What do you like about it? The story, settings or the way she writes?

✧Turtle McTurtleson původně napsal:

I'm currently reading, The Warrior Heir, it's really good, I'm not gonna give a summary of course, though.

Never heard of it before, but having a look at the description it sorta reminded me of a movie I watched years ago called The Covenant.

𝑀𝒶𝓉𝓉𝓂𝑜𝑜 původně napsal:

Bride of The Water God.

The description of Vol. 1 sounds pretty cool, I think I might give it a go. I really like all of the cover art for the books aswell.

Carpel (Daily Workout) původně napsal:

none atm, but I used to read goosebumps, fear street, bone chillers, animorphs, ect. And some like narnia series was boss. But even when I used to read tons of books I prefered non-fiction over novels an fantasy.

I miss my old Goosebumps collection. I had so many, but I gave them all to some kids at a garage sale cause I didn't really have enough room to take them with me when I was moving.

[Velstrum]

red scarf girl

[Ⓥenom Ⓢnake 🐍]

ṼṏẌṏḭḊ původně napsal:

Yeah, I really enjoyed them all aswell, but each book would be half the size if you cut out the pointless repeated nonsense.

Each book has an annoying phrase that gets added to nearly every sentence. The first book is "He/She licked their lips" The second book is "He/She said dryly" The third and 4th books are Nynaeve tugging that braid of hers. At one point I wondered how she even had a scalp left lol.
Robert was an excellent storyteller but an average writer.

Oh yeah. That was so infuriating. Yes, Mr. Jordan. You came up with a clever name for fantasy lesbians. Would you mind not dropping the phrase Pillowfriends into everyone's backstory. And Rand is the one who is supposed to be going insane, so why does he just get a voice in the back of his head, THAT IS ACTUALLY THERE and not a sign of madness , while everyone else acts like an emotionally crippled lunatic!

Man, you would think I hate these books, wouldn't you? Yet I love em. Own them all, the comics, the RPG books and the PC game. Heck. The books have some of my favorite fictional characters. Mat, Min, Bashire, Faile, and even Rand every once in a while when he is being all awesome and not wandering around yelling about "Duty is light as a feather, Heavier than a mountain." Which, I think I might actually be past that, as I am at the point where Mat is working on getting Elyane to help him make his "Dragons".

[HypersleepyNaputunia]

Hobbit/lord of rings
Mission earth

[Velstrum]

anyone else surprise no ones has tried to be edgey
by saying mien kampf

[Esoteric]

I don't have a favourite book. I'm currently reading The Count Of Monte Cristo.

[Ⓥenom Ⓢnake 🐍]

Muad'Dib původně napsal:

I don't have a favourite book. I'm currently reading The Count Of Monte Cristo.

Dumas was a pretty good writer. I found the book a bit dry though. I did really like The Three Musketeers though, and Twenty Years Late was bloody brilliant.