Thread: What are your favorite books? NonFiction and Fiction

I'm curious on what your favorite books are! Don't be afraid to tell everyone your thoughts. ;)

Nonfiction: Game Coding Complete, (2nd edition) by Mike McShaffry
Thoughts: While it only deals with programming with DirectX, alot can be learned from this book. It covers practically EVERY programming aspect of making games. It even touches on writing your own graphics engine. It does not, however, teach you how to program.

Fiction: Gotrek and Felix, The First Omnibus. by William King. (It's in the Warhammer series)
I origionally read this book in it's origional form, three separate books. Sadly, they were from the library, and they discontinued loaning them because of their violent nature. They way the books are written reminds me of playing an RPG. The story follows the same path.

Gotrek is by far my most favorite fictional character of any book.

Both are really hard to pin down for me. I've read and loved so many books.

Nonfiction: The Myth of Sisyphus and the Rebel by Albert Camus

Fiction: Book of the New Sun - Gene Wolfe. The only book I wanted to read again as soon as I finished. It's pretty amazing. It isn't light reading, and you have to work to get meaning out of it. Wolfe is playing a number of games while you read, and what isn't said is sometimes more important than what is. I've yet to be as thoroughly engrossed in something as I was when I read this.

Nonfiction: 13 Steps to Mentalism by Corinda
Will tune your bullshine detector, teach you the solid basics of deceit.

Fiction: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
You should read this. Really. It's indescribably good.

One of my fav books of all time would have to be The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.

Fiction would have to be Mister Monday by Garth Nix...
I don't read much Non Fiction...

Fiction - Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

Non-Fiction - Skunk Works by Ben Rich with Leo Janos

Mark Twain's "Mysterious stranger."

:/ That and many others. Too lazy though

For fiction(dont really like the real world stuff)
My favorite book is a series called

Pendragon it's really good

Nonfiction: Night (short but powerful)
Thoughts: It is a firsthand holocaust story of a boy who gets separated from his mother and sister and watches his father die slowly and painfully. Very powerful story that shows the holocaust in a way that no film could ever show.
Fiction: Of Mice and Men (I wish it wasn't so sad)
Thoughts: It's a classic. It felt a bit like Old Yeller. Story of two men trying to survive in a world just too big for them. One of them has a mental disability that hinders both of them.

My favorite books are so short. I think long books bore me a bit. Though Hitchhiker's guide was epic win. Read the whole series. I love the part about how to fly! It's so simple!

Originally Posted by Atomic Cow

Nonfiction: 13 Steps to Mentalism by Corinda
Will tune your bullshine detector, teach you the solid basics of deceit.

Fiction: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
You should read this. Really. It's indescribably good.

Hitchhiker is amazing.

:)

Imma have to look into 13 steps. Sounds intriguing.


btw is there any Twilight fans here? One of my friends is a complete nut. She has the same book like 3 times, One's her original one, one's the one she reads with, and one is with her 24/7. She goes to the book signings and freaks out whenever there's a new commercial for the movie. It's scary.

nonfiction: The Fabric of the Cosmos (Brian Greene)
covers a lot of the interesting stuff in modern physics

fiction: I cant pick just one

Originally Posted by Redefined Lyn

For fiction(dont really like the real world stuff)
My favorite book is a series called

Pendragon it's really good

Pendragon rawks! has the 9th one come out yet?

Originally Posted by DrainBamage

Pendragon rawks! has the 9th one come out yet?

I dont think so but let me check

*edit*

you are in luck my friend i found it

http://www.thependragonadventure.com...gon-book9.html

Has the first chapter from book 9:raven rising

Non-fiction: I'd have to say right now, its iWoz

Fiction: Way to many to pick one :\ I like the Alex Rider series, Genius Squad, Evil Genius, Harry Potter, HHGTTG (every single book in one, its like my bible), etc.

I just read a really good one and was gonna make a thread to see if anyone else had read it. Its called "Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes"

Fiction: Dr. Seuss

Just put a space between the ":" and "D"

As in - Fiction: Dr. Seuss.

The Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson
1984 by George Orwell
Behold a Pale Horse by William Cooper

Non-Fiction: The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Reads like a newspaper article, with more focus on the people involved rather than the actual events. It's more of a documentary rather than an actual story, but its very interesting to see the "human" side of the Manhattan Project.

Fiction: I would say anything by Jules Verne or Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Verne's works are just plain fun to read, and Miserables does a great job of creating multiple story lines and then interconnecting them into a bittersweet resolution.

I definitely need to read more though =P

Non-Fiction: Dead Men's Secrets

Fiction: Sphere (terrible movie, great book)

nonfiction: the white hat hackers handbook
Fiction: the abhorsen series by garth nix
the keys to the kingdom series by garth nix
the anita blake series by laruell k hamilton
the the septimus heap series ... can't remember the author
eragon and eldest by christopher paloni
Vampirates series ... cant remeber teh author
the Pendragon series by D.J. Mchale
just to name a few of my favorietes...