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[The Summoner of Leviathan]

Originally Posted by Vincent, Thunder God ^

How about the Otherland series?

4 books, but so much to work from. I mean, one passage and you have a potential for a review right there!

That was a good series, long too but good. Tad Williams is <3.

Originally Posted by Bert ^

Originally Posted by o_O ^

Read Timeline by Michael Crichton. One of my favourite books of all time.

Srsly... that book was AMAZING. The movie was horrid 305 days old dog crap compared.

Oddly enough my sentiments are reversed, I preferred the movie over the book, which is odd since I tend to prefer the novel over the movie in every other case I can think of. I found the book way too slow and not engaging at all. Then again, it was 6 or 7 years ago since I had tried to read the book (never finished it because I could not get into it).

[Miriel]

Anything, everything by Kurt Vonnegut. My favorite Vonnegut book is The Sirens of Titan.

If you like Orwell, you might like The Handmaid's Tale. It follows along the dystopian themes of 1984 and Brave New World. I thought it was fascinating and haunting.

[MKusanagi]

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Sphere by Michael Crichton
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
The Bone Collector by Jeffrey Dahmer... just kidding Jeffrey Deaver
The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum

[Ouch!]

Originally Posted by rubah ^

I'd suggest A Game of Thrones by george r. r. martin but it's kinda weighty.

I'd suggest A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows despite the weightiness. They're that good. I can't read other fantasy novels without comparing them to the sheer awesomeness that is George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series.

[Bert]

I've always wanted to read those but I never do.

[Heath]

Originally Posted by Harle-Quin ^

Flowers for Algernon. Midget little read, by gold on every page. So, even though it's only 20-odd pages long, it weighs a bloody ton!

Good God, that is a brilliant book. Incredibly depressing but at the same time terribly heart warming in places.

Edit: I take if you're referring to the novella. I don't know which one I read, as the copy I read was one that my Dad had copied word for word from a library book decades ago and was in a notepad. And we're talking upwards of seven years since I read it.