Our Favorite Novels...

[Invisigoth0o]

I started a thread about our favorite films earlier this week, and since it seemed so popular i though i would post a simmeler thread about our forvoite books, if thats ok with everyone here that is.
i read so much that i cant really pick a favorite, although i will admit to a passion for anne rice's older vampire novels. i also enjoy alot of Tannith Lee's short stories, especially Red as Blood, which is a fantastic take on both vampirisim as well as the Snow White fairy tale.
so put in your two cents everyone smile  

[Taifallos]

Oooh, I would have to agree Anne Rice's older novels do take the cake on this one!

But as for none vampire books I'd have to go with:
The Picture of Dorian Gray ::: Oscar Wilde
Peter Pan ::: James Barry
The Day of the Jackal ::: Frederick Forsyth
Layer Cake ::: J.J. Connolly
And from there I am a HUGE Michael Crichton fan.  

[Invisigoth0o]

ooo, im a very big fan of Criton as well, i used to be big into John Grishom (i cant spell!) when i was abotu 8, but now i read alot more of everythgn else too.  

[GregorytheImpaler]

Off the top of my head? Let's see...

Bram Stoker's "Dracula" of course. ^^
Gaston Leroux's "The Phantom of the Opera"
Dante Allegheiri's "Divine Comedy"
and ANYTHING by Howard Phillip Lovecraft.  

[Eisoji]

I've read other vampire books but I have to agree that the older Anne Rice books are very good. Blood and Gold is one of my very favorites though. (As a side note I cannot stand the movie forms of Interview with a Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, or Queen of the Damned)

Non vampire books, oh it's a long list. My current favorites are Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series. But I also love The Phantom of the Opera( I love the movie, and the musical, I saw it in Vegas and it was amazing), and The Count of Monte Cristo( I can't stand the newer movie for this. It makes me very very angry), and so many others. smile  

[[Barbarella]]

Too many favorites to list...I will throw out a vampire hillbilly novel,
Blood County by Curt Selby. It is well worth a read if you can find it. It's about a boy who comes home from the Vietnam War, considered dead, until they ship his body home and he returns to (un)life. He then has the choice of becoming a vampire king like his sire, ruling a town, or conquering his nature and freeing his hometown from the sire.  

[nerves end]

Garth Nix's Keys to the Kingdom Series
Anything by George Orwell
And Many others  

[Aya Xu]

The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
Cry to Heaven by Anne Rice
Vampire Vow by Michael Schiefelben
Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novels
Most anything by Stephen King, Mercedes Lackey, Ray Bradbury, Stephen Fry, and P.G. Wodehouse.
Martin Scott's Thraxas novels
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories
The Great Detective Stories, 1841-1941 edited by Ellery Queen
100 Hair-raising Little Horror Stories edited by Al Sarrantonio and Martin H. Greenburg
Now we need a favorite comic books thread.  

[Daikano]

Hmm.. off the top of my head:

Howling Mad by Peter David (one of the funniest books I've read in a long time)
Moon Called by Patricia Briggs
Wolfsong by Tracy Briery
When will you Rage? by various authors
Forgotten Realms/Dragonlance/Ravenloft- the Avatar trilogy, Pool of Radiance, various short story collections(mostly involving dragons), Drow trilogy(have to pick that back up), Crucible: the trial of Cyric the Mad, Knight of the Black Rose series.
Dragonriders of Pern series
Many of Edgar Allen Poe's works such as- Masque of the Red Death and Fall of the House of Usher

(Ironically, I'm a big werewolf fan- 1st 4 all have them)
I also read a couple different manga series.  

[Overlord Aemsy Love]

Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse  

[Taifallos]

Aya Xu

The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
Cry to Heaven by Anne Rice
Vampire Vow by Michael Schiefelben
Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novels
Most anything by Stephen King, Mercedes Lackey, Ray Bradbury, Stephen Fry, and P.G. Wodehouse.
Martin Scott's Thraxas novels
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories
The Great Detective Stories, 1841-1941 edited by Ellery Queen
100 Hair-raising Little Horror Stories edited by Al Sarrantonio and Martin H. Greenburg
Now we need a favorite comic books thread.

I second that- Hercule Poirot is a winner on my list. =)  

[Birs]

I know, that some people will hate me because this, but my actually favorite novell is Harry Potter 7.  

[Nivelia]

Quote:

I know, that some people will hate me because this, but my actually farorite novell is Harry Potter 7.

I hope not, because I like that book too.  

[Birs]

So a longer list is here:
Tarry Prachett - DiscWorld books
Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Karl May - all of his works
Leslie L. Laurence (aka Rejtő Jenő) - he is a hungarian writer, with great sense of humour and his books are so easy to read
J. R. R. Tolkien - Lord of the Rings trilogy
And the whole Harry Potter serie razz  

[Kitaliah_x]

Anne Rice - Vampire Series.
David Eddings - Everything! (favourite author)