re: List your favorite genre/selections

My favorites vary from genre to genre. My all time favorite book took me three seconds to decide.

Lamb: The Gospel according to Biff By Christopher Moore. He is a very good writer and story teller. As a Catholic, I absolutely laughed my arse off that whole book. Some of the laughs came out loud and in public.

So honorable mentions:

The Alchemist (check out the audio book for this one. Jeremy Irons does it)

The Life of Pi

The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy (whole series good but read the first definitely)

Dan Brown's Robert Langdon books. (Movies did them no justice)

LoTR

And for you LSU fans,

The Worthy by Will Clarke is funny as hell and takes place at LSU

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, I absolutely laughed my arse off that whole book. Some of the laughs came out loud and in public.

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I find it very strange and awesome when this happens. Confederacy of Dunces made it happen for me for the first time and instantly installed it as one of my all times

You two want to fill us in on what this is about?

Whoah

The book will drive you mad. The book itself is the work of art, beyond just the telling of a story. Here's what it looks like as things start spiraling out of control

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I"m interested in these as well. Can you compare it to something for me?

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The best part of Malazan is how unique it is. I could give you a few detailed "why I feel that way"s, but then you wouldn't enjoy it as much. Going in blind had me hooked and I accidentally stumbled onto book 3 in an airport and had to piece together story lines I didn't know about. One of my favorite books in the series being #3 might have skewed my view a bit.

I'd suggest giving the first 2 books a shot as they are split up into different continents. Not for everyone, but they were my favorite fantasy books up to a point. Book 2 is fantastic and most often talked about when making TV/movie.

So much Stormlight in this thread. That's officially my next read.

Science fiction

I like John Ringo's Black Tide Rising series and the Tales of the Aldenatta (Posleen War) series.

Big fan of David Weber's Honorverse.

Pretty much all of Crichton's works.

Also liked Tanya Huff's series Confederation of Valor.

As far as fantasy is concerned, I would recommend the standalone book Villains by Necessity by Eve Forward.

KV

Slapstick (which he hated)
Sirens of Titan
Hocus Pocus
Look atbthe Birdie (short collection)

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No one comes close to PR's prose,

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That's just complete horseshite. I wish people would stop sucking Rothfuss' dick as if he's fricking Tolkien. The man is a good writer. There are plenty of other good writers out there who can tell complex stories while not meandering into Fairy frick Land for 100 pages.

His prose is no better than Scott Lynch's or Anthony Ryan's and Scott Lynch has put out 3 books while battling severe depression while Ryan has finished a series, started another one and written half a dozen short stories and novellas in an entirely different genre.

Rothfuss isn't on the level of Gaiman or Wolfe. And Gaiman could do nothing for the rest of his life and still be considered one of the greatest fantasy writers of all time, certainly of the modern age, and be in the running for one of the best writers period of the modern age.

Hell, Glenn Cook is as good as Rothfuss and he has dozens of books out.

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meandering into Fairy frick Land for 100 pages.

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Holy shite, that part bugged the hell out of me when I was reading it. I couldn't believe how long that went on.

In regards to the picture Baloo posted of Book of Leaves. I was trying to figure out why I couldn't find that book on Kindle. I guess I know now.