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Of course Harry Potter and Bridget Jones go home :D
(kidding... As they say: de gustibus non est disputandum... Post whatever you find appropriate!)

Mine:

Terry Prattchet's Discworld Series
Hyperion + the Fall Of Hyperion (Dan Simmons)
Lord Of The Rings (hmmm, who wrote that...)
Ice Station Zebra (A. MacLean)
Airframe, Terminal Man, Sphere, Timeline, Jurassic Park + Lost World, Prey (all of M. Crichton)
Charnel House (G. Masterton)
Interview With The Vampire (A. Rice)
Dreamcatcher, Carrie, The Storm of The Century (S. King)

I like Happy Potter *eyes Qom*

*Edit* just looked at the thread title

I like:

The Darren Shan books,
Magician & The Patricia Cornwell books

Discworld Series by Pratchett
And of Course the Lord of the Rings...

HAR!!!

David Gemmell - Druss, Waylander, Lion of Macedon & Troy series etc. (sadly he passed away earlier this year :( i believe his wife will complete Troy series) Seriously good herioc fiction!

Bernard Cornwell -  Sharpe! (of course), Lords of the North and the fantastic Warlord series!

Dennis Wheatley - The Devil Rides Out, To The Devil A Daughter, The Satanist, The Haunting of Toby Jugg, They Used Dark Forces etc.

They're the main ones ;)

Anne Rice is alright. Tolkien is great. Robert Jordan's also quite good (wheel of time), but he's losing his touch. Dumas (Count of Monte Cristo and Three Musketeers), Robert L. Stevenson (Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde amongst others), Dante (The Divine Comedy), Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Grey and too many other to mention) and Poe (Murders in the Rue Morgue is what I think is the title, and his poems) are all great. 

Pratchett's good, I think their making a film of The Hogfather - why is Death climbing down chimneys shouting Ho ho ho?

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien - Silmarillion
Niklas Krog - A warrior's heart, A magician's strength, A ruler's soul, The great war of peace
Robert Jordan - The wheel of time

And of course, the permanently hilarious Terry Pratchett! Vive le Luggage!

Lord of the rings, JRR Tolkien... Genious
Eragon/Eldest, Christopher polini
Sharpe, Bernard Cronwell
Quicksilver Tril, Can't remember name
Peircing the darkness, Frank Pereti
This present darkness, Frank Pereti

And many more...

Och, forgot Robert Burns.

I was a big fan of Raymond E Feist.
The Serpentwar Saga and the Krondor books were amazing.
I still actually haven't finished The Magician tho, lol!
I should really get on with that.

oh, aye, Raymond E. Feist is good. Terry Brooks is also good, though I can't remember anything but the Shannara stuff

I don't read books, I wait for the movie to come out.

Magicians Guild, Novice And High Lord... Great books
Imperial Spy, Assassin

Raymond Feists magician series is excellent  :D havent read any of his others yet though. The wheel of time series is great too but sometimes I wonder if Jordan will ever finish the series before he croaks...its getting a little longwinded.  :P

Anything by Stephen King.

Favourites include:

The Stand
The Shining

Aye, and Crossroads of (in?) Twiligt was crappy, I counted 18 pages (of roughly 900) about Rand! (The main character)

I agree with most writers above, although i cant say I like that Shannara crap.

Have any of you read Robin Hobb? The Seer trilogy, fool, livingships and the warrior's son. She always writes trilogies and they are VERY good books.

Also George RR Martin with his Song of Ice and Fire series. I wish he'd stop touring and write more tho.

I've read some Robin Hobb, but it's so long ago. What were they about?

Oh, and I absolutely hate R. A. Salvatore's style of writing, it's so melodramatic it's just stupid! And; he created Drizz't!

Tolkien and Feist for me

Fesit's early stuff is really good but the books he's written from Shards of a Broken Crown onwards have been distinctly inferior in quality.  And his continuity stinks, he can't keep his timeline or minor characters straight. 

George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire is excellent.  I'm a member of the fan club The Brotherhood Without Banners and have met the author on two occasions *hugs signed copy of A Feast for Crows*

Bernard Cornwell is good, his Arthurian trilogy The Warlord Chronicles is fantastic. 

Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen series is really good.

Robin Hobb's books are good though I've been disappointed in her new Soldier Son series. 

Jordan's Wheel of Time is good (the first 5 books are excellent, it then takes a slide until the 11th one).  Thr 12th one is due 2008 or 2009 I think, it's been considerably slowed by the author's possibly terminal illness.

My Favorite books are:

All of R.A. Salvatore

Tangled Webs By: Elaine Cunningham
Dradons of Winter Night
Dragons of Spring Dawning
Dragons of Autumn Twilight By: Margret Wies and Tracy Hickman
And last but not least

Against the Giants By: Ru Emerson

The time he wasted signing silly copies could be spend on finishing a Dance of Dragons! Damn you!

A Dance with Dragons   :P

 For whom the bell tolls- Hemingway

 There is one book you MUST read....It was BOOM written on noe
 page....behold! "captain bluebears thirteen and a half lives!"
 This is a must book....and its not for children, like it may sound...
 Vivila Meeeeeeeeee!

My bad, I've forgotten to mention:

Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Turbo (William Gibson)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe,
Life, the Universe and Everything,
So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish,
Mostly Harmless (this and four above by Douglas Adams)

Aye, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is soooooo good. 42 ftw. The Bible's also alright, especially the part about Sodom and Gomorrah, where the Sodomites want to rape angels and it ends up with two daughters getting pregnant by their father...

Are you CRAZY?! Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy was boring though the robot thing reminds me of Hoagie.

BORING?!? Hmm, you seemed reasonable... *frowns*
Although 'twas alot better than the childish Horny Porter...

;D

(kidding)

Hitchhiker's guide is awesome!!! How could you be bored!??!?!

Leave it to us Roman Catholics to lead the rest of the world AWAY from religion.

Haha. So true

I must say I enjoyed reading "The Curious Incident of The Dog In the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon

'Mistress of the Empire' by Feist and someone else. Absolutely MARVELLOUS! READ IT!

also, The Holy Scriptures ftw.!

Ah yeah, Mistress trilogy is arguebly the best series written by Feist. Ever.