your bookcase

Just a thread where we post stuff from our bookcases. I am kinda interested in what you guys read


At my home, most of the books are in the living room and owned by my parents. I maintain a small bookcase of my own though.

- the foundation heptalogy (Isaac Asimov)
- robot dreams (Isaac Asimov)
- The bicentennial man (Isaac Asimov, robert silverberg)
- the complete robot (Isaac Asimov)
- Nemesis (Isaac Asimov)
- Nightfall (Isaac Asimov)
- Child of Time (Isaac Asimov)
- the golden compass trilogy (Phillip Pullman)
- Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy pentalogy (Douglas Adams)
- Lovecraft Omnibus 3 (HP Lovecraft)
- Marrow (Robert Reed)
- Star Wars: in the shadow of the empire trilogy (Timothy Zahn)
- Dungeons and dragons: players handbook III
- The last hero (Terry Pratchett)
- Only you can save mankind (Terry Pratchett)
- Secrets of the lost races (Rene Noorbergen)
- The science fiction bestiary (Robert Silverberg)
- Saga of the seven suns: book 4, 5 and 6 (Kevin J Anderson) (His stories are full of plot holes, but, by science, the guy can write)
- Star Warped (A3r roberts) (Starts out good, gets really bad)
- Starcraft: Queen of blades, nova, shadow of the xel'naga, liberty's crusade, speed of darkness and firstborn
- riftwar saga: magician, shadow of a dark queen, exile's return (Raymond E feist)
- the hunters blade trilogy (RA salvadore)
- the japanese novelization of the da vinci code movie

And comics: ultimate galactus trilogy, ultimate x-men vol 5 and 15 (paperback), vol 18 (hardcover), ultimate fantastic four vol 2, watchmen, Flash gordon v2 vol1-4, warcraft - shadows of ice, warcraft - dragon hunt, the complete run of generation X, Fantastic four: the new fantastic four, wolverine - origins vol 3, x-men: deadly genesis, JLA: A league of one, spider-man: back in black, golden age Captain America vol 2, impulse - reckless youth, Say hello to blackjack vol 1 (japanese), Strange vol 1 (japanese), bone - out from bonesville


Yeah, I think my bookcase racks in the geek points.

 

I was elected to lead... not to read....

sorry about that

I mainly have a lot of manga (including starcraft manga) and scifi or fantasy books.

and of course the *shudder* Harry potter series (this is from like... 5 years ago? probably 7 years...)

 

All of the Starcraft books.
All of the HALO books most of which are deffinetly must reads even if you despise HALO. They are written really well and can seriously bring you into them.
A crap ton of other famous novels I've read. 20-30. Stuff like Gulliver's Travels, Catcher in the Rye, Clockwork Orange, etc.
A really old special edition of the comic Wolverine.
A few mangas of this and that, mainly Tengo Tenge.
Some drawing books, some drawing pads, and some other utensils for drawing.
A large collection of my writings.
...One magazine of Busty Babes.
Uh............ S'bout it I think.


Are they ever going to make the next Golden Compass? The freaking movie was beyond epic, probably my favorite. ****'s been out for a long time though, surprised a new one hasn't come out.

 

I have a lot of books on philosophy. A few religious texts, multi denominational and such.
A bunch of history books on tons of subjects. My Cold War section has 12 books, my World War section is 8.
A bunch of cheap fantasy novels (Damn you RA Salvatore).
Some classic lit. Nothing much.
A few hardcover I guess... Coffee table books? Nice pictures, little text.

Takaim, did you ever read the His Dark Materials series? They butchered the story in the film. My god, it was terrible.

 

The book im currently i'm currently reading is the Adventures of Gotrek and Felix, which is going into my favorite books section.

 

That's the thing. I don't read books and then watch movies or vice versa. Cus then I'd act like you people all like omfg they ruined the story. D: I never read the books, but I loved the movie and have no interest in seeing how they slaugthered it in the movie because in the end it's still great watch and entertaining.

 

They removed everything that made it interesting.

 

But they had a drunk polar bear...

 

too many books to remember, everyone in my family has books on the same bookcase, and hardly any of them have been read in a long time. I remember there are star trek and star wars novels, harry potter books, books from when I was a kid, etc. And next to the comp down stairs my sister has the Vampire Game manga.

On the subject of bad book based movies, my prime example is the movie Eragon. was looking so forward to it only to be disappointed. Good movie by itself but butchers everything from the book.

 

If you are talking about movies: the last one tanked, so probably never.

The original books weren't funny, rather going for dramatic.

 

I dunno how it tanked. Made Narnia look like a bunch of b*tch *** kids trying to f*ck a lion...oh wait.. ....... Anyway. Lawls. xD Sh*t made me laugh. xD Sorry, anyway.. Yeah. Pretty sure the Golden Compass one some awards.. the movie.

 

Won the Oscar for Best Achievement in Visual Effects. I guess that's saying something,s ince it was against Transformers.

Still sucked though.

 

Nah. -_- It was good.

 

THE BOOKSHELF OF EMR'S MUSINGS (in arranged order, * denominates in a row behind other books)

Top Shelf:
*Warriors 1-6 by Erin Hunter
*Redwall (Up to Loamhedge) by Brian Jacques
The Communist Manifesto (Pocket-sized) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Dune (up to God Emperor of Dune) by Frank Herbert
Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
The Secret War by M.F.W. Curran
The Saint of Dragons by Jason Hightman
The Angel's Command by Brian Jacques
Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings (all three individuals, released after the films) by J.R.R. Tolkien

Second Shelf:
Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke
The Wish List by Eoin Colfer
The Divide and Back to the Divide by Elizabeth Kay
The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer
Artemis Fowl (Entire series, special edition of the first book, and the extra Files) by Eoin Colfer
Sherlock Holmes The Complete Novels and Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
His Dark Materials (trilogy pre-movie release) by Philip Pullman
Gregor the Overlander and Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane by Suzanne Collins

Third Shelf:
Charlie Bone (the first four books) by Jenny Nimmo
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
The Cat Who (13 assorted titles from the series) by Lilian Jackson Braun

Fourth Shelf:
The Maps of Tolkein's Middle Earth by Brian Sibley
Maze by Christopher Manson
The Book without Words by Avi (Author's full name does not appear anywhere within the book nor on the cover)
Harry Potter (entire series in hardback as released chronologically) by J.K. Rowling
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (entire set of books with a rather confusing introduction regarding the versions) by Douglas Adams
Eragon (all three in hardback) by Christopher Paolini

Bottom Shelf:
Assorted puzzles and informational texts
Inkheart, Inkspell, and Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke
The Hunger Games and Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
The Dream Merchant by Isabel Hoving
The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry
The City of Ember, The People of Sparks, and The Prophet of Yonwood by Jeanne DuPrau

The Bedside Floor:
Unplugged The Web's Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy: 2008 Download edited by Rich Horton, assorted authors
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Alice's adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand


Several titles I have not bothered to read were exempt from this list, as was The Living Dead (unknown author) which is a collection of zombie short stories that I lent to my sister who took it to college with her. The target audience is somewhat younger, and almost all of the titles are fantasy-related. I would suggest Artemis Fowl, The Manual of Detection, Dune, and Sherlock Holmes to the readers of this forum. Unless your username is Takaim. In which case I would suggest The Secret War or The Saint of Dragons.

EDIT: I have no idea where my pre-movie release copy of The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown is.

 

Has anyone read 'And another thing...'? Its a sixth hitchhiker's guide to galaxy book, now by Coilfer. Just curious if it turned out well.

 

I have giggled only once reading wikipedia's take on the plot so far.

 

The Inheritance series by Christopher Paolini.
Infected by Scott Sigler.
Stephen King stuff.
Richard Matheson stuff.
Some mangas (Fullmetal Alchemist, Trinity Blood, .hack).
Michael Crichton stuff.
The Gears of War novels (surprisingly not too bad and add to the game series).
The Necromancer series by Garth Nix.
The Warcraft novels (except for Arthas -because I don't care- and Stormrage -because I heard it was bad-).
The Starcraft novels (missing Heaven's Devils because of money).
The Diablo novels.
A lot of zombie/vampire books from my sister I still have to read.
More by John Hodgman.
Nothing's Sacred by Lewis Black.
The Ranger's Apprentice series by John Flanagan.
The Montmorency series by Eleanor Updale.
Hannibal by Thomas Harris (funny how I don't have Silence of the Lambs).
Graphic novels (Bone, Watchmen, V for Vendetta, Stephen Colbert's Tek Jansen).
Survive! by Les Stroud.
And my friend is letting me borrow a lot of the Horus Heresy novels (Warhammer 40K).

All the ones I care to list.

 

Oh yes, it's called The Inheritance Series. Thanks for that. I was too lazy to pull one out. Can anybody recommend me any titles from their shelves based off of what I've listed? I've just recently gotten in to short-story fiction collections, especially sci-fi or exploratory/fantasy. I still love a good mystery, though. Just about sick of the generic straight-fantasy plot-line.

 

EMR, you've read the Ender's series, right?

 

Are you referring to Ender's Game? No, I haven't.