Haha, I should make a shameless plug for my fanfic, 'Bloodlust', oops! Look like I just did

right now i'm readin my newly aquirred bill waterson book. calvin and hobbes: the days are packed. calvin and hobbes is the best comic ever.

At the present tiem im reading the Englishman and the Mafia- true story and Mafia the first hundred years- true story both interesting reads

Not reading any books at the moment, only popular science mags in bed before sleep.

The last book I read was Digital Fortress by Dan Brown. I like his books, but this was definitely not his best.

My all time favorite books so far are the 4 books about Rama by Arthur C. Clarke. I highly recommend those to anyone who like sci-fi with a high realism factor. I think I've read them 4 times each.

Here are the names if you'd like to search them up (just checked on Amazon, and they're all in stock):

Rendezvous with Rama
Rama II
The Garden of Rama
Rama Revealed

In short it's about a giant space-craft (50x20 km) that enters our solar system one day. That's all I will say, but if this sounds intriguing you'll not be disappointed if you start reading (here is an excerpt from Amazon).

The first book is from 1974 or something, and Arthur C. Clarke is also the author of 2001, 2010, 3001 etc. if you didn't know. He's also a scientist in real life, and he is one of the pioneers who contributed to the use of satellites (can hardly image a world without them now). Thus he has a great understanding of real life physics and space behavior in general, which always makes his books great for realism buffs. 2001 is still the most realistic sci-fi movie to date imho, and even that is from the 70's.

They're also working on the movie about Rama, but I can't imagine how they're going pack that great story into one movie, so I still recommend reading the books. You won't be disappointed!

Hmmm... many interesting recommendations.... I'm intrigued

Anyone have any good fantasy novels to recommend? Personally I have been enjoying George R.R Martin's series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire' I believe is the name of the series. It has just reached it's fourth installment, 'A Feast for Crows'. Really entertaining stuff.

If you're interested in Fantasy, i wholeheartedly reccommend Raymond E. Feist, especially the Riftwar and Serpentwar sagas

Busy with Stephen King's The dark tower. Finished Wizard and glass last week, it's book no. 4 in the series and I cant wait to get the next one.

Some people say its utter crap, I think its rather briliant.
But if you like fantasy check out Dragon Eye's also by King

Now that is just one of the best books he ever wrote, his other novels is a bit long winded unlike his short stories.

I would rekomend his short stories for a good bed time read.

Thanks for the suggestions! I'll likely be looking into those soon. I'll have a good amount of time at work to finish off the book I'm reading at the moment.

There are indeed a lot of good recommendations here, I have always enjoyed science fiction - especially touched with realism, as Olav says.

TheMetalMallet, I will be looking up your FanFic after finishing with Serene...but joyfully, there are a lot of installments of Serene's story.

alright this is a recommendation for you messie people out there that are tired of the clutter and mess at your home.

I strongly suggest you pick up a copy of any Sandra Felton book (Living Organized,Smart Organizing, or The Nw Messie's Guide) Her books are wonderfully written and inspiring, Also filled with wonderful suggestions for you home and life. you only need read a page and you are ready to start cleaning up your act and home. simply splendid reads. Also good for those who ar preparing to leave home, since you can prevent clutter before it has a chance to get a hold at your new place.

As for recommendations, I would second the George R.R. Martin and Raymond Feist. Also enjoyed most of David Gemmel's work. If you like spaceships, try David Weber's Honor Harrington series. (Based unabashedly on Horatio Hornblower and Jack Aubrey- just set far into the future in space.)

Song of Ice and Fire is great.

Feast for Crows was good, but it only talked about all the characters I hated. (With the exception of Arya)

I guess that means the next book will be awesome though.

Yes I know, personally I want to catch up on Davos, Jon, and Bran. The Dragonqueen is always interesting too.

Oh yeah and I'm also reading Man and his symbols by Carl G Jung. Hard to read.

One book I would recommend not reading is Holy blood, holy grail. It's a forerunner to the Da Vinci Code in many respects - it presents the concept of Jesus having children with Mary Magdaline, and goes into depth about the Priory of Sion and the Templars and Rosicusians and the Arbigenesian crusade and all that shite, but really it's as much conjecture and supposition as fact. And it's hamster cave aweful to read. I mean it really is an academic and ponderous text.

Plus it gets a bit silly. They even go with Barabus being Jesus' son. And the wedding in the bible as Jesus'; that sort of thing.

Finished the book on Prince Henry. Interesting, but obviously primarily focused on Portugal.

Oh I´m honoured! Hope you like it! (Oh and there are a truckload of good stories out there in the fanfic-section!, one of my favourites is The story of Trey!!)
Me, I just finshed "Gone, Baby, Gone" by Dennis Lehane! I really like that author, and I´ll try to find more of his work!

Lately I've been reading alot of Harry Turtledoves historical fiction books..

This one series I'm reading the south actually recieved help from France and Great Britian and won the War of secession. That series travels from the civil war to about WWII culminating into like about 10 books I think.

I swapped over to a completely comedian book....itis called Hvorfor men ikke kan lytte, å kvinner ikke kan lese kart.....basically translated it become Why men cant listen, and why women cant read maps...truly a hilarious book, filled up to the limit of bad sarcastic jokes about Women and Men.

The complete works of crazy Russian shut-ins who are constantly misquoted and read almost solely by 20 something-year-old history majors.

Well, I've been on a Al Gore and David Suzuki binge lately, not becuase of they're new books, but because The books of theirs I intended to read years ago were taken from me by my friend and I knew I should have made up for my lost reading. Really interesting information in there, especially the breakthrough discovery that a certain tree (don't quote me on this but I think it might be Quaking Aspen) does not grow singularily into forests, but the entire forest is conneted by roots as if it were one enourmous tree.

Also, I started Down and Out in Paris and France today, which is a really great look on poverty earlier in the 1900's by the man who brought you Animal Farm and 1984.

I've been meaning to check out 1984 sometime, it sounded interesting from what I heard about it at school.

Instead, I ended up reading 'Brave New World', a good book also.