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- 12 hours is like, I dunno, just a time I made up, lol, yeah but I can read pretty fast, anyways I'll post back here in a few hours or so - go to go to the gym, laters

GIR - that sounds like one, confusing book

Haha GIR, only your opinion is important of course .

But honestly, I probably couldn't will myself to read a series that long... It would take too long

The Wheel Of Time series (first book is The Eye of the World) by Robert Jordan.
Genre: Fantasy

It's hard to write a small synopsis without putting in anything that someone might consider spoilers, so...
Why I love it: I love the author's writing style. I can really feel the mood of whatever's happening. I like seeing the characters grow and change as the series progresses. I also think he does a fairly accurate job of portraying real people and human nature and the differences between men and women.

Edit: I just wrote all that before I saw GIR's and Kage's posts. Just to clarify, there are currently 11 books in the series proper, with the 12th and supposedly final one being worked on. There is one prequel, and you wouldn't miss much if you don't read it. (I don't suggest reading the prequel first.)

Edit2: Apparently there *is* a short-story prequel in addition to the other that's available online.

Btw Lance, I forgot to say earlier.. your book looks super interesting to me.. I might have to go check it out.

Back at home (I'm in college) We have a small town library too.. mostly just the popular mystery genre stuff.. I like fantasy so eh

Whacko names GIR... is it a whacko book?

I haven't read anything good that isn't so commonly read that it's common knowledge. The only books I can think of actually enjoying reading so much as to recommend would be anything by Dan Brown (author of the DaVinci Code) and the Harry Potter series =P

I've been running out of books to read lately, a (what appears to be) highly recommended 11 book Fantasy series seems to be just what I need. Hopefully it won't fall into the pitfalls common to so many of its Fantasy brethren. Borders, here I come!

__kit Wrote:I don't understand why people buy books, they only last for about maybe 12 hours tops then you never read them again.

I re-read my books a lot, hence I prefer to buy rather than borrow. That and the fact that when I see a book I find interesting in the library, I have a tendency to sit down and burn through it there and then, making it pointless to borrow. Then if I really like it, I pick up my own copy, lol.

Title: Neverwhere
Author: Neil Gaiman
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: The plot of Neverwhere centres around Richard Mayhew, an average Londoner who encounters an injured girl named Door on the street one night. Despite his fiancée's protests he decides to help her, but that unfortunately also means that he suddenly ceases to exist for regular people and becomes real only to the denizens of 'London Below', whose inhabitants are generally also invisible to the people of 'London Above'. He loses his house, his job and nearly his mind as he travels London Below in an attempt to make sense out of it all and help Door survive.

Wait, a modern fantasy novel not littered with excessive amounts of erotica and foul language? </sarcasm> Based on a television series of the same name, Neverwhere paints an intriguing picture of London below and its many denizens. The plot may appear straightforward at first, but soon proved to be anything but. The main character is not your clichéd fantasy protaganist, and though I groaned at his naivéte at times, I found myself rooting for him throughout much of the novel. Each character has his or her own agenda, leaving you guessing as to which are the 'good guys' and the 'bad guys'. I thoroughly enjoyed the novel, though the ending was pretty unsatisfying. A lack of romance also bothered me somewhat, bu I'll take an absence over convuluted love polygons and the above mentioned erotica any day.

This was the first book that came to mind. Won't be the last, I suspect. I hope you guys won't be terribly offended if I recommended novels classified as 'Children's Fiction' here.

I don't know how it is in the "wide world" but where I am virtually ALL libraries are SMALL (we have only 600,000 people in my whole state), but if you go to yours, they'll be happy to get you what they don't have through "inter-library loan". It may take a week, but if you don't want to buy the book, it's not a bad deal. How small are libraries here? My town has 2,000 people in it, and we have FOUR libraries (that includes the one at the school). But if I'm willing to wait, pretty much any book that ANY library in the state has, they can get for me in a week. I'm guessing that most places have this type of "book sharing" arrangement.

__kit Wrote:I don't understand why people buy books...

The idea that books are just to get some knowledge and or not to get quality time or use your spare time is quite common here. Then is easy to max out libraries. I borrow some books and if they like me i buy them on a nice edition. I have read some more than twice and even if i won't read them again i know that someone will do it, just like i read some of my parents books, they hooked me up.

Title: The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
Author: Neal Stephenson
Genre: science fiction
Small Synopsis: In a too conformist and echeloned world a top figure designs a book to spark in his granddaughter the initiative and to teach some not-standarized and subversive knowledge. He contracts an intelligent engineer to make it and to make it adaptative. The engenieer decided to make a copy to his daughter to improve her future life. But before the delivery all go wrong and a book founds a new and willing reader...
Why You Love It: It mix western and eatern ideas, portraits a nanotechnologized world, has women as principal characters but above all shows how a world can change, and how it can change in a way not desired by the powerfull or the ones that started all the mess.

Title: The End of Eternity
Author: Isaac Asimov
Genre: science fiction
Small Synopsis: Have you imagined how managind the time would be benefical for all of us? did you saw how messing with time has disastrous effects (most of the times)? What about the lives and beliefs of the people that controls the time flow. Deciding end something that looks so good, let bad things happen because it will be good in the long run. Being seen and known as an immortal but just as human as everyone.
Why You Love It: Follows the asimov way of writting. Also i lke the idea of being careful with what you wish because it can be granted, and it can be something that you don't want.

Ok well Ill try to use the format but i am recommending a series

Series: Vampire Chronicles
Author: Anne Rice
Genre: Fantasy
Small Synopsis: Basically this is the story of vampires and what they have been through in their life times. They are also faced with weird events and although most books concentrate around Lestat many other vampires tell their stories as well. The description and emotions in the book are incredible. You learn about a community of vampires which hide from humans and you get the feeling ti is read because of the way it is written. Excellent books.

GIR Wrote:Title: The Eye of the World
Author: Robert Jordan
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: As I'm sure Spaz, Kagemucha, and anyone else who has read this will agree, it's not a book one can really summarize... but needless to say it's the excellent first book of The Wheel of Time series.  The series has a very intricately woven overarching plot, though within each book there are threads and patterns which reach conclusions by the end of the novel.

The series consists of 12 books, as Jordan has said it would for years.  The 12th and final book is to be released next year at the soonest.  Also, there is a single prequel novel, of 300-some pages.  At the urging of fans, he wrote a short story set 3,000 years prior to the majority of the novels, which can be found at http://www.tor.com/shayol.html .

WoT is good, a little bit overboard what i normally read, but it was good, now we just sit and wait for the last book and hope he doesnt die...

Title: Skin
Author: Ted Dekker
Genre: Thriller
Synopsis: A mind twisting book that has you guessing the whole way through, good for those people that like plot twists, a crazy theme, and a plot that couldnt happen, but draws you into thinking it could. good book...

*slams fist on table* Read Silence Of The Lambs!