what kind of books do you read ?

[drewdle]

If you can get through the entire Douglas Adams "Trilogy" in a week, you've just completed a biathlon with your brain. Some ideas in those books are amazing, like "bistromathics", and sometimes just trying to figure out what the hell just happened is tricky.

I loved The Hobbit by Tolkien, much more than I enjoyed LOTR. The Hobbit, having been written before LOTR, had enough in it to be taken seriously, but had enough humor in it to not take itself too seriously. LOTR had none of that balance, even though what it did have was epic in scale. I don't read much else in the realm of fantasy.

Science fiction on the other hand, is amazing. Isaac Asimov, George Orwell, Philip Pullman (The Golden Compass series), and others that I plan on reading, such as Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged). Every time I read Nineteen-Eighty-Four, it creeps me out to think how similar certain aspects of our society are coming to that example.

I don't really put any limitations on my reading material, however. If it sounds good, I read it.  

[Fargo]

The Wheel of Time series by the late Robert Jordan, though I can't remember who is finishing off the series post posthumously. I also read Brian Jaques Redwall series, though I have yet to acquire the latest books to the series.

[Silvermink]

I just started reading Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep, which has the pretty cool concept of alien wolves where each "person" is comprised of a pack of several individual bodies.

[Kell]

Lets see... Lately a lot of Anne Rice, and Stephen King, but mostly because they each have a ton of books and I have read most of what I have to read... I LOVE Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance and read it two or three times a year. Read a fair bit of poetry, a lot of short stories. When I was younger I read a ton of Forgotten Realms, mostly RA Salvador, and I often fall back to the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy when I find I'm out of anything else to read.