Books a plenty

The most expensive Book I have ever bought was art work books of Star Trek and Star Wars for Al. They were about $35 but then it was 20 years ago.

i bought a 35 dollar book, it was worth it though, it was the complete annotated version of all the brothers grim stories. its HUUUUUGE

Good books are always worth the costs unless you do not have the wherewithall to but them when they come out. Then it is go to library if you can or wait for the paperback. PQB also sells hardback books for under $20 by that I mean $14, $15, or anywhere under $20.

i just got this great book called the black company ^^ woot for fantasy lol. to me, the longer the book the better, cause if its only 2 or 3 hundred pages im going to finish it in a day

I finished a book last night. It is about Dewey Readmore Books the library cat of Spenser, Iowa. This cat ruled the library for 19 years. People as far away as Japan came to film him for documentaries

i just finished a pre-published copy of a book about curse workers ^^ lol

I have finished reading two books and am in chapter 7 of the third one. They are all by Jeffery Deaver and of course they are all mysteries.

*shudders* mysteries >.< i read one called sparkling cyanide. it was by agatha christie. needless to say i never read another one lol

To each his own!

it was the butler! with the candle stick...in the parlor

lol. I don't read much, but i must note two GREAT Sci-Fi novels. I truthfully loved them both and they are two of the only 5 books i have ever read.

1. Farnham's Freehold- E.E. Doc Smith (i think, not sure on the author)

2. Ender's Game- Orson Scott Card

*sigh* you need to expand your horizons

I have to agree with Alucard, Swit. You really need to expand your horizions when it comes to reading.

i don't know if he is capable lol

Now that I have my library, office, computer room back because my daughter and her boyfriend are no longer living here at my request, I will have to take some pictures of my book shelves and send them in for you to see. I am reading a book by Jonathan kellerman titled Compulsion. It is a very good mystery story. I am going to see if I can find all of the Dragonriders of Pern which Al has and see if I can get into reading them.

Did you know that the Hobbit movie is in production?
Peter Jackson is going to be a producer this go round, but I expect it will be just as good.

It should come out next year or 2012 (lol, that's a "catch 22" right there)

Anyhoo...

I wouldn't call LOTR a fantasy book. Most people call it a Sci-Fi book (my library calls it that) and some people are wise enough to call it a retelling of Tolkien's experience in World War 1, because most of his stories are accounts of the cold, wet hell he went through.
for example...
The Dead Marshes were the trenches full of dead soldiers, urine, feces, blood, etc.
At the end when the Shire is industrialized it shows his fear of returning home and seeing a whole new country, unlike the green fields he used to know, which actually did happen a little.

Anyway, if you like LOTR, you should definitely read his other books, The Children of Húrin and The Silmarilion.
Both books were not fully written by J.R.R. Tolkien, but they were put together from scraps of stories he had written out but never finished.
Besides that, they are both good books and the Silmarilion is great if you want to learn more about the world(s) LOTR is set in.
Heck, I even got a few good names from them.

I bought all the books you mentioned for my husband Al. He was into SiFi big time. I don't know if I will ever read all his books, but I will keep them all. Altogether we probably own about 2000 books and I keep buying more. I am so thankful that I can see well enough to read again! I had cataract surgery in both my eyes last November and I have been reading everything I can get my hands on ever since the December when my doctor pronounced my eyes okay to read.

hmph LOTR is completely a fantasy novel lol fantasy is a subsection of sci fi ^^ and since fantasy and sci fi is pretty much all i read i should know

>.> LOTR = Demons, Elves, Dwarfs.. magic... Thats Fantasy....

Scifi the main genre as some call it, though once they get to college and learn is actually a secondary genre made after fantasy and in such a sub genre of fantasy, Is anything else out there. Space, Aliens, alternate dimensions, technology ect...

Fine, if you like sci-fi so much, go out and buy Adventures in Time and Space.

It's a collection of different science fiction stories,

I have a 26 volume set call The Unexplained--Mysteries of Mind, Space and Time which I haven't read, but now I might.

There's this guy named Daniel H. Wilson who writes a wide range of sci-fi/non-fiction books
He has a Ph.D. in robotics and got a B.S. in computer sciences.
Wilson has some books about robotics and some oddballs like The Mad Scientist Hall of Fame
He also has a book out about future technologies that never came about called Where's My Jetpack?
My favorite book is How to Build a Robot Army

for me, Simon R. Green will always be the best scifi author with his deathstalker series

Tom Clancy's H•A•W•X.

READ THIS S***!

It's a VERY VERY mature book, but I just got done reading it and it's
AWESOME!!

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Tom-Clancys-Hawx/Tom-Clancy/e/9780425233191

I will have to research this in my book club. I also read Dale Brown. I have read a lot of Tom Clancy's books. I am always on the lookout for a good book.