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after looking through all of these subjects and stuff i noticed that no one, or atleast no one i saw, had posted anything about any good books they have read. well i guess i might as well go ahead. recently i read abook called The Historian by someone i cant remember. It was an awesomely cool book. i mean when i got it i was all "wow this is gonig to be boring but hey i'm bored right now so what the hay" but when i started reading it i figured out it wasent one of those old boring factual books, although it did have facts in it. it was a mixture of the historical facts of dracula who was actualy a real person who ruled over Wallachia in the late 1400's. you know Bram stokers novel dracula well he based his character on this guy. at first the book was kinda slow but then it turned into a crazy chase and stuff. it was little like some of Dan Brown's books but i think it was better because In his books theres this sort of pattern to events that are always the same i that i dont really like.

Good books... well being a female, the good books that I read will probably not be as appreciated as coming from a guy.

I am a huge Nora Roberts fan. She writes some very good books. I really enjoy reading her trilogy about the Three Sisters.

My all time favorite book is "Bridge to Terabethia", and a close 2nd is "Experiment in Terror".

Orion by Ben Bova,so far iv read but one all the books on Orion.
then also also king arthur books, iv read i think 3 from different authors.
hardy boys?heheheh..

i only read read books with sci-fi, chivalry and detective books.

The only books I have ever read had technical nature. I don't have the patience to read story books.

I've read (in no particular order):

• Applied Cryptography (English): A technical introduction to all kinds of cryptography. Sadly it's an older book and thus doesn't contain anything about AES. Author: Bruce Schneier.
• Die Unsichtbaren (German): Great book about the historical facts behind biochemical warfare. It's a lot technical, so not everybody is going to understand it. I've had to read it twice. Author: Manuel Kiper.
• Assembler-Programmierung (German): Introduction into the basics of Assembler programming in x86 real mode. There I've got my Assembler fundamentals from. Author: Wolfgang Link.
• A few books about C and C++, but what I've read there, I knew already, so I sold them away.

I'm going to read (in no particular order):

• Practical Cryptography (English): Just to have read them. Most of the information will not be new to me. Authors: Niels Ferguson and Bruce Schneier.
• Books about math. I'm interested in number theory.
• Books about microbiology and physics. I'm interested in quantum mechanics and the relativity theory.

I have taken summer seminars about the relativity theory, its very interesting.

I'm trying to learn it on my own, as nobody is going to teach it to me. The problem is that I lack the knowledge of differential geometry. I'm learning that right now (via Wikipedia).

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk is one of my favorite books.
The Lord of the Rings is also one of my all time favorites.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull is a cool book that I read recently, would definitly recommend it. At the moment I'm reading By the Way, the chili peppers biography.

Must say that The Company by Robert Littell is one of my favourite books, its one of those american spy novels most of which I see as being good reads but nothing special, this one on the other hand I found was.

I remember there was also another one, an autobiography of some old US Navy Seal which was very interested to learn of his experiences coming into the Army and then Navy and all of that.

Also the DaVinci Code was an interesting book, lots of odd references and ideas and all that, didn't really think much of it through the first few chapters but then got quite into the story.

Read heaps of other stuff in the last 12 months but those are the main three whose stories stick in my mind.

I'm reading The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli and The Republic by Plato right now.

The book that i recently read and liked was "South Sea Tales" by Jack London, im a big J. L. fan, his books are the best. I also liked "Hitchhikers giude to the galaxy", its one of the best sci-fi books ever writen. Now im reading "The history of the albanian people" and so far its interesting....

The Inaccurately-Named Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy is awesome, my favorite books.
Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels are great too, very similar style of humor.
Lord of the Rings, also great.
Neuromancer, probably the first real cyber-punk novel, is another favorite of mine.
The Dark Tower series by Stephen King, a long read (7 books, each longer than the previous) but well worth it.

Those'd be my top 5.

I'm reading a few books, including the Bible (start to finish ), a Kalevala translation, and Beowulf. Lord of the Rings is also good, as is anything by Terry Brooks (long live Shannara!) and Ayn Rand.

I like Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series and pretty much everything by David Eddings.

I read quite some books, both technical and non technical.
Books i still remember i have read them:

- PHP & MySQL WebDevelopment by a guy i can't remember
- Z80 Assembler book (don't remember exact title)
Not many of that Z80 Assembler knowledge is left but enough to write up basic nonsense to fuck up TI-84+ calculators
-Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith by Matthew Stover
- Harry Potter 1 - 5 (still need to read the new one)
- Lord of the Rings

And i can keep going on for a while.
Have read some C++ books but most of them suck

I like books by Fyodor Dostoevsky. He's one of my favourite authors of all time. I especially like Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.

Recently I've finished reading Secret History by Donna Tart and am now reading Half a Life by V.S. Naipaul.

Some of my other favourite books:
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
1984 by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy + The Hobbit + The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien
The Hitchhiker's Guide (all five books) by Douglas Adams
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Just to name a few