The FINAL Hex ffh2 Poster Contest - Round 3!!!

[hexagonian]

CONTEST 3
You had to figure this would be the next one...

Tell me which 7 books/book series are your all-time favorites. I have a list of 10 that are my favorites. For every match you get with mine, you get a lottery entry (up to 7 total), which will be drawn at the end of the contest deadline...

Double lotto entries if one of your favorites is number 3 on my list. (which means if you got 3 matches on your list and you get my lucky 3, you will get a total of 6 lotto entries).

If all of your books are on my list, double your points once again...

Deadline TBD.

Same dilemmma...do you actually put your own favorites or try to align your list with mine, which means that you lie about your favorites??? Hints (may) abound from my earlier contests.

How will I know if you are telling the truth????

The prize
A set of 4 miniposters that were duplicate prints from earlier contests.

 

[thomas.berubeg]

Lord of the Rings
Bartimaeus Trilogy (everyone should check this one out...and hex, if it's not one of your favorites now, then you need to read it)
Harry Potter
Mortal Engines
His Dark Materials
1984/ animal farm (yup, cheating and sticking two in the same )
Narnia (though not really the magicien's nephew)

 

[Kjaaly]

Harry Potter
Lord of the Rings
Narnia
His Dark Materials
Discworld Series (How could I forget that...)

What I could think of.

 

[seZereth]

Hermann Hesse - Siddharta
Hermann Hesse - Steppenwolf
Goethe - Faust
Luther (various authors) - Bible
J.R.R. Tolkien - Lord of the rings
Terry Pratchett - Discworld Series
Paul A. Tipler - Physik

definitely not yours, but mine

 

[Kael]

Dragonlance by Margeret Weis and Tracy Hickman
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Icewind Dale Trilogy by RA Salvatore
The Belgariad by David Eddings
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
Incarnations of Immortality series by Piers Anthony
The Death Gate Cycle by Margeret Weis and Tracy Hickman

 

[xienwolf]

Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan
Sword of Truth - Terry Goodkind
Discworld - Terry Pratchet
Darksword Trilogy - Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman
Apprentice Adept - Piers Anthony
Coldfire Trilogy - CS Friedman
Wicked - Gregory Macguire

Damnit, had 15 at first run from top of my head. Hard to narrow down, so went with more recent things.

So will contest 4 be favorite game? Everyone is guaranteed to have 1 of yours from that list

 

[.SinClaire.]

A Song of Fire and Ice series - George R.R. Martin
Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
1984 - George Orwell
House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski

thas all I can think of...

 

[Brand]

A song of Fire and Ice- George R.R. Martin
Wheel of Time- Robert Jordan
Sword of Truth- Terry Goodkind
The Belgariad- Eddings
Stranger in a Strange Land-Heinlin
Silverlock- John Myers Myers
Memory, Thorn, and Sorrow series- Tad Williams.. even if it is incredibly long winded.

 

[woodelf]

Harry Potter series
Memory, Thorn, and Sorrow series
The Timothy Zahn Star Wars trilogy
A Song of Fire and Ice series
L'Morte Arthur
Foundation series
Eyes of the Dragon

 

[vorshlumpf]

Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan
The Black Company - Glen Cook
Shannara - Terry Brooks
Xanth - Piers Anthony
Narnia - CS Lewis
Hitchhiker's Guide, etc. - Douglas Adams

 

[BeefontheBone]

Hmm. Safe bet you're a fantasy fan, so let's chuck a couple of my favourites of those in here

1. Flowers for Algernon. (This and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich were books my class was given to read by one of the best teachers I had, and both had a huge impact on me. A sci-fi - in the old-fashioned sense of the phrase - classic.)
2. Discworld series. (A safe bet for plenty of people's favourite, with a large number of great books to choose from).
3. Good Omens (Terry Pratchett plus Neil Gaiman? What's not to love. Funnier than just about anything either's written separately, they truly play to one another's strengths, in contrast to most collaborative novels).
4. Iain M Banks' Culture novels. (Player of Games is probably my favourite, or Excession. Banks' non-sci-fi novels are also largely very good, especially Espedair Street and The Wasp Factory).
5. The Meaning of Liff. (An inspired idea, simple yet incredibly funny. Great observational humour of the kind that made H2G2 so popular, but not nearly so well known).
6. Brave New World. (A better dystopian novel than Nineteen-Eighty Four? I'm torn, but Huxley probably wins )
7. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos. (Specifically, At The Mountains of Madness. There was a Doctor Who story which bears a strong resemblance to it in many ways, which I didn't realise until much later when I read this. Lovecraft at his finest.)

 

[xirtaminu]

Terry Pratchett's Discworld,
The Narnia series,
The Commonwealth of Thranx books (Alan Dean Foster),
Wheel of Time (Robert Jordan),
The Lord of the Rings books.
The Gunslinger Books (Stephen King),
Helliconia Spring/Summer/Winter

 

[merciary]

Lord of the Rings (series)
Hitchhiker's Guide (series)
Secret Atlas (series)
World War/ Colonization (series)
The Abhorsen Trilogy
Bartimaeus Trilogy
Crosstime Traffic (series)

 

[JayThomas]

The Lord of the Rings (of course)
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenent the Unbeliever series (excellent).
The Fire and Ice series (very good).
The Sword of Truth series (very good).
The Rhapsody Trilogy by Elizabeth Haydon (excellent).
The Foundation series by Issac Asimov (excellent).
The Gap series by Stephen R. Donaldson (good but bizare).

 

[Psychic_Llamas]

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Belgariad by David Eddings
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
Incarnations of Immortality series by Piers Anthony
Discworld - Terry Pratchet
The Magician Series by Raymon E Fiest
Harry Potter Series.

 

[thomas.berubeg]

The Abhorsen Trilogy
Bartimaeus Trilogy

you know bartimaeus! those book are amazing!

and about the abhorsen trilogy, have you read any other Garth Nix's other book?

6. Brave New World. (A better dystopian novel than Nineteen-Eighty Four? I'm torn, but Huxley probably wins )

I don't really agree with you here, but to each thier own, i guess.

 

[King Khan]

The Magician series by Raymond Feist
Age of Discovery trilogy by Michael Stackpole
Incarnations of Immortality by P Anthony
Vlad Taltos series by Steven Brust
Warlock / River God by Wilbur Smith
Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
shot in the dark here A Wrinkle in Time by Madeiline L'Engle

King Khan

 

[hexagonian]

Just a note...

This list holds a special place for me - if anything, I hope this will inspire everyone here to read some of the great books listed so far.

Carry on, and have a great Thanksgiving.

 

[[NWO]_Valis]

J.R.R. Tolkien - Lord of the rings
Terry Pratchett - Discworld Series
Frank Herbert - Diune
C. S. Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia
Joanne Kathleen Rowling Harry Potter
Margeret Weis and Tracy Hickman - Dragonlance
Douglas Adams - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

 

[wilboman]

1984
Lord of the Rings
Harry Potter
H2G2 (Hitchhikers guide to etc...)
Brave New World
Foundation Saga
The Chronicles of Narnia