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[Cerogravian]

Bone! 
Damn, that feels like an eternity ago...
*runs off to re-read*

[William Broom]

My favourite comic is The Filth by Grant Morrison. Others I like include Fables by Bill Willingham, Eden by Hiroki Endo, Phoenix by Osamu Tezuka, and... One Piece, by Eiichiro Oda. There, I said it.

[neon]

what?? but one piece IS good.  no need to feel ashamed.

[Problem Machine]

One Piece is the shit. It is the best thing to come out of Japan in years. I'm not even slightly joking.

[William Broom]

Yay!

[Alex May]

oh, this has turned into a comics thread

great

[Tobasco Panda]

...Others I like include Fables by Bill Willingham...

Heh, I just brought that up in the comics thread. 

[mjau]

I just started reading "The Myst Reader" (collection of all three Myst books), because I love the games and got into my head somehow that I wanted to read the books before playing End of Ages.  Don't know what to think of it yet, only read the prologue so far.

The last books I read (aside from a sprinkling of various Discworld stuff) was the Dark Tower series by Stephen King (first thing I've read by him), which was.. uh.  Painful and really nauseating at times, but overall I think I liked it.  Didn't actually mind the ending either, it fit somehow.  Specially with the original poem afterwards.

On the comics front, I like the Flight series.  Should get the fifth one.  Also got some stuff by Chris Ware, Jason, etc, and of course Bone.  Want to read Frank (Frånk?) by Jim Woodring sometime.

[Gnarf]

I'd imagine we could possibly keep the comic stuff out of this thread since chutup made a new thread for comic stuff

Someone mentioned some Song of Ice and Fire stuff here. Seconded. It's excellent.

[Renton]

I dunno if it was mentioned but any fantasy fan should read the Dragonlance and the Dark Elf trilogies. Good stuff.

[DjangoDurango]

I'm reading Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion right now. I'm a big fan of non-fiction. Some favorite non-fiction books of mine:

Everything Bad is Good for You - Stephen Johnson: about how modern media may actually be making us smarter, at least in comparison to our elders.

Helter Skelter - Vincent Bugliosi: He could've just titled it How I Pwnt Charles Manson, really.

A Cast of Killers - Sidney D. Kirkpatrick: More true crime, the old Hollywood variety. About the murder of William Desmond Taylor.

City Chic: An Urban Girl's Guide to Livin' Large on Less - Nina Wildorf: How do I managed life? Like this!

Sin in the Second City - Karen Abbott: About the Everleigh Sisters and how they came to build the most acclaimed brothel in Chicago.

I like fiction too, though. I've got a spot for Stephen King novels (though I don't care for The Dark Tower series). I also love the Harry Potter series. Of the books I've read recently, I liked The Handmaid's Tale (which is a little too... relevant to current events for my liking) and Spy vs. Spy: The Complete Casebook the most (though I supposed read isn't quite the right word, particularly regarding anything Antonio Prohias drew).

Speaking of comics, Watchmen has a place on my shelf, but I like V for Vendetta more. Also, I highly recommend both Transmetropolitan and Phonogram.