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I'll take some suggestions. I've read everything by Terry Pratchett allready, and the next book run I'm making I only have one book I want. Fire away.

I like fantasy and SciFi.

mmm, well this doesn't fit into the categories you mentioned, but I just wanted to say that I just finished a book called Nickeled and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich and it was really good. About a woman who wanted to prove/disprove the mentality in America that welfare is bad, that getting a job solves the problems of poverty etc. Shows how people in America can be working two full time jobs and still not afford an apartment, etc. Interesting stuffs 3nodding

Anyway, fantasy/sci-fi stuffs

Not sure if you've read Orson Scott Card's Ender/Bean series'. Many people have. If you haven't, they're awesome. (I can list specific titles if that is the case). If you have, you should consider Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus. It's a mix of sci-fi and historical fiction, with some deep morals tied in, but in an interesting way, and it really makes you think. It's very good, but then, I'm a big fan of Orson Scott Card. His Homecoming Series (again, I can list specific titles if you're interested) is also a less know but quite compelling/orginal sci/fi type thing, a scenario where humans basically screwed up the world so they went to another one, and had this overlord thing, a mechanical sattelite, monitoring people, making sure they can't think of war, only they programmed it for a certain amount of years thinking humans would get beyond the bad impulses by then, but they hadn't, and now it's breaking dow, what happens next, etc.

Evolution by Stephen Baxter is a good sci-fi type novel. It basically chronicles evolution, starting from a small rodent like creature the author dubs Purga, which lived during the time of the dinosaur extinction, through sucessive evolutionary changes. Also switches to a near-future, and towards the end to a possible future. It's very fascinating, though the future part is a bit depressing, to me at least. But definitly worth reading.

Just started American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Can't quite give a full opinion since I haven't finished it, but so far it's good, better then his other novels, in my opinion, and the reviews I've read of it are quite cool. Worth looking into, since it's not really a stereotypical fantasy novel.

The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester is something we read in my sci-fi/fantasy english class. It's a classic sci-fi novel, but by no means crap mandatory school reading. A sort of thriller/mystery type sci-fi, taking place in a world where Espers, or psychics, have made murder virtually impossible because it's detected beforehand, and there hasn't been a successful murder in 79 years. What happens when a man decides to change that. Good stuff.

X-Men: Codename Wolverine by Christopher Golden is sci-fi by virtue of being X-Men based. The only X-Men book I've read that truly sticks in my mind (and since I read it years ago, the fact that I still remember it attests to my high opinion). Takes place alternating in the past and the present. Prominent characters include Wolverine, Sabretooth, Mystique, and some mutants Wolverine used to work with in his pre-X-Men days.

The Bartimaeus trilogy by Jonathon Stroud. I haven't read, and don't even know the name of, the third book, but the first two are called The Amulet of Samarkand and The Golem's Eye. Very interesting and original fantasy, involving a parallel universe type situation in which London is ruled by Magicians who derive their power from the demons they summon. Main characters being a talented young magician/magician-in-training named Nathaniel and the sarcastic/witty demon Bartimaeus. Definitly enjoyable to read.

If interested in exploring beyond your preffered genres, some things I think you might enjoy include The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, which is basically a bunch of short stories loosely connected about experiences in the Vietnam war. Really good, in my opinion. Motherless Brooklynby Jonathan Lethem is this really amusing thing because it's written from the point of view of someone with Tourettes, the plot is a bit odd but pretty good, what happens when a small-time crook that the narrator and his companions worked with and looked up to gets killed. The Russian Debutantes Handbook by Gary Shtuygart is a really funny book about the escapades of an immigrant that doesn't turn out to be a success at all, and instead gets into a whole bunch of weird escaped that includes joining an eastern european mob and a girlfriend that plots to blow up the foot of what was once a gigantic statue of Lenin.

And yeah, i realize this is getting huge (what happens when I actually get a chance to talk about books xd ) so I'll stop now.

I'm reading The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice

And I'm actually making a lot of progress XD yah for reading in the train! xd

Anne Rice is a good author but defenitly not my favorite. I do like the vampire books, although Interview with the Vampire, the Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned were my favorites, Tale of the Body Thief and Memnoch were nice...but I didn't like them as much. Armand is getting better. I'm going to complete the Vampire Chronociles (at least want to).

As for reading it in public, I don't have too much trouble with it. But many people are like "there are books from that Interview with the Vampire movie?" Plus I'm reading them in english rather then Dutch and the titles are different...so some people don't understand what I'm reading them (strangely, tale of the body thief just came out here in dutch O___o;; hence why I'm reading them in english). They never comment about it luckily and let me read in peace. xd But perhaps thats because they're either busy reading something themselves or they are listening to their mp3 player rather then paying attention to the girl sitting across them in the train XD I either read in the train or at home.

The Great Gatsby for school. It's...well...interesting. sweatdrop

I was reading Howl's Moving Castle, by Diana W. Jones a while ago. Right now I'm reading Outlander, by Diana Gabaldon.