Hey goggers, can you please suggest me a few good books for my holidays?
I'm looking for fantasy \ scifi \ adventure ones (in order of preference).

I don't read very much, so I'm not into essays \ drama \ old classic titles. (booring!)
Just some entertaining simple novel :P

Btw in the past I liked these:
- Asimov -> almost everything. Scifi+mystery is godly :D
- Tolkien -> Lotr, Hobbit were obviously epic! (Silmarillion was meh, instead)
- Markus Heitz -> entertaining dwarven saga, but not perfect.
- Terry Pratchett -> "Mort" was quite fun, "Guards!" a bit too long for the overall silly tone. Rest?
- Eddings -> maybe the Malloreon saga? Can't remember.
- Wilbur Smith -> I loved "The Seventh Scroll" and "A Falcon Flies", but I don't know about others.
- Ken Follet -> Key to Rebecca, Storm island, Pillars of the Earth.
- Clive Cussler -> Serpent, Inca Gold.
- Dan Brown -> well, the famous ones are nice.
- Poe -> good old horror.
- Philip Dick, Gibson -> just a few books. Nice but.. I find their writing style a bit weird.
- Simmons -> the first book of Hyperion was ok, but.. it didn't impress me much overall. Are the next better?
- Cornwell -> I recall that his Excalibur saga was nice.

EDIT: damn, I forgot to say to avoid books with existing good movies\series\games, as I'll probably see \ have seen them!

American Psycho
The man in the high castle
do androids dream of electric sheep?

For fantasy books I can recommend Brandon Sanderson. Really interesting stories in great setups.

Hmmmm......

Asimov : you read 'Foundation' an 'Robots' series ?

What I always recommend in the Fantasy/SciFi genre is anything done by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (didn't read their dragonlance works though) : but the Death Gate Cycle is one of my all time favorite. Yes, anything P.K.Dick is really good as condensed great stories. Quick to get into, quick to finish, great time.

The man in the high castle is also by him. Got it digitally a while back, I need to finish it.

"Snow Crash" by Neil Stephenson
"The Shambling Guide to New York City" by Mur Lafferty
"The Breach" by Patrick Lee
"Last Day of Creation" by Wolfgang Jeschke

the last two aren't fun though ;)

The Adventures of Gotrek and Felix!

Agatha Christie books.

Thanks for the suggestions, keep them coming!! :D

P.s: P.Dick style is a bit weird for me, so I'm not sure about it

. Lol, I knew that someone would have bitched about that "old".
But you forgot about Tolkien, then :P
Anyway, I just meant old titles with old styles and heavy themes.
Poe is easy to read and not boring at all.

If you like Follett try CJ Sansom

Here is the Chronological List

http://www.thebookbag.co.uk/reviews/index.php?title=C_J_Sansom's_Matthew_Shardlake_Novels_in_Chronological_Order

The Witcher books by Andrzej Sapkowski (translated) are pretty good. I blazed through The Last Wish and now reading The Sword of Destiny, both are short story collections with the latter being almost a collection of novellas. The books after that are a series of full length novels starting with Blood of the Elves.

Fantasy and adventure: The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

Because somebody will surely mention Game of Thrones as a fantasy reading, I'll say that I liked Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson much more.

SF: Inherit the stars by James P. Hogan




And I'll probably edit this post in the near future. ;)


Edit:
SF:
Martian by Andy Weir
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge

Commonwealth Saga by Peter Hamilton
Revelation Space universe books by Alastair Reynolds


Fantasy
Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb

another vote for mentioned:
by moonshineshadow, Brandon Sanderson (The Stormlight Archive),
by DedIago, Guy Gavriel Kay (Tigana)

'The Chronicles of Amber' maybe? It's kinda 'old classic', but really good.
Also Guy Gavriel Kay's novels. They are probably not much dynamic, but there are really interesting stories which take place in pseudo-historical 'like-our-world'.
If it's about fantasy, I should mention Robert Asprin, at least 'Myth Adventures' and 'Thieves' World'.
I can also recommend 'Tales of Ketty Jay' by Chris Wooding. It's not pure fantasy, more adventure, kinda 'steampunk'-ish (it's not about steam civilization, but flying ships play big role in that world). Easy to read, very interesting books. And yes, it's fun. :)

Isn't Herbert's Dune the elephant (missing) in the room ?

(what you heard there was just the agony scream of a tortured metaphor)