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I'm in need of a good book..any recommendations?
LordMagnus
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It's been a really long time since i've read a book and I feel like I should catch up on some reading. I like reading any kind of book as long as it has an interesting story and interesting characters.
Incase anyone is interested, my favorite books have got to be the LOTR books by JRR Tolkien.
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Ender's Game Series(4 Books)
Ender's Shadow Series(4 Books)
Tales of Alvin Maker Series(6 Books)
Memory of Earth Series(5 Books)
All 4 series by Orson Scott Card and the first two are related of course.
Look em up. I read the first 3 series and am on book 2 of the 4th.
For something more simple but of "Can't Put Down" Quality, try Matt Reilly books.
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Ender's Game Series(4 Books)
Ender's Shadow Series(4 Books)
Tales of Alvin Maker Series(6 Books)
Memory of Earth Series(5 Books)
All 4 series by Orson Scott Card and the first two are related of course.
Look em up. I read the first 3 series and am on book 2 of the 4th.
For something more simple but of "Can't Put Down" Quality, try Matt Reilly books.
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Scarecrow
Some of my favorites:
1. Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan
2. Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin
3. Dragonlance Trilogy by Weis and Lackey
4. Any and all "Diskworld" books are a great, light and funny read.
5. Then Enders Game and Enders Shadow are great as well.
Thanks, i'll have to check some of those out. I'm probably going to go to the book store this weekend and I hope to buy 2-3 books. Any more suggestions?
There are always three authors/series that I recommend: (no need to include Tolkien as you mentioned him already)
1) Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" Series - Read it once and I am currently re-reading it to get to the newest book. It is even better the second time.
2) L.E. Modesitt's "Recluse Saga" - Fantasitic inter-weaving of stories, books are non-linear (think Tarintino style) and writes from the perspective of both the "good guys" and "bad guys"
3) Dan Brown's "Angels and Demons / The Da Vinci Code" - Brown's writing style gets you immersed in the books immediately and his use of facts makes these two books two of my fastest reads ever.
Give them a try and enjoy your reading - Between thos three sets I believe you have 21 books (11 - 8 - 2) to sink your teeth into.
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1. Dune.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/series/-/845/ref=pd_sr_ec_ser_b/102-2329042-9753701
2. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 (the movie sucks, but the book owns!).
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1592120539/qid=1139620528/sr=2-2/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2/102-2329042-9753701?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
3. Hitchickers Guide to the Galaxy.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0517226952/qid=1139620592/sr=2-2/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2/102-2329042-9753701?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
4. The Witching Hour. (IMO Anne Rice best book series screw the vampire stuff)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345384466/qid=1139620628/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-2329042-9753701?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
Really good book with interesting characters......the Bible.
Seriously, it's not the number one book ever made for no reason.
I recently read an interesting book called Raising Abel. It's about some geneticists who clone the missing link and these christian zealots want to kill it because it would prove evolution right.
Also, a book called Vadim by Donald James which my Dad was reading in the final months of his life. It's just a very interesting book and quite thrilling. It's about a russion ex-army ex-policeman and a TB epidemic that turns Russia to near anarchy.
I have every Stephen King book ever written in my bookcase, I would highly recommend anything that he wrote. Also Dean Koontz.
A very very good book I think you would truly enjoy is one called "The Blue Nowhere" by Jeffrey Deaver. It's about a hacker who gets taken out of jail to catch a hacker/murderer. It's just GREAT!
I have to agree with poster who said Dan Brown. I highly recommend Angels and Demons and Da Vinci Code too.
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1. Song of Ice and Fire: as of now, 4 books
2.Dune Saga: I think there are 6 books, not sure though
3. LOTR
4.Foundation Series: not sure how many books are in that one
5.Pretty much just about everything by Ray Bradbury
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
I just finished reading the Belgariad series, by David Eddings. Theres five books in the series and every one is great, the way the author writes makes you want to keep reading and reading, almost every chapter ends with a big cliffhanger!
I would recommend Robert Jordan, but it's just a re-hash of the same old fantasy shit.
Try Gene Wolfe - Book of the New Sun for a different kind of fantasy.
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You forgot to mention your age so I'll include some that you may be too young/old for depending.
Frank Herbert (and his son Brian) about 60 books between them, including 12 in the Dune saga (all sci-fi).
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan/John Clark series (11 books I think) and Red Storm Rising (action/pseudo-current events)
Douglas Adams Hitchhikers Guide (5 books) and Dirk Gently (2 books) (humour in a sci-fi setting, funniest things you'll ever read)
Those 3 combine for about 5 or 6 shelves in my library, can't go wrong with any of them.
Robert A .Heinlein - Sixth Column, Starship Troopers, very different from the movie (sci-fi)
Herman Hesse - Siddartha
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World (sci-fi)
Geroge Orwell - 1984, Animal Farm
Plato - Socratic dialogues
Lloyd Alexander - The Black Cauldron (3 or 4 books) (fantasy)
Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged
John LeCarre - (spy)
Sir Walter Scott - Ivanhoe (fantasy/Robin Hood)
Parke Godwin - Firelord (fantasy/King Arthur)
John Christopher - The White Mountains (4 books) (sci-fi)
Also if you go buy your local Chapters store they should have a lot of Penguin Classics which will cover a wide variety of genres, have stood the test of time, and are usually quite cheap. They're the kind of books that anyone that wants to consider themselve litterate should read at some point. You'll also see many references to them in a lot of more recent books/movies/TV as well.
Someone mentioned Battlefield Earth. I'd recommend avoiding those for 2 reasons.
1. They're poorly written and the story isn't interesting. Because of L. Ron Hubbard's reputation I forced my self through 2 1/2 books (of 10) when I was younger before giving up in disgust. I found out later that he didn't even write them, someone else did after his death and put his name on them because of the 2nd reason.
2. They were released to raise money and recruit followers for the scientology cult that Hubbard founded over a cocktail bet before his death. Unfortunately his little social experiment took on a life of it's own. Everyone involved with the horrible movie they made of it is involved with the cult, as well as a few other famous wing-nuts like Tom Cruise and Michael Jackson
Shadowmarch by Tad Williams. That guy can flat out write.
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well..this is my personal favorite book of all time.
if you're american good chance you never heard of it,
this is a czech book about a czech soldier during world war 1 and he is the single funniest character by a long stretch i have ever read/watched/heard about.
also #11 on polands 100 most influential books of the 20th century list for what thats worth lol
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If you are into Fantasy I would suggest the Amber series by Roger Zelazny.
Probably the best in that Genre I have read, and that includes Tolkien.
Raymond E Feist: The Magician, like Harry Potter for adults, I just do not get any better.
The Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett, lots and lots of books, one more awesome then the other, I dare you to read one of these and not get a cramp from laughing at least once..
Douglas Adams, The Hitchikers guide, if you are going to read only one book in your entire life, this should be it.
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I wonder if you honestly even believe what you type, or if you live in a made up world of facts.
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The Saga of the Exiles 4 book series by Julian May:
Book 1 is called The Many Coloured Land.
It is scifi/fantasy with a smattering of time travel.
Peter F. Hamiltons Night's Dawn Trilogy, book 1 is the Reality Dysfunction, a good scifi/fantasy book.
I really enjoyed these books.
Much Much Much Much Much better than the movie.
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Odd that nobody mentioned Snow Crash. Here's my list.
Snow Crash: Neal Stephenson
All of the Harry Potter books : J.K. Rowling
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series: Douglas Adams
Darker Than the Storm: Freda Warrington
Beowulf
Inferno: Dante
The Lions of Al-Rassan: Guy Gavriel Kay
Darwin's Blade: Dan Simmons
The Chronicles of Narnia: C.S. Lewis
Mein Kampf: Adolf Hitler Bear in mind, I'm no nazi, nor do I support the motives of the Third Reich, but his psychobabble is actually enjoyable from an objective point of view. His self-rightous chatter can be funny at times.
Another Kind of Monday: William E. Coles Jr.
Come to think of it, my list will keep going if I don't stop myself.
The Coldfire Trilogy by CS Friedman. A truley evil world.
And to the person who said another writer was better then Tolkien you are flat out wrong. They should have started a religion around him instead of that Scientology freak lol
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Heres the list of my fave books that i either have or borrowed, read and then i just couln't get it out of my head.
1.Edge of Evil by Jerry Johnston(?)
2.How to Win Friends and Influence Others by Dale Carnegie.
3.Holy Blood Holy Grail
4. Beatles Anthology Book by the Beatles
5.Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice (Vampire Chronicles)
Frankly anything by David Gemmell is good, the Shannow trilogy is especially good, the Druss chronicles are my favorites which starts with Legend with him older then the other books about him are about what he did with his life.
Thanks for all the recommendations everyone. I haven't gone around to actually going to the bookstore yet though. I was planning on going this weekend but I got a little lazy.
The Da Vinci code is a must read. The belgariad series is also very good.
Speaking of the The Vinci Code, weren't they making a movie for it? I heard about it a while ago and I wanted to read the book but never got around to it.
Yeah the movie is coming out this summer starring Tom Hanks.