[immi]

Hey ya sluts! I'm assuming some of you out there read books...so i'm looking for some recommendations.

I really enjoy Wilbur Smith books (any) and Bryce Courtenay (any...particularly The Power of One), War books, (eg. Tom Clancy books), occasionally some Fantasy books (Terry Brooks, Shannara books) and sometimes Stephen King (Green Mile etc.)

So whats everyone elses choices for good books? Help me out people...i luv books (almost as much as porn )

[Nex]

Hmm I can't imagine that good books and porn have anything in common, but anyway:

* ???: Clockwork Orange
* Stephen King: Gerald's Game
* Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings (a MUST)
* R.A. Salvatore: Darkelf Trilogy (TSR Books)
* Kafka: The Transformation
* Michio Kaku: in Hyperspace (Science)
* Goethe: Faust
* Steven Hawkins: almost every book (Science)
* ???: Dragonfire
* Dan Simmons: The Hollow Man

.. hmm gotta look around, they came to my mine now.

[Spitfire]

Ummmm i've read 2 complete libaries in between my 12th and 17th so i wont reccomend them all, but there's my top pics :

Joseph Heller's Catch 22. Simply the most moving, funny, emotional, deep and entertaining book ever to grace your drawer.

One flew over the cuckoo's nest. Simply a must, fuck the movie.

The lord of the Flies. Possibly the best book ever written about human nature and culture. I finished it non-stop in 4 hours.

Lost souls by Poppy Z. Brite. A nice contemporaty tale about vampires,
underground sub-culture and sex.

Mr. Murder by Dean Koontz, as well as the new one, False Memory and the older one, Watchers. Hell, just read all 45 of em or die trying.

Ehm.... Neverwhere, forgot the author, is a really cool fantasy book about an opposite world under london. VERY strange.

Cant think of anything else right now that's far above average. None of these books will dissapoint you though, i promise.

[Spitfire]

Dan Simmons' Hollow Man is an excellent book by the way, as are all of his books.

If you like Dan Simmons you should try John Saul as well...

[Count Zero]

Anything and everything written by William Gibson.
Start off with Neuromancer, then Count Zero, then Mona Lisa Overdrive. They function as a trilogy.
If you don't wanna commit, read Virtual Light or Idoru (unconnected to each other), though they aren't quite as good...

What else... Yeah Koontz is good, I like his Dark Rivers of the Heart most of all(and I've read like 20 or so)... Also read Lord Of The Rings, if you haven't all ready. And Hobbit. Oh, and Shakespeare is fun too believe it or not...


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[Affected]

I bumped into a couple of books by a Jonathan Lethem.. An interesting noir/scifi mix. I've only found those two of his: Amnesia moon and Gun, with occasional music. I recommend them.

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[Spiritwolf]

If you like something different (and recent) try Tad Williams' Otherland Series. It isn't a classic, but I have found it a decent read. It is technically sci-fi, but it really touches on a lot of different elements.

The Tad Williams website is at http://www.tadwilliams.com

-Spiritwolf

[FearMe]

Hehe, John Cleeses "How to really annoy people"

[Nex]

Spitfire: I got catch 22 as a birthday present some days ago but i did not yet begin to read it, I think I will after those recommendation. I guess I will check out John Saul too.

[Ned]

Off the top of my head:
Lord of the Rings (Of course) - J.R.R Tolkien
The Belgariad (5 book series)- David Eddings
Magician - Raymond E Feist
The Cuckoos Egg - Cliford Stoll (A must if you're into computer security)
The Descent - Jeff Long
A clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follet
Once a Warrior King - David Donovan
The Pendragon Cycle - Steven Lawhead
The Odyssey - Homer (I find the new translations are easier. Some people say it's better to read The Iliad first but I disagree.)
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes (I'm still working my way through this in between other reads!)

The list is endless, I will read anything I can get my hands on, I used to just read Fantasy & Sci Fi but it's good to diversify.

Ned

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[Ned]

Hey A.Buttle - I just looked at your site and it made me giggle like a schoolgirl - tee hee hee hee!

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[A.Buttle]

1. Brave New World : Aldous Huxley
2. The Master and Margarita : Mikhail Bulgakov
3. Blood Meridian : Cormac Macarthy
4. Trainspotting : Irvine Welsh
5. Dune : Frank Herbert
6. Slaughterhouse 5 : Kurt Vonnegut
7. The Dubliners : James Joyce
8. Demian : Hermann Hesse
9. The Stranger : Albert Camus
10. Anything by H.P. Lovecraft
11. Everything That Rises Must Converge : Flannery O'Connor
12. Beowulf
13. Good Omens : Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchet
14. Hamlet : Shakespeare
15. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy : Douglas Adams

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[Spitfire]

Nex : it will be one of the best decisions you'll ever make. Catch 22 is a book that added another chamber to my heart.

[el tigre]

If you're in to Sci-Fi then read the Culture novels by Iain M Banks.
-Consider Phlebas
-Excession
-Use of Weapons
-Feersum Endjinn
-Player of Games
These are DEAD GOOD! read them Now!

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[A.Buttle]

Right on, Ned.

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[Jabberwocky]

A.Buttle right on H.P. Lovecraft - The Doom that Came to Sarnath is the Best though.
Anne McCaffacy has some good Sci Fi ones
Alas Babylon - first 4 chapters boring but good once you get into it.
If you like X-Files WhirlWind and Ruins are the best out of all of them.
Hatch and it's 3 following books by Gary Paulsen, but not The River are good but are more middle school reading lvl so you'll read them fast.
Hero don't remember who it by another middle school lvl book.
Armageddon Summer
(sorry my aunt's a middle school teacher and has me read books over the summer to get my view of them to use in class, but I've read some really good books)
Right now I'm reading Holes and Transail Saga for my aunt... they're pretty good so far.

[Jabberwocky]

And The hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is suppose to be a good one.

[CapnPyro]

My favorite book series so far.. even more so then lord of the rings, is the wheel of time seris by robert jordan, 9 books and counting, all around 800-1,000 pages. the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy is a funny ass book series, the writers just nutty. also timothy zhan's star wars trilogy (heir to the empire i think it is) is a really cool book series, with lots of tactical space combat and lotsa cool... stuff

[Jess]

• Valley Of The Dolls
  
• White Oleander by Janet Fitch
  
• Beloved
  

I'm sorry, that's all I can think of right now.

[theresa]

whhhewwwww i just got done reading steven king - bag of bones that i bought yesturday. eheh

*turns all the lights on in the house*

[psi burn]

immi, when i used to read for fun (dont think ill ever do that again), i liked terry brooks cause i always liked his fantasy series of Landover, or whatever it was called..i remember a novel called the Tangle Box, pretty cool...

i stay away from reading alot of books now because i feel after alot of exposure to fantasy type books you start losing your sense of logic, and without logic theres no reason. plus, too many books have dark gloomy gothic feels to them, and i seriously dont enjoy negative atmospheres... too many artists live those kinds of lives.

[psi burn]

oh, and some advice...if you wanna make alot of money and get famous, just write a book on either

1.) the holocaust
2.) anything involving world war 2
3.) something involving accounts of racism
4.) a story about indians behind abused by american soldiers

sorry but too many people are making these types of novels and movies, and none of them are even that good. they are unoriginal and need to use overproduced events.

[Sumaleth]

If you don't mind trying a bit of Sci-Fi, the first book I would -ever- recomment is The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton. Truely the best thing I've ever read.

(Although the book is 960 pages and is only the first part of the trilogy, so there's some serious reading there )

Sumaleth

[Affected]

Um, yea, The Reality Disfunction was entertaining. Sometimes the space opera-element became a tad too thick, but it was good anyway.

[Jabberwocky]

Sorry to get off the subject but isn't reading suppose to be something you enjoy doing in your own time? Well my teachers think not... they give us 5 noval to read over the summer... my time to get AWAY from school... hell if I wanted to read crappy books theat the school wants us to read I would have gone to summer school or enrolled in a all year school. This is what causes students to not want to read...

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[Affected]

So what books, exactly, are they?

[Spitfire]

I just read "The Wasp Factory" by Iain Banks. A very impressive book, though the ending was a bit of an anticlimax.

I highly reccomend it though.

[DrBof]

Commander Tom and his flying orange (kick ass)
did u forget "All tomorows partys" by Gibson (witch is the sequel to the iduru (i think))

[el tigre]

Spitfire,

his mental brother was kinda cool.....in a weirdo, fucked-up kinda way. That book was part of the curriculum at my high school. Again the phrase "fucked-up" comes to mind.

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[Spitfire]

Tigre - i heard a theatre group here is gonna do a play of the book... im going there