So I want to read a book, I don't know which one though.
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No "hip" young adult stuff like Harry Potter or Hunger Games.
I feel novels are just so dated, like they don't give as much enjoyment as a game or even film. I know there are some novels that can entertain me, there must be.
I have a Kindle Fire btw so if you know a free or reduced price good novel (Kindle is like the Steam of books, think sales or offers) please post.
Ender's Game was probably the best book report I ever had to do so you may like it.
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and Jurassic Park, The Lost World and Congo were all great reads.
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Brave new world
Harry potter isn't ''hip'' young adult reading material.
Why don't you give the harry potter books a try?
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The best book I have read. Im not joking either. Its a story about a man who's life is taken over by video games. He struggles with his life, school, and his family because of the games. Its pretty much an autobiography.
[QUOTE=The Baconator;34149131]No "hip" young adult stuff like [B]Harry Potter [/B]or Hunger Games.[/QUOTE]
dood, just read it.
Also Hunger Games while you're at it, I guess.
If you haven't already read 1984. Cliched recommendation I know but it really is an amazing book.
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Also Battle Royale.
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A very good book. Basically, it's 300-400+ years into the future and after a "Something that happened" ages ago people can only perceive certain colors and society as it is now is dead. Their ability to perceive one color dictates their whole social status and life. It's a good mix of an incompetent government that makes arbitrary rules (no spoons may be produced ever again by edict of Our Munsell) or something like no tractors may be produced, or even the removal of every car in use that isn't a Ford Fiesta (and the ones that do run are 300 year old cobbled together rust piles) with a few Orwellian elements that overall makes you laugh and keeps you engrossed into the story.
You really didn't specify what kinds of things you are interested in though, so I don't know if you will enjoy this.
Do you like sci-fi? History? Fiction? There are billions of books of all the different genres and you didn't help narrow it down at all.
Everyone is going to recommend "Ender's Game" or "1984" but those books aren't for everyone. You really need to state what kinds of things you are interested in, otherwise you will never find a book you would enjoy because you can't find a genre you enjoy.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
Douglas Adams
Metro 2033, and the others.
Myself think they're amasing!
The necronomicon
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Good book.
Go for Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, great book. It's about games, money and easter eggs.
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Its kinda short and easy to read but I thought it was better than other books.
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Great book with an amazing ending. Would recommend to anyone of all interests.
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World War Z
The Hobbit
Necroscope
Around the World in 80 Days
Dark Tower series by Stephen King. I enjoyed it a lot.
Try Metro 2033. It's a damn good book.
[QUOTE=Tukimoshi;34150005]Dark Tower series by Stephen King. I enjoyed it a lot.[/QUOTE]
Man, I came in here to post this.
But yes, Dark Tower. It will probably take a long time to finish the series, if you do read it. And give it a little bit, because the first two books are relatively hard to get interested in. After those, it just gets better, in my opinion.
If you're in the mood for history try "Band of Brothers" by Stephen Ambrose. Another one of best books I know of.
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There is also a video game heavily based on this almost 30 year old book. I'm sure you've heard of it, it's called [b]S.T.A.L.K.E.R.[/b]
The book also makes an appearance in the game Metro-2033.
It's (legally) free online in a PDF.
Here you go:
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this
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is pretty good too, it's a comic mostly centred around Feynman's life
one review is [url=http://boingboing.net/2011/08/30/feynman-comic-biogra.html]here[/url]
[QUOTE=The Baconator;34149131]I feel novels are just so dated, like they don't give as much enjoyment as a game or even film.[/QUOTE]
Out of everything in life, you will get out of it what you put into it. Video games and film may seem more entertaining to you because you've actually invested yourself into them to the point where they reward that investment of time and interest with entertainment.
If you want to get into novels, do the same thing to them as you do with games. You have to actually care about them, put yourself into them, get absorbed into the pages.
Games and film are easy-mode fun, they're the easiest way to get invested into entertainment because they basically spoon-feed fun to you. A video game is essentially a way of deriving the maximum amount of entertainment possible out of something that requires the minimum amount of effort (think about GTA games - all you have to do is flick little buttons and you can run around, drive cars, hit people, shoot guns - the maximum stimulus from the easiest and simplest input). A game shovels fun down your throat because it requires that you do very little to make it happen. A movie is even easier because it happens without any input from you whatsoever, aside from selecting the movie, all you have to do is kind of pay attention to it.
A book, though, requires that you sit down and see the words, put them together in your head, interpret them, imagine what you've interpreted, apply that to past experiences, think about the situations, comprehend them, remember them, and then move on to the next sentence and do the same. The words in a book don't jump off the pages and get into your head, you have to actually put them there. It's a lot harder than a video game or movie, but it's still piss-easy.
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Not really a proper book but you should read it anyway.
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