TD is about the Pattern Jugglers, and DD is, well, a pretty twisted version of Saw.
And I agree, the [sp]Haussman[/sp] sections are the best part of Chasm City.
If you liked Pushing Ice and Chasm City then you should read House of Suns, it's his other non-RS novel and it's very good. It's a bit more... "soft" than his normal works, but it's still good.
Terminal World is also very good.
[QUOTE=JamesIsGay;29524126][b]MAKE A FUCKING BOOK LIST IF YOU HAVEN'T[/b]
[/QUOTE]
sure why not. Underlined means I haven't finished it.
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
William Burroughs - Naked Lunch
Cervantes - [U]Don Quixote[/U]
Mark Z. Danskailiesky - House of Leaves
Don DeLillo - White Noise
Bret Ellis - American Psycho
William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury, [U]Light In August[/U]
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
John Fowles - [U]The French Lieutenant's Woman[/U]
Jonathan Franzen - the Corrections
William Gaddis - [U]The Recognitions[/U]
Mark Haddon - The curious Incident
Joseph Heller - Catch-22
Hemmingway - The Sun Also Rises
Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist, [U]Ulysses[/U](a good chuck through atm)
Jack Kerouac - On The Road
Ken Kessey - One Flew Over
A fuckton of stephen king books
Harper Lee - Let's Kill a Mockingbird
The Best of H.P. Lovecraft
Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian, The Road
Eric Blair - Animal Farm, 1984
Chuck Palahniuk - Choke
Thomas Pynchon - [U]V.[/U], The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow
Ayn Rand - [U]Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead[/U](and I probably never will)
J.D. Salinger - Catcher in the Rye
John Steinbeck - [U]The Grapes of Wrath[/U]
Neal Stephenson - [U]Snow Crash[/U]
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five
David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
so any suggestions?
[QUOTE=AllNamesRTaken;29518426]I'm 15 years old and want to move onto adult books because at the moment I'm still reading teenager books. I am a boy. Can anybody suggest some good books for me to try?
The genres I like are: Action, Sci-Fi, Horror, Fantasy, Thrillers and I especially like books set in the past during World War II for example.[/QUOTE]
A list of recommendations which can get you started pretty well
Black Obelisk - Remarque (well anything from remarque actually)
Forever war - Haldeman
Stranger in a strange land - Heinlein
Anything from Philip K. Dick
Cat's Craddle, breakfast of champions, slaughterhouse 5 - Vonnegut
Clochemerle - Gabriel Chevallier
Hyperion Cantos - Dan Simmons
UPlift War - David Brin
Keep in mind it's sort of a mix of genres but I remember each of those books being great. (a few are set around ww2, or around it)
Well add almost everything from the person above me to my recommended reading list :P
[QUOTE=Jiyoon;29539919]Ayn Rand was a cunt and the Ayn Rand Institute is a fascist cult centered around her.
[editline]1st May 2011[/editline]
Your brain is god by timothy Leary.
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Timothy Leary goes back to the wisdom of the east. He argues that because of the conflict between your cerebrum and your cerebelum (essentially, your animal and your human side), and your bias to act on your senses, philosophy cannot be examined empirically or through outside observation, because observations are based on animal senses. He says that to examine philosophy you have to examine your own brain, which he described as god because of its creative and imaginative powers. Timothy Leary did not advocate LSD, he advocated consciousness expansion, whether it be through meditation, LSD, or other New Age techniques developed during the spiritually liberating years of the 20th century. Timothy Leary says that in our day and age of consumerism, the brain has replaced the genitals as the forbidden organ.[/QUOTE]
What a fucking hippie.
[editline]1st May 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=AllNamesRTaken;29518426]I'm 15 years old and want to move onto adult books because at the moment I'm still reading teenager books. I am a boy. Can anybody suggest some good books for me to try?
The genres I like are: Action, Sci-Fi, Horror, Fantasy, Thrillers and I especially like books set in the past during World War II for example.[/QUOTE]
Anything by Stephen King.
I'm going to try the Hobbit again, I got bored a chapter in when I tried to read it a few years ago.
[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;29551123]I'm going to try the Hobbit again, I got bored a chapter in when I tried to read it a few years ago.[/QUOTE]
J.R Tolkien's style is among the blandest known to man. Prepare for great amounts of explaining and descriptions for things that have little purpose in the story.
Also I want to read some World War 1/2 books. Any suggestions?
You've read All Quiet on the Western Front?
[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;29551615]You've read All Quiet on the Western Front?[/QUOTE]
Nope.
Best series of books. They're by Robert Jordan. A must read
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[QUOTE=Erebus.;29551656]Nope.[/QUOTE]
WWI book, it's a classic.
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Has anyone read this series? It's one of my favorite, if not my favorite. I just finished re-reading Eragon and Brisingr this week, and will re-read Eldest when I can get a copy.
Also...
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November 8, 2011.
The inheritance cycle is one of my favorites.
I still have to read Brisingr
To anyone who loves crime thrillers, I'd really reccomend Chris Mooney's Darby McCormick series. They are fucking incredible.
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And the most recent one:
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The only books I've actually managed to get through completely is The Anarchist Cookbook and I think the other one was called How to live free in America.
Not a whole lot of story, but at least they were interesting.
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And the most recent one:
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Those taglines are as cheesy as Gossebump's.
[QUOTE=nikomo;29552409]The only books I've actually managed to get through completely is The Anarchist Cookbook and I think the other one was called How to live free in America.
Not a whole lot of story, but at least they were interesting.[/QUOTE]
You've only read two books in your entire life?
Hey i figured out this is the best place to ask for it but eh, i remember reading about a first contact book (Harry turtledove [maybe]) set in the near future where humanity makes first contact with an alien race less technologically advanced with "disastorous results".
Or something. I'd really like to read this so if one of you can help me figure this out it would be great!
I know i found the books name ones and i might have saved it somewhere safe. Unfortunately this safe place is well hidden and i have no fucking idea where it is.
[QUOTE=pie_is_good;29552414]Those taglines are as cheesy as Gossebump's.[/QUOTE]
The first book gave me nightmares, honestly, the taglines may be cheesy, but the books are shit scary.
I need to get back into reading, last series I was really into was the Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan, got to like book 7 or something
[editline]2nd May 2011[/editline]
Rand Al'Thor!!!!!!!
[QUOTE=pie_is_good;29547592]sure why not. Underlined means I haven't finished it.
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
William Burroughs - Naked Lunch
Cervantes - [U]Don Quixote[/U]
Mark Z. Danskailiesky - House of Leaves
Don DeLillo - White Noise
Bret Ellis - American Psycho
William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury, [U]Light In August[/U]
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
John Fowles - [U]The French Lieutenant's Woman[/U]
Jonathan Franzen - the Corrections
William Gaddis - [U]The Recognitions[/U]
Mark Haddon - The curious Incident
Joseph Heller - Catch-22
Hemmingway - The Sun Also Rises
Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist, [U]Ulysses[/U](a good chuck through atm)
Jack Kerouac - On The Road
Ken Kessey - One Flew Over
A fuckton of stephen king books
Harper Lee - Let's Kill a Mockingbird
The Best of H.P. Lovecraft
Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian, The Road
Eric Blair - Animal Farm, 1984
Chuck Palahniuk - Choke
Thomas Pynchon - [U]V.[/U], The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow
Ayn Rand - [U]Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead[/U](and I probably never will)
J.D. Salinger - Catcher in the Rye
John Steinbeck - [U]The Grapes of Wrath[/U]
Neal Stephenson - [U]Snow Crash[/U]
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five
David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
so any suggestions?[/QUOTE]
I really loved [i]A Farewell to Arms[/i] by Ernest Hemingway. It was kind of pale, but the ending made me want to read the whole book again. Also, [i]We The Living[/i] by Ayn Rand is a little more tangible than [i]Atlas[/i] or [i]Fountainhead[/i]. Steinbeck is amazing. My sister told me that [i]Pastures of Heaven[/i] was fucking awesome.
[QUOTE=Angua;29553271]Hey i figured out this is the best place to ask for it but eh, i remember reading about a first contact book (Harry turtledove [maybe]) set in the near future where humanity makes first contact with an alien race less technologically advanced with "disastorous results".
Or something. I'd really like to read this so if one of you can help me figure this out it would be great!
I know i found the books name ones and i might have saved it somewhere safe. Unfortunately this safe place is well hidden and i have no fucking idea where it is.[/QUOTE]
I think it's only a short story isn't it? With most alien races discovering some piece of tech which humans never did and completely focusing on it to the level it allowed them space travel. But never discovering anything else, because they got everything they needed from said technology.
Isaac Asimov is THE KING, Robot Dreams is amazing.
Did anyone read the [i]I, Robot[/i] series?
Everyone read those.
[QUOTE=JamesIsGay;29586291]Did anyone read the [i]I, Robot[/i] series?[/QUOTE]
Never got around to it, but I was told they were good.
Just started on "The Clash of Kings" in preparation for the second season after The Game of Thrones.
I started to read horror books to get spooked. Let me tell you that horror books are anything but creepy. They are extremely entertaining.
Currently reading Dante's Inferno for English class. Besides that, I've been skimming through the Myst novels in my spare time. Both very good books.
It's fun to try to make connections between two separate readings, even if they have nothing related.
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