Books

[Themage]

Bridge of Birds, The story of the stone and Eight skilled gentlemen are some of the best books Ive ever read, are there any books like them?

[editline]11th October 2011[/editline]

[QUOTE=HammerBrute;32622637]Ah, I've just started this myself. Really funny so far.

Also, just picked up a copy of this:

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Anyone read it? Any good?[/QUOTE]

Its a rather interesting book with a few quite funny sections, I would recommend it.

[Deunan]

[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;32663107]Call me a nerd, but I just ordered

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and

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One of the worst decisions I ever made was the day I loaded up all my Star Wars EU books and sold them for next to nothing. So much gold I could be re-reading now...[/QUOTE]

Must fight the urge to dig out wraith squadron again. Gods, it's been years since I've read the books.

Myself been reading second step to noewhere. Though it's from a local author so probably not known outside of here.

[iFail]

just finished
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[Keyblockor]

[QUOTE=Arachnidus;32614048]Surprisingly awesome. Feels like 1984 without the mindfuckery and Orwellian level of writing, brilliant in it's own right.

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Brilliant book, I couldn't find a plot hole in it.

[Cree8ive]

Anyone here read Albert Camus' "The Outsider"?

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Read it for my English class and I have to say, for being such a easy to read book it's really really deep.

[editline]12th October 2011[/editline]

And it's also very short, about 115 pages or so.

[Zezibesh]

Altered Carbon is pretty cool so far

[QUOTE=myalt22;32687141]Just ordered a Game of Thrones, how is it in comparison to the TV Series.[/QUOTE]

A million times better

[Snake7]

[QUOTE=Face Melter;32674487]I just finished reading this in school

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I didn't really get the point of the title or the main problem in the book besides the protagonist being depressed all the damn time[/QUOTE]

I just got done reading this. At first it was a little annoying, butt I was really liking it by the end.

I read it in all one day though, and now my thoughts sound like Holden's. I keep saying things like [i]I really did[/i] to myself.

[myalt22]

I am about half-way through A Game of Thrones.

My god, it is indeed incredible.

[editline]19th October 2011[/editline]

I will be buying the whole series post-haste.

[igamiwarr]

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This was probably the best book that I have read in school, I bought a copy immidiately afterwards because I liked it so much.

Oh and can anyone recommend anything to someone who liked The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy? (The 5 books, not sure if I am going to pick up the one written by another author)

[JohnnyMo]

You got to read Breakfast of Champions for school? Nice. I'd figure it's probably a little too vulgar for my school to have allowed. :v:

Not my favorite Vonnegut though and I did read Cat's Cradle for high school which is my favorite so not a big loss to me.

[ElectricSquid]

How much classic sci-fi can you guys recommend? I'm thinking of Ringworld, Brightness Reef, Childhood's End, a lot of stuff like that.

[JohnnyMo]

Dune. :D

[Zezibesh]

a space odyssey & sequels

[ElectricSquid]

[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;32860156]Dune. :D[/QUOTE]
Oh yeah, I forgot about having read Dune. 'Twas a great book indeed.

Also, I append my list with some of the stuff by Orson Scott Card, more specifically stuff from the Ender universe.
I think I recall someone in this thread declaring opposition to him and/or his works, am I remembering this correctly?

[Nevermind me]

Orson Scott Card is a great writer who unfortunately falls into spouting about his beliefs and morals in his books. I didn't notice it so much in the Ender books, but I read Empire as well and it was very, very noticable.

[editline]19th October 2011[/editline]

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I finished that about a month ago, haven't really read since for whatever reason, got busy I suppose.

[ElectricSquid]

[QUOTE=Nevermind me;32861664]Orson Scott Card is a great writer who unfortunately falls into spouting about his beliefs and morals in his books. I didn't notice it so much in the Ender books, but I read Empire as well and it was very, very noticable.

[editline]19th October 2011[/editline]

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I finished that about a month ago, haven't really read since for whatever reason, got busy I suppose.[/QUOTE]
The title of that book sounds like it came out of a captcha.

Also, from reading some of the Ender books, I couldn't really see his bias at all; rather, the scientific and philosophical concepts in "Xenocide" kind of surprise me for having come from a Mormon. (Though I was younger then, and now I'd probably be more receptive of something like subtle bias)

[Eudoxia]

I didn't really like Ringworld... The Ringworld Engineers, on the other hand...

[Nevermind me]

[QUOTE=ElectricSquid;32862658]The title of that book sounds like it came out of a captcha.

Also, from reading some of the Ender books, I couldn't really see his bias at all; rather, the scientific and philosophical concepts in "Xenocide" kind of surprise me for having come from a Mormon. (Though I was younger then, and now I'd probably be more receptive of something like subtle bias)[/QUOTE]

The Ender books are just well written and all around good books, it's his other stuff that gets preachy.

I forget what the hell Phlebas was, a planet or artificial planet or whatever, I don't remember.

[OrionChronicles]

[QUOTE=Arachnidus;32614048]Surprisingly awesome. Feels like 1984 without the mindfuckery and Orwellian level of writing, brilliant in it's own right.

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This was excellent, well written and deeply moving. (I cried during Rue's death scene.) The sequels however... sucked. The second goes nowhere, then resorts to rehashing the first book's plot except its really lame, and in the third Katniss becomes the biggest fucking tool.

[benji2015]

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What are some other good Stephen King books? I've read Dreamcatcher, Salem's Lot, The Stand, Duma Key, and the Just After Sunset, Nightmares and Dreamscapes, Skeleton Crew, Night Shift, and Everything's Eventual collections. They were all great, imo.

[Used Car Salesm]

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What are some other good Stephen King books? I've read Dreamcatcher, Salem's Lot, The Stand, Duma Key, and the Just After Sunset, Nightmares and Dreamscapes, Skeleton Crew, Night Shift, and Everything's Eventual collections. They were all great, imo.[/QUOTE]

Wow, you missed the best of the best. The Shining, Christine, Pet Sematary, Cujo, Misery, Needful Things...

[Eluveitie]

Trawling through Raymond E. Feist's works. The Serpentwar Saga was excellent. Although Rise Of A Merchant Prince was boring as shit when it focussed on Roo and not Erik.

[myalt22]

[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;32870445]Misery, [/QUOTE]

Haven't read much Stephen King, but I can vouch for Misery being very good.

[Mooe94]

[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;32870445]Wow, you missed the best of the best. The Shining, Christine, Pet Sematary, Cujo, Misery, Needful Things...[/QUOTE]

And It for god sakes, It!

[Zarjk]

currently reading Ghost's of Onyx.

[ElectricSquid]

Insomnia by Stephen King was one of my favorite books at some point.

[myalt22]

Reading A Clash of Kings, tis good.

[Used Car Salesm]

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This one came in today, one of the best books I've read this year.

[john_pelphre]

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Hell of a book

[pie_is_good]

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Hell of a book[/QUOTE]

I'm sort of confused by the first edition cover which makes it look like some sci-fi novels when really it's about a guy who fucks a lot of whores in France.
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