• Book Recommendations?
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Fantasy: The Kingkiller-Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
Check out Neal Stephenson and Steven Erikson. I'm slowly wading through Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen series, and it's pretty damn good so far. The 10 books together make up almost 11,000 pages.
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz]A Canticle for Leibowitz[/url]- A Sci Fi post Apocalypse story, really good read
Definitely read Starship Troopers. It set a lot of standards in terms of sci-fi and military fiction, plus it's awesome. If you're into Star Wars, read anything by Timothy Zahn because he is George Lucas' favorite author.
50 shades of gray 11/10 would shlick again
William Faulkner's [I]The Sound and the Fury[/I] I kid I kid. Nearly everyone would struggle with that.
The Eleventh Plague, maybe? I really liked it. It's about a kid surviving in post-apocalyptic America.
Warhammer 40k: The Horus Heresy series. Basically the 'first' books.
Don Quixote.
Douglas Adams "The hitchikers guide to the Galaxy". If you like philosophy, strange humour and mind-twisting concepts, this is the book for you. The book i read (Trilogy of four, (yes that's its name)) was about 700 pages, but took me over two weeks to finish. And im a fast reader. This is because the books push so far beyond logic thinking you have to look up and let your mind wander for a while before settling down and reading the next. His humour is so odd, but hilarious nonetheless and he describes feelings like no other author i have ever read.
A Song of Ice and Fire.
If you want a [I]very[/I] long series to read, pick up on the Sharpe series. There's quite a lot of them, but none of the ones I've read are badly written, quite the contrary, actually. They should be quite similar to the the "Hornblower" series, but I must admit I've never read those. I'd actually go ahead and recommend anything by Bernard Cornwell, he's really a brilliant writer.
Read some work by David McCullough. He's an amazing author
If you like Mass Effect, Go nab Mass Effect Revelations, Really solid read and is the prequel to the first game.
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs [editline]3rd January 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=lifemonkey;39071397]The Dark Tower series, I am on book 4 of 7 right now, and I love it.[/QUOTE] Some other good books related to The Dark Tower that are worth reading The Stand The Talisman the short story Low Men in Yellow Coats Salem's Lot
The Legend of Drizzt series, it may be dungeons and dragons but hell it's a damn good read.
Keys to the kingdom. 7 book series, really good fantasy. The books also look and feel fucking sexy. They look so fucking flamboyant just there on my shelves with their shiny ass gloomy but prismatic colors. But the story is also great, apart from the colors. It's basically about a boy who is taken into another realm corrupt with 7 power hungry overlords named after days of the week, who were meant to keep the keys and hand them over for another time but instead kept them and abused their powers for their own personal gain. Each one holds a part of a key used to unlock the kingdom (i have no idea what that is since i read it like 3 years ago) and must be defeated by said boy. He, of course has companions.
Isaac Asimov. Dune, everyone ought to read Dune... All Quiet on the Western Front. Best book I've read probably. The Good Earth by Ms. Buck. Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano, et cetera.
[QUOTE=DudeGuyKT;39075078]I'd suggest John Dies at the End but the entire book is written in the style that it seems like you're trying to avoid; as in, it's written as some guy just telling a story. Even still, I suggest reading it, I picked it up and couldn't put it down, read the whole thing in 2 days, new favorite book. It's comedy-horror.[/QUOTE] did you buy this after reading cracked? [editline]4th January 2013[/editline] The count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas; Dante's Inferno; The girl with the dragon tattoo was an interesting read.
[QUOTE=id05245;39093766]did you buy this after reading cracked? [/QUOTE] Yes I did.
I will agree with an earlier post that you should check out the Hitchhiker's guide. A few other books that I recommend off the top of my head: Eaters of the Dead, The Botany of Disire, Zeitoun, The Alchemist, Fallen Angels, and Prey. Also dont underestimate the power of a short story, they really show the ability of an author and make for great conversation and life lessons. I was lucky enough to have a class centered on them my freshman year at college. There are tons of collections available, or just read some free online. I was mainly reading out of Milton Cranes "50 Great Short Stories" and it had some great works including Hemingway, Poushkin, and Thurber; I recommend it as a good entrance into short stories.
[QUOTE=Flubadoo;39077440]Fantasy books: Robin Hobb's Farseer and Tawny Man series (2 trilogies that follow the story of one man) without a doubt have easily some of the best character development and you get to really know the main character and what drives him. One hell of a story too.[/QUOTE] I second this. Best series I've ever read. I'm going to start on The Liveship Traders which is a series int he same universe as Farseer and Tawny Man and happens parallel to those but set in a different country. Robin Hobb is an amazing author. I would also recommend The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind. It's 11 books long (technically 12, but the last book wasn't as good and the main story is completed in the 11th book) but really worth it. There was a tv series based on the books called Legend of the Seeker which was complete shit and doesn't follow the books.
"Night Watch" and everything else by Sergei Lukjanenko.
The Gorse Trilogy, by Patrick Hamilton. The best of them all being "The West Pier", set in Brighton. synopsis from wikipedia [QUOTE]The Gorse Trilogy is a series of three novels, the last published works of the author Patrick Hamilton. In these novels, Patrick Hamilton creates one of fiction's most captivating anti-heroes, Ernest Ralph Gorse, whose heartlessness and lack of scruple are matched only by the inventiveness and panache with which he swindles his victims. (He is thought to have been based on the real-life con-man and murderer Neville George Heath, executed in 1946).[citation needed] Gorse insinuates himself into the lives of his victims with his good looks and easy confidence, and always with a good story. His victims are women, and he flatters his way into their affections until he is in a position to turn things to his advantage. Graham Greene called The West Pier "the best book written about Brighton", while L.P. Hartley said, "The entertainment value of this brilliantly told story could hardly be higher."[/QUOTE] Pity the author died so the story doesn't have an actual conclusion, but it's really engaging.
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