I have read many books many of which I can name right off the top of my head...hmmmmm.
Have you read any truly interesting books that inthralled you deeper int o the tale to where you you could not put it down?
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I have read many books many of which I can name right off the top of my head...hmmmmm.
Have you read any truly interesting books that inthralled you deeper int o the tale to where you you could not put it down?
MOBY DICK RIGHT NOW!
I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories by Dr. Seuss
From this I learned about the dangers of bragging, hierarchies, and thunking.
Dreamcatcher FTW
The Gap Into Conflict: The Real Story
Twilight and A última Feiticeira
*moves to The Lounge*
Pretty much every book by Stephen King or Dean Koontz.
Dune. Still the only book I read the full way through.
Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons.
Currently the Brightonomicon by Robert Rankin (all his books are great), Terry Pratchetts books are always enjoyable. The last book that i truly could not put down was Metamorpheses by Kafka.
Nightrunner series by Lynn Flewelling is addictive. When I pick up the books I cannot stop reading them, even on my second time through.
Ditto except that I've read more than just that book. In fact, I'll just go with the whole Dune series myself. I'm on Chapterhouse right now. I love Frank Herbert's writing to death.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dreddz
The A Song of Ice and Fire series, as well as the first three novels in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Slaughter House Five is fantastic. So is Catch 22. I highly recommend Dave Barry's Guide to Guys as well as any of Goerge Carlin's three novels (really just a collection of sketches).
Probably the first three books of the Wheel of Time series, 1984 (especially when Winston is taken to Miniluv, I've never been equally enthralled and disgusted with a book) and the first Dune novel.
Brave New World is the best book ever written. But if you want other dystopian fiction that isn't 1984, then We is the father of the genre and is absolutely sublime. The Handmaid's Tale provides another, very interesting look at the genre.
The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z are not just awesome for zombie fans, but actually ridiculously well written. If Brooks wrote 'serious' stuff, he'd be winning major awards.
Then you can bridge from those two genres into post-apocalyptic fiction. I'm thinking The Postman here.
Anything by Frederick Pohl, but especially The Coming of the Quantum Cats, which not only has a fantastic title, but is a fantastic novel.
Tumithak of the Corridors and Tumithak in Shawm are some of the best early sci-fi I've ever come across. Short stories, but excellent and I only wish I'd read them first. But they're not necessarily easy to track down. There's another one in the series, apparently, but I've never come across it, nor can I remember the name.
Lucky, The Lovely Bones, Tuesdays With Morrie, and The Five People You Meet In Heaven are all profound and important in various ways, even if the latter two can be a little saccharine at times.
And you can never go wrong with Flowers for Algernon.
La Dame aux Camelias... (The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas, son)
God what a book! I cried, I couldn't stop reading it...
There are some other books from Eça de Queiróz (now translated in english) that are awsome I couldn't stop reading 'The mistery of Sintra street' and 'The Priest Amaro crime'
A Song of Ice and Fire Series
The Wheel of Time Series
Harry Potter Series
Books by Vonnegut
read the kouga ninja scrolls good book from del rey manga
as soon as i can get it ill read swlf exile love the legacy series darker is better.
Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen.
Catch-22 is probably my favourite book. It's not short, but I think I read it in a couple of days. It's absurd, but hilarious and quite cutting.
Winnie-the-Pooh is great. Seriously! I read it when I was 23, and it was a revelation. Er, that sounds wrong... but it's not.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X is the best piece of non-fiction I've read. Utterly compelling and kind of devastating that he died when he did. He had finally figured out what needed to happen and had come to a realisation.
The Sea of Fertility tetralogy by Yukio Mishima is very good, especially Spring Snow and the final part, The Decay of the Angel feels like a body blow. I also really like The Sound of Waves, also by Mishima - really simple, but so effective.
American Psycho is very funny, even though there's no way it should be. Patrick Bateman is just about my favourite literary character.
I commend you for reading American Psycho. Quite possibly my favorite book, mostly for the reasons you listed. Although I'm pretty sure BEE intended it to be hilarious, yet repulsive.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burtsplurt
Another Bret Easton Ellis book I <3 is Glamorama, which is quite similar to Psycho except it deals with the fashion industry...and involves terrorist models.
Other books I enjoy:
- Harry Potter
- A Song of Ice and Fire
- The Stand
- Kurt Vonnegut
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower