Recommended Reading

[Twisted Tinkerbell]

A Certain Age by Rebbeca Ray
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Hagakure by Yamamoto Tsunetomo

[Quindiana Jones]

I've read the Lord of the Rings 11 times. Time well spent...the movie simply cannot compare.

I agree, and the movies were amazing.

[ValkyrieWing]

They were nearly as perfect...but not quite. They did remove a lot of the pointless stuff, so... *thumbs up*

[drunkymonkey]

Any Discworld book, really.

[Quindiana Jones]

They were nearly as perfect...but not quite. They did remove a lot of the pointless stuff, so... *thumbs up*

They removed Tom Bombadil. I literally almost cried.

[drunkymonkey]

Tom Bombadil sucked. He was a tit.

[~SapphireStar~]

He was the guy who spoke in rhyme didnt he?

[Bunny]

The Runelords Series by David Farland. The Sum of All Men; The Brotherhood of the Wolf; Wizardborn; and The Lair of Bones.

If you're big into Dungeons and Dragons, I'd highly suggest anything written by R.A. Salvatore. With a specific focus on stories surrounding Drizzt Do'Urden and the The Companions of the Hall (Bruenor Battlehammer, Cattie-brie, Regis, Drizzt, and Wulfgar). Although if you don't really have an interest in fantasy or Dungeons and Dragons, you probably won't appreciate the books as much.

The Highwayman by R.A. Salvatore is a non-Dungeons and Dragons-related book. Very good and a quick read no matter how fast a reader you are.

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. I haven't exactly finished reading it, but once you get past the initial introduction it picks up and turns into a pretty good read. Anything else by Dostoevsky is probably worth mentioning as well.

Oscar Wilde, of course. The Picture of Dorian Gray is a must.

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. Beowulf if you're into epic poetry. And, uh, probably Homer's Odyssey and Illiad, of course.

Oh, and Nietzsche.

[ValkyrieWing]

I was devistated that they removed Tom..he was so funny! >< A spaz, to be sure, but a greatly powerful being, there before even Gandalf. *sigh*

LOTR movies needed Tom.

[Reine]

The Death Gate Cycle

One of my favourite book series, a seven part one by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

I agree with Bunny about books by R.A Salvatore.

I also like the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan, the books by Raymond E. Feist (The Riftwar Saga, The Serpentwar Saga, and all the other books in the series)

As for the remark about "Tom"...

I cannot remember this individual

[Bunny]

I was devistated that they removed Tom..he was so funny! >< A spaz, to be sure, but a greatly powerful being, there before even Gandalf. *sigh*

LOTR movies needed Tom.

They decided that he didn't add enough to the story of the Ring, so they decided to omit him entirely. I'm pretty okay with the decision because I had little hope that they could portray him correctly.

Reine: Tom was the fellow that saved the Merry and Pippin from Old Man Willow.

[Resha]

I'm into my modern classics. Kerouac, Capote etc.

Capote is...amazing. I'm reading his "Summer Crossing" (his debut novel, I think) and it's beautiful. The way he puts things is lovely -- simple, abstract -- but lovely. I read his "Breakfast at Tiffany's" a very long time ago, but I failed to pick up on all these things. I really love his characters too; I loved Holly Golightly, and I'm loving Grady McNeil.

And I'm kinda glad they didn't put Bombadil in there; considering how much else they snipped out, it would have felt too pieced together, and plus I already have this lovely image of Bombadil and Goldberry in my mind. =) Couldn't risk having that ruined

[xX.Silver.Wings.Xx]

The Red Room by H.G.Wells is really good. and Catcher In The Rye is ok... took me a while to get into though... and The Redemption of Althalus but David and Leigh Eddings is fantastic.

[Quindiana Jones]

He did almost nothing for the story, admittedly. He was just there to add mystery and I loved his parts. He always spoke in rhyming song that could defeat anything in His Land (why is it his land? So wonderfully mysterious!). I like how the Elves mentioned how The Ring would be perfectly safe forever were it given to Tom, as anything that came to His Land could be defeated with his songs, but someone says summat about him just throwing it away as a useless trinket.
Wow I went on there.

Tiger! Tiger! by Alfred Bester is amazing. As is Flowers for Algernon. The only book to have ever made me cry.

[Resha]

He did almost nothing for the story, admittedly. He was just there to add mystery and I loved his parts. He always spoke in rhyming song that could defeat anything in His Land (why is it his land? So wonderfully mysterious!). I like how the Elves mentioned how The Ring would be perfectly safe forever were it given to Tom, as anything that came to His Land could be defeated with his songs, but someone says summat about him just throwing it away as a useless trinket.
Wow I went on there.

Tiger! Tiger! by Alfred Bester is amazing. As is Flowers for Algernon. The only book to have ever made me cry.

I'm not so sure if it was him throwing it away as him being so...I dunno...complete an entity with Goldberry and his land etc that he just wouldn't have anything to do with the rest of Middle Earth and its affairs at all. He just didn't care, and I don't love him all too well for this xD He could have spared them so much trouble! I dunno, actually. I haven't read the books for a while and I regret this so much but tLoTR -- I really need to be in a certain mood to read them.