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Ok, I have read alot of Ann Rice books, the vampire chronicles, and witch stories, they were good reads but now there getting to be the same old same old.
Also I read Dan Browns Angels and demons and The Davinci Code which were very good
IT by Stephen King was really good and a couple of others which I cant remember the names of.
John Grishams books were good, but there getting to be the same old same old.
So these are the ones I liked, hopefully you have some good ones to suggest.
go go go.
The hobbit + Lord of the rings, ldo
Rose Madder by Stephen King (others as well, but these I've read twice)
I am Legend by Richard Matheson (enjoyed the movie, books are usually better)
edit: maybe I shouldn't recommend a book I havent read. My brother recommended it to me though.
Fiction:
The "Song of Ice and Fire" series by George R. R. Martin.
Non Fiction:
"Dreadnought" and "Castles of Steel" by Robert Massie
More nonfiction...WARNING... NASA geekery follows:
"Leap of Faith" by Gordon Cooper and Bruce Henderson
"A Man on the Moon" by Andrew Chaikin
"Rocket Man" by Nancy Conrad and Howard Klausner
"Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8" by Robert Zimmerman
"Flight: My Life in Mission Control" by Chris Kraft
"Riding Rockets" by Mike Mullane
foundation trilogy - asimov
going after cacciato - tim o'brien
count of monte cristo - alexandre dumas
catch 22 - joseph heller
All of George Carlin's books.
The Art of Learning, Josh Waitzkin
Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe
hmmm, I've heard this before, please elaborate?Quote:
Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla
One of a Kind, Stu Ungar's biography
yeah yeah i know it said no poker books but it's not really about poker
for whom the bell tolls
slaughter house 5
1984
and for pure MANliness
Rogue Warrior(or any other dick marcinko book)
It's my favorite book for a lot of reasons. It's the collection of the Hitchhikers Guide Trilogy which is 5 books and 1 short story by Douglas Adams. There was a recent movie made about the first book (Guide to the Galaxy) but I didn't like it. Which is to be expected since I love the books.Quote:
Originally Posted by mrhappy333
Here's the first page of the book for your reading pleasure.
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly privative that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
The planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.
Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been and bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.
And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small cafe in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.
Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, a terrible, stupid catastrophe occurred and the idea was lost for ever.
This is not her story.
But it is the story of that terrible, stupid catastrophe and some of its consequences.
It is also the story of a book, a book called The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - not an Earth book, never published on Earth, and until the terrible catastrophe occurred, never seen or even heard of by any Earthman.
Nevertheless, a wholly remarkable book."
1984
Sounds good 'Rilla. I shrugged it off as being homo as fuck until I read that just now.
it's one of the greatest satires of all timeQuote:
Originally Posted by spoonitnow
1984 was good
wheel of time series by robert jordan is good if u have a lot of free time
ender's game series
great gatsby by f scott fitzgera;d
oryx and crake by margaret atwood
I am Legend, I read the book and it was pretty damn good but short...now I need to go see the movie.
Harry potter complete, LDO
surpirisingly good, third book is on my all-time favourite list
Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy ( i have the audiobook, verry entertaining)
The Matarese Falcon
The Bourne Books by Robert Ludlum
The movie is crazy good. Funny enough, I thought it was pretty damn short when I watched and was surprised to see 90 minutes had passed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ultimate George
I wish it was longer too.Quote:
Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla
Fixed that for you. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by bigred
I almost gave up on the Wheel of Time series. It just would.... not.... end. Jordan probably could have trimmed a few volumes and still gotten his story across.
I've got the book and it's only 160 pages long or so. The rest of the book is a collection of short stories written by the same author, but it doesn't explain this *anywhere* in the book. I had to jump on the internet to figure out what the hell was going on, I couldn't figure out why the stories had nothing to do with I am Legend...Quote:
Originally Posted by bigred
i gave up tooQuote:
Originally Posted by Frink
*spoiler*
that one book where at the end they cleanse the male side and all the forsaken are running around trying to kill them was fucking insane though. it was like having every major badass in every great movie fighting the good guys
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Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla
Am I the only one that thinks this movie was a huge let down?
It ends far too quickly. It could've gone for 3 hours or so and I would have enjoyed every minute of it.
However, because it ends so quicly it left me wanting more, which could be considered a letdown.
Thizz, I'll watch it again and try to give you a better opinion.
Good Will Smith movie I've seen lately: The Pursuit of Happyness (granted early entry on my all time faves list)
Berlin Noir - Philip Kerr (hard boiled detective fiction set in 1930 - 40's Germany)
or A Philisophical Investigation - Philip Kerr (interesting premise)
old school dude! all about those daytime stakes.....Quote:
Originally Posted by HalvSame
wow, a bigred quote that makes sense! orson is good. Gatsby is feel the timeQuote:
Originally Posted by bigred
ok, a few from recent times
zarathustra - nietzsche. For fucking with y0ur head. Doesn't matter which language
Stranger in a strange land - Heinlein. Ignore the misogyny and grok it. Look up Glory Road if you like it.
Mi pais inventado - Allende. In spanish ideally, then head to chile and put it all together
Some Homer - can't ignore the classics
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - De Quincy. Go to it
Pi. Cos boats and tigers are cool
Illusions. Bach. Embrace your inner hippy
start another thread if you want more
american psycho by b.e. ellis is tough, but great
if ur looking for something refreshing get a book by michel houllebecque or 9.99 by frederic beigbeder, probably the best book i´ve read this year
if you haven't read 1984 you should. same goes for hitchhikers guide series and one that hasn't been mentioned yet. the catcher in the rye. it's a nice short read, but good.
non fiction you could read anything by stephen jay goulg, but I would recommend full house (not a poker book at all btw)
the things they carried by tim obrien
Anything by David Gemmell.
:shock: double post
warpe, stop bumping old threads. :)
reading is for people who don't know how to watch TV
if you do read 1984, i suggest drinking gin neat
and for whom the bell tolls get a bota bag of cheap red wine to drink while reading(or get a box wine and and remove the bag from the box and drink straight from the spigot)
Lord of the rings. Took me months to read it when i was like 14.
if your into non-fiction pick up californiacation. its an autobiography on anthony kedies life.
"The Kite Runner" and "A Thousand Splended Suns" both by Khaled Hosseini. Both are incredible books. Im pretty sure i saw The Kite Runner is coming out as a movie soon.
choke by chuck pahlniuk, will also be a movie in 08
If you read one series in your life, make it the sword of truth series by Terry Goodkind
ok, This was a great Book!! I just finished it. Now, are the other books in this series just as good?Quote:
Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla
Thanks for a great book. I read it in less than a week, which means I really liked it.
Anyone read the golden compass books? Saw the movie and kinda interested in the books unless they are aimed at kids too much. For reference I read most of the Harry Potter books and think they are ok, not great
Non-Fiction: The Culture of Fear it's a book about how the media wrongly portrays events and plays on our fears.
I read mostly non-fiction military history and science.
I recommend:
Origins of the War of 1914 by Luigi Albertini. Enormous detail about the diplomacy and social factors going on in Europe between 1871-1914, but a bit long.
1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow by Adam Zamoyski. Interesting descriptions of Napoleon and Alexander and the men who fought for them.
The Trail of the Fox by David Irving. The life of Erwin Rommel, the military genius.
Visual Brain in Action by David Milner and Melvyn Goodale. Showing how the brain converts vision into movements (my area of study).
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks. Bizarre consequences of brain damage.
The Shattered Mind: Alexander Luria. Classic text by a pioneer in neuropsychology.
Anything by Simon R. Green.
Yah, the whole series is good.Quote:
Originally Posted by mrhappy333
Neal Stephenson, esp The Diamond Age and Cryptonomicon
FWIW Robert Jordan is dead but supposedly he got notes and outlines down so people can finish WoT for him (he knew he was dying), final book is supposed to be out in early 09. If you gave up during/after book 10 you should really go get 11 because it was way better. If you gave up before that I'd wait and make sure 12 really comes out.
If you like light but very fast paced entertaining reading, pick up some Ben Mezrich books. Rigged is very good and Bringing Down the House was excellent although it is casino/blackjack related. You will be done with them in one week or less. As a matter of fact you will read them so fast I suggest just borrowing them from a library if you can find them. You better hurry up with Bringing Down the House though it comes out as the movie "21" in a couple months.
I'm a huge fan of Dean Allen Foster. He's responsible for the stories behind Alien, and Terminator.
Sentenced to Prism
Midworld
Codgerspace
All amazing.