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Does anyone have any good book recommendations?

I recently read:
Catcher in the Rye ( I liked it)
Animal Farm ( liked it)
Time Machine ( loved it)
Memoirs of a Geisha ( Loved it)

Squirt wrote:Does anyone have any good book recommendations?

I recently read:
Catcher in the Rye ( I liked it)
Animal Farm ( liked it)
Time Machine ( loved it)
Memoirs of a Geisha ( Loved it)

That's a movie too right?

As for books, the last ones I've read where all from my english class.

Life of Pi
Macbeth
Night

And I have Brave New World and 1984 sitting somewhere in my bedroom, waiting to be read.

Yeah Memoirs of a Geisha was made into a movie.

I just went on Gutenberg and started reading A Princess of Mars.

Its quite good

I enjoyed reading The Art of Happiness, not fiction though.

Just from the top of my head:

Stories (fiction/based on true events/memoirs)
Night
Execution by Hunger
Brave New World
1984*
Fight Club*
Slaughter-House V*
A Clockwork Orange*
Perks of Being a Wallflower
Siddhartha
The Bell Jar
Catch-22
Nine Stories

Misc./ Special Interests - Educational
Games People Play
The God Delusion
Art of War

*movie available

Imma say it again:

Prophet Izaach wrote:Imma say it again:

Looks so....unappealing.

*waits for cliche about not judging a book by its cover*

After reading the series so far, if you don't watch Game of Thrones, then read the Song of Ice and Fire series that it's based off of. The best book series I have ever read, and it isn't even done yet.

I just finished "My Friend the Mercenary" by James Brabazon:

True story (memoir), first part is about Liberia and second is about the Equatorial Guinea coup.The thing I really liked is that I watched a Reality TV series last year about a group of mercenaries that would get contracts with African goverments to help improve their security. The main guy is Obus, and in this book, he is the person who introduces James to Nick. It blew my mind and really cemented how real this book is, because some of it just seems like fantasy.

In a fly-blown bar in West Africa, war reporter James Brabazon found himself discussing military plans to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea with one of Africa’s most notorious mercenaries - his friend Nick du Toit.

I really recommend it. It talks a lot of about the fight in Liberia (things like soldiers eating the heart of a captured soldier, being on the front lines of civil war, etc). Second part goes really deep into the coup and the weapon trader/mercenary World. It's probably the best book i've read in a while.



A couple years ago I read "The Sex Lives of Cannibals" by J. Maarten Troost:



Also a memoir of sorts, and incredibly funny. One of the best books I have -ever- read. Went through it in a night. It's a really light read but really worth it.

At 26, Troost followed his wife to Kiribati, a tiny island nation in the South Pacific. Virtually ignored by the rest of humanity (its erstwhile colonial owners, the Brits, left in 1979), Kiribati is the kind of place where dolphins frolic in lagoons, days end with glorious sunsets and airplanes might have to circle overhead because pigs occupy the island's sole runway. Troost's wife was working for an international nonprofit; the author himself planned to hang out and maybe write a literary masterpiece. But Kiribati wasn't quite paradise. It was polluted, overpopulated and scorchingly sunny (Troost could almost feel his freckles mutating into something "interesting and tumorous"). The villages overflowed with scavengers and recently introduced, nonbiodegradable trash. And the Kiribati people seemed excessively hedonistic. Yet after two years, Troost and his wife felt so comfortable, they were reluctant to return home. Troost is a sharp, funny writer, richly evoking the strange, day-by-day wonder that became his life in the islands. One night, he's doing his best funky chicken with dancing Kiribati; the next morning, he's on the high seas contemplating a toilet extending off the boat's stern (when the ocean was rough, he learns, it was like using a bidet). Troost's chronicle of his sojourn in a forgotten world is a comic masterwork of travel writing and a revealing look at a culture clash.

inky wrote:Just from the top of my head:

Stories (fiction/based on true events/memoirs)
Night
Execution by Hunger
Brave New World
1984*
Fight Club*
Slaughter-House V*
A Clockwork Orange*
Perks of Being a Wallflower
Siddhartha
The Bell Jar
Catch-22
Nine Stories

Misc./ Special Interests - Educational
Games People Play
The God Delusion
Art of War

*movie available

There's a God Delusion adaptation by the BBC. It's really good. The God Delusion was one of our assigned readings for an Intellectual History class (never got the link, I think the prof just wanted us to read it). I didn't read the book, just watched the adaptation and read the book afterwards. Although not my favorite reading, it is my favorite book.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Root_of_All_Evil%3F

Catch-22 was also made into a movie. You can find it on Netflix. Siddartha too, IIRC.

Squirt wrote:Does anyone have any good book recommendations?

I recently read:
Catcher in the Rye ( I liked it)
Animal Farm ( liked it)
Time Machine ( loved it)
Memoirs of a Geisha ( Loved it)

SOUTHPARK

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/2 ... troversial

I've seen the episode.

But if you actually read the book you can relate to Holden ( The main character)

In a way hes just a representation of every teenager ( or person) that you will ever meet.

Let the Right One In - John Alvide Lindqvist

rek wrote:Let the Right One In - John Alvide Lindqvist

The art of writing is lost in translation.

dom wrote:
There's a God Delusion adaptation by the BBC. It's really good. The God Delusion was one of our assigned readings for an Intellectual History class (never got the link, I think the prof just wanted us to read it). I didn't read the book, just watched the adaptation and read the book afterwards. Although not my favorite reading, it is my favorite book.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Root_of_All_Evil%3F

Catch-22 was also made into a movie. You can find it on Netflix. Siddartha too, IIRC.

God Delusion huh...I'll definitely watch that one then. It's a good read but it's very tedious at times. I wasn't sure if Catch-22 (movie) is a direct adaptation of the book since I saw it.

Almost finished reading, "Different Season" by Stephen King. If you want to read some classics by him, like Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me. Read this book. They are both short stories, but still worth the read.