Books you guys like?

Cyndaine · Post by **Cyndaine** » Wed May 23, 2007 4:38 am

the wheel of time series by robert jordan

chesticles · Post by **chesticles** » Wed May 23, 2007 4:54 am

Drizzt Do'Urden series by R.A.Salvatore

and all the other books hes made

Post by **Rainigul** » Wed May 23, 2007 5:00 am

Cyndaine wrote::love: the wheel of time series by robert jordan

My friend LOVES that series.

There are like 25 books though and each are like 1k pages though :shock:

takolin · Post by **takolin** » Wed May 23, 2007 6:51 am

Ah books.

I'll post a small list

1) Things written by JRR Tolkien, not just LOTR but all of his work (and that written by his son christopher because the man died, with his notes)
2) Inheritance trilogy was written nicely. Some say it's a copy from other books, others reply to that there're only 7 original stories in the world and even Shakespear stole the basic plot from an ancient tale called Pyramus et Thysbe, which he knew because it's there in a midsummer night dream (or those words in a different combination).
3) Harry Potter: Probably a bit childish, nevertheless it's written fluently and reading trough it won't take long.
4) Things written by Weis and Hickman like "the dead gate cycle", "the dark sword", "Sovereign Stone", Alltough it resemble single books, the books are a small series with a minimum of 3books.
5) Katherine Kerr has written a great series called the deverry cycle (14 of which 1 needs to come out yet) and the build up of the story is confusing in the beginning but you'll love it in the end. What I mean is, the characters are reborn in the next timeline and they are influenced by it.
6) Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel is another great book written by Suzanne Clarke. It's about the return of magic in England during the Napolean wars. It involves elfs who are evil in contrary with other fantasybooks, and they are based on myths that elfs are bad.
7) Things written by Feist is a good indicator something will be good. His books are in chronological order but I doubt you'll miss much if you start somewhere else. I do suggest to start in the beginning of a subsection of the storie.

The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, a trilogy in five parts is one of the few science-fiction books that could actually interest me. It's funny and written by a genious. Read it, you won't regret it.

My mind ran blank, but I'll find more.

Brutish1 · Post by **Brutish1** » Wed May 23, 2007 9:18 am

As a HUGE fan of science fiction and fantasy I will recommend books that haven't been mentioned yet. Also since this for a report I won't mention any series/trilogies just stand alone books.

Isaac Asimov - Nightfall / What happens on a world when night only falls once every 2000 years?

Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451 / Classic SF - short

Arthur C Clarke - Childhood's End / Another classic SF - short

Raymond E Feist - Faerie Tale / Dark fantasy with strong references to Celtic fairy mythology. FWIW I have owned 5 copies of this book. Keep lending it to people and never get it back.

sorry can't remeber author - A Canticle for Leibowitz / Post nuclear holocaust survival to resurgance of man. VERY thought provoking.

Bakemaster · Post by **Bakemaster** » Wed May 23, 2007 3:03 pm

I'll second Fahrenheit 451. Still haven't gotten to Brave New World, alas—it's on my short list. My long, long, LONG short list. Right now I'm working my way through The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin and honestly finding it kind of boring. There's a lot of world design, everything is very thoroughly named and the backstory is impressive, but the story story seems kind of... uninterested.

Zypher · Post by **Zypher** » Wed May 23, 2007 3:12 pm

Bret Easton Ellis is great.

woutR · Post by **woutR** » Wed May 23, 2007 3:28 pm

De Donkere Kamer van Damokles - Willen Frederik Hendriks
Dutch book, a real classic, maybe it's translated into English, you should read it, it's worth it.

takolin · Post by **takolin** » Wed May 23, 2007 3:59 pm

Zypher wrote:Bret Easton Ellis is great.

QFT

But not for the younger souls in here.

MonstaH · Post by **MonstaH** » Wed May 23, 2007 4:01 pm

Nineteeneightyfour (1984)

If you like Dystopia stories ... beneath other Utopia/Dystopia-related novels named before (Fahrenheit, BNW).

I didn't read too many english books so far so I can't help you out too much :X

ElCapuccino · Post by **ElCapuccino** » Wed May 23, 2007 4:22 pm

Huh books?
Is that some sort of new patch?

shadowman20875 · Post by **shadowman20875** » Wed May 23, 2007 4:31 pm

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

more bad memories, i dont like sattire all that much :banghead:

Post by **Stress** » Wed May 23, 2007 4:34 pm

Norman Mailer - The Naked and the Dead -> the most profound book about wars ever.

takolin · Post by **takolin** » Wed May 23, 2007 6:58 pm

shadowman20875 wrote:
Lord of the Flies by William Golding

more bad memories, i dont like sattire all that much

I mainly hate my English/Dutch teacher who loved the book.
Me and the book never got on very well thanks to her.
She saw things in it which I didn't and I written that down on my exam in a polite way.

HyorunmarouZ · Post by **HyorunmarouZ** » Wed May 23, 2007 7:05 pm

ElCapuccino wrote:Huh books?
Is that some sort of new patch?

LOL yeah should be...

takolin · Post by **takolin** » Wed May 23, 2007 7:10 pm

HyorunmarouZ wrote:
ElCapuccino wrote:Huh books?
Is that some sort of new patch?

LOL yeah should be...

Books are great.
I should patch my "library" but I'm poor atm.
*Waiting for X-max/New Year

Bakemaster · Post by **Bakemaster** » Wed May 23, 2007 10:27 pm

shadowman20875 wrote:
Lord of the Flies by William Golding

more bad memories, i dont like sattire all that much

Oh god, Lord of the Flies isn't satire at all. Satire is meant to be funny. Maybe you're thinking of another book? This has nothing to do with Lord of the Rings, although interestingly enough they were both first published in 1954.

XemnasXD · Post by **XemnasXD** » Wed May 23, 2007 10:41 pm

i've read and very much enjoyed

The Dark Tower 1-7 -Stephen King
Wicked, Son of a Witch - Gregory Maguire
The Stranger - Camus
Metamorphasis - Kafka
The Redwall series - Brian Jacques
Dune - Frank Herbert

and i like Harry Potter :oops:

also Lord of the Flies was good but not up there. Brave New World just made me angry. And The Great Gatsby was like ready an American version of anything James Joyces wrote...absolutly unbearable -_-.

chrisgu1213 · Post by **chrisgu1213** » Wed May 23, 2007 11:11 pm

THE LITTLE PRINCE!!!

150 pgs and online with pictures

FANTASTIC BOOK!!!

HyorunmarouZ · Post by **HyorunmarouZ** » Thu May 24, 2007 2:18 am

XemnasXD wrote:Metamorphasis - Kafka

I don't like Kafka... or more than that, i don't get him hehe his stories are almost pointless, not going anywhere. Still the idea of the methamorphosis is greatly original.

legitz · Post by **legitz** » Thu May 24, 2007 2:27 am

Harry Potter series, cant wait for book 7

Bakemaster · Post by **Bakemaster** » Thu May 24, 2007 3:50 am

chrisgu1213 wrote:THE LITTLE PRINCE!!!

150 pgs and online with pictures

FANTASTIC BOOK!!!

Somehow I own three copies in English and one in French... although I can't speak French *at all*. Yes, The Little Prince is great.

Since someone mentioned The Great Gatsby I suppose I should mention Catcher In The Rye, although odds are you've read that one already. I liked it, although a lot of people complain about Holden being a bitch or something.

Hmm, Their Eyes Were Watching God is a good one if you like straight fiction rather than speculative (SF/fantasy). Oh! Of Mice And Men is another good novel that will score points with your teacher. And if you want to really go overboard you could read Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy. You won't get through it unless you really like to read, though, it was written in 1874 and it's not short.

And if you've got a lot of time to kill you could always try some Dostoyevsky. I chose The Brothers Karamazov for my senior year AP English big-fat-spring-essay, read maybe two chapters, switched to War And Peace, didn't read it at all, and wrote a paper comparing it to The Picture of Dorian Gray which I actually did read... mostly. Got an A- without using cliff notes, too. But you'd have to read them unless you're a master bullshitter like me.

Cyndaine · Post by **Cyndaine** » Thu May 24, 2007 3:54 am

Rainigul wrote:
Cyndaine wrote::love: the wheel of time series by robert jordan

My friend LOVES that series.

There are like 25 books though and each are like 1k pages though

theres actually only 11 (one coming out) and only some are 1k pages

Draquish · Post by **Draquish** » Thu May 24, 2007 11:46 am

Well...I still suggest Twilight >_>

Blackchocob0 · Post by **Blackchocob0** » Thu May 24, 2007 8:49 pm

How'd you like Dorian Gray Bake? It's one of my favorite books.

SO...

The Picture of Dorian Gray
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Doors of Perception/Heaven and Hell - Aldous Huxley
Siddhartha
The Life of Pi
A Song of Ice and Fire (series)
Sword of Truth (series)
Serpentwar Saga (series)
Fahrenheit 451

And I can't forget to list the funny, unique writing of Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker series. These books stand out in their own category.

Bakemaster · Post by **Bakemaster** » Fri May 25, 2007 8:43 pm

Dorian Gray was decent, but it didn't really grab me. I preferred The Talented Mr. Ripley, as far as neurotic sort-of-protagonists go.

Artem · Post by **Artem** » Fri May 25, 2007 9:14 pm

Quick! Someone write a book about me so I can love it ^^

Brutish1 · Post by **Brutish1** » Sat May 26, 2007 2:12 am

Artem.

Who???

The End

There you go - Love away

shadowman20875 · Post by **shadowman20875** » Sat May 26, 2007 2:33 am

Bakemaster wrote:
shadowman20875 wrote:
Lord of the Flies by William Golding

more bad memories, i dont like sattire all that much

Oh god, Lord of the Flies isn't satire at all. Satire is meant to be funny. Maybe you're thinking of another book? This has nothing to do with Lord of the Rings, although interestingly enough they were both first published in 1954.

dictionary.com wrote:sat·ire /ˈsætaɪər/
–noun
1. the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
2. a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule.
3. a literary genre comprising such compositions.

i dont see funny

m-w.com wrote:Main Entry: sat·ire
Pronunciation: 'sa-"tI(-&)r
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin satura, satira, perhaps from (lanx) satura dish of mixed ingredients, from feminine of satur well-fed; akin to Latin satis enough -- more at SAD
1 : a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn
2 : trenchant wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly

is funny, from what i know, it does NOT HAVE to be funny

Nuklear · Post by **Nuklear** » Sat May 26, 2007 2:50 am

Anything by James Patterson.