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General Discussion => Other Discussions => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: pianoman on August 27, 2011, 04:21:39 pm
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I was just wondering what kinds of books you guys like, so I made this thread.
For my part, I really love the books Catch-22*, by Joseph Heller, and Flyboys*, by James Bradley.
Do you guys have any suggestions?
*Meant for mature audiences
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A Wrinkle in Time (and the rest of the series) by Madeleine L'Engle is pretty good
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One of my favorite single books (not a series) is Battlefield Earth, by Ron Hubbard. I've heard the movie kind of butchers it but the book is just great ;D
Also Watership Down (Richard Adams) is pretty good.
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Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordan :) (careful, though, 'cause it's 12 books of 700+ pages :P)
Epic and Saga, by Conor Kostick
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The Edge Chronicles is a good series, by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell.
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Anything by Ernest Hemingway is good -- my favorite is Old Man and the Sea.
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Small list:
- Dune [
- Dune
- Dune Messiah
- Children of Dune
- God Emperor of Dune
- Heretics of Dune
- Chapterhouse: Dune
- ...The rest as continued by his son, Brian
- Battlefield Earth
- Narnia (all books)
- Lord of the Rings (all books)
- The Hobbit
- The Book of Lost Tales
- The Blade Itself
- The House of the Scorpion
- Thus Spake Zarathustra
- The Critique of Practical Reason
- The Dark Tower (all books)
- Sea of Troll (all books)
- Ender's Game
- Lord of the Flies
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Ender's Game
I. Love. That. Book! :)
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Forgot to mention the other good books in the series, which admittedly aren't as "Great" :P
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I liked Dune, but I thought the sequels were boring.
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well
Pendragon - whole series is epic
The hunger games - awesome 2 books loved them
just 2 of my favs....i could have a almost endless list here so ill just pop some off every now and then to keep the topic alive ;)
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I agree with you on Pendragon, and The Hunger Games.
I also like the Airborn series by Kenneth Oppel.
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Hmm, dune, never heard of it I should check it out.
I liked the pendragon series a lot, but only read the first few books (the first book I though was dull, but the second, third and fourth were *awesome*)
Also, "The Ruby Way" was a great book
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the last apprentice is also really good again i forget the author though >.<
the first book in pendragon was a slow start it was a lot to wrap your head around and it was a pretty simple setup after that though it just goes crazier and crazier awesome it is indeed i do recommend finishing them
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Has anyone read House of the Scorpion?
EDIT: Just realized it was already on Qwerty's list :P
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I think "Les Misérables" is a great book, though it's a hefty read. The unabridged version is about 1,450-something pages.
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The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks is absolutely godly.
The Black Prism by the same author was also great.
The Pendragon series was very good. Very looooonnngg, but I enjoyed it.
Finally, the Innocent Mage series by Karen Miller was great as well.
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Amos Daragon by Bryan Perro, really good series. It's 12 books. Also Wariwulf, by the same author.
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Pathfinder, Empire and it's sequel, The Ender series, + Ender's Shadow series, and plenty of others by card
Thank you for mentioning battlefield earth Qwerty. Best Scifi evar!
The rest are already posted :P
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Edner's game is great. The sequels aren't nearly as good though. I like pretty much all the books on Qwerty's List, and the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini. ;)
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The young samurai is good.
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Qwerty's list has a lot of good ones. Over the summer I read The Brothers Karamazov. It was very, very good.
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Here are a few that I really, really like and are the first to come to mind (there are tons more):
Ellen Hopkins
-Glass
-Crank
-Impulse
-Burned
-Identical
-Tricks
Robert Jordan
-The Wheel Of Time series
J.K. Rowling
-The Harry Potter series
Eoin Colfer
-Airman
-The Artemis Fowl series
-The Supernaturalist
-The Wish List
Nancy Farmer
-The House of the Scorpion
J.R.R. Tolkein
-The Lord of the Rings series
-The Hobbit
Lewis Carroll
-The Chronicles of Narnia
Suzanne Collins
-The Hunger Games books
Terry Goodkind
-The Sword of Truth series
Tess Gerritsen
-Bloodstream
Christopher Paolini
-The Inheritance series
My favorite activities follow this order:
Exploring math
Reading
Programming
Eating ice cream :P
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Wow, those are some of my favorite books also. In fact, I like almost every book that has been listed in this thread. I just got a kindle, so I have been reading a lot of the older free books. Old science fiction is really fun because of how strange some of the ideas presented are.
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My favorite activities follow this order:
Exploring math
Reading
Programming
Eating ice cream :P
0x5 at the Ice Cream :P
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My personal favorites:
Darren Shan:
-The Demonata series (amazing series, kinda sucky ending, though)
-The Cirque du Freak series
-The City series (mature content)
-The Thin Executioner
-Pretty much everything by him. This man is a genious.
Chris Wooding
-The Storm Thief (awesome book. Literally the only one I could read more than once.)
Cornelia Funke
-The Thief Lord
Linda Buckley-Archer
-The Gideon series (time travel and all that good stuff)
Previously mentioned ones that I wholly agree with:
The Pendragon series was very good. Very looooonnngg, but I enjoyed it.
J.K. Rowling
-The Harry Potter series
Eoin Colfer
-Airman
-The Artemis Fowl series
-The Supernaturalist
-The Wish List
Lewis Carroll
-The Chronicles of Narnia
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How did I forget Harry Potter?
BTW, I preordered Inheritance for all you Paolini Fans. ;D
I read Mandela's Way over the summer, while it wasn't very exciting, it made a nice read. ;) Animal Farm is pretty good too.
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"Gödel Escher Bach" is the most amazing book I've ever read. Check it out sometime :)
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The Hunger Games Series is really good too.
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The Hunger Games Series is really good too.
Sadly, I have never gotten the chance to read the series :( I want to so bad, though.
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The Ender's Game.
Anything by Orson Scott Card.
Pendragon
Harry Potter
Wake
AND MOST IMPORTANTLY....
The sword of truth series. [wikipedia]The_Sword_of_Truth[/wikipedia]
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Sherlock Holmes. Especially A Study of Scarlet and Hound of the Baskervilles.
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Books/authors I like:
- Neuromancer
- Anything by Terry Pratchett
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Anything by Garth Nix (but especially the Abhorsen series)
- Pillars of the Earth
- Anything by Ayn Rand -- personally, I disagree with her politics, but I've always felt her books have a compelling rhythm in them.
- The Slaughterhouse
- Anything by Agatha Christie
- Anything by Neil Gaiman (try "Neverwhere" or "Coraline")
- Anything by Cory Doctorow (although he has a tendency to lecture)
- Anything by H. P. Lovecraft (try "Color Out of Space" or "At the Mountains of Madness")
- 1984
Books/authors I agree with:
- Catch-22
- A Wrinkle in Time
- Watership Down
- Ender's Game (the rest of them are 'meh')
- Lord of the Flies
- The House of the Scorpion
- The Hunger Games (series)
- Pendragon series (mostly because of the last books, which were epic)
- Harry Potter
- Nearly anything about Eoin Colfer (he was my favorite author when I was younger)
- Anything by Cornelia Funke (especially the Inkheart saga (Inkdeath was AWESOME))
- Gödel Escher Bach
- Anything relating to Sherlock Holmes
I haven't read a lot of the books on here -- I know what I'm going to be doing for the next few weeks :D
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The Ender's Shadow series was a lot better than the original ender's game sequels. Just FYI.
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The Ender's Shadow series was a lot better than the original ender's game sequels. Just FYI.
The ones about Bean? I concur wholeheartedly.
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Indeed. They were awesome!
Of course, I also loved the other ender's game books. You can appreciate them much more as audiobooks, since you can phase out the boring parts while you're programming!
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Anthony Horowitz:
--Alex Rider Series
--Gatekeepers Series
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House of Leaves(Daneilewski is another fantastically creative writer. his work is of a slightly different flavour, but no less enjoyable. he also does some stream of consciousness work, like Only Revolutions).
Fix'd :D
I have to agree -- that was an awesome book. I can't believe I forgot about it.
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Anthony Horowitz:
--Alex Rider Series
--Gatekeepers Series
Wow, I can't believe I forgot about these...
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and some more...
Michael Scott:
--Secrets of the immortal Nicholas Flamel series(first book is The Alchemist)
David Lynn Golemon:
--Event Group Series
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I have always liked Catcher in the Rye. :P
I am not too sure what aspect of the book attracts me, but it is somehow my favorite book.
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I don't think tolkien made the wrong decision by splitting it into 3 parts. It meant he could make them longer without making a massive book, and it meant he made more money off of it.
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My favorites have to be:
1984
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell -Excellent, excellent book
Daemon by Daniel Suarez -Interestingly enough, not a "demon" but a "Disc and Execution Monitor" :D
Dead Space: Martyr -If you've ever played Dead Space you must read this :P
The Halo series minus Halo: Cryptum -If you ever played Halo you must read these :P (Ghosts of Onyx is my favorite of these)
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I'd like to add :
*the saga of Elric of Melniboné, by Michael Moorcock
*The Legend of Drizzt, by R. A. Salvatore
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*The Legend of Drizzt, by R. A. Salvatore
You win the Internet.
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:O still no mention of the serie a song of ice and fire (from george R.R martin)
those rock :) (a game of thrones is made into a serie on tv)
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*The Legend of Drizzt, by R. A. Salvatore
You win the Internet.
:O still no mention of the serie a song of ice and fire (from george R.R martin)
You also win the Internet.
Wellen, you'll have to share.
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*The Legend of Drizzt, by R. A. Salvatore
You win the Internet.
Wellen, you'll have to share.
Uh sorry, I didn't understand O.O
I'm French, so please explain me ^^'
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Cory Doctorow:
--For the Win
--Little Brother
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TI-83 graphing calculators for dummies :P (http://www.dummies.com/store/product/TI-83-Plus-Graphing-Calculator-For-Dummies.productCd-0764549707.html)
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Bump :)
I've got another one: Guns, Germs and Steel, by Jared Diamond
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TI-83 graphing calculators for dummies :P (http://www.dummies.com/store/product/TI-83-Plus-Graphing-Calculator-For-Dummies.productCd-0764549707.html)
wow, what a great book.
here's another: Beyonders by brandon mull
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Eon: Dragoneye Return and Eona: The Last Dragoneye..
They are a series and I enjoyed it very much. I actually read the series at least 10 times
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I actually read the series at least 10 times
i love doing that. XD