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Dang i hate that spelling.

Anyways, i need something to read. So reccommend me stuff and provide a brief summery or something. Please?

I read:

The Discworld seires, Terry Pratchett - humourous fantasy. Continueous but not part of some gigantic story arc.

Star Wars Novels - most are pretty good.

Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy seiries (how the hell do you spell that thing?), Douglas Adams - awesome.

Belgarion and the Mallareon, David Eddings - it's great. Well, to my impressionable 14-year-old mind.

Wilbur Smith stuff, specifically River God, Warlock, and The Seventh Scroll. I like Wilbur Smith.

There's probably other stuff, but i can't think of them right now. Go on, post away already.
 
Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolken
The Wheel of Time, Robert Jordan (Beware, although these books are brilliant there are 12 of them and a prequil so I'd say get them from thelibrarie rather than buying them)
 
Other Terry Prachet's: Only you can save man kind, Jonny and the Dead, Jonny and the Bomb, Bad Omens, The Carpet People (strange prachet's first novel was also set on a flat world), The Broimald; Truckers, Diggers, Wings. A Hat Full of Sky, is a new one very good sequel to "Wee Free Men"

Robert Jordan: The Wheel of Time

Stefan Downey : The Second Prophet, KRA, Second Sector.

Tom Clancy: You know the Cold War books, too many to list.

Matthew Reily Books: Was like eating candy, too un-real, but still gripping.

Will think of others when thinking clearly!

EDIT: Riomhaire beat me to it, and his comment is better. :(
 
Oh, did you know there is a science of the diskworld 3 out? My friend is a huge Terry Pratchet fan and he has all of the diskworld books except that one so I'm giving it to him as a present today.
 
Read:

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk (sp?)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/A...9/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-0334247-6321758

A Home at the End of The World by Michael Cunningham.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...102-0334247-6321758?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

Palahniuk wrote Fight Club, as well as the short story Guts which you can find online. I won't post the link to Guts though since the material is inappropriate for this forum :p.

Guts is an extract from Haunted btw.

A Home at the End of the World was written by the same author as the one who wrote The Hours, it's a really moving book I suggest you read it.
 
anything by Stephen Donaldson and Guy Gavriel Kay.
 
Granted, they are childresn books....but the "Tripod Trilogy" by John Christopher
and
The Chronics of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
 
These have been alot of quick replies. Having something like a HL2.net bookclub, or books list came to mind. mmhmm

/me starts thinking more than usual
 
Warcraft books
Diablo books
Ender's Game

A bunch of other school books
 
Um, the Communist Menifesto? nice and short. yes.

also, Harry potter. :)

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Btw, that Terry Pratchett book (co-written by Neil Gaiman) is Good Omens, not Bad Omens :thumbs:

If you like that type of fantasy then you might like Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, about an alternative London coexisting with the real one. It contains perhaps the best bad guys ever created in Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar. Pratchett blatantly tried to rip them off in The Truth, I think it was, with Mr. Tulip and Mr. Brick or something, but failed badly.

Weaveworld, by Clive Barker -
Awesome, deep modern fantasy about a wonderland sealed in a carpet. My favourite book. Way better than all the rest of Barker's stuff (he wrote the novel that Hellraiser was based on). It kind of plays on the intangible yearning that everyone has for some mystic "wonderland", forever beyond our reach.

Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson -
Insanely good cyberpunk novel set in a neon-glowing Blade Runner style world where big commercial organisations control everything. It follows a katana-wielding, bike-riding hacker called Hiro Protagonist and features maybe the 2nd best bad guy ever created, in Raven (Note: Aleutians, 'Raven'...I swear MGS1 stole a few things from this book). Beware: this book is extremely wordy and has complex theories regarding stuff such as Sumerian mythology and the nature of language. All of Neal Stephenson's stuff is great, and if he could learn to write a half-decent ending then he might get my vote for best living author.
 
The creator of this thread said he really liked the Belgariad and the Mallorean, good on him, I would have quoted him but the quote buton is screwing up. They are really good books but David Eddings' second series The Elenium and the Tamuli were a hell of a lot better. I couldn't enjoy the Belgariad an the Mallorean as much because the character of Polgara pissed me off no end.

Out of the Star Wars novels I really enjoyed the Jedi Apprentice books, Liam Neeson being my favourite actor it was hard not to.

Okay, don't laugh at me but the Dr Who books (the recent ones) are really well written and I suggest them for the sci-fi geeks.

Also by David Eddings, I really liked the first book of his new series, It's called The Elder Gods, I haven't read the rest of the series but book two is The Treasured One and the third is The Crystal Gorge. Another great David Eddings that was made into a film is High Hunt, which is about a man hunt in Alaska.

I should probably shut up about David Eddings.
 
Angels & Demons, The Da Vinci Code - by Dan Brown - they'd make very cool stories for a game like Broken Sword.

Neuromancer - William Gibson - The book that practically invented cyberpunk and coined the phrase "the matrix".

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K Dick - The movie Blade Runner was based on this book, but the book's a lot different and better.
 
1984 is an absolute must-read (Looking for it :p)

Btw, anyone know the name of the book that Marc Laidlaw used for Half-Life?
 
The Harry Potter books are actually very good. Much better than the movies. The 6th one is released next saturday (the 16th).
 
Michael Chrichton-Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Congo, The Andromeda Strain, Timeline, The Terminal Man

Stephen King-Cujo, The Gunslinger, The Drawing of the Three, The Wastelands, Wizard and Glass, Wolves of the Calla, Song of Susannah, Skeleton Crew, Nightshift, Needful Things

Orson Scott Card-Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon

First 2 Lord of the Rings books.
 
CLICK ME - Online version of 1984.

Stephen King - The Shining

Tom Clancy - Really, everything but I think Red Storm Rising is the best.
 
I'm really trying hard to finish the LOTR books. I've had them for 5 years and only on p. 267 of The Two Towers. I'd recommend these books but make sure you have the time and dedication to finish them!
 
Albert Camus - The Stranger, The Plague (I've got The Rebel and The Mytyh of Sisyphus, I just need to read them) seriously awesome writer, the original french is better but the english translations i read were pretty damn good, f you like the absurd he is a must-read

Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves.. this is still the guy's only real book, but damn is it good, there's about three different layers in the novel that intertwine and there's two main storylines that parallel in many ways, altogether it works together well, and the "main story" has a really cool concept - it's about a house that is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside, with none of the fairytale crap - this is definitely a mature read, though (sex, violence, drugs - the usual)
I highly reccomend the book, you won;t be able to put it down til you get to the end... and the way its formatted.. well, he had a helluvan idea
 
If you like Thrillers and Crime books, try James Patterson's - Kiss The Girls, or Along Came A Spider. Both were turned into movies and both are very good books.

Also, 2001 and 2010 and 1984 are books that everyone should read before they die.
 
Beerdude26 said:
1984 is an absolute must-read (Looking for it :p)

Btw, anyone know the name of the book that Marc Laidlaw used for Half-Life?
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I was going to reccomend this. Animal Farm is good too for another Orwell.

Also anything by Anthony Burgess. A Clockwork Orange namely.
 
If you read Donaldson, you're an honourary lawyer, and possibly have the power of white gold in you. Ur-viles = win.

-Angry Lawyer
 
Go read the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde. They're seriously awesome books, and they require the immediate attention of everyone present. The Eyre Affair is the first, and is an awesome book, although my personal favourite is the third, The Well of Lost Plots.

Stephen Donaldson? I enjoyed, yes.
 
i rEAD MANY STEPHAN KING BOOKS BUT HIS BEST ARE THE DARK TOWER SERIES
 
DeusExMachinia said:
Anything by Kurt Vonnegut.
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Quoted for emphasis. My favorites by him are "Breakfast of Champions," Cats Cradle," "Slaughterhouse Five," and "Timequake." (A note on just how wierd Vonnegut can be? "Timequake" is a book about a book that was so bad it wasn't published, and this one is Timequake Two, the explanation about what went on in said book. Yes, it's strange.)

Also, the first five or so of the "Sword of Truth" novels by Terry Goodkind. "Enders Game" as mentioned above. "The Mote in God's Eye" by Niven and someone else. "The Bourne" trilogy by Ludlum.

And "The Princess Bride" by William Goldbloom is quite possibly one of the funniest and most poignant books you will ever read. Ever.
 
quite a lot of readers here <3

i enjoy reading though i haven't read many books. some of the good ones i've read are: Harry Potter (#4 was best), 1984, and i can't think of many right now.
 
evil^milk said:
quite a lot of readers here <3

i enjoy reading though i haven't read many books. some of the good ones i've read are: Harry Potter (#4 was best), 1984, and i can't think of many right now.
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Well, I think that on a fairly coherent forum that I can hope for the best. We all seem rational (mostly) so here's hoping that we can at least pretend that most of us are sometimes literate.:bounce:
 
Now(12 yrs old): Terry Pratchett( Discworld), Horrible Science, Halo books, Artemis Fowl

Then(9): Animorphs, Harry Potter, Hardy Boys
 
Here are my favourites (in no particular order):

Catcher In Teh Rye - JD Salinger
Animal Farm - George Orwell
1984 - George Orwell
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Lord Of The FLies - William GOlding
The Grapes Of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
Anything by Kurt Vonnegut
Catch-22 - Joesph Heller
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
Go - John Clellon Holmes
American Psycho - Brett Easton Ellis
The Town and the City - Jack kerouac
Big Sur - Jack Kerouac
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Desolation Angels - Jack Kerouac
The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
Porno - Irvine Welsh
Anything by Hunter S. Thompson
The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe

Read all of these and you will be a very happy man
 
The series' i've been into all my life are;

more recently...

Songs of Ice and Fire - George rr. Martin... Excellent full scale fantasy stuff =D
Discworld - Terry Pratchett - funny, superb :)... btw i Love Good Omens :D
Dan Brown novels - Just good stories.
Tom Clancy - read almost all of his books, they can be boring but Rainbow Six is great.
HHGTG - Douglas Adams - a hilarious romp around the universe :)
I enjoyed David Eddings books, loved them but they come across as more childrens books, they're written very simply.
Lotr - J RR Tolkien - timeless classic :D
 
oldagerocker said:
The series' i've been into all my life are;

I enjoyed David Eddings books, loved them but they come across as more childrens books, they're written very simply.
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Excuse me!!!!!!!

You must be talking about the Mallorean and the Belgariad. The Elenium and the Tamuli are definately not written for children.
 
I found the tamuli ones abit bettern yeah but the ones about the wizards and stuff, some old man names Belgarad or something.. that was childish but a great world and story all the same.
 
oldagerocker said:
I found the tamuli ones abit bettern yeah but the ones about the wizards and stuff, some old man names Belgarad or something.. that was childish but a great world and story all the same.
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Belgarath it is. Granted the concepts were a bit childish but, well, thats all i've got. I must again stress that you wouldn't see a 9 year old carrying around a copy of Domes of Fire.
 
IonizeMyAtoms said:
Here are my favourites (in no particular order):

Catcher In Teh Rye - JD Salinger
Animal Farm - George Orwell
1984 - George Orwell
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Lord Of The FLies - William GOlding
The Grapes Of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
Anything by Kurt Vonnegut
Catch-22 - Joesph Heller
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
Go - John Clellon Holmes
American Psycho - Brett Easton Ellis
The Town and the City - Jack kerouac
Big Sur - Jack Kerouac
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Desolation Angels - Jack Kerouac
The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
Porno - Irvine Welsh
Anything by Hunter S. Thompson
The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe

Read all of these and you will be a very happy man
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Wow. You have great taste.
 
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