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What are some really good books to read? Title, Author, and Genre please thanks :)
 
Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card. It's one of the best Sci-fi books ever written and is seriously worth picking up.

EDIT: Yay 400!
 
Ahh, another book fan on a HL2 forum I thought I was the only, here are my favorites:

The Dark Tower by Stephen King (seven books in all), fantasy (my quote is from the book).

The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien, fantasy (three books in all).

Dune Trilogy by Frank Herbert (three books in all), sci-fi (really complicated)

To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper, fiction (impresses the girls for some reason)

The Lord of the Flies by William Golding, ficiton (we are all evil!!!!!).

Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris, fiction (if you like that, Red Dragon and Hanibal).

I got more but I think there will keep you busy for a while.
 
lazicsavo said:
Ahh, another book fan on a HL2 forum I thought I was the only, here are my favorites:

The Dark Tower by Stephen King (seven books in all), fantasy (my quote is from the book).

The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien, fantasy (three books in all).

Dune Trilogy by Frank Herbert (three books in all), sci-fi (really complicated)


To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper, fiction (impresses the girls for some reason)

The Lord of the Flies by William Golding, ficiton (we are all evil!!!!!).

Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris, fiction (if you like that, Red Dragon and Hanibal).

I got more but I think there will keep you busy for a while.
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People at my school were required to read To Kill a Mocking Bird. While most disagree with me, I thought it was an excellent book with a great ending.
 
Good Omens By Neil Gaiman and Terry Patchett is my favourite book ever. It's a comedy about the end of the world.
 
Sedako said:
People at my school were required to read To Kill a Mocking Bird. While most disagree with me, I thought it was an excellent book with a great ending.
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I agree completly, to bad Harper never went for a second novel.
 
Ya I've read to kill a mockingbird and I've noticed more of the immature people dont grasp some of the major themes of the book leaving it completely etchy for them ;/.
 
Try out the dystopian novels, espcially 1984 (George Orwell) and Brave New World (Aldous Huxley).
And while you're at it, check out Life of Pi (Yann Martel). I'm reading it right now and it's pretty good, and has some interesting ideas on religion.
 
Feath said:
Good Omens By Neil Gaiman and Terry Patchett is my favourite book ever. It's a comedy about the end of the world.
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I'll second that - a top read :)
 
Basically every book I've read about Drizzt Do'Urden by R.A Salvatore has been, what do you call it? über? Yep, they have been excellent, excellent books. It's fantasy in the Forgotten Realms world. Simply brill!

So pick up "The Icewind Dale Trilogy" or "The Dark Elf Trilogy" by R.A Salvatore, you won't be dissappointed!!
 
Sedako said:
Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card. It's one of the best Sci-fi books ever written and is seriously worth picking up.

EDIT: Yay 400!
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Yup, i highly recommend it too.
 
For the thriller: Anything by Dan Brown
For the creepy: HP Lovecraft's collection of work
For the funny: The works of Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams.
 
Iain Banks an Iain M Banks. both the same person under different aliases for contemporary and sci-fi space opera respectively. Walking On Glass and Consider Pheblas are both great. In reference to the latter: you didn't think Bungie came up with the 'ringworld' concept for Halo themselves, did you?
Edit: Oh yeah. Pratchett too.
 
Airframe by Michael Chrichton!

Airframe!!!

Also, Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Sphere, Congo and most anything else by the same author. :D

They're all sci-fi or sci-ish-fi.
 
Feath said:
Good Omens By Neil Gaiman and Terry Patchett is my favourite book ever. It's a comedy about the end of the world.
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rofl that book was awesome :laugh: . gaimans other stuff is great too

nofx said:
Ya I've read to kill a mockingbird and I've noticed more of the immature people dont grasp some of the major themes of the book leaving it completely etchy for them ;/.
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its a decent book, but its alot worse when your forced to read it in school. especially when your teacher tacks on 5000 questions for every chapter :flame:
 
Feath said:
Good Omens By Neil Gaiman and Terry Patchett is my favourite book ever. It's a comedy about the end of the world.
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couldn't agree more
 
Dean Koontz books are usually pretty good... and Clive Barker for more :naughty: stuff...


And I read that Airframe book in one day. It was good. :) So, yeah, Crichton is another good choice...
 
Oh yeah, Crichton is pretty good. And who can forget old, whatshisface...you know, the guy who wrote the book...thing...Tom Clancy! Oh no wait, he's a bit rubbish.
 
Im reading Airframe its pretty cool, I like the way he uses the curse words I can feel the anger coming right off the pages. Especially towards the lawyer... im probabl going to finish this in like 2 more days... then If my libary receives Good Omens I will begin on that :)
 
the hitchiker's 'trilogy', by douglas adams, I loves all 5 of them, my favorites.

catch-22 by joseph heller
 
heh, and to think, when I saw shm0zy as the latest replier I automatically thought ":O shm0zy reads??!!???!?//111/?!!?1/!?11oneoneslash?!"

guess that settles that though
 
CyberSh33p said:
heh, and to think, when I saw shm0zy as the latest replier I automatically thought ":O shm0zy reads??!!???!?//111/?!!?1/!?11oneoneslash?!"

guess that settles that though
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:laugh: I thought the same thing. Sorry schmozzle. ;)
 
three books. one trilogy.

Book one : The Reality Dysfunction
Book two : The Neutronium Alchemist
Book three : The Naked God

Author : Peter F. Hamilton

Genre : Science-Fiction

the best works of literature ever.





ever...
 
"Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follet.

Best. Book. Ever.

Think I'm exaggerating? Read it, then try and disagree with me.
 
I've recently discovered that I'm a Stephen King fan :) I would suggest looking into some of his books (if you like the genre, that is) I took a break from reading The Shining to check the boards :thumbs:
 
Phillip Pullman - His Dark Materials Trilogy
They're quite long but worth every single page. Incredibly inventive and just amazing in every way.

Isabel Allende - The House of The Spirits.
Gorgeous writing, a storyline that changes with the focus of the characters and covers so many themes. One of my favourite books ever.

Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things.
This book also has gorgeous writing and a somewhat peculiar storyline with wonderfully memorable characters.

George Orwell - 1984
Classic, eerily prophetic and just completely wonderful.

Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
Don't see the film, read the book. It's fairly short and so fantastically written. The subject matter can be a bit challenging at times, but it's just so good.

Yann Martell - The Life of Pi
Nothing to do with mathematics whatsoever. Intensely bizarre storyline but so well-written and engaging.

Joseph Heller - Catch-22 (and its sequel Closing Time)
Hilarious, sharply satirical, absolutely wonderfully bizarre characters. Plus Catch-22 has one of the most disquieting, sad (but in a good way) scenes I have ever read in a book. Closing Time is far more bizarre than Catch-22, but in a completely different way.
 
The Mouse that Roared, fiction, by Leonard Wibberley
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0848801903/104-9736917-3989525?v=glance

This book is damn funny, its about this tiny little backwards European country that doesn't like a few US trade practices so they decide to declare war on the US with the goal of losing. They figure that once they lose the US will grant them money for reconstruction, so they invade the US and accidentally win through pure luck by capturing the US's most powerful nuclear weapon and the professor who created it. So the US surrenders.

There are also a few more books in this little series but the only other one I have read was "The mouse on the moon", its also really good and is about how the country gets into the space race to be the first on the moon and out of sheer luck ends up beeting the American and Russians by a few hours. Damn funny as well.
 
Anything by Harry Turtledove is an interesting read. He specializes in Alternate History. I'd stay away from Tom Clancy novels, as they sometimes tend to be dry, and only keep the military buff interested (apparently not this military buff, though). If you're desperate, you can try http://www.fanfiction.net where there are quite a few professional-caliber stories, you just have to find them. If you want to read some Star Wars, I'd stick with Timothy Zahn's books. I highly recommend the Foundation Series by Issac Asimov. It's a long read, but it's incredibly interesting. Ringworld by Larry Niven is a worth while read, if you can stomach the exaggerated aliens and technology.

To recap:
Harry Turtledove
Fanfiction.net
Timothy Zahn
Issac Asimov
Larry Niven
 
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