Novels..

[mchammer75040]

Does anyone have any good novels to suggest? Heres some Ive finished reading not to long ago:
-A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
-Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
-Brave New World by Aldous huxley

Also if any of you read Fahrenheit 451, what are your thoughts on it and how it resembles our own society today?

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

You want something with insight into society? Or perhaps just the human mind? Well then Discworld is your piece of cake. There are a series of books written by Terry Pratchett, they are all of course humorous but some of the things he says in them are genuinly insightful. They are realtively light reading, so it doesnt take too long to get through them all (Must be about 26 by now i think, possibly more). Anyway, perhaps you want something more serious, in that case i cant think of anything right now.

 

[Brian Damage]

Any Terry Pratchett novel.

The Chronicals of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever.

Brian Jaques' novels. Just pick the earlier ones or the latest, the middle ones are a little repetitive.

Breed to Come, by Andre Norton. Or, indeed, any other Norton novels.

The Halo books are supposed to be good.

Anything by Garry Kilworth.

 

[mchammer75040]

You want something with insight into society? Or perhaps just the human mind? Well then Discworld is your piece of cake. There are a series of books written by Terry Pratchett...

Wasnt Disc World made into a game for PS1? Or am I thinkin about something entirely different?
Thanks brian Ill check some of those books out..except the halo ones..lol

 

[Brian Damage]

It was made into a game for the PC... about three times.

I'm with FLS. Terry Pratchett is a king among writers. Very sharp satire.

It's not just his Discworld novels, though; the Johnny Maxwell series is superlative. And his first book, The Carpet People, isn't bad, so long as you get the modern edition. You might also want to try the Nome Trilogy (Truckers, Diggers and Wings).

 

[Voodoo_Chile]

If you want good Sci Fi Read "The Nights Dawn" trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton (Must have suggested these books about 10 times on these forums)
The Names of the trilogy are "The Reality Dysfunction" "The Nuetronium Alchemist" and "The Naked God"

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

I've never actually read any of his other books outside discworld, so i couldnt comment.

 

[GhostValkyrie]

Violin - Anne Rice

All books in the Vampire Chronicles - All by Anne Rice

Vittorio the Vampire - Anne Rice

Pandora - Anne Rice

Halo: Fall of Reach, Halo: The Flood, Halo: First Strike -Eric Nylund, William C. Dietz, Eric Nylund.

LOTR Series - We all know who obviously wrote these.

Langoliers - Stephen King

The Stand - Stephen King

Red Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal - Thomas Harris

Along Came a Spider, Cat and Mouse - James Patterson

I'll update when I can remember more good novels I've read.

Updated

Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

The Last of the Mohicans, The Pioneers, The Pathfinder - James Fenimore Cooper

 

[Dedalus]

1984 - George Orwell
Sir Thomas More's Utopia
The Antichrist - Fredrich Nietzsche
The Outsider - Albert Camus

there's more i just can't remember then at the moment.

 

[DimitriPopov]

Gods and Generals
Killer Angels
Last Full Measure
Look under Shaara (Michael and Jeff)

All historical fiction Civil War books , a series done by father and son. GREAT books , its basically like taking the historical accuracy of Band of Brothers for instance , and giving all of the charecters full lines , and treating them as actual charecters. Among the best books ive read.

Other than that I read mostly historical non-fiction books. The more novel like ones. In this vein I can suggest Joey the Hitman , Inside Al-Qaeda, Band of Brothers, A screaming Eagle series, Stalingrad and Fall of Berlin. Look on Amazon for authors.

Also , read the Tom Clancy books , especially read No Remorse first and then read Rainbow Six.

 

[Computer5k]

Ender's Game-Orson Scott Card(I think)
People already said all the other good ones.