jute Posted July 25, 2003 i'm on the search for books to read. i'm open to about anything. what would you guys recommend? and why? 0 Share this post Link to post
Amaster Posted July 25, 2003 1984, it's my favorite. Z is for Zacharia, this one's pretty short. But the storyline is a little different than most books. Raptor Red, 2 years in the life of a Utahraptor. 0 Share this post Link to post
Fletcher` Posted July 25, 2003 Anything by Orson Scott Card. I'm reading the 'Ender' trilogy. (Ender's Game, Speaker For the Dead, and Xenocide) The Abyss was a great novelization. 0 Share this post Link to post
Use Posted July 25, 2003 ravage said:Anything by Orson Scott Card. I'm reading the 'Ender' trilogy. (Ender's Game, Speaker For the Dead, and Xenocide) Good fox, you get a treat! 0 Share this post Link to post
Grazza Posted July 25, 2003 Anything by Aristophanes (e.g. The Frogs or Lysistrata). Why? They're funny. The Histories by Herodotus. He never let the truth get in the way of a good story. This Strange Tomorrow by Frank Belknap Long, or The Flying Eyes by Joan Hunter Holly. Sci-fi so bad it becomes comedy. Ringworld by Larry Niven. Good sci-fi, and you can have fun picking holes in the physics if you like. Anything by Stanislaw Lem. Ostensibly sci-fi, but it's got a bit of everything; often a bit twisted and cynical. 0 Share this post Link to post
Scabbed Angel Posted July 25, 2003 What are you into? Any short stories book by Clive Barker. They are very engrossing and very disturbing. Books of Blood Vol. 2 is my personal favorite, although I haven't read The Hellbound Heart yet. (Hellraiser was based off of this novela) His novels are kind of dry though imo. Any of the older Stephen King novels if you haven't already. The newer ones kind of suck. I'm a horror fan if you can't tell. George Carlin is good, but watching or hearing him is better, comedy-wise. 0 Share this post Link to post
Amaster Posted July 25, 2003 Oh, and how could I forget the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. 0 Share this post Link to post
Scabbed Angel Posted July 25, 2003 Goat said:i agree with scabbed angel on stephen king Have you read any of his newer books? Dreamcatcher, for example. I think he should have left the aliens alone. Tommyknockers is awesome though. While reading it its easy to tell that he was a major alchoholic at the time it was written. 0 Share this post Link to post
Fletcher` Posted July 25, 2003 Assmaster said:Oh, and how could I forget the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Well, there goes the planet. 0 Share this post Link to post
Goat Posted July 25, 2003 Scabbed Angel said:Have you read any of his newer books? Dreamcatcher, for example. I think he should have left the aliens alone. Tommyknockers is awesome though. While reading it its easy to tell that he was a major alchoholic at the time it was written. i havent read much of him actually but what i have read ive loved. the Stand was my favorite... Rose Madder was good also 0 Share this post Link to post
Scabbed Angel Posted July 25, 2003 Goat said:i havent read much of him actually but what i have read ive loved. the Stand was my favorite... Rose Madder was good also Hell yeah! The Stand fuckin rocked! I was getting momo while I started reading it. Helped with realsim I guess. heh heh. Viva la Bull. 0 Share this post Link to post
jute Posted July 25, 2003 Grazza said:Anything by Stanislaw Lem. Ostensibly sci-fi, but it's got a bit of everything; often a bit twisted and cynical. well, i read my first bit of lem yesterday (i've read 5 books in the past 4 days due to the insane boredom of recovering from surgery): 'memoirs found in a bathtub'. it was great fucking stuff. anything else of that calibre? Scabbed Angel said:What are you into?.. ...I'm a horror fan if you can't tell. George Carlin is good, but watching or hearing him is better, comedy-wise. the only horror i'm really into is lovecraft and the occasional poe. most of the stuff i see seems more like light reading than anything else. my only experience with king is because of 'insomnia'. i stopped reading near the end because i realized that he (king) managed to take a story about an old man who shoots lazer beams out of his hands when he karate-chops battling a horde of religious lunatics and make it fucking suck. i wept. i'm really pretty open to all suggestions here, but if it helps any, my current favorite novel is 'glamorama' by bret easton ellis. 0 Share this post Link to post
JavaGuy4230 Posted July 25, 2003 Anything Douglas Adams. Also, the Xanth series is pleasing. If you're a major computer geek, or you like mythology, Snow Crash is a great read, but hard to follow for some. 0 Share this post Link to post
jute Posted July 25, 2003 JavaGuy4230 said:Anything Douglas Adams. Also, the Xanth series is pleasing. If you're a major computer geek, or you like mythology, Snow Crash is a great read, but hard to follow for some. yeah, douglas adams is pretty godlike. while i've never read 'snow crash', i do have, and fucking treasure, 'cryptonomicon'. i'll have to check it out. 0 Share this post Link to post
Scabbed Angel Posted July 25, 2003 pregnant with worms said:my only experience with king is because of 'insomnia'. i stopped reading near the end because i realized that he (king) managed to take a story about an old man who shoots lazer beams out of his hands when he karate-chops battling a horde of religious lunatics and make it fucking suck. i wept. Hmmn... that book was really tied into his universe of characters. . . what didn't you like about it? Lovecraft and Poe are good, though. Not too much of a horror fan? Eh my suggestions are useless. heh heh 0 Share this post Link to post
jute Posted July 25, 2003 Scabbed Angel said:Hmmn... that book was really tied into his universe of characters. . . what didn't you like about it? Lovecraft and Poe are good, though. Not too much of a horror fan? Eh my suggestions are useless. heh heh well, me being unaware of his other books probably didn't help, as it's tied into them, but basically, if i'm reading a book with the plot i just described and i'm not moved to think 'holy fuck' every five seconds, someone isn't doing their job well enough, in my opinion. the suggestions are appreciated though. 0 Share this post Link to post
Scabbed Angel Posted July 25, 2003 Heh, understandable. If you ever want to try him again, I recommend 4 past midnight.. its a collections of 4 novellas, PetSematary, any of his short story novels, Cujo, and 'Salem's Lot. That ones a cliche vampire book, but I find that his books are more about the characters than the horror. Have you played Silent Hill? If you did and liked it, then I recommend the story "The Mist" in Skeleton Crew. The creators of SH series say that they were inspired by that story. Also a road in it is named after his pen name... Bachman Rd. 0 Share this post Link to post
alexz721 Posted July 25, 2003 No one mentioned J.R.R. Tolkien yet? For shame. In addition to The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, I also recommend the Silmarillion, which I think is his crowning achievement, although it was completed after his death by his son. Also, Catch 22 by Joseph Heller is a great book which I think everyone should read. And if you want something that will ocuppy you for several months, try the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. There's a bunch of other books I like, but I can't think of them right now. 0 Share this post Link to post
Goat Posted July 25, 2003 i could not fucking get into the wheel of time series. god the first book was like >yawn< for me, i dont know why. maybe i should give it a 2nd try. 0 Share this post Link to post
Amaster Posted July 25, 2003 4 past Midnight is quite good. I was also partial to Nightmares and Dreamscapes. 0 Share this post Link to post
Rellik Posted July 25, 2003 "From a Buick 8" was good to IMO. Yeah the ass weasels were a bit much for me. You're reaching now Stephen, you gotta reel it back in a little bit. Yup, 4 Past Midnight is pretty good too, I loved "the sun dog". I'm a big fan of the Dark Tower series as well. He's said there'll be about 11 books in that series so he'd better get his ass in gear or we may never get to find out what happens. I'd recommend "Intensity" by Dean Koontz, it's easily his best work. Most of his stuff is pretty mediocre but this book is just amazing. "Point of Impact" by Stephen Hunter is really good too. It's about a army vet sniper who's called back into service only to be double crossed. The basic premise is as old as the hills but he pulls off a truely amazing story by always having the hero a step or two of the bad guys. It makes for a fantastic read if you're into that kind of thing. "Desperate measures" by David Morrell is also pretty good, it's about a man about to commit suicide when he gets drawn into this mystery. It's great how the main character is fearless for the simple reason if he finds out whats going on, he wins. If they kill him, he still wins because that's his eventual plan anyways. 0 Share this post Link to post
Use Posted July 25, 2003 Goat said:i could not fucking get into the wheel of time series. god the first book was like >yawn< for me, i dont know why. maybe i should give it a 2nd try. yeah that's what everyone says. you need to read it though to understand the rest of the series, expecially in the later books. 0 Share this post Link to post
EllipsusD Posted July 25, 2003 I would have to reccomend anything by Lincoln Douglas and Preston Child (I think that's their names). They wrote The Relic, btw. Boy's Life was a great book... can't remember the author though. The Watcher (I think that's it's name) was another great book. Can't remember the author either. Clive Barker's books are good... well, some of them. Not all of them are winners. If you don't mind homosexuality, Sacrament is a great book of his. It and Pet Semetary were the only Stephen King books I really liked, so I reccomend them as well. If you don't mind reading books meant for kids, you might try the Dark is Rising series. It's just one of those classic series' like the Chronicles of Narnia. And yes, I'm aware that I have most likely misspelled most of these names, but it's late and I don't care at the moment. 0 Share this post Link to post
gatewatcher Posted July 25, 2003 Wth, I'm surprised no one has metioned Masters of Doom yet. If you haven't read it yet, what's wrong with you! =P 0 Share this post Link to post
Dark Fox Posted July 25, 2003 A Whispher of Wings by Paul Kidd My god, its not the fact that its a furry book, thats null.. but I've never seen anything so well developed and intresting to read since LOTR IMO. 0 Share this post Link to post
Melfice Posted July 25, 2003 Invasion, Planeshift, and Apocalypse by Robert J. King Odyssey, Chainer's Torment, and Judgment by Scott McGough Onslaught, Legions, and Scourge by Robert J. King. Try them, I liked them alot, and I don't like books most generally. 0 Share this post Link to post
Grogglogobofink Posted July 25, 2003 survivor by chuck palahniuk or have you already? 0 Share this post Link to post
fraggle Posted July 25, 2003 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0439397456/qid=1059122461/sr=8-5/ref=sr_8_5/102-5131828-8889718?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 0 Share this post Link to post