Author Topic: Recommend-A-Book (Read 77363 times)

tiltswitch · « **Reply #180 on:** May 20, 2009, 04:50:29 PM »

Quote from: fohfoh on May 19, 2009, 02:29:49 PM

I'm currently reading "The Lucifer effect" by Philip Zimbardo. It's a decent book. But it's somewhat about psychology though...

yeah any gud? iv not read any of his yet,dont really hav much time these days4 readin.
if ur into psychology tho a really gud book that will teach u alot and definitly stand u in gud stead is the games people play by eric bern.ul neva luk at sum1 wanting to do u a favor the same way eva again.honestly tho top book.(not a novel tho)

Phaedris · « **Reply #181 on:** June 13, 2009, 08:44:01 AM »

Knight in Anarchy by George Shipway: A tale of the life of a Norman knight during the time following the death of King Henry of England. It deals with his struggle to remain loyal to the ideals of knighthood while surrounded by treachery and the politics of the time.

Neuromancer by William Gibson: The novel tells the story of a computer hacker who is caught stealing from his employers, Instead of killing him they made it so he could never 'jack' into cyberspace again, he then tries to find a cure making his way through the dystopian underworld of Chiba City.

iwantcheese5 · « **Reply #182 on:** June 18, 2009, 12:55:53 AM »

The Engineer Triology by K.J. Parker:
Devices and Desires
Evil for Evil
The Escapment
Good set of books about war, love, manipulation, politics, fencing and engineering, oh and salt.

pavelm89 · « **Reply #183 on:** June 18, 2009, 07:12:28 PM »

oroji · « **Reply #184 on:** June 18, 2009, 07:17:37 PM »

I don't know if it has been mentioned before but I think good readers here could love Haruki Murakami's 'Wind-up Bird Chronicle', one of my favs.

Sosseres · « **Reply #185 on:** June 23, 2009, 06:58:06 PM »

Stranger in a Strange Land is a best-selling 1961 Hugo Award-winning science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein. I recommend the uncut version.

It is good because it keeps a good and entertaining story throughout while tackling several interesting issues in a unique and interesting way. It is probably the book that has influenced me the most, which is shown in that I post about it a year after reading it.

dvuongz · « **Reply #186 on:** June 25, 2009, 12:08:00 AM »

Okay this is all classical literature, but its a lot better than you may think:

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo ~ Long book. 1200+ (depending on editions) pages detailing several intertwining stories of 1800's french. Here is a synopsis as given by the book jacket: In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjean - a man unujjustly improsned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective Javert - Hugo achieves the sort of rare imagnative resonance that allows a work of art to transcend its genre.
Its a pretty epic drama, encompassing real historical events like the June Rebellion. There are several "sub-plots", if you will, in the story involving romance, war, and thievery with several other characters. Quite an interesting read.

The Devils by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ~ Synopsis from book: In The Devils, Dostoyevsky created a chilling a prohetic story of revolutionaries and nihilists plotting the overthrow of the Russian government and the downfall of the Russian church. It focuses on the complex and tormented charcter of Stavrogin, a desperate man whose loss of faith makes him dangerous. Believing he is beyond guilt and remorse, he commits terrible crimes, infects others with ideas he does not believe and accepts love he does not deserve. yet Stavrogin is only one of a small band of rebels whose hunger for a more democratic, Western system threatens the fabric of Russian society, and The Devils as a brilliant psychological analysis of a group of people possessed by a destructive passion for a revolution.

Crime and Punishment also by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ~ Synopsis from book: Crime and Punishment is the sotry of a murder and its consequinces = an unparalleled tale of suspense set in the midst of nineteenth-century Russia's troubled transition into the modern age. In the slums of czarist St. Peterspurg, Raskolnikov, a sensitive intellectual, is driven by poverty to believe that he is exempt from moral law. But when he pus this belief to the test, he suffers unbearably.

I've read all three of these books and although the language is complex and sometimes difficult to understand, it is definitely worth the effort.

KoC · « **Reply #187 on:** July 03, 2009, 03:34:39 AM »

Quote from: tiltswitch on May 19, 2009, 08:25:46 PM

Quote from: Dragoon AceHigh on May 19, 2009, 02:25:45 PM
I am surprised you can read....
read a damn site more than u laddy .how old r u 22.why dont u just grow up and stop bein a dick

Christ allmighty, we got a live one. Why don't you stop being a dick and get your panties off that twist that's getting you all wired.

Books.
Just the books currently in reading: Some random Elric compilation by Michael Moorcock. Definitely recommend to read Moorcock for fantasy if you prefer to have something else from the classical elfs & dorfs lol. And how can you resist a guy named Moorcock. I mean seriously, good stuff.
Chuck Palahniuk's Haunted. A collection of short stories with an outer story to bind them together. Good shit from the author of Fight Club. re-reading this for third time. Recommend anything from the guy. Particularly Haunted, Rant, Survivor, invisible monsters and Diary. Dems the good shits.
John Milton's collected vol. 1. Currently reading Paradise lost. Old but good. Recommended if you can read ye olde english.
Some anthology by Lovecraft. Anything by Lovecraft, you fuckers. Read it. The man made up Cthulhu.
Aristotle's metaphysics. I don't expect you to read it nor do I recommend it just for the sake of it. If you read it, good. If you don't... your loss.
Erlend Loe's Doppler. Norwegian author. Good writer and definetly recommend his Supernaive and Doppler.

And yes... I am reading 6 books at the same time. It's summer, fuckers.

forevr · « **Reply #188 on:** July 05, 2009, 09:32:17 PM »

Quote from: tiltswitch on May 19, 2009, 08:25:46 PM

Quote from: Dragoon AceHigh on May 19, 2009, 02:25:45 PM
I am surprised you can read....

read a damn site more than u laddy .how old r u 22.why dont u just grow up and stop bein a dick

Funny how some people can know everything about someone they've never met.

Anyway I just finished "For Crying Out Loud - The World According to Clarkson vol 3" by the living god of British television Jeremy Clarkson.
The third collection of his columns in The Sunday Times where you can read about him ranting about various things. Brilliant and funny.

"Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you."

Edit: Wrong Clarkson title. Fixed.

Nanonanol · « **Reply #189 on:** July 08, 2009, 01:11:33 PM »

Physics of the Impossible - Michio Kaku

Title suggests what the book is about. The author talks about seemingly impossible technologies, and ideas (time travel, light sabers, force fields, parallel universes, etc.)

saidin1015 · « **Reply #190 on:** July 11, 2009, 11:12:38 PM »

Hmm...a lot of these books look very interesting. I'll have to make a trip to Barns and Noble later.

The Wheel of Time and 1984 have already been written about so here are some I recommend

Sci-Fi:
The Stand by Steven King
Mist by Stephen King
Sphere by Michael Chrichton
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Chrichton
Terminal Man by Michael Chrichton
Prey by Michael Chrichton

Fantasy:
The Lord of the Isles-->Crown of the Isles series by David Drake
The Inheritance saga (3/4 released) by Christopher Paolini
Pendragon by D. J. Machale

Classic?:
Lost Horizons by James Hilton
Lord of the Flies by William Golding

keibe · « **Reply #191 on:** July 14, 2009, 05:32:31 AM »

I reccomend "The Quickening" trilogy by Fiona McIntosh. You don't eat when you read these books. I couldn't put them down D:

lisalover1 · « **Reply #192 on:** July 14, 2009, 11:34:55 PM »

I recently read the book The Watchmen. It was quite good, certainly the best graphic novel I've ever read, and better than quite a few text-only books.

forevr · « **Reply #193 on:** July 15, 2009, 10:04:06 AM »

I just started on "The Blade Itself" by Joe Abercrombie and damn is it a great book.
Definitely GRRM-class fantasy. It might be a little early to say so after only about 100 pages but so far so good.

I also managed to read "The Shock Doctrine" by Naomi Klein but even though I'm left wing it was a little too much "propaganda". I don't like too biased (sp?) books.

wolfangel87 · « **Reply #194 on:** July 24, 2009, 12:08:35 AM »

I would recommend anything by Sherrilyn Kenyon, she has some great supernatural types of books about Dark Hunters that are really fun and interesting to read. They involve a great deal of mythology and incorporate different events in an extremely interesting take on everything

jessebrosnan · « **Reply #195 on:** August 03, 2009, 05:37:47 AM »

Firesong: A awesome book, have to check it out
as long as you like fantasy adventure

jackitsu · « **Reply #196 on:** August 06, 2009, 08:20:14 PM »

Kurt Vonnegut is an incredible author, and most of his stuff has at least a slight sci-fi edge to it. Of his I definitely recommend most Cat's Cradle, Mother Night and Slaughterhouse Five.

Haruki Murakami is brilliant. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is amazing and mysterious.

I am a book junkie... I can't mention all the good ones because I would never stop talking... but I am tired and these were the first that came to mind before I realized the hours I could spend talking about books if left unchecked.

zook_iniBob · « **Reply #197 on:** August 10, 2009, 04:06:52 PM »

I would recommend John Dies At The End. It has already been said here but it deserves to be said again. Its the one of the greatest books written. It is out of print for now but soon (sept 29) it will be out again. Check it out http://www.johndiesattheend.com/

forevr · « **Reply #198 on:** August 10, 2009, 04:51:55 PM »

That one does look interesting. I'm monitoring it's release now at my regular book store.

Loved the comments on the synopsis page:

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Okay the book wasn’t bleeding, I just blacked out and lost some time after reading it for a while. My Mom said the blood was on it after I wandered back home, but I’m not sure whose it is.

EmilyRyu · « **Reply #199 on:** September 08, 2009, 02:16:19 AM »

I recommend "Greatest Mysteries of the modern world" for those who love reading real, unsolved mysteries that has happened across the world. True the novel is slightly bias in it's stories towards Australia (considering it was written there) but it is a nice, creepy read. There are images in the center showing these creepy happenings.