Recommend-A-Book

[Mr-Dinosaur]

The Sense of an Ending

An utterly captivating and mind stretching short novel by Julian Barnes. It won the Man Booker prize this year.

It's told from the point of view of a self acclaimed 'unreliable narrator' and so at the end the interpretation of what actually happened is open ended. Put simply, dreadfully so, it's about accumulated responsibility from the beginning of life to the final days of life.

[Sabinlerose]

The Name of the Wind.

One of the best written fantasy books I have read in a long long time.

[andro21]

Gaunt's Ghosts Series by Dan Abnett

One of the best SF writers -  he takes the business of world creation seriously, and handles the task with consummate professionalism. Weaving the small, every day details of life with the broader range of information, produces worlds that always feel alien and faraway. Yet, at the same time, the characters would fit in a few hundred years into a Bladerunner future. He excels at characterization as well as fast paced action.

[metro.]

Cooking for Geeks

I doubt this counts, but Fast Company. (It's a magazine.)

[Guru Zeb]

anyone got KEN MACLEOD 'STAR FRACTION' can give you TONS of awesome scifi (science fiction pedants i don't care where scifi originated so piss off) in return.


HMMMMMMM maybe we should organise an ebook swap

[Nodame-chan]

John Grisham - Tthe Broker

This is really a good book I enjoyed it's every single page.

[metro.]

John Grisham - Tthe Broker

This is really a good book I enjoyed it's every single page.

Most of his stuff is really good

[Nodame-chan]

John Grisham - Tthe Broker

This is really a good book I enjoyed it's every single page.

Most of his stuff is really good

Yeah he is really a good author And at the moment I can't decide which one of his books to read I have "The Runaway Jury", "The Appeal", "The Partner" and "The Confession". Can you give me an advice?? ^_^

[metro.]

I've only read The Partner of those, so not really. It was however, pretty good.

I suggest The Firm, A Time To Kill and The King Of Torts by him.

[Nodame-chan]

I've only read The Partner of those, so not really. It was however, pretty good.

I suggest The Firm, A Time To Kill and The King Of Torts by him.

Oh I forgot my favorite one of his books it's "The Pelican Brief". It's was awesome )) I advice you to read it if you haven't. You'd enjoy it for sure ^__^

[Goldfrapp]

"A Song of Ice and Fire" by George R. R. Martin. Just finished the first 4 books, and it really got me hooked.
Thats the best I have read lately, but I have many favorites, many of them already mentioned earlier in this thread, such as "Enders Game" and "The Stranger". I also recommend "Heart of Darkness" by Joshep Conrad.

[metro.]

Heart Of Darkness is a classic, and it's actually not too bad. The movie interpretation I hear is also pretty good.

I hear the entire Disc World universe is very well written.

[Nikkoru]

I hear the entire Disc World universe is very well written.

It is, Pratchet is an excellent writer and his work gets better with each successive book in my opinion. He has a rare gift of being both a great humourist and storyteller, and his topical satiric fantasy has a sort of poignancy that makes it surprisingly fulfilling.

[metro.]

I hear the entire Disc World universe is very well written.

It is, Pratchet is an excellent writer and his work gets better with each successive book in my opinion. He has a rare gift of being both a great humourist and storyteller, and his topical satiric fantasy has a sort of poignancy that makes it surprisingly fulfilling.

You need to ctfo on the excessively ornamented language. However, your point is well said.

Also, The Windsinger Trilogy were books I read when I was like 7 or so, but they were astounding. It could have been my lack of exposure at that point to very many talented writers, either way they were quite good.

[Ixarku]

You need to ctfo on the excessively ornamented language. However, your point is well said.

Hey, Nikkoru's language isn't 'excessively ornamented'!  He is always eloquent, which is not at all a bad thing.  Some of us appreciate reading posts that are more than 'LOL that was grate.'
 
On topic, I read the first 3 of the Discworld books, probably around 10 years ago, and I did enjoy the tongue-in-cheek humor.  I was turned off by the price-to-length-of-story ratio, though.... IIRC, they were like 7 bucks each brand new and in the 200-300 page range, so I felt a bit cheated on the price.  I'll have to remember to look for the remaining books in the used book store when I get a chance.

[GoGeTa006]

The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson, one of the best books I've ever read ^^

wow, im about to finish the second book. . .and I read the second half between yesterday night and today. . .after chapter 12 you cant stop 0.o

Indeed a big recommendation

[Nikkoru]

You need to ctfo on the excessively ornamented language. However, your point is well said.

This is what happens to you when you learn English from CBC Radio One. Unfortunately, this is the way I both speak and think.

Kingmaker, Kingbreaker series by Karen Miller. It's two books, the Innocent Mage and the Awakened Mage. It has the trappings of a fantasy epic; magic, politics, rises and falls of fortune, a dark lord and conspiracies. However, it's mostly about the relationship between the protagonists, the forthright son of a common fisherman who learns he's secretly a mage, and the kindhearted yet magically deficient Prince who is living in quiet misery with his sense of inadequacy.

Mostly what grabbed me about the two books, while Miller had a number of opportunities open for her to take the story on a more conventional path she choose to do otherwise. She could have made it about the political strife between the two races of the Lur Kingdom and the secret history of oppression, or about the machinations of the evil entity which was set loose to destroy them all and their eventual coming together to fight against it, or focused on the sudden manifestation of magical ability and prophesied status of one of the protagonists. The sort of stuff you've read in other books in the same genera a number of times. She softens these aspects of the story around the particularly engrossing relationship of two protagonists, each with their own flaws and virtues. histories and traumas. I grew to sympathize with them quickly, and cared what happened to them until the end.

[kurandoinu]

The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson, one of the best books I've ever read ^^

wow, im about to finish the second book. . .and I read the second half between yesterday night and today. . .after chapter 12 you cant stop 0.o

Indeed a big recommendation

I'll third this. Read them last year and thoroughly enjoyed every page.

[th3dudee]

ehhmm .. I do not read much, but there is 1 book (series) I really enjoyed

maybe a bit childish

darren shan vampire assistant

[Haumea]

Moving away from fiction a little(not my area in books);
Nagasaki - The massacre of the innocent and the unknowing by Craig Collie.

Obviously, it's based around the events of the atomic bombings in WW2. Unlike most factual books, it's told from a personal perspective. Collie uses journals, interviews, autobiographies, and all manner of sources(the bibliography was over 30 pages, IIRC) to retell the events from the perspectives of the leaders of the time, the bomber pilots, PoWs in Nagasaki, and Japanese citizens in the cities(One of whom was in both cities as they were bombed).

I couldn't help but be moved by the lives of the various people, and disturbed by some things I learned reading it.