WTB: Book Recomendations!!!

Garbad_the_Weak

Garbad_the_Weak

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WTB: Book Recomendations!!!

Can anyone suggest a few good books? Any subject matter except for romance or something equally dumb. History, science, politics, scifi, fantasy, anything. If possible, please give me an amazon link.

Thanks
 
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TurbulentTurtle

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Re: WTB: Book Recomendations!!!

The only books I ever read are from the Redwall Series.
My Evolution prof told us to read this book though, and it seems pretty interesting so I might go pick it up soon.
 
phool

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Throw out some titles you like and I'll see if I can think of something similar. scifi in particular can mean anything from the forgettable dross that makes up most MacFantasy (but in space!) to math-heavy explorations of imagined futures built around the shoulders of healfhearted characters and plot.

In the meantime, I recommend The Suicide Kit, a darkly humorous collection of short stories by David Haynes. Haven't read it in years but I remember enjoying it. I used to enjoy Melvin Burgess too, rarely give myself time to read fiction these days.
 
Amra

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Have you read Into Thin Air or Into the Wild? Good books.

The Last Season too.
 
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HegemonKhan

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oh man, u hit my love... books.....here comes the list:

*most of these books are award winning "top class" books*

Science Fiction:

01. Foundation series by Isaac Asimov
02. Dune series by Frank Herbert
03. Terminal Man by Michael Chrichton
04. Adromeda Strain by Michael Chrichton
05. Sphere by Michael Chrichton
06. Jurassic Park series (Lost World is sequal) by Michael Chrichton
07. Ender series by Orson Scott Card
08. Science Fiction Stories choosen by Edward Blishen. (if anyone read and recalls a post of mine in some off-topic thread's thread, where i mention Bobo's Star, well it's found in this book collection of sci-fi stories)
09. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
10. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
11. Fantastic Voyage by Isaac Asimov
12. The I Inside by Alan Dean Foster

Fantasy:

13. The Arthurian Legend series by Mary Stewart
14. Lord of the Rings series (which includes The Hobbit, of course) by J.R.R. Tolkien
15. Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan
16. The Wrinkle In Time series by Madeleine L' Engle
17. In the Shadow of the Gargoyle by many authors. edited by Nancy Kilpatric and Thomas S. Roche
18. The Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis
19. Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne

Adventure/Other-Miscelleneous:

20. Adventure Stories choosen by Clive King
21. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
22. The Winter Room by Gary Paulson
23. The Black Pearl by Scott O' Dell
24. Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
25. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by AVI
26. Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat
27. The Great Brain series by John D. Fitzgerald
28. DownRiver by Will Hobbs
29. The Egypt Game by Zilpha keatley Snyder
30. Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
31. Lost Horizon by James Hilton
32. Nothing but the Truth by AVI
33. Adventure series by Willard Price

Mystery/Crime/Ghost:

34. Ten Great Mysteries by Edgar Allen Poe
35. The Man Who Was Poe by AVI
36. To kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
37. Ghost Stories choosen by Robert Westall
38. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
39. Something Upstairs by AVI

40. and on. many more...Wizard of Earthsea series by ?..Eragon series by Christopher Paolini...many literary books assigned by school/college like Heat by Joyce Carol Oates...etc...
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for politics:

WATCH C-SPAN !!!!!! and Imus on only surius satelite now (cries. HATES/LOATHES blacks, and msnbc for dumping Imus, because of this!!!).

I SOOOO miss Imus in the Morning on msnbc!!! i miss Imus and his wife "V"ITCHING back and forth to each other on air and tv...hillarious!!! and the jokes....omg...die of laughter!!!

this joke is probably inappropriate and will be removed but oh well:

a joke by one of Imus' comedian guests on his show:

"Did u know u can get AIDS from a toilet seat?"

"All u have to do is sit down before the other guy gets up!"

just one example of some GOOD jokes that was on that show of Imus'.

(and fox news for the hot girls and cnn for the fox news' "deserter" chiran chetry, one of cnn's few hot girls....oh wait this isn't about politics...well politics of the opposite sex!!! lol)

(u have to check out fox news' new weather girl / metorologist whatever. Dominica Davis?, i think that's her name. !!!WOW!!! woot woot. PANTS heavily !)
 
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jmervyn

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HK covered most of my recommendations aside from kid-level fantasy or Christian-oriented books. Anything by C.S. Lewis is pretty decent if you're not adverse to Christian themes.

If not Lewis, then this. He writes good fiction, too, along the lines of William Gibson's stuff; sometimes pretty weighty so it makes for a good airport book.

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.

On the less strenuous side, an actually decent book by Anne Rice
 
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HegemonKhan

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some of these books (in my above post) are a bit kiddish, but this is the list from my entire lifetime, including childhood. though many of the kiddish books are still incredibly enjoyable no matter what your age.
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a note and comment about narnia:

i read the books when i was little, than saw the movie as an adult.

u can of course make christian connections in narnia but i never felt narnia was actually a "christian" story series and felt it only had very thin christian connections (at least in my view, though many are adament that it is a "christian conversion" or "religious" story series).

however, seeing the movies as an adult, it was UN-bearibly too kiddish-simply-sappy and "disney-esque" (happily ever after...NOT "DARK") for me.
 
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phool

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I read and reread the Narnias with the Christian themes going completely over my head til they were pointed out to me. Maybe balance it out with some Philip Pulman's Dark Materials, another of my favourite childhood series (the film was terrible and undeservedly controversial). My favourite Asimov is the one where a guy's . Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy hasn't been mentioned yet, neither has Philip K Dick. I'd recommend Brave New World well in advance of any HG Wells.
 
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HegemonKhan

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i actually never read Brave New World yet.

it was a required book in Honors English at my high school, but having Honors Math, Honors Science, and sports was enough for me, so I didn't take Honors English (or Honors History) and didn't get to read Brave New World (and never read it on my own as i already said).

i was a different person than...maybe cuz i was young...but man...i can't imagine doing all that now....soo lazy now.... (it probably burnt me out, lol, and that's why i'm lazy now)
 
Stoutwood

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The Travis McGee books by John D. MacDonald are gradually fading into obscurity, which is a shame because they are great whodunnits and are responsible for quite a few mystery tropes.
 
MYK

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Amra said:
Have you read Into Thin Air or Into the Wild? Good books.

The Last Season too.
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Into Thin Air and Into The Wild are probably two of my favorite books right now.

Besides those.... Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1984 and Catch-22 are books that mean a lot to me.


Someone mentioned Brave New World - That's a good one, also.


 
jmervyn

jmervyn

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In all honesty, I wasn't only thinking of the Narnia books when I mentioned C.S. Lewis - The Screwtape Letters is probably the best-known one but he's got about 5 more that are non-fiction, down-to-earth theological discussions. I actually wasn't as fond of his sci-fi, since I never really liked some of the old flavors of that genre (like Slaughterhouse 5).

While I'm thinking of good sci-fi, aside from Gibson and Stephenson, Alfred Bester was pretty good. And no, not the Walter Koenig character from Babylon 5.
http://www.amazon.com/Demolished-Man-Alfred-Bester/dp/0679767819
 
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HegemonKhan

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ah well, i can only comment about narnia, as that is the only work i read of C.S. Lewis.

in just taking narnia and not any of his other works, i don't really see all the "fanatical christian stuff" many others do in narnia. whether or not it "is christian" or not, it certainly has the hype/gossip/rumour of being so.
 
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