Recommendations

[c73]

Anybody have any good recommendations for a decent read?

[Exploding_viper]

animal farm by george orwell

[Slawter]

THAT BOOK WAS STUPID!! And the movie sucked hairy cock. haha.

Like i said in the lil forum chat thingy the other day, the Dark Tower series by Stephen King or the Cirque du Freak or Demonata series by Darren Shan

[c73]

animal farm by george orwell

I totally own that book already, I read it in fifth grade :p

Slawter - The movie wasn't good, I'll give you that. But the book was a good read, not nearly as entertaining as anything by Stephen King though :)
I'm going to try to find that series now

[itismesaj]

Animal Farm was interesting in that you could plainly see the real-life counterparts of the characters (Stalin, Trotsky, the US, Hitler, etc.).

But 1984 was better.
Much better.
Read it.
You will love it.

[freetibet]

the bible.... :)

I read the book of saladin by some arab guy I can't remember. I had to special order it to get it but it was pretty good. It had a surprisingly lot of sex in it haha
man's search for meaning is good.
I like every book C.S. Lewis has written (that i've read) but especially mere christianity, the great divorce, and the screwtape letters.

[Shanx]

I am currently reading A Clockwork Orange. Its a good book if you can figure out what the fuck they're saying.

Movie sucks by the way.

[techtiger]

WHAT that movie was the shit!!! ya have to be on drugs to understand it but once you did it was the shit.......

how ever i do have a suggestion that you break threads down into book type and what not... to discuss differnt generes of boooks

[meat]

yea a clockwork orange is a great movie. and orwell is always a good read.

[Ghostfacekiller]

Lord of The Rings, a hell of a lot better than the movies.

Happy Endings: The Tales of a Meaty-Breasted Zilch, the chapter about a women who sat on a couch so long her skin grew in between the fibers is the funniest thing i have ever read.

The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead, You awalys need to be prepared.

[Phoenix Fire]

Slapstick
Kind of creepy, but cool.

Any Stephen King

[crazyassmetalhead]

shit i haven't read jim nortons' book yet.........the new one comes out in like two weeks too

but ya a clockwork orange is fucking awesome (as was the movie), 1984 and Animal Farm both Classics too...

read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in English class last year, thought it was gonna be really gay honestly but that is an amazing book, i'm surprised at how anti religious/ anit society, and anti racism it was.

the hells angels and fear and loathing by hunter s. thompson are also fucking great...

and without remorse by tom clancy is a great book too (most of his books are great, that's just my favorite)

[Ghostfacekiller]

shit i haven't read jim nortons' book yet.........the new one comes out in like two weeks too

but ya a clockwork orange is fucking awesome (as was the movie), 1984 and Animal Farm both Classics too...

read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in English class last year, thought it was gonna be really gay honestly but that is an amazing book, i'm surprised at how anti religious/ anit society, and anti racism it was.

the hells angels and fear and loathing by hunter s. thompson are also fucking great...

and without remorse by tom clancy is a great book too (most of his books are great, that's just my favorite)

Rememeber to buy jims book at TedsSerialKillerParaphernalia.org or teds shotput imporium

[crazyassmetalhead]

what about tedsserialkillingimporium.com ?

o wait i forgot the f.b.i. closed that one down....

[Ghostfacekiller]

what about tedsserialkillingimporium.com ?

o wait i forgot the f.b.i. closed that one down....
I thought asian domain squatters had it.

[crazyassmetalhead]

o that's right

[Slawter]

the tom clancy splinter cell books are pretty entertaining.

[Xavier_Blackstone]

The Communist Manifesto

though in the realworld doesn't work that well the books a good read

[Exploding_viper]

three books of a series from first to last
UGLIES
PRETTYS
SPECIALS

good reads

[Shanx]

By the movie of A Clockwork Orange sucking I meant the book had a lot more detail. But its just my opinion.

[crazyassmetalhead]

well ya but that movie is a cinematic classic, no movie can be as specific as a book unless the book was total shit.

i also recommend "lies my teacher told me" idk the author but it's a fun little book about american history and the lies incorporated into what we're all taught (or were taught) in school....

[Phoenix Fire]

Twilight series

[c73]

Twilight series

What?!? Your a guy and you've read the Twilight series??
Oh man, I'm totally making a thread for them.

[Phoenix Fire]

Yeah, I'm a guy, and I think they're awesome, have not finished breaking dawn because I lost it.
Maybe I'm gay, I dunno.

[c73]

Oh man, I absolutely adore that series :)

[ItsAPoorlyKeptSecret]

"Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand
I love these books and would recomend them to anyone.

[AlbertWesker]

Any books written by J.R.R. Tolkien are awesome.
Who is the twilight series written by?

[ItsAPoorlyKeptSecret]

Twilight series is by Stephenie Meyer.

[AlbertWesker]

Righty oh thank you.

[ItsAPoorlyKeptSecret]

np .

[Ninja]

Cat's Cradle its like weird in a nihilistic cool way
Vellum its like weird in a the-writer-was-on-some-exotic-drugs-when-they-wrote-this-book way, but good

[Slawter]

I was thinkin of reading the vampire series thing by Anne Rice. any opinions? good or bad

[Phoenix Fire]

I was thinkin of reading the vampire series thing by Anne Rice. any opinions? good or bad

Phenomenal

[Slawter]

k, thanx. ill get it soon

[The_Wanderer]

A Clockwork Orange is an amazing book. Pretty much if your reading this forum on this site this book is for you. The movie however,personally I hate it

[ItsAPoorlyKeptSecret]

the wanderer? whats that from The Host?

[AvengedX7]

Fear and loathing in las vegas
No one her gets out alive
alice in wonderland
Scar Tissue
What type of bok are you looking for?

[TIFunkalicious]

I'm surprised no chuck palahniuk books have been pointed out

[marcraft]

The greatest books i have ever read (and i read 5-10 hours a day Every day since i was 10 and discovered terry pratchet) are the sword of truth series by Terry Goodkind Its kinda of a typical sword and sorcery low fantasy for the first book but once you get to books 5+ its amazing , the best way i can describe them are a kind of sociological/psychological and philosophical look at humanity , society , and history, but it manages to be some of the most entertaining books i have ever read keeping the sword and sorcery that made the fantasy genre what it is. i cant recommend those books enough , they changed the way i look at the world.

another great read is the night watchmen by terry pratchet, it will take a while for you to understand the way he writes and what he writes for that matter but its the most entertaining of his books for a first time reader.

shanara is shanara and thats all there is to it. standard Sword and Sourcery High fantasy

robert jordan's wheel of time was tolerable for a few books but eventually i just skipped any parts with female characters, due to the idiocy he writes them with.

Elizabeth Haydon's Rhapsody Child of Blood and the following series was a fairly good read.

Terry Brooks writes some really good stuff , the Magic kingdom serise i remember as being really good but then again i was 11 when i last read them

[Obscurum14]

If Fantasy is your thing, I would suggest Trudi Canavan. She has two different trilogies that she has written, and I found both of them really good.

[schlack]

I'm a big spy/action thriller myself, I've just about read most decent books in that genera. Here are some recommendations for those interested.

Bannerman series by John Maxim - Probably the best spy/covert ops books on the market, I'm surprised they haven't gone after this guy like they have had Robert Ludlum and the Borne series with movies. A phenomenal read. There are 5 books in the main story line, with 3 or 4 side ones that come together at the end. Every single one of the books are good.

Thomas Perry- Another fun author, his old stuff was better than the stuff he's putting out now. "The Butchers Boy" and "Let Sleeping Dog Lie" are a 2 part series about a professional killer that are about as realistic as it gets. He also has one called "Dr. Metzger's Dog" which is more comical about a group of people blackmailing the CIA.

Robert Ludlum - I hate his new stuff. The first Borne was good and some others. I personally think he new stuff really isn't up to par, but not too bad if you want to keep entertained.

Michael Chrichton has a couple good ones out, I like his mainly because they tend to have happy endings. Steve Berry has a couple out there that arn't too bad either.

Hope it helps

[ItsAPoorlyKeptSecret]

Robert Ludlum died, so what new stuff could you bee speakin of? All the new Bourne Books have been those ghost writer whatevers but still use his name on them.

[McBurn the Dog]

I hate the twilight books. Haven't read 'em, and I'm probably not being fair to them, but I read a story about a vampire last summer and it was a girl and the most turgid excuse for a story ever written.
I really recommend the Bill Bryson books, if you haven't read them yet.
And I just finished "Green River Rising" by Tim Willocks. The language was first class, and the plot is great.

[charlee]

My shit in my thread.

[carbomb]

umm if your into philosophy i suggest= "a brief history of the paradox"-roy sorensen
fiction= "the three musketeers"- alaxandre dumas
non fiction= "rise and fall of the third reich"william L shirer
fantasy= "eragon" christopher paolini . . . i know the movie sucked but i promise the books are incredible

[snorkem]

the rise and fall of the third reich

[Wolkkkk]

all the stuff my Marquis De Sade
and poetry by Arthur Rimbaud

[hagalaz73]

Fahrenheit 451, Catch 22 (J. Heller) , We (Y. Zamyatin), Ham on Rye (C. Bukowski).

[Wolkkkk]

Fahrenheit 451, Catch 22 (J. Heller) , We (Y. Zamyatin), Ham on Rye (C. Bukowski).

Bokowski rules. Great inspiration to me

[Necron214]

The witcher saga by Andrzej Sapkowski is wery good book series,it falows Witcher named Geralt of Rivia,witchers are monster-hunters who receive special training and have their bodies modified at an early age to provide them with supernatural abilities so they can kill extre***y dangerous monsters and survive.

[Necron214]

what i like about that book is moral mood,no happy endings,just plain realism,no white/dark wievs of world,every charecter in book is grey good and evil at same time

[Wolkkkk]

I recommend everything by Bukowski

[skull]

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.

[alucard621]

A Book of Five Rings - Miyamoto Musashi
The Unfettered Mind - Takuan Soho
Hagakure - Yamamoto Tsunetomo

c-c-c-c-combo breaker?

oh, and Tao of Jeet Kune Do (obviously by Bruce Lee) has some surprisingly good philosophical views and zen writings in it.

[kmak]

Do they still sell that book to the public?

[alucard621]

i like how specific you were

[michigandalf]

I'm unsure if it has been mentioned or not but I would recommend Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

[AlbertWesker]

I hate the twilight books. Haven't read 'em, and I'm probably not being fair to them, but I read a story about a vampire last summer and it was a girl and the most turgid excuse for a story ever written.
I really recommend the Bill Bryson books, if you haven't read them yet.
And I just finished "Green River Rising" by Tim Willocks. The language was first class, and the plot is great.

I am very interested especially since the vampire is a girl. What is the name of the book?

[ItsAPoorlyKeptSecret]

There are a few I think with girl vampires, I think there a series where the first book is called Marked. I read the first few chapters online and it seemed pretty good.
Then there is Vampire Academy books I think the main character is a girl vamp in those too. and um
At walmart I think I skimed through some books Blue Bloods series that again main character a girl vamp not to sure on that last one.

If you end up readin them Alberto let me kno if they are any good, I kno i want to finish reading that Marked one.

[ravenscar]

July 20th, 2009. is this necro posting?

[AlbertWesker]

There are a few I think with girl vampires, I think there a series where the first book is called Marked. I read the first few chapters online and it seemed pretty good.
Then there is Vampire Academy books I think the main character is a girl vamp in those too. and um
At walmart I think I skimed through some books Blue Bloods series that again main character a girl vamp not to sure on that last one.

If you end up readin them Alberto let me kno if they are any good, I kno i want to finish reading that Marked one.

Thank you. If I do read them, I will tell you if they are good.

[ItsAPoorlyKeptSecret]

Your very welcome, and yea let me kno.

[ravenscar]

i recomend james patterson books