Author Topic: Recommended Reading. (Read 4395 times)

MofoNofo · « **on:** July 06, 2008, 10:55:22 pm »

Do you read?

Unless you're an illegal Mexican immigrant who found their way into Australia, or just a retard, then you should possess this skill.

So, post up some of your favourite books.

A few of my favourites:

The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher (I liked all 9)
Ice Station, Area 7 and Scarecrow by Matthew Reilly (or anything else by him)
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling (only the first five)

Obviously I didn't go pouring out all the books I enjoy, but I definetly recommend The Dresden Files and anything by Matthew Reilly

NOTE: No comics, e-comics, 4chan failstories, etc.

Rai-Dei · « **Reply #1 on:** July 06, 2008, 11:06:33 pm »

I need some too, same rules but no Sci-Fi please.

The Geologist · « **Reply #2 on:** July 06, 2008, 11:08:53 pm »

Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse

Wraithlike · « **Reply #3 on:** July 06, 2008, 11:14:07 pm »

Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
A Scanner Darkly - Phillip K. Dick
Watership Down - Richard Adams
We - Yevgeny Zamyatin

I might add more later.

Mangled* · « **Reply #4 on:** July 06, 2008, 11:16:41 pm »

The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

Hair|Trigger · « **Reply #5 on:** July 06, 2008, 11:24:29 pm »

Quote from: MofoNofo on July 06, 2008, 10:55:22 pm

Ice Station, Area 7 and Scarecrow by Matthew Reilly (or anything else by him)

Im currently up to 7 Ancient wonders

BondJamesBond · « **Reply #6 on:** July 06, 2008, 11:31:20 pm »

The March by Doctorow

Iq Unlimited · « **Reply #7 on:** July 06, 2008, 11:40:04 pm »

Dragonlance series - Wise and Hickman (None of that 3rd party writer bull crap that they have out there, just what Wise and Hickman wrote)
The Shining - Stephen King
Prey, Congo, Next - Michael Crichton
Rainbow Six - Tom Clancy

Will probably add more later.

Zero72 · « **Reply #8 on:** July 07, 2008, 04:16:39 am »

Somebody has to mention the Hitchhiker's Guide series sooner or later, so it might as well be me. Really is genius.

Demonic · « **Reply #9 on:** July 07, 2008, 04:50:19 am »

Márquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Hesse's Steppenwolf.

Someone recently recommended Thomas Mann's The Tables of the Law, should be a fine read too, and it's more of a long-shortstory than a novel.

jerich · « **Reply #10 on:** July 07, 2008, 06:55:18 am »

Not a bookworm at all but I have to admit I did enjoy...

1984
The Things They Carried

Only books I ever enjoyed.

Lord Frunkamunch · « **Reply #11 on:** July 07, 2008, 01:44:32 pm »

The Postman -Not sure who wrote it, just look it up on a library computer and get the post-apocalyptic-looking one.

The Green Mile - Stephen King

HGTTG +1

Thinkto urself · « **Reply #12 on:** July 07, 2008, 02:08:06 pm »

Quote from: Lord Frunkamunch on July 07, 2008, 01:44:32 pm

The Green Mile - Stephen King

Dang, I was just about to mention it.
Pet Sematary(Spelled like that.)-Stephen King

Shadow G-Unit · « **Reply #13 on:** July 07, 2008, 02:59:20 pm »

Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson
The Color of Water - James McBride
Captain Underpants Series - Dav Pilkey
The Old Man and The Sea- Ernest Hemingway
Cry, The Beloved Country - Alan Paton

Graham · « **Reply #14 on:** July 07, 2008, 03:04:52 pm »

Count of Monte Cristo, Scarlet Pimpernel. Had to read these both in high school but I finished them both early and would read them again if I could find them.

Oh and duh... this I have just started it myself.

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Quote from: Iq Unlimited on July 06, 2008, 11:40:04 pm

Dragonlance series - Wise and Hickman (None of that 3rd party writer bull crap that they have out there, just what Wise and Hickman wrote)

Listen to this, I picked up a random Dragonlance book from the closet to read while on the john, I got about halfway through just couldn't take it anymore.... screw you Knaak.

PapaSurf · « **Reply #15 on:** July 07, 2008, 05:53:51 pm »

This by Scott Adams

Immensely entertaining, although the ideas aren't as profound as the author wants us to believe.

Shadow G-Unit · « **Reply #16 on:** July 07, 2008, 05:57:29 pm »

Anyone read Lord of the Flies?

The Trooper [GN`R] · « **Reply #17 on:** July 07, 2008, 07:25:51 pm »

Quote from: Shadow G-Unit on July 07, 2008, 05:57:29 pm

Anyone read Lord of the Flies?

Nope
but teenagers are coming back to their dark drives
sounds pretty cool
how was it?

Potsdamer Platz - Buddy Giovinazzo Just a great gangster book about Berlin
Tony Scott will make a movie of it
Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs If You are a really strange person
Also as a Movie by David Cronenberg
Jeremiah - L.T. LeRoy Damn sad story
Movie - The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
Wind On Fire Trilogy - William Nicholson Fantasy

These are the best books I have read
but I would like to recommend the author "Ian Ranking"

Thinkto urself · « **Reply #18 on:** July 07, 2008, 07:39:19 pm »

Quote from: PapaSurf on July 07, 2008, 05:53:51 pm

This by Scott Adams

Immensely entertaining, although the ideas aren't as profound as the author wants us to believe.

http://nowscape.com/godsdebris.pdf
There was a quote at the end of teh link...?

Smegma · « **Reply #19 on:** July 07, 2008, 08:01:50 pm »

Three Novels by Samuel Beckett
Pyrrhonian Reflections by Robert Fogelin

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Author Topic: Recommended Reading. (Read 4395 times)