book suggestion

[!CoNvOy]

any suggestions for good books?

[GameGeeks]

If your not turn off by male intamacy then the Vampire Lestat is a good read. That or the Lord of the Rings trlogy plus the Hobbit. The Narnia series is also a good read even if the books are quite short.

[Kameo]

Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthsea



the Stone and the Flute by Hans Bemmann:
The Stone and the Flute tells the adventures of a young man called Listener in an idyllic fairytale world. A magic stone and a magic flute are meant to lead him the way to happiness, but because of his lack of knowledge of the human nature and his naivité he abuses his power and makes fateful choices. Fantastic encounters and long hardships give him new perspectives and deep human insights. The story of Listener's life is interwoven with his love story.


If U want something like Harry Potter these books R not for U. ;)

[haseo12]

Try the Eragon Series if your into fantasy...

[Llorona Bonita]

NICHOLAS SPARKS if you're a hopeless romantic :p

[Pengitty]

Stephen King's Dark Tower series.

[!CoNvOy]

Awesome i love that series!

[Ladyallred]

H.P. Lovecraft

Bloodcurdling Tales or Horror and the Macabre.

Many great short stories in this one.

Best choice in my eyes.

[!CoNvOy]

I've read that before, good collection.

[Ladyallred]

I know it is I read it 3 times.

Another good book would have to be
Poison by Chris wooding

it's science fiction the cover alone captured me.

[SirAllred]

For a kid, Eyes of The Dragon by Stephen King

My All Time Fav is Blue World by Robert R. Mccammon, every short story still haunts my mind to this day, from drinking gasoline in a planet where the pavement isn't solid, to a vietnam vet tripping and flashing back in a diner....still creeps me out thinking about the kids who would be mumified in rooms that suck up oxygen....god it made no sense...

[Klendathu]

Im going to go off the wall here and say The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

[!CoNvOy]

nice book, but the rest of the series is crap

[Llorona Bonita]

A Grief Observed - C.S. Lewis ... a bit of a heavy reading though, if you're depressed or emotionally disturbed don't read it ;)

[kaosdeity]

A Grief Observed - C.S. Lewis ... a bit of a heavy reading though, if you're depressed or emotionally disturbed don't read it ;)

Oh snap! lol I forgot about that book when your account went inactive! Sorry about that! Well, I suppose all is well since you seem to be reading it, right?

[GameGeeks]

I'd recomend 1964 and That Was Then This is Now. The last one has a strong message about how life changes in unexpected ways.

[Llorona Bonita]

Oh snap! lol I forgot about that book when your account went inactive! Sorry about that! Well, I suppose all is well since you seem to be reading it, right?

that's alright ;) yes i was able to find it :p and thank you :D

[xReaper19x]

if you haven't read them yet i recommend

armor - john steakley
neuromancer - william gibson

and if you don't mind comics
the mask omnibus 1 & 2(they're collected editions) - nothing like the movie, you may enjoy it if you like violence

[Stone Cold]

Best book Stone Cold has ever read about Stone Cold.

http://www.amazon.com/Stone-Cold-Truth-WWE/dp/0743482670/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242546846&sr=8-2

[goldenwingedship]

Best book Stone Cold has ever read about Stone Cold.

http://www.amazon.com/Stone-Cold-Truth-WWE/dp/0743482670/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242546846&sr=8-2

Must be a great book if it's available for $1.09 ;)

[Carlrt]

Boy Soldier Series - Andy McNab

Bit of Harry Potter never goes amiss.

also The Looking Glass Wars, by Frank Beddor (personal fav) its like an phsychotic look at Alice In Wonderland (dont let that put you of!) check it out its a great book!

[goldenwingedship]

Boy Soldier Series - Andy McNab

Bit of Harry Potter never goes amiss.

also The Looking Glass Wars, by Frank Beddor (personal fav) its like an phsychotic look at Alice In Wonderland (dont let that put you of!) check it out its a great book!

The Looking Glass Wars sounds awesome. Any chance it is available as an ebook?

[Carlrt]

The Looking Glass Wars sounds awesome. Any chance it is available as an ebook?

I dont know, sorry

(I actually dont know what an eBook is, I assume its a book on a computer or pda or something like that!)

[goldenwingedship]

I dont know, sorry

(I actually dont know what an eBook is, I assume its a book on a computer or pda or something like that!)

Yes, it is generally a book available for download as just a plain text file. They are commonly free as well. I will look for it.

Thanks for the suggestion :)

[GameGeeks]

I checked and could only find places that sold it for money. Roughly ten dollars.

[goldenwingedship]

That's a shame. It sounds like something I would be willing to pay for though.

[Carlrt]

That's a shame. It sounds like something I would be willing to pay for though.

Well, I paid £15 for it when it first came out (roughly $30)
and it was well worth it!

You may also wanna try Twilight, The first books not too good, but the second and third are great!

[GameGeeks]

Aren't those books for 14 year old girls? Don't get me wrong, I love vampires. But it seems more of a mushy romance novel aimed at young girls.

[Carlrt]

That's a shame. It sounds like something I would be willing to pay for though.

Aren't those books for 14 year old girls? Don't get me wrong, I love vampires. But it seems more of a mushy romance novel aimed at young girls.

lol the first one is yeah, i read it three years ago when i was 15, the first book sucks, its generelly gets a bit darker when the werewolves are introduced!

[GameGeeks]

I think I'll stick to Lestat and co.

[goldenwingedship]

Lestat is the ****. Yea :D

I did not dig Twilight. At all D:

[GameGeeks]

Every guy wants to be him and every girl wants him. :p

[Stone Cold]

Must be a great book if it's available for $1.09 ;)

goddamn Stone Cold didn't make the fukkin price, it's just some jackas$ selling it. You people just get dumber and dumber.

Evolution skipped this fukkin sh1thole.

[goldenwingedship]

goddamn Stone Cold didn't make the fukkin price, it's just some jackas$ selling it. You people just get dumber and dumber.

Evolution skipped this fukkin sh1thole.

Haha relax Stone Cold. Just messin' with you.

[Rez013]

The Books of Blood by Clive Barker. ;D

[huscss]

InkHeart, thief lord, The city of ember, are really good books

If you like some of the gorey books well i don't know the author but i know there all by the same person but some of the his good books are rats,bats, and raptor and no i didn't just try to make those rhyme

[kaosdeity]

Lestat is the ****. Yea :D

I did not dig Twilight. At all D:

I know this is a few days old, but it caught my eye and I have to rant a bit. I don't really care too much about the story in Twilight and whatever, it was meant to be chick lit and so I just kind of steered away. However, I have to admit I am thoroughly ****ed at the author. Why does the story take place in Forks? Because she GOOGLED it. And now Forks is overrun with FREAKS that nobody can make leave because omg its in a book. About vampires. THAT'S FAKE.
Small town people just want to be left alone. This author needed to be like most other authors and just make some place up and leave us small town people out of it. How I tire of telling people "No, I have never seen a vampire. No that place is not here, that part of the movie was filmed in Kalama. No I've never seen anyone sparkle and if I did I'd scream and run away."
Anyways, I had to get that off of my chest.

On topic, I just read The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and I really liked it. You no doubt can tell it is depressing just by reading the title, but basically it's about a nerdy guy trying to make it in the world and overcome the teasing and torment of everyday life.

[ashearth]

Dean Koonts -- Twilight Eyes, From The Corner Of His Eye, Velocity, Dragon Tears, the Odd series (odd thomas, brother odd, etc) and TickTock
Darren Shan -- Cirque Du Freak series, and the Demonata series
John Flanagan -- Ranger's Apprentice series (Audio books where well done)
Joseph Delaney -- The Last Apprentice series (Audio books where well done)
D. M. Cornish -- Monster Blood Tattoo Series
Christopher Moore -- all his Novels/audio books (paticullary Fool, You Suck, and A Dirty Job)
Stephen King -- IT, Storm of the century, The Tommyknockers
Are all good/worth while reads reads and some of my favorite books..

[shishio]

if you haven't read them yet i recommend

armor - john steakley
neuromancer - william gibson

and if you don't mind comics
the mask omnibus 1 & 2(they're collected editions) - nothing like the movie, you may enjoy it if you like violence



I've also read neuromancer and it's a great book. Have you read the other 2 novels from the Sprawl trilogy (hope to wrote it right) - Monalisa Overdrive and Count Zero? I only ask this because in my country have not been publisched (as long as I know) and I have the english versions. Must say that my english sucks and I'm reading very slowly. To get to the point: are the other novels as cool as the neuromancer? Should I get going to read them?

[ridley]

The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare (anything by him really)
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
The sign of the Four - Arthur Conan Doyle
The Big Four - Agatha Christie
Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
The Divine Comedy - Dante Algheri
Don Quixote - Miguel De Cervantes
The Iliad - Homer
Odyssey - Homer

Thee are all good to read.

[Sargoth]

Pure Fantasy: Riftwar Saga by Raymond Feist The first 10 or 12 are good but they begin to taper off after that IMO.

Modern Fantasy: Simon Green's Nightside books
Jim Butcher's Dresden Files books

Both of those are Magical PI's. Simon Green is a little more Alice in Wonderland meets the Twilight Zone. Butcher's are more Bruce Willis meets Phillip Marlowe.

For pure entertainment i like the Nightside.

For a good read I prefer the Dresden Files.....not to mention Bob is just awsome.

[Brinebombs]

Just read NO by Boyd Rice, it was so good it hurt. I'd recommend the Answer ME! collection too by Jim Goad, informative and really funny too, the humor is a little dark tho so be prepared.

[vKelsov]

Harry Potter series not bad, or any of the Scarpetta novels.

[Devastating]

Please do not double post or spam on purpose.
You posts will just be deleted otherwise.:)

[e-robotic]

the dark tower series

[castiron]

anything by alexander dumas is good, THree musketeers and count of monte christo is my absolute favorite book.

[keo10203]

you should have a good read on one of the kings creations. if your looking for a good anime book. I suggest the The dark door of ayukis house

[Kombine]

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is a pretty good read, though it can be pretty graphic and depressing in some parts.

Also, Watership Down and The Plague Dogs, both by Richard Adams, are some good books too.

[Moogletastic]

I'm an avid fan of reading all kinds of genres, but I'm going to make a blanket statement and say that the best series I've ever had the pleasure to read is more recent work.

It's called the Night Angel Trilogy, by Brent Weeks. So. Epic. If you like fantasy, these books will rule your brain. Seriously, I recommend it to everyone that breathes the same air as me.

[khoazy]

READ the 48th law of power..all i gotta say..one hell of a book

[cessusbangy]

any of his ebooks

[bu7129]

Duhma key is a great on, also dark half, or Cell is the best, a pulse through cell phones makes people go nuts and kill each other. also if you into real life kind of stuff Tom clancy's OP Center is a good read

[inomniaparatus]

um...the lost symbol if you want some fast-paced action, brisingr for fantasy, and the road for depression

[RetulAmora]

If you have time and patience "The Dark Tower" series is a good read

[hesitate71]

Dont judge me for saying this, the movies sucked but the books were good...I have to say the Twilight series

[femmenoir]

Elric Saga by Michael Moorcock. Amazing books for fantasy without all the length and overly flowery language.

[Darrell_Mustaine]

i recomend the best book ever


1984

[Chicanio]

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.

[RetulAmora]

I'll recommend Peter Chimaera's fanfictions
and any fanfiction's that have been made into videos by: http://www.youtube.com/user/Djy1991

[opilopil]

lord of the rings

[RetulAmora]

I recommend any of my books.. if I ever get the motivation to type them out T__T

[mailforbubba]

My favorite Fantasy Series is The Sword of Truth Series by Terry Goodkind
They made that Legend of the Seeker tv series based off the books thats running right now. But its really lame and they don't really make it interesting for me. The cool thing about the main charactor is that he grows into this awesome power but tv series just makes him seem like just some random guy caught in a story. Disapointing...but the books really awesome hehe

[RetulAmora]

Resevoir Chronicles: Tsubasa, XXXholic, Negima!

quite a few other mangas...

I feel that manga should also be included here XD

[quinthal]

I love Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" series. Be informed it isn't finished.

I have to say the best book I ever read was a tie Battlefield Earth and Without Remorse. By the best I mean the most entertaining and grab you to the poing of losing sense of time.

C. S. Friedman writes a dark but gripping story, In Conquest Born being one example.

The Dorsai series by Gordon R. Dirkson for something quick but nice, for the most part.

Joseph Delaney, The Last Apprentice, I would vouch for this series, yes, very much so, itsa good.

[Carnivoracious]

Fantasy: The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (if you're into humor you might consider reading his blog as well, pretty damn hilarious)
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
The First Law Trilogy (series) by Joe Abercrombie
The Tales of the Otori (series) by Lian Hearn

Fiction:
The Barouque Cycle (series) by Neil Stephenson
Fool, Fluke, Lamb, Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore

[petohauki]

Ursula Le Guin - The Wizard of Earthsea (and other Earthsea books)

[azzam_88]

im not a ebook reader, but i like more manga,

[magus423]

Not Twilight. Every time I read something that is not Twilight, I like it.

[pecuequita]

kama sutra or maybe some p90x

[iop90]

Wrinkle in Time by Madame something.

[Riferder]

anything by harlan coben man

[robmd83]

If you like Counterterrorism/Espionage thrillers you should read the books by Vince Flynn.

[irishman25]

Henry Rollins, The First Five

[Harvestmoongirl4]

Elric Saga by Michael Moorcock. Amazing books for fantasy without all the length and overly flowery language.

This I will definitely keep in mind ;).

[fcf813]

"The Song of Ice and Fire" is an epic series. The characters are well developed, and they evolve dramatically over the life of the series. It's interesting to read a great fantasy book that isn't full of magic and goblins, too.

[LetsPlayWithRyan]

Metro 2033, a great read and the book has been made into a game, which was fairly good

Wiki-

Metro 2033 (Метро 2033, in Russian) is a novel written by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky. In 2007, Glukhovsky was awarded the Encouragement Award of the European Science Fiction Society in the Eurocon contest in Copenhagen for his novel Metro-2033.

It first appeared online in 2002 and has later become an interactive experiment, drawing in thousands of readers from around Russia. In 2005 it was printed by an established publisher and has become a nationwide bestseller.

By 2009, over 400,000 copies of Metro 2033 had been sold in Russia alone. Online readers are five times as numerous. Foreign book rights have been sold to more than 20 countries. A video game, Metro 2033, developed by 4A Games, was released worldwide in March 2010 for PC and Xbox 360 platforms. Currently, Glukhovsky is in talks with Hollywood-based studios and producers to sell the film rights.

[Ninja Delusion]

Shogun -James Clavell

[Carlrt]

The Looking Glass Wars - Frank Beddor
I Am Legend - Richard Matheson (SO DIFFERENT AND MUCH BETTER THAN THE FILM)