Reccomended Books...?

Isaac Asimov - His robot novells is a very good read!

Another writer in the sci-fi genre is:
Keith Laumer and his books about Retief, a galactic diplomat. Strange enough the thing that makes those books so damn fun is their clich�s and how obvious everything is. It's a first class B- Science fiction, and that's what makes the books so damn good!

[Edited on 7/3-04 by Nothing]

Memnoch the devil by Anne Rice
the tale of the body thief by Anne Rice
and anything else written by Anne Rice !

Also the river world series by Phillip Jose-Farmer


Also I think that everyone should read the books written by Dave Pelzer about his life.
I read "A child called it" in one sitting. I couldn't put it down. It's about the abuse that he suffered from his mother. It makes shocking reading.

"How to be a Stand Up Comic" by Richard Belzer

Any C.S. Lewis is excellent. (most notably the Narnia chronicles)

Both Animal Farm and 1984 by George Orwell

The Devine Comedy(although its really a poem and not a book as such) by Dante

The Prophet by Gahlil Gibran

Little Flowers of St. Francis

The Prince by Marchevelli(excuse the spelling)

Confessions by St.Augustine

Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Shawshank Redemption by Steven King

I cant think of any more at his moment, but all of these above I thought were pretty good.

Hello, these two books are interesting and somewhat similar in thier message:

Way of the Peaceful Warrior (Paperback)
by Millman, Daniel

The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
by Carlos Castaneda (Author)

Sense and Sensibilty - Jane Austen
The Painted House - Grisham
Memoirs of a Geisha
The gospel according to Mary Magdalene
The Stand - Stephen King

Originally posted by Narnia


The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
by Carlos Castaneda (Author)

I used to have the whole series, then I loaned them out.

sci-fi (tough call): "The Hammer of God" by Arthur C. Clarke or "Contact" by Carl Sagan

non-fiction: "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer (still wanna go to Mt. Everest?)

conspiracy: "Mortal Error: The Shot That Killed JFK"
by Bonar Menninger (Howard Donahue's ballistic analysis is the best I have read, and the overall theory is great)

comedy: "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" by Douglas Adams

techno-thriller (another toughie): "Flight of the Old Dog" by Dale Brown or "The Hunt for Red October" by Tom Clancy

action: "Rogue Warrior" by Richard Marcinko

If you read any of these let me know what you think. These are the books I have read over-and-over.


[Edited on 2-5-2004 by Spectre]

An amazing book is call 'fierce people' by Dirk Wittenborn i think- it is about the ubber-rich in America and a 15 year olds struggle- its amazing it might be coming out on film in 2005

Brave New World if it hasnt been mentioned already...

2001,2010,2064 and 3001 by Author C Clark

The ENTIRE Area51 Series by Robert Doherty

The young wizards series by Diane Duane.

Thats a good series I own all the ones that have came out so far.

If you like surrealistic literature, you should try to get your hands on a translation of the uncensored version of Mikhail Bulgakov's the Master and Margharita. The devil comes to Moscow and a lot of fun follows. You can also read the book as a critique on the Soviet system, which is why the book was censored originally.

I can also recommend Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons and Nikolaj Gogol's Dead Souls, but make sure you get a version with alternative versions of the text included as well, like the extended ending of chapter 9 of Dead Souls I. Even if you don't like 19th century literature, these books are nice to read.

Science-fiction? One of favourite books is Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange and I think that book can be regarded as science-fiction.

For this vacation, I got James Joyce's Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, but I haven't read them yet. Finnegans Wake seems very interesting, if not completely crazy. It starts with the great sentence (the beginning of the sentence, which is the end of the book is included as well for your reading pleasure):

A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.

[Edited on 29-6-2004 by amantine]

Books?

Fahrenheit:451- Ray Bradbury
Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass- Lewis Carrol
Lord of the Flies- Golding
The Wizard of Oz series- Baum
Fight Club- forgot the other, Chuck something

right now I would recommend anything Dean Koontz

Originally posted by worldwatcher
right now I would recommend anything Dean Koontz

I read Tick Tock- great suspense. do you reccommend any others?

ooh yeah, I just finished reading "Odd Thomas" by Koontz, that was excellent

i'm working on "The Bad Place" and "Phantoms" next, i'll let you know when i am done.

The original Dune series by Frank Herbert: Dune; Dune Messiah; Children of Dune; God Emperor of Dune; Heretics of Dune; and Chapterhouse: Dune.

The Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson: Red Mars; Green Mars; and Blue Mars.

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein.

The Hyperion series by Dan Simmons: Hyperion; The Fall of Hyperion; Endymion; and The Rise of Endymion.

The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Douglas Adams' The Hitchhikers Guide the Galaxy series.

Anything by H.G. Wells.

Anything by Carl Sagan.

Richard Rhodes' The Making of the Atomic Bomb and Dark Sun.

Diamond by Mathew Hart.

The Akira series by Katsuhiro Otomo. The series was originally a serialized comic book series in Japan. Dark Horse did a brand new translation of the series and brought it here in the form of 6 graphic novels. I highly recommend the series. An incredible accomplishment for one person.

The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell.



There are so many good books out there. These are just a "few" I recommend. :-D

These are a few I've read this year that I really liked:
I Know This Much is True-Wally Lamb
Ghost Story-Peter Straub, an older book, but well worth the read
(I had seen the movie many years ago, and the book is so much better)
I really liked The Davinci Code-if only for the suspenseful nature of it.
Chameleon-William Diehl- another older book, but still good.
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy- JRR Tolkien

There are others too but I can't think of them right now.

MC

All Koontz (Twilight Eyes and Phantoms were favorites)

Terry Goodkind series (where my screen name comes from and my signature rules)

Richard Marcinko & John Wiseman Books (AKA: Rogue Warrior)

Arthur C. Clarke Rama series ( :up Incredible!!

Steven Hunter (all his books relate dealing with ex-marine sniper, then about dad the state cop, then back to son, the dad, etc...very good)

And my favorite David Gemmell (action fantasy) who is a very talented writer. I have like 25-30 books in my collection. most of which had to be shipped from various countries.

Books that influenced my life

Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
A Happy Death by Albert Camus
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Unified Reality Theory: The Evolution of Existence into Experience by Steven Kaufman