06-04-2004, 07:06 AM | #1 |
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I recommend...
Have you read any good books that you'd like to recommend?
Post your recommendations here. I recommend: -Any Harlan Coben book (especially Tell No One ) -Any Stephen Hunter book -The Jester by James Patterson and Andrew Gross |
06-07-2004, 05:02 PM | #2 |
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okey dokey here we go
for grown ups - Chung kuo series by David Wingrove for teens - The dark is rising series by Susan Cooper for all - The Chronicles of Hawklan by Roger Taylor ( I cant recommend them enough - wonderful evocative and heroic blah blah blah, plus I actually got an email off the author !! ) There you go see what you think - love to know if anyone has read them
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06-07-2004, 08:15 PM | #3 |
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Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Cosmonaut Keep by Ken MacLeod Random Acts of Senseless Violence by Jack Womack ...just for starters.
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06-07-2004, 08:19 PM | #4 |
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..its damn hard to stop...
try lord of the rings by JRR Tolkien, its quite good
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. We know where the music's playing, let's go out and feel the night. Because I'm still in love with you, I want to see you dance again, because I'm still in love with you on this harvest moon.Well the sun is surely sinking down But the moon is slowly rising So this old world must still be spinning 'round And I still love you NIL SATIS NISI OPTIMUM |
06-07-2004, 11:29 PM | #5 | |
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06-07-2004, 11:31 PM | #6 |
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Garth Nix's Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen (in that order) for those who really like fantasy.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
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06-07-2004, 11:42 PM | #7 |
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I would also recommend Paradise Lost to any who haven't read it. It's simply AMAZING!
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06-08-2004, 07:45 AM | #8 |
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More seconding then recommending but still,
Catch-22 by Heller. Cryptomanicon by Stephenson.
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06-15-2004, 10:17 PM | #9 |
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The Pearl Saga (The Ring of Five Dragons, The Veil of a Thousand Tears, and The Mistress of the Pearl) by Eric Van Lustbader
all threee books very good; the way lustbader does the societal makeups of the two peoples is amazingly well thought-out. he's got a very detailed caste system that, if you think about it, applies to the world here, just very subtley(sp?) try them! you'll like it!
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06-16-2004, 01:40 AM | #10 |
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Thanks, Lady Ravyn. But the thing is I can't find the whole saga. I know there's the Ring of Five Dragons in one of the bookshops here, but I couldn't find the other two volumes
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The Flounder by Gunter Grass (heavy going but a great variation on the Fall [that's in the biblical sense, not in the Mark E Smith sense]) Perfume and The Name of the Rose for those who like medieval murder mysteries. Captain Correlli's Mandolin is a great love story, in spite of the film. |
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06-16-2004, 09:56 PM | #12 |
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i highly recommend Roots by alex haley and DonQuixote to everybody
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06-20-2004, 02:02 PM | #13 | |
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The Veil of a Thousand Tears hope the links work...
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06-20-2004, 02:23 PM | #14 |
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Thanks for the link, Lady Ravyn (it does work).
But unfortunately, I haven't managed to convince my parents to shop for books online (yet... bwahahahaha!) *ahem* but anyway, how does this series compare to other fantasy series (Wot, Lotr, Dune, etc...)? |
06-21-2004, 10:17 AM | #15 |
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I recommend "The Heir of Redclyffe" by Charlotte Yonge. You will start reading it and think it is boring. Then you will realise it is fantastic
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06-21-2004, 10:32 PM | #16 | |
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btw, a very good non-fantasy is The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. depressing, but good. another sad but good one is The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
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06-24-2004, 07:05 PM | #17 |
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Ive just finnished 2 books:
Band of brothers - Stephen e Ambrose Eon - Greig Bear Both excellent books and highly recommended
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. We know where the music's playing, let's go out and feel the night. Because I'm still in love with you, I want to see you dance again, because I'm still in love with you on this harvest moon.Well the sun is surely sinking down But the moon is slowly rising So this old world must still be spinning 'round And I still love you NIL SATIS NISI OPTIMUM |
12-15-2004, 05:39 AM | #18 |
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I recommend Demian by Herman Hesse to anyone, but especially to teenagers. If any of you has already read it, please tell me as I would enjoy discussing it. Btw, for those of you who speak German, you might want to read it in its orginal language: Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend. |
12-22-2004, 12:15 AM | #19 |
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I would recomend Haroun and the Sea of Stories to all who haven't read it. This is an short, easy read but it is worth reading. I can't remember the author's name at the moment.
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PG Wodehouse stuff is very fun, light reading. Also good, umm...ah I have a question for someone else. Would anyone here reccommend reading "Darcy's Story"? It's P&P told from Darcy's point of view; I saw it referenced somewhere else as being decent.
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