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I stole this idea from a sports forum i post on. I'm trying to read a lot more and i've kind of run out of idea for books to read.
Anyone know of any good books? I've really read nothing so even really well-known ones you should post.
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A couple threads I unearthed...
http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...ighlight=books mrhappy333's book suggestion thread
http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...ighlight=books XTR1000's book suggestion thread
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Ender's Game by Orsen Scott Card. There are 10 total books in the Ender series, if you like the first short/easy read.
The book is technically sci fi, but it's about kids saving the world. And it's not hard core sci fi, so don't let that scare you off unless you REALLY despise sci fi.
Interesting thing, the movie company that bought the movie rights to the book let their option run out, and a new movie production team bought the rights. Should be an Ender's Game movie in a couple years, and if it's done right it'll be a hot flick maybe somewhat like Matrix or Lord of the Rings.
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The Great Gatsby is a favorite of mine.
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I actually have read all the enders books including the enders shadow series, all very good books i'd recommend them to anyone.
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thanks for the links kingnat, i never use the search lol
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The Great Gatsby is a favorite of mine.
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great book .must read. and very short.
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the things they carried by tim obrien
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this was from one of the other threads, read this about a month ago before I did my Vietnam unit, it's a good read.
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i just read 1984 for the first time and would def. recommend it. I don't know why i didn't read that in H.S., thought it was standard for alot of schools.
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I actually have read all the enders books including the enders shadow series, all very good books i'd recommend them to anyone.
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Have you read Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy? Great if you enjoyed OSC. And he wrote the robot series (The Will Smith "I robot" movie was nothing like book - but it couldn't be. The plot was developed from a short story in the first book of the robot series.)
In the library, you'll find some of these classics from the 60's, 70's and 80's:
Alistair MacLean's Guns of Navaronne + 20 other books. He wrote thrillers mostly about WW2 and big criminal conspiracies.
Robert Ludlum's "Bourne Identity" and other Bourne novels. If you hated the movies, no worries, since they didn't even vaguely resemble these classic spy thrillers. Plus a gazillion other good reads from him.
Robert B. Parker's Spenser novels. Spenser is a private detective unlike any other you'll read. There was an old TV series based on the books that was old when I was young. Parker now has two new detectives, Sunny Randal (girl private eye) and Jesse Stone (police chief in small resort town Paradise, Massachusetts).
Andy McNab is a more modern thriller writer. He's an ex-commando from Britain's elite SAS unit, and he writes about commando turned solider for hire Nick Stone.
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i just read 1984 for the first time and would def. recommend it. I don't know why i didn't read that in H.S., thought it was standard for alot of schools.
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This. Check out Brave New World as well. Along the same ideas about society.
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Kurt Vonnegut is the Awesome. Cat's Cradle at/near the top and definitely a good place to start... but lots of very very good books that he has written.
If you want to read another very good book that is also a classic: Catch 22. I plan to re-read it this year...
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The Pleasure And Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton - pleasant philosophical musings that open your mind to the world around you..
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i just read 1984 for the first time and would def. recommend it. I don't know why i didn't read that in H.S., thought it was standard for alot of schools.
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Animal Farm is also a very excellent read by Orwell.
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
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Kurt Vonnegut is the Awesome. Cat's Cradle at/near the top and definitely a good place to start... but lots of very very good books that he has written.
If you want to read another very good book that is also a classic: Catch 22. I plan to re-read it this year...
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Sometimes you say stuff and I think that I wrote it.
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i just read 1984 for the first time and would def. recommend it. I don't know why i didn't read that in H.S., thought it was standard for alot of schools.
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Animal Farm is also a very excellent read by Orwell.
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." |
i read animal farm ~10 years ago maybe. Thats one that i would like to reread but due to studying for tests and my already 10 book tall "read next" pile, i probly wont reread it anytime soon.
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Kurt Vonnegut is the Awesome. Cat's Cradle at/near the top and definitely a good place to start... but lots of very very good books that he has written.
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i've read slaughterhouse 5 and breakfast of champions (which was weird as hell), and i have Cats Cradle, just haven't gotten to it yet. Def. love his style though.
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Kurt Vonnegut is the Awesome. Cat's Cradle at/near the top and definitely a good place to start... but lots of very very good books that he has written.
If you want to read another very good book that is also a classic: Catch 22. I plan to re-read it this year...
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^^ I was going to make the same post.
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Kurt Vonnegut is the Awesome. Cat's Cradle at/near the top and definitely a good place to start... but lots of very very good books that he has written.
If you want to read another very good book that is also a classic: Catch 22. I plan to re-read it this year...
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^^ I was going to make the same post. |
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I actually have read all the enders books including the enders shadow series, all very good books i'd recommend them to anyone.
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Have you read Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy? |
Lol, was just about to suggest those myself. I've had the first two books for years, just picked up the rest a week ago and working my way through.
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Pretty much any books that were on the reading list at highschool that you missed would probably be good now. Funny how good these 'classic' books are if you dont actually have to study them.
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i just read 1984 for the first time and would def. recommend it. I don't know why i didn't read that in H.S., thought it was standard for alot of schools.
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This. Check out Brave New World as well. Along the same ideas about society. |
Um no.
http://sirjorge.com/blogx/2009/06/08/huxley-vs-orwell/
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i dunno much about how you read, but classics are classics for a reason  I suggest the first group as great for enjoying reading again...
For simple but beautiful reading:
Old man and the sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
Jonathan Livingstone Seagull - Richard Bach
To Kill a mockingbird - Harper Lee
Pi - Yann Martel
For other beautiful reading:
Midnight's children - Salman Rushdie
For "he didn't just write Fear and Loathing"
The Rum Diaries (easily his best book) - Hunter S. Thompson
For old sci-fi from a seeming-misogynist
Glory Road or Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
For good sci-fi (or is that cyber-punk?!)
Neuromancer - William Gibson
For a crazy play from a long time ago
Peer Gynt - Henrik Ibsen
For pseudo-philosophy:
The Glass Bead Game - Herman Hesse
Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho
For political satire/commentary on future state:
1984, animal farm, lord of the flies, brave new world, etc
For interesting history:
Mi pais inventado (kinda translates as my created country) - Isabel Allende
For intense and dense great for a mindfuck
Thus Spake Zarathustra - Fredrich Nietzsche
For what I'm reading right now cos of its title:
the gambler - dostoevsky
and yes to Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions..
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Kurt Vonnegut is the Awesome. Cat's Cradle at/near the top and definitely a good place to start... but lots of very very good books that he has written.
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i've read slaughterhouse 5 and breakfast of champions (which was weird as hell), and i have Cats Cradle, just haven't gotten to it yet. Def. love his style though. |
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The HitchHikers guide to the Galaxy was suggested to me in the thread I started, and I read it and LOVED it.
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i've had several people recomend The Gambler daven, i need to pick that one up.
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The Average American Male and The Lie by Chad Kultgen
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The HitchHikers guide to the Galaxy was suggested to me in the thread I started, and I read it and LOVED it.
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