Books...

Irish · Post by **Irish** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 6:14 pm

I just finished my current book and I'm now looking for anything else, so if you guys have anything to reccomend...

anywho, the book I read, I think I would reccomend to everyone else: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrel by Susanna Clarke

ook then...

Catlegend · Post by **Catlegend** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 6:23 pm

A Dirty Job By Chris Moore

linkity http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006059 ... 31?ie=UTF8

It's about Death Dealers and the grim reaper being a very little girl who kills people with the word "Kitty". I thought it was VERY funny.

In fact, I've dug everything Chris Moore's written. Lamb, Practical Demon Keeping, The Stupidest Angel, Island of the Sequined Love Nun ... heh heh, Blood Sucking Fiends, Coyote Blue was great!, Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove, and Fluke. (These books are NOT as bad as they sound, they're very funny and smart)

But the best part is that all the characters have cameos in the other stories ^^

Irish · Post by **Irish** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 6:25 pm

haha sounds good

yay for funny (and smart) books!! x)

Rychon · Post by **Rychon** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 7:18 pm

My Lit teacher made us read Caucasia by Danzy Senna and I must admit it was good. I'd especially recommend it to racial mutts because it's most easily understood by us. Especially if you're at about that color where someone could mistake you for just about anything. -.-

Currently reading Atlus Shrugged. I think it's kinda crappy. The characters are plot-driven, and the plot is philosophy-driven. It's less subtle than Sophie's World. The end result is a bunch of monologues and a very abstract setting where government punishes hard work and rewards favors. Shut up, D'Anconia. On the bright side, look up the Ayn Rand Institute for a lovely essay contest only for students.

Speaking of Sophie's World, it is awesome. Same with Catch-22. But those are classics and likely to be required in school.

I haven't had time for him, but Tad Williams is a brilliant man all of the books I've read by him have been FUN.

Look for the Otherland series but be careful not to get too sucked in. It's long.

Other than that...I own several percussion books....

Irish · Post by **Irish** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 7:58 pm

I think the books I would most reccomend would be...the entire Dark Tower series by Stephen King. I would describe the story, but it's tough. It's long and if I tried to summarize it I would make it confusing, so I'll let wikipedia tell you all about it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Tower_(series)

That guy · Post by **That guy** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 8:14 pm

Honestly, I got lost at the blade of grass as a metephor for everything.

Irish · Post by **Irish** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 8:24 pm

Haha yah, for me that took a bit of re-reading ><

Voyd · Post by **Voyd** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 10:56 pm

Robert Jordan - Wheel of Time.

its a series of twelve books (eleven written, one to go apparently) with a prequel written called New Spring (I believe. It's in my room, so I can get it if you want more infor).

They're pretty long books, and they usually take me acoupla days of flat out (reeeeally flat out, as in giving up food and sleep to read) to finish each book, so hopefully they should take you a bit to get through ^^

its quite hard to explain em, but its a ripping series

Alternatively, I've started reading a trilogy called the Engineer's Trilogy - not as strange as it sounds

its actually pretty good, the first one's called 'Devices and Desires' by K.J. Parker - its a bit smaller than each WOT, but not by that much. Havent seen the other two on shelves yet though, so that's a con for that series... ^^

Neoflame · Post by **Neoflame** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 7:26 am

all the Cronicles Of Narnia. not just the Lion, the Witch, an the Wardrobe. last one had the best ending i ever read. an the Broken Sky series was exelent.

BoneSatellite · Post by **BoneSatellite** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 7:36 pm

(Strange & Norrell is on my 200+ item reading list.

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Wind on Fire trilogy by William Nicholson
Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
Haunting of Alaizabel Cray by Chris Wooding (same author as Broken Sky)
Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Souls in the Great Machine by Sean McMullen
All books by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (particularly the ones with their Aloysus Pendergast character inem).

I could list sooooo many more, buyt these are the ones I think poeple here would like.

Rychon · Post by **Rychon** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 8:13 pm

Five page monologues need to DIE.

On a brighter note, I'm on page 666 out of 1069.

Azore · Post by **Azore** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 9:48 pm

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer & its sequel New Moon

Although shes a new writter & all, i completely feel in love with her books when my friend introduced me to them. Completely addictive book 'bout vampires, without the gothic ness [although i like that too] its more of a vampires in real world sorta thing, moderized i guess. Still, highly creative and just real. Mucho Mucho, awesomeo.

Catlegend · Post by **Catlegend** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 1:43 am

huh, sounds neat.

Winterkatze · Post by **Winterkatze** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 12:44 pm

Not for people with weak heart or stomach, nor for those with too much common sense: Kurt Vonnegut. My choice is either "Mother Night" (personal favourite), or "Slaughterhouse nr 5".
Enjoy?

Wildekarrde · Post by **Wildekarrde** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:14 pm

Anything by Terry Pratchett! Especially Soul Music (and the others about Death) Also, Larry Niven's Ringworld and the classics of Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series!

ok, this might end up being long...
First off, Robert Jordan may never end his series... it was supposed to be 8 books initially... but they are good once you get into them.

Atlas Shrugged broke my book club... and one my friends listened to it on CD and that speech really does take 3 hours... my problem with that book is that you don't need to read the book, just that speech... Part I was boring, Part II was good, Part III was boring... oh well... Ayn Rand was VERY anti-Socialism...

oh and Chronicles of Narnia ROCK (Go Voyage of Dawn Treader!)

Otherland is awesome, but I found that by time I finished the Second book I had forgotten a great deal that was in the first book... so I guess that means that rereadability... (NEW WORD!) is high...

Voyd · Post by **Voyd** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 12:09 am

chronicles of narnia is interesting, but VERY christian.

don't read if you get indoctrinated easily. or dont like being indoctrinated.

SERIOUSLY.

even some (pretty full on) christians think its a bit full-on sometimes...

(I just spent a week with 20-odd of them... ARG EATING MY BRAIN!)

(an di dont have anything against christianity... or any faith, really, i just dont like being indoctrinated)

LadyNightshade · Post by **LadyNightshade** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 6:03 am

Another book that is highly christian is Shadowmancer. I finished it earlier and it is very religious. It talks about the end of the world and has angels and the devil in it. I guess it doesn't help that it was written by a preist.

Wildekarrde · Post by **Wildekarrde** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 12:00 pm

Then their's the Sci-Fi Trilogy that CS Lewis did which is almost more blatent than the Chronicles of Narnia...