Book Recommendations?

[Tharwen]

anything by terry pratchett

Seconded. You should also know that there's no need to start at the beginning of the series, as the only continuity between them is the occasional minor reference and one direct plot continuation between the first two.

Agreed, though I do think it's useful to start with the first book, just to get used to his writing style. Somehow I've always felt I wouldn't have been able to read any of his other books if I hadn't read that one.

I read the first one after reading almost all of the other ones. For the writing style, yes, I'd start near the beginning, but as far as the plot goes... there isn't one.

 

[likalaruku]

Comedies:
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Pride & Prejudice & Zombies (Plus the Dawn of the Dreadfuls prequil).
Sence & Sensibility & Seamonsters.
Never Sniff a Gift Fish.

Books aimed at children that adults usually end up reading themselves because the stories are too long, violent & depressing for kids:
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*A Series of Unfortunate Events.
*Harry Potter.

Other:
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Gone with the Wind. (It's deffinately not a romance).
The Shining.
The Vampire Chronicles (only IWTV, Lestat, & Pandora. The rest are terrible).
Someone mentioned Christoper Pike books a few posts back. The Starlight Crystal was good.

 

[FourEyedPandora]

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks
A Stranger is Watching by Mary Higgens Clark
Misery by Stephen King
The Street Lawyer by John Grisham

Just a warning, Rebecca starts off slow, and it's not a romance book - don't let the title fool you.

 

[Slash Dementia]

Plays:
The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare
Two Gentlemen of Verona, by William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare
Dido, Queen of Carthage, by Christopher Marlowe

Fantasy:
Son of Thunder, by Murray J.D. Leeder
Master of Chains, by Jess Lebow
The White Tribunal, by Paula Volsky
The Luck of Relian Kru, by Paula Volsky
The Gates of Twilight, by Paula Volsky
Mass Effect: Ascension & Revelation, by Drew Karpyshyn

Biography:
Masters of Doom, by David Kushner (biography of id Software)

 

[Swifteye]

See, it's opinions like that, that is why people don't take comics seriously as literature.
Yes, Sam and Max is fucking hillarious, and one of the greatest spoofs of the entire Film Noir genre ever, but if you're going to suggest a comic with literary worth why not Watchmen? or V for Vendetta (The Anarchist Manifesto by Alan Moore), or the early Judge Dredd books? or Black Summer?

If you're going for sheer stupidity and hillarity though, any, and I mean absolutely any of Ben Edlund's original Tick books, are sheer gold.

I reccomnded the comic books I've read and like and don't really apperciate your tone as I was only being nice and having a little fun.

 

[CrazyGeneral]

anything written by orson scott card and Aurthur c Clark two of the greatest writters of all time, oh and j.r.r. tolken.

 

[DarkHourPrince]

If you finished Ender's Game and liked it, I would highly recommend 1984 by George Orwell (it's pretty sweet for an older sci-fi novel) and Unwind by Neal Shusterman.

Unwind summary taken from Borders website: In a society where unwanted teens are salvaged for their body parts, three runaways fight the system that would "unwind" them.

I love science and genetics and whatnot, it kept me coming back time and again wanting to keep reading, which I usually don't feel compelled to do when reading.

i think you too would really love Maximum Ride. from the sound of it, it seems to have a very similar plotline. takes place in modern day US, Maximum Ride is about a group of teens/children who were genetically altered at birth to have 1% avain DNA, resulting in them having wings. the book is mainly about this group of kids running from the organization that created them, and trying to take them down. its my favorite book of all time~

I started reading that series but I have a difficult time following a plot that spans over more than one book (as Maxiumum ride has one or two predecessor novels) as I'm not a very avid reader so if I can't finish it in one novel I hardly keep following it.

 

[szs0061]

I second A Song of Ice and Fire. It's simply brilliant.

If you're up for something a little deeper, go read my absolute favourite: The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Last Vampire series by Christopher Pike. My favorite series.

Christopher Pike wrote a series of books? Are they in English or Morse-Code?

Thank you very much, that made my day.

i absolutely love oscar wilde, did you ever notice in the picture of dorian grey, wilde just switches to second person for like one statement randomly in the book? its just one time but its what always comes to mind when i think of it, its pretty great

 

[TheEvilCheese]

Hitch hiker's guide, funniest book ever written

Don't you mean funniest five part trilogy?
not six, damn it, 5!

 

[soren7550]

If you can ever find a copy, I highly recommend reading Perfect Dark: Initial Vector and Perfect Dark: Second Front. The writing for both is very excellent and don't have any of the cringe the games have (I still love the games to death though).

I also recommend Mass Effect: Revelation, Mass Effect: Ascension, Generation Kill (the true story of Marine Force Recon's invasion of Iraq), Love and Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain (an investigation of Kurt Cobain's death, it first started as a project to put to rest all the theories of someone murdering Cobain, but the end product shows something entirely different), and that's all I can think of at the moment.