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RickyLill

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Anything from Terry Pratchet and David Gemmel also check out the Malazan books if you like gritty fantasy war books ^^
 

Nouw

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Ir0n Squid said:
Robert Heinlein => Starship Troopers or The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
Probably the best first post I've seen.

"FOR THE EVERLASTING GLORY OF THE INFANTRY!"
 

Energylegzz

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Theres always books by Darren Shan or Eoin Colfer.....The Demonata and the Artemis Foul series are very good.
 

Logie--bear

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Skullduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy if you want to recapture the Harry Potter feeling. Plus it's one of the wittiest series since Hitchhiker's, though by no means are they meant to be comedy books.
 

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SnootyEnglishman said:
The Way of the Shadows by Brent Weeks.
I agree, that was a fantastic series. Went throught it in like 2 weeks.

George RR Martins 'Song of Ice and Fire' is also a pretty damn good series. Both in the fantasy genre mind you, but both a geared towards a more mature audience than your average sword and sorcery book.
 

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rabidmidget said:
Hitch hiker's guide, funniest book ever written
I agree. Hell, anything by Douglas Addams. Funny man.

OT: Try Slaughterhouse 5, by Kurt Vonnegut. Great book.
 

ScarecrowAlone

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The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks

Assassin stuff, with some mystery stuff, kinda.

Edit: Holy FUCK someone else has read it, and suggested it o.o Must amend my suggestion then.........

This Perfect Day by Ira Levins

Drug-enforced utopia, and breaking free of it.
 

fifty8th

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If you've just read Ender's Game read Ender's Shadow it is Ender's Game from the point of view of Bean. I liked Ender's Game but not so much the rest of Ender's Story, I did like all of the books that told Bean's story though.


My favorite book, The Beach by Alex Garland, the movie sucked but the book is Awesome (I've read it more than once) and gaming ties in a little. The author wrote the screenplay to the first 28 days zombie movie.
 
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3rd or 4thing Hitchhikers Guide...I lost count.
I really liked Catcher in the Rye when I was in high school.
1984 is good too, Brave New World as well with that theme.
Ever read Lord of the Rings? It's actually pretty neat. I like the linguistic flourishes.
If you want to be super depressed and weirded out: Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie Macdonald, I seriously could not put it down.
Count of Monte Cristo Read it. Seriously. The whole thing. It's amazing.
 

Chase Yojimbo

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Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy... Dragon Lance... and Dante Alegeri's 'Divinia Comedia', that ones a dry read though.
 

Cryofthewolf

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If I were you I'd totally pick up The Eye of the World, the first book in Robert Jordan's 'The Wheel of Time' series. They suck you in like there's no tomorrow. =-D
 

manicgreenapple

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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. This is the best book I've read so far, even better than my usual favorites by Anne Rice.

The Judas Strain by James Rollins. His stuff is like Dan Brown's, except a million times better in my opinion.
 

tthor

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'Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment', by James Patterson
its basicly about a group of teens/children who were genetically altered at birth by a group of scientists, giving them 1% avian DNA, resulting in them having wings. the book is mostly about this group running from the organization that created them. its my favorite series of all time.
 

Jaebird

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Even though I put it down, and never bothered to pick it up again (not out of disinterest; I got distracted by shiny baubles), but A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs is a pretty good action/adventure romp from the pulp fiction days.
 

savagecam

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Anything by R.A. Salvatore (Fantasy)
Anything by Arthur C. Clarke (Sci-Fi)
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn (Star Wars)
The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
America: The Book by Jon Stewart
 

Marik2

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Lineoutt said:
Hey all!

So recently, after taking a long hiatus from reading for fun, I finished Ender's Game. It reminded me how enjoyable reading can be (when not forced to read dull, school assigned books). However I have no idea what to read next so I turn to you, escapists. What books do you love? (fiction preferred but nonfiction is good as well)

Thank you :)
-Lineoutt
How bout this book? Its basically a what if christianity was destroyed during the black death?
 

tthor

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DarkHourPrince said:
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~
 

hamsterkilla

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Well you could always look into reading a series called "The Hunger games", by suzanne collins. It will make you think and is full of action. Lets see some other books ive enjoyed.

Inkheart series
The Maze Runner by James dashner
 

szs0061

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i am aware that this has likely already been said but im not gonna look for it, a song of ice and fire by george rr martin and the wheel of time by robert jordan are both extremely good( and as of yet unfinished) series that if you havent read i suggest you get off the internet and spend the next month of your life reading

edit: i cant believe i forgot about the five part hitchhikers guide to the galaxy trilogy they get hard to follow around the third or fourth book but its most definately worth it