The Books You Recommend to People.

[The Man Who Is Thursday]

I like to try to get people to read Bradbury's The Illustrated Man. It's a great collection of short stories.

Or The Brothers Karamazov, which is dense but worth it for the ideas.

 

[Baby Tea]

I usually only read Theological books, and the people interested in those aren't people I run into all the time.
However, I will recommend 'The Fighter's Heart' by Sam Sheridan to anyone who likes the UFC, or who, like me, didn't know a lot about it.
Changed my whole perspective on the sport. I went from apathetic to fan after reading that book.
Great read.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

didn't we just have 2 threads like this rather recently?

so my recommendations of stuff to read is the escapist forums and how the help section on how to use the search function

 

[The Man Who Is Thursday]

I usually only read Theological books, and the people interested in those aren't people I run into all the time.

Which ones? I have interest!

 

[Joshimodo]

Lord of the Flies.

Watchmen and V for Vendetta aren't proper books. They're graphic novels.

 

[Baby Tea]

I usually only read Theological books, and the people interested in those aren't people I run into all the time.

Which ones? I have interest!

Oh pretty much anything by Ravi Zacharias is just so freaking interesting (Especially 'Beyond Opinion' and 'The Lotus and the Cross'). I'm currently reading 'The Myth of the Christian Religion' by Gregory A. Boyd, which is very very interesting as well. It's good to see I'm not the only Christian who thinks we need to break the traditional mold of the church and focus on the soteriological aspects of the faith, rather then the little stuff that doesn't matter.

 

[Nargleblarg]

For anyone who would enjoy a supervillan-ish book I suggest Evil Genius.

 

[Sprogus]

American Gods - Neil Gaiman. Bloody awesome book.

 

[The Man Who Is Thursday]

I usually only read Theological books, and the people interested in those aren't people I run into all the time.

Which ones? I have interest!

Oh pretty much anything by Ravi Zacharias is just so freaking interesting (Especially 'Beyond Opinion' and 'The Lotus and the Cross'). I'm currently reading 'The Myth of the Christian Religion' by Gregory A. Boyd, which is very very interesting as well. It's good to see I'm not the only Christian who thinks we need to break the traditional mold of the church and focus on the soteriological aspects of the faith, rather then the little stuff that doesn't matter.

I definitely agree with the latter statement. I haven't read Boyd's book, but I am familiar with his website and some of his other books. I like a lot of them, although I don't embrace his open theism. But if push came to shove, I'd take that over Calvinism every day of the week and twice on Sunday.

 

[foish]

The pendragon series is really awesome in my opinion.

 

[ZomgSharkz]

The Odyssey.

IMO, the best Greek mythology book.

Damn, I didn't think there was any chance someone would actually say that. Now I have to think of something else.

Into Thin Air, is a good book. It's sort of a non-fiction adventure/memoirs thing. It's about the disaster on Everest that happened sometime in the 1990's. Written by a journalist who was there when it happened.

 

[Kriptonite]

The Incarnations of Immortality series by Piers Anthony.

 

[MercenaryCanary]

I would recommend the Dexter series by Jeff Lindsay because it is cleverly written and is also darkly humorous at some points.

I've been trying to find this book series, as I loved the season. I hate that I watched the season first though... sometimes it ruins it.

didn't we just have 2 threads like this rather recently?

Actually, no. We haven't. The Search Bar was utilized. The Search Bar said nothing similar to this for 10 pages.

Atlas shrugged?

Are you serious?

Jurassic Park is a pretty awesome book though. Intensely violent aswell.

Yeah. I sort of am. Why? And hooray for the agreement on Jurassic Park.

 

[Arrers]

Denpends on what your looking for really. High Fidelety is a good read, if not at all intellectual. If you want somthing a bit smarter, I'd suggest The Outsider or The Plague by Albert Camus.

 

[esperandote]

i didnt even know those in the beggining were books xD

the four agreements

 

[inflamessoilwork]

I personally enjoy the Halo series of books.

Go ahead, flame away

 

[Simriel]

Anything by Terry Pratchett, the Skulduggery Pleasant series, and BATMAN! <.>

 

[Dimbo_Sama]

Watchmen
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy
V for Vendetta
Anything by Issac Asimov but mostly the Foundation series and I, Robot
Reaper Man and Hogfather by Terry Pratchet (all of his stuff is good but those are my favourite)
Lord of the Rings
and anything by Arthur C. Clarke but first and foremost, the Space Odyssy Series;
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[Sissas]

George Orwell's 1984. And I just started and am enjoying a lot Darkly Dreaming Dexter, which inspired the tv show. Even if you follow the series, it's worth to read the books. I'm not sure but I think there are 2 others, Dearly Devoted Dexter and Dark Dexter? Something like that.

 

[Tri Force95]

The Dresden Files series. Has Fantasy, Mystery, and humor all in one fucking awesome series.