Dune by Frank Herbert
Stranger in a strange land by Robert Heinlein
Anything by Christopher Moore or Phillip K. Dick.
Stranger in a strange land by Robert Heinlein
Anything by Christopher Moore or Phillip K. Dick.
What is your favorite book?
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W;t (Wit) by Margaret Edson and The Crucible by Arthur Miller are both excellent. They're plays, not novels, but technically they're "books."
I high recommend Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It's a very short story, and I loved the way the characters developed and the way the story was presented.
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is pretty good too. It rambles a bit, and the first third is rather boring, but I grew to like the characters and the story isn't half bad (although there's a certain "plot twist" that you should be able to see coming MILES off).
If fantasy's more your thing, read The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring. You can stop there if you want; I found The Two Towers to be nigh-unbearably boring and Return of the King to be just okay.
The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud are very good fantasy stories as well. The second and third installments drag a bit when he switches perspective to a rather boring character (it only happens temporarily in both novels), but still excellent stories and characters.
1984 by George Orwell and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley are very good. I chose them to as my subjects for a research paper, and I loved them both.
If you have some time on your hands, read something by Tom Clancy. Patriot Games was excellent, and I also liked Red Storm Rising and The Cardinal of the Kremlin (although TCotK is very slow-paced). Skip Red Rabbit and Rainbow Six though. None of the others really stand out in my memory.
Read a bunch of Sherlock Holmes. He's a very good character and the stories are well-written.
I high recommend Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It's a very short story, and I loved the way the characters developed and the way the story was presented.
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is pretty good too. It rambles a bit, and the first third is rather boring, but I grew to like the characters and the story isn't half bad (although there's a certain "plot twist" that you should be able to see coming MILES off).
If fantasy's more your thing, read The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring. You can stop there if you want; I found The Two Towers to be nigh-unbearably boring and Return of the King to be just okay.
The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud are very good fantasy stories as well. The second and third installments drag a bit when he switches perspective to a rather boring character (it only happens temporarily in both novels), but still excellent stories and characters.
1984 by George Orwell and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley are very good. I chose them to as my subjects for a research paper, and I loved them both.
If you have some time on your hands, read something by Tom Clancy. Patriot Games was excellent, and I also liked Red Storm Rising and The Cardinal of the Kremlin (although TCotK is very slow-paced). Skip Red Rabbit and Rainbow Six though. None of the others really stand out in my memory.
Read a bunch of Sherlock Holmes. He's a very good character and the stories are well-written.
For a very long time it has been "On a Pale Horse" by Piers Anthony...I try to re-read the series every couple of years. There are a lot of books I love, but for whatever reason when I first read that book 10+ years ago something stuck with me.
Oh, and "The Waste Land: And Other Poems" by T.S. Eliot. Brilliant stuff.
Oh, and "The Waste Land: And Other Poems" by T.S. Eliot. Brilliant stuff.
And unlike American Gods, the story doesn't kinda peter out toward the end.PedroSteckecilo post=18.68923.645076 said:
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke is amazing. Some people found the Victorian spelling and prose style unbearable, but for me it only heightened the charm. It's a wonderful tale of perception of magic and the reality of magic. Here's the paragraph that hooked me for good:
"Lascelles blinked two or three times and opened his mouth as if in surprize, but then, recovering himself, he shut his mouth again and assumed a supercilious expression; this he wore for the remainder of the night, as if he regularly attended houses where young ladies were raised from the dead and considered this particular example to have been, upon the whole, a rather dull affair."
No they don't! I hate zombies! Which is why I like hearing stories about humans over coming them.GrimRox post=18.68923.645662 said:
Even though I haven't read Anansi Boys, I'm pretty sure he is, because I've read it in other places (wikipedia).Khell_Sennet post=18.68923.645661 said:
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho was good, so was Memnoch the Devil, by Anne Rice. Great books that are deep and thought provoking.
I think he's talking about the book based on the Halo games, but there could be a different one that shares the same name. Anyways, the author's Joseph Staten.TMAN10112 post=18.68923.644348 said: