Does anyone know any good books?

At the moment I am waiting for the next "Wheel of Time" book to come out so I have nothing to read. I know "Dune" is suppose to be good but I dont know where to get the first book, and I dont like starting in the middle of a series. Also don't suggest LOTR because I read it and I thought it was crappy, it was a good story, I just dont like the way tolkens writes, but I loved the hobit so mabey it was just the way he wrote LOTR. I was reading "Gardens of the Moon Spawn" not long ago, but it was crap. I got half way through it and still wasn't sure what the main story was... so know any good books?

i hate reading

sounds like you are looking for fantasy books with dragons and elves
look in the kids section of the library, im sure you will find many... most of them even have pictures to make it easier for you.

Yes I enjoy reading fantasy books, although I have never read any with "pictures". I have read over 9100 pages, 16 book and none of them have ever been found in the "childrens section". LOTR is supposedly one of the greatest books of all time. Childrens book? i think not. Also I am pretty sure alot of the more "mature" members of this forum share an interest with so called "childrens" books. Would you call a Series with over 5000 pages a "childrens" book?

Silly weed.

Dune series by itself has 3-4 prequels, the original Dune, and then 2 sequels. Each of them is a masterpiece. LOTR are good but get kinda corny with the fantastic legend stuff, though the morals are great. Musicology kinda rocks alot if you're into music; describing the appeal of music to the mind and how it happens, good stuff. Fear is a book that describes how someone manifests fear in his mind and all about that deep psychological stuff which freaks like me love to read. If you like psychology, read Sigmund Freud's work. He can really disturb the casual reader though. Powers of Ten is a great one, its a book where there are pictures amplified tenfold each time, you go from a picture of a galaxy all the way down to the skin cells of a guy's hand. Mindblowing.

Wow I sound like a commercial...

Fear sounds pretty good I might check it out, how old is it?

No idea... I think you'll have a rough time finding the one I'm talking about, though. Many people stole the rather general title to put on their usually-crappy horror books. I dont know. The law for the copywrite expiration thingy states that the work is copywritten through the author's entire lifetime and then 50 years after his death. Maybe its that old? I dont really know. The version I have looks pretty old, it already has yellow sheets and the cover is thick and has a leather face on it to preserve the paper inside. Its pretty large, about 17" in length and 10" in width. Good luck :)

I took the time to read all 3 LOTR books. I cant say that I enjoyed reading them but the feeling of knowing I read one of the most ledgendary books of all time is kinda cool

i recently read Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. its a classic and i thought it was great.

All Dune and Ender sagas

Ender?

Modern fantasy books are genereally childish and poorly written, just some cheap adventures with characters/onsters taken from either lotr or casual variations of popular creatures. Many seem to find amusing these books, but personally i think they're empy and not interesting.
Currently i'm reading 'les contes drolatiques' by Balzac (literally it is 'the amusing stories'), and as the title says, they're short stories about "funny" situations in Europe (especially France) scattered in several times (1300-1700 i think). It's worth reading, if you can appreciate something that's not the usual dune or the stuff Weed defines for kids (you're more likely to find it in a library, it's a classic and i don't think there are recent prints).
Also reading for summer homework the iliad, the odissey (Omerus), miles gloriosus (Plautus) and adelphoe (Terenzius).. they're not exactly interesting but they're not bad :P

The Deathlands series by James Axler....beautifully written, series of books set 200 years in the future, the world is in ruins, mankind is hanging on by a thread, because of a nuculear holocaust caused in the year 2000 ( ok... a little outdated, but they're still good... the original books were written about 15-20 years ago ). Follows the story of a small band of people just trying to find a better place to call home.... worth a read. You can get most of them from amazon for like 5 bucks/book. I have most of them on tape, they keep me awake at work.

Meador if you like fantasy books but cant find any good ones, try The Wheel of Time. After about the third book it gets pretty dam good.

quote:Does anyone know any good books?One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

Read it.

I don't read much but I love world war books but there is one book (not a wordl war book) that I really liked: brave new world from aldous Huxley you really really got to read it

well, the wheel of time is somewhat better but still i don't like the genre..

The scarlet Letter is a great book............ "................"

Hustler Magazine is always good for a....um....uh....read, yeah, read...... they have good model...I,I mean articles, yeah articles..good articles.... good pictures too...

Eheh..
I like R.A.Salvatore's books, Stephen King is pretty much..king of modern horror.But I'll read anythin that's supposed 2 be good.Xcept Hairy Pothead... I kinda grew out of it...

FYI

Science fiction crap like Dune + LOTR = NOT good books

Lord of the rings gets very very dull towards the end... If you are into fantasy, may I suggest the Discworld series?

i still stick to the porn magazine tho....

Fantasy/SF books I may recommend:

"Ender's Game" - Orson Scott Card
"A Wizard of Earthsea" - Ursula K. Le Guin

other books I found interesting AND valuable: (very different, some not really suitable for kids)

"Master and Margarita" - Michail Bulhakow
"Winnie the Pooh" - AA Milne
"Birdy" - William Wharton
"Lord of the Flies" - William Golding
"Of Mice and Men" - John Steinbeck
"The Little Prince" - Antoine de Saint Exupéry

and much, much more...

playboy magazine.

yeh I have always wanted to read "lord of the flys" but have never gotten round to it.

thats why they make movies based on books so you dont have to read

If you can't see a difference between a book and a movie, you are really limited.

If you will see a movie instead of read a book you will know similar story, but the way you "process" the story in your mind is much different.

When you read a book you have to use your imagination to create images of the scenes and people in your mind. Your mind really have to work in creative way. When you watch a movie the story is already interpreted, the images are already created and just showed to you - you take someone's else visual interpretation of the story. You don't create your own, like it happens when reading a book.

And your experience afterall will be completely different (not better or worse - different).

Steal This Book is the greatest book ever

Here is a rundown of some of my favorite books (no particular genre, just random stuff)

-Catch-22 (Best. Book. Ever.)
-The Great Gatsby
-Of Mice and Men
-A Separate Peace
-Magic the Gathering: Nemesis
-The Hunt for Red October
-To Kill a Mockingbird

And heres some nice reading just to see things from a different perspective:
-Communist Manifesto
-Mein Kampf


Can't think of any more at the moment.

quote:The scarlet Letter is a great book

Yea... either that or it's not. Classic != maybe (that's "not equal" for you non C++ buffs). War of the Worlds is generally considered the first "sci-fi" book insofar as its the first to have lasers (heat rays) and aliens. But if you go read the book, it's kinda like being rectally violated by a giant barbed tentacle. Just when you think the pain can't get any worse, it pulls out.


Ender's Game was awsome.

Right now I'm reading the first three books of the Dragonlance series (there's about 40 of the damn books now though). So far it's pretty sweet.

If you don't get intimidated by big [:-censored]ing books, try the "Sword of Truth" series. The first three books rock hard (I got slogged down in the 4th though).

I like meh fantasy novels ;)

hey Social Poison, are you back to the forums for good or is this only a one time visit?

*shrugs* dunno, I just felt like posting.

As Sticky said, Terry Pratchett (Discworld series) is awesome. Sort of comic fantasy, but well done and British. Wilbur Smith is good too, adventure and romance sort of stuff, but good for some light reading. Wheel of Time's good, as is Dune. Another good fantasy series is 'The Sword of Truth' or something, by Terry Goodkind.

Some really good stuff is The Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon and Hannibal. Sooo good. Robert Ludlum, Tom Clancy, Grisham are some other good ones. I like a bunch of other stuff, but I'm too lazy to figure it out.

Apart from that, check out some classics (1984, Animal Farm, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, etc)

My favorite books (starting in a kind of order with the best...then just kinda naming random books I like):
-Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach (EVERYONE MUST READ THIS BOOK IT'LL TAKE LIKE 10 MINUTES, IT'S SHORT BUT YOU'LL WANT TO READ IT AGAIN AND AGAIN)
-Some trilogy of books that I forget the name of and the author. But I remember (kinda) the names of the books: The Amber Spyglass, The Subtle Knife, then there was one before those that I don't remember for some reason.
-Every Tom Clancy book ever written (Rainbow 6, Teeth of the Tiger, Hunt for Red October, Executive Orders, etc)
-Phantoms by Dean Koontz (god, that movie sucked...book was cool, though)
-And, assuming you have no problem keeping a gigantic number of characters, groups, etc straight, the Dune books are excellent.

Aquarius, awesome books, respect

The rest of you picked some stupid [:-censored]. You too, TFS

So I guess the thread name can be changed to "Good sh1t" ? Hehe... I dont know why people dont like "science fiction" in general, but I guess opinions vary. I likem because they let me forget about the [:-censored] in real life, which is, if anything, in abundant supply. So no, I dont like books about real life people either. The only "real" stuff that I read is deep freak psychology, sadly, you dont find quality psychology in everyday life. I wonder why... :)

Edit: O yeah, I'd say that whatever BMF likes is some stupid [:-censored] if he told us what he likes. Get on MSN bitch, long time no see.

If you think 'One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest' is stupid [:-censored], then you suck!

Hitman, I dont read any of your posts as a rule of thumb, so I must have missed that.

Ernest Hemingway
Leo Tolstoi
Kurt Vonnegut
Michail Bulhakow
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The list goes on and on

Gah!

quote:Originally posted by BMF

Hernest Hemingway




Is that Ernest Hemingway's evil twin?

I could have sworn it was spelt that way...

I vote on teh evul twin version...it is possible!
Teh truth is, that teh quality of books is gettin lower.. if this keeps up, literature will be cut out of the school subjects.

quote:Originally posted by DeMonIc
if this keeps up, literature will be cut out of the school subjects.

that's just... bah

what a retard lol. Let me just ask you, what was the last book that you read? I mean for yourself, not the stuff they make you read in school.

Probably some comic.

Retarded people make this world a sad place to live in

quote:Retarded people make this world a sad place to live inI dunno, but I just find this line funny..

..*Glances at BMF's title* I swear I sometimes see that as 'Retarded Moderator'..

I wish Styx would put "Retarded Moderator" in there, but I do not technically mod anything anymore. A man can dream though.

i found "lord of the flies" boring...
anyway, Harry Pothead pawns!

heh
i wonder what the heck do people have for elves and dragons...
i can imagine them wearing a home made aluminium armor and going around like "im a knight of the round table ph34r m3!!!!!"

anyway, good books:
The Stand
the Space Oddisey seriers (2001, 2010, 2070)
The Lost world
The old man and the sea (the movie was bad, really bad)
Interview with the vampire (again, the movie sucked and missed many good scenes.)
and of course, the biggest fantasy book ever: the fuken bible.
believe it or not, it has more crap in there, more followers, and more reputation then any other bed-time stories collection.
only book with more followers must be either the Coran or Madonna's "Sex"

any of the books from the M.T.G series are phenominal, brown is also a good author.... he wrote such titles as: The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, deceptrion point, digital forestress is really good too if you are into technology and gov conspiracies,

Best book ever- All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque. Classic story of WWI from the German perspective.

A Study In Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle ....the birth of Sherlock Holmes. Bit short, but worth a read without doubt. Very captivating character.

Why don't you take a viddy at the starry roman called "A Clockwork Orange", brother, what a gloopy title. Its all horrorshow like.


Also:
Heart of Darkness
Great Expectations
Bleak House

Crime and Punishment

heres an interesting book that im reading now...

Stoner & Spaz by:Ron Koertge

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0763621501/qid=1088584891/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/103-4779530-9870245?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

and heres a really good one that i read before that kept me glued...

Soldier X By:Don Wulffson

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/067088863X/qid=1088585103/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/103-4779530-9870245?v=glance&s=books&n=507846


hope you enjoy,


-Dead Mike

Does anyone here recommend stories by Isaac Asimov?
I just want to know if I should read "I, Robot" before a potentially good book gets ruined by a movie with Will Smith.