Recommend me a book

Killing Yourself To Live by Chuck Klosterman.   He drives across America visiting locations of influential rock and roll deaths. I really liked it, I'd say it's worth checking out for sure.

I am partial to Dean Koontz

What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell is good. It's a collection of New Yorker pieces that he wrote. Some really interesting articles, and it did quite well.

Day By Day Armageddon series by J.L. Bourne.

oldpbnoob wrote: I am partial to Dean Koontz

Same. Koontz is a great writer, and has been given an unfair tag as being a S. King wanna be. His books are great. I'd suggest the Odd Thomas series first.

underground wrote: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and Shadow of the Hegemon by Orson Scott Card.

I agree, but UG left out the rest of the Ender's Game story arc*  if you have some cash to spend on them, it's worth getting all of them.


*Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow are the stories of two people who cross each others paths in a rather significant way, but the stories 100% can stand on their own. I actually read Ender's Shadow first and had no idea I had missed anything. After the first two though, the characters lives take drastically different paths.

I THINK they go:

Ender's Game -> Speakers of the Dead -> Xenocide -> Children of the Mind

and

Ender's Shadow -> Shadow of the Hegemon -> Shadow of the Giant

Thought SoD and Xenocide may be reversed. Both series are some of my favorite books ever and I've reread all of them many times. Though the Ender's Game series becomes much more in depth and complicated than Ender's Shadow does.





Also, if you like fantasy stuff, I'd suggest the Dragon Prince series by Melanie Rawn.  I'm a pretty big closet nerd, and this series was pretty awesome. It's got like 6 books in it too, if you like getting into series stuff.

Both of Jim Butcher's series are pretty good. The Dresden Files (noir meets modern fantasy) and the Codex Alera (straight fantasy) series. There are some inconsistencies in the Codex Alera series that almost make me hesitate to recommend it, but they're good reads if you aren't critiquing them.

The Discworld series is pretty good for a laugh, and are just good books in general. Anansi Boys is one of my favorite books (can't go wrong with anything Gaiman, really. American Gods might appeal to this crowd more, honestly).

The "A song of Ice and Fire" series. Start with "A Game of Thrones."

underground wrote: Kingtiger wrote: The "A song of Ice and Fire" series. Start with "A Game of Thrones." Or better yet, don't start at all. These books will suck away YEARS of your life. They're that good.

They only suck the years out of your life due to the waiting that we've all been doing for George R. R. Martin to get his fat ass off the set of the miniseries and get back to writing goddammit!!!!

Now the Wheel of Time series by the late Robert Jordan really WILL eat up years of your life to finish.

What do you like to read?