Recommend me a book
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Topic: Recommend me a book
Posted By: ammolord
Subject: Recommend me a book
Date Posted: 31 December 2010 at 8:11pm
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So, my parents bought me a Nook for christmas, and iv used it alot more than I thought I would. Haivng finished Tucker Max's new book, I now have nothing else to read. So, forum, what should I look into next? ------------- PSN Tag: AmmoLord XBL: xXAmmoLordXx ~Minister of Tinkering With Things That Go "BOOM!"(AKA Minister of Munitions)~ |
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 31 December 2010 at 8:33pm
| 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. |
Posted By: ammolord
Date Posted: 31 December 2010 at 8:41pm
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Lol, il have to check it out. Anyone else have other books? ------------- PSN Tag: AmmoLord XBL: xXAmmoLordXx ~Minister of Tinkering With Things That Go "BOOM!"(AKA Minister of Munitions)~ |
Posted By: oldpbnoob
Date Posted: 31 December 2010 at 9:54pm
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I am partial to Dean Koontz ------------- "When I grow up I want to marry a rich man and live in a condor next to the beach" -- My 7yr old daughter. |
Posted By: Tical3.0
Date Posted: 31 December 2010 at 10:43pm
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Adam Corollas book. In 50 years we'll all be chicks... or something like that ------------- I ♣ hippies. |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 31 December 2010 at 10:58pm
| 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. |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 31 December 2010 at 11:06pm
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The "Nightwatch" series by Sergei Lukyanenko
Metro:2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky One Soldier's War by Arkady Babchenko The Oath by Khassan Baiev Former two are sci-fi/fantasy that are really good Latter two are biographical stories of individual experiences in both Chechen wars. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 03 January 2011 at 5:50pm
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Day By Day Armageddon series by J.L. Bourne.
------------- Innocence proves nothing FUAC!!!!! |
Posted By: underground
Date Posted: 03 January 2011 at 6:28pm
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Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and Shadow of the Hegemon by Orson Scott Card.
------------- I believe if life gives you lemons, you should find someone life gave vodka and have a party. |
Posted By: usafpilot07
Date Posted: 03 January 2011 at 7:43pm
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.
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. ------------- Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo |
oldpbnoob wrote:Posted By: underground
Date Posted: 03 January 2011 at 8:04pm
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Anything by R.A. Salvatore is good if you like fantasy
------------- I believe if life gives you lemons, you should find someone life gave vodka and have a party. |
Posted By: Dazed
Date Posted: 04 January 2011 at 9:41am
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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). |
Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 04 January 2011 at 10:57am
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Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson. It's the true story of how a couple of recreational divers found and identified a missing German WW2 U-Boat off the shore of New Jersey.
Or for a modern sci-fi thriller, consider Daemon and it's sequel Freedom (tm) by Daniel Suarez. When a gifted but crazy video game programmer dies of cancer, a computer program he wrote is unleashed on the world, taking over and taking down computer networks all over the world. |
Posted By: Kingtiger
Date Posted: 04 January 2011 at 12:35pm
| The "A song of Ice and Fire" series. Start with "A Game of Thrones." |
Posted By: underground
Date Posted: 04 January 2011 at 12:45pm
Or better yet, don't start at all. These books will suck away YEARS of your life. They're that good. ------------- I believe if life gives you lemons, you should find someone life gave vodka and have a party. |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 04 January 2011 at 9:20pm
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. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: ParielIsBack
Date Posted: 04 January 2011 at 9:51pm
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I literally had to give up on the Wheel of Time. Maybe I'll pick it back up again someday, but it got to the point where it was just taking too much time to read. And that's coming from someone who's already read two books this week. If you're interested in some deeper reading, anything by Lt. Col. Grossman is generally edifying. Or terrifying, depending on your point of view. ------------- BU Engineering 2012 |
Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 04 January 2011 at 10:40pm
| What do you like to read? |
Posted By: ammolord
Date Posted: 04 January 2011 at 10:54pm
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Took shub's advise and bought Daemon. Iv been tryin to save it for class tomarrow, but im 160 pages in and it has me hooked. Im not huge into fantasy stuff, i used to read tom clancy n stuff along those lines. ------------- PSN Tag: AmmoLord XBL: xXAmmoLordXx ~Minister of Tinkering With Things That Go "BOOM!"(AKA Minister of Munitions)~ |