Recommend me a book(s) to read!!

Beren said:
Uhh what are the last few books you read? And enjoyed/gave up on?
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i dont really read, thats the thing. i used to read a lot of anything from enciclopedias/Discovery/Animals to books to your magazines. but i kinda drifted of from reading, but now i havent picked up a book in a few years last book book i read was Fight Club, then got half way with Diary, now im reading 1984, which should take a couple of days to get through which i am enjoying at the moment.

so far books that sounds interesting or books ive been wanting to pick up are:

Choke
Invisible Monsters
Dan Browns first novel

and some others i dont remember lol
 
punky_munky said:
Filth - Irvine Welsh
Pretty unsettling book but one of my favourites. It's quite accessable too considering it's written in Scottish.

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I hated this book, I persevered till the end but it really is just disgusting for disgustingnesses sake. Read Porno too, well about 30 pages. TBH I would never read another Irvine Welsh book again. I did enjoy The Acid House and Ecstasy but these are his earlier stuff. I have a copy of Glue which I have never opened

I would recommend both of Lance Armstrong books inspirational stuff, Yes Man by Danny Wallace, well funny. If you like sport (football/cricket) then Manchester United Ruined My Life by Colin Shindler. Raging Bull by Jake La Motta, or Rough Ride by Paul Kimmage

For more serious stuff. Ernest Hemingway A Farewell To Arms, and The Old Man And The Sea are good. On the road by Jack Kerouac is excellent and if you like that then The Dharma Bums by the same author is good, the only other travel book he wrote is pretty crap, he was a one trick pony really with the whole continuous prose thing, and there is hardly any punctuation in the entire book. His fiction ain't too good either. Further to previous posts:- Joseph Hellers Catch 22 is worth reading
 
If you had to recommend a book aside from Fight Club by Chuck Pahalniuk, what other book would you recommend written by him?

I haven't read a good book in a while.
 
VonClinkerhofen said:
Manchester United Ruined My Life by Colin Shindler.
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That the one written by the City fan?? If it's the one I'm thinking of it was class. Also the Googlewhack book and anything else by Dave Gorman as well as Danny Wallace - Join Me made me laugh lots.

More serious - Polictical - Stupid White Men by Michael Moore is good and an eye opener, as is Farenheit 911.
 
Herman Hesse is a great author.
I read Steppenwolf and Narcisse et Goldmund many years ago and thoroughly enjoyed them

Also Laurie Lee - As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning .

For "fantasy" stuff I love RA MacAvoy. Tea with the Black Dragon, Book of Kells and the Damiano trilogy (Damiano, Damiano's Lute and Raphael) are all great.
 
Woah, my first book purchase in ages, I just ordered Choke by Chuck Palahniuk and The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley. Should be a couple of good reads :)
 
I hate threads like this, always makes me want to devote more time to reading like I used to and then ultimately be annoyed that I never seem to do so. :o
Might start reading on the bus to work.
 
I posted this here a few years ago so I don't know how up to date it is.


Isaac Asimov

THE granddaddy of “robot fiction”, I highly recommend you read at least some of his short stories (you’ll find most robots from later authors borrow some of his idea’s)

His numerous books include:

I Robot, Rest of the Robots, The Complete Robot (short story collections exploring how robots may be treated and dealt with, also introduces the famous “3 laws of Robotics”)
Caves of Steel A great (detective type) story that introduces one of 2 very important characters for his later books (although you may not know it until you have read a number of his 500 or more other books)
Foundation Series (Foundation, Second Foundation, Foundation and Earth etc, great books to read)

Bicentennial Man (written for Robin Williams? ;)

No known official site although plenty of other good ones


Iain M Banks (also writes fiction under the name Iain Banks) - My personal favourite!

His sci-fi books include:

Excession

Use of Weapons

Consider Phlebas

The State of the Art (a collection of short stories)

Most of his sci-fi books form part of his “Culture” series (but they are not really meant to be read in any particular order). Although many years ago now, I have read them all and found them utterly enthralling and very difficult to put down. I might even read them again come to think of it...

The official Iain M Banks site.


Ben Bova - Another recognised sci-fi God although I must confess to only reading one in my early teens and can't remember which it was, sorry.

Books include:

Mars

Return to Mars

Forge of God

The official site.


Arthur C Clarke

Credited as being the first man to think about and work out that a satellite could be placed in Geo-Synchronous orbit around the Earth (so you can blame him for Sky TV) in fact the geostationary orbit at 42,000 kilometers is named The Clarke Orbit

His numerous books include:

2001 - Space Odyssey

2010

The Fountains of Paradise

Waldo Inc (ever wonder why remote operated hands in things like power stations are sometimes referred to as “Waldo’s” this is it)

no known official site


William Gibson

Books include:

Neuromancer, the book that is accredited as starting the Cyberpunk style.

The official site.


Peter F Hamilton Books include:

A Second Chance at Eden (a collection of short stories that build up the background for his Nights Dawn Trilogy)

Nights Dawn Trilogy (The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist, The Naked God), a great series of books that build an immense universe full of characters and places

no known official site


Robert A Heinlein

Books include: (among many others)

Starship Troopers – Much better than the film (apart from a lack of Denise Richards)

Space Cadet
The Puppet Masters – Donald Sutherland starred in the film version

no known official site


Brian Herbert

Note: Son of Frank Herbert, teamed up with Kevin J Anderson to write the prequels to his fathers Dune series.

Dune: House Attreides

Dune: House Harkonnen

Dune: House Corrino

The official site.


Frank Herbert

Note: his son Brian Herbert has continued on prequels for his fathers books based on notes his father left behind.

Books include:

The Dune Trilogy (Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune)

The Second Dune Trilogy (God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, Chaptor House Dune)

All are highly recommended, although be warned they can be tough going at times.

The official site.


H.G.Wells

What can you say about HG Wells? He practically invented Science Fiction,

The War Of The Worlds is a classic everyone should have read at least once and The Time Machine is still arguably one of the best novels about time travel ever! The film was directed by Simon Wells, the great grandson, no less.

Books include:

The Time Machine

The War Of The Worlds

The Invisible Man

no known official site


John Wyndham

Another often ignored writer, but has written some of the best sci-fi books. The Day Of The Triffids is a certain classic, as is The Midwich Cuckoos. (At the Gates)

Books include:

The Day Of The Triffids

The Midwich Cuckoos

The Kraken Wakes

The Chyrsalids

Chocky

no known official site


Kurt Vonnegut

Books include:

Slaughterhouse Five about Billy Pilgrim, prisoner of war, optometrist and time-traveller. An Anti-War Novel based on Vonneguts experience of Dresden in WW2.

Timequake - Time repeats making everyone in the world endure ten years of deja-vu and a total loss of free will. Funny.

The official site.
 
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Sorry, i haven't read the thread for other peoples suggestions so if i repeat one, think of it as a re-recommendation!
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