Book recommendations - what are you reading? - Page 6

Runkmud · #51 11-22-2006, 02:09 AM

If for some reason you haven't already read it, A Game Of Thrones, by George R.R. Martin, along with the entire series of Song of Fire and Ice is a fantastic read.

amplify · #52 11-22-2006, 02:53 AM

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If for some reason you haven't already read it, A Game Of Thrones, by George R.R. Martin, along with the entire series of Song of Fire and Ice is a fantastic read.

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He really needs to speed that thing up if he plans on actually finishing it.

tabako · #53 11-22-2006, 03:15 AM

Bright Lights Big City
Blink
Catch 22
The Things They Carried
The Tipping Point
Freakonomics
High Fidelity
A Clockwork Orange
Be Cool
Thank You For Smoking

Glo · #54 11-22-2006, 04:54 AM

Just finished "The Five People You Meet in Heaven", by Mitch Albom. Great quick read, I highly recommend it. I don't read much and happened to randomly stumble upon this book (was looking for a cookbook). I was pleasantly surprised. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

I didn't know this was a movie... LOL, wow.

RunDownHouse · #55 11-22-2006, 05:14 AM

Weirdly enough, one of the (two?) passages for my AP Lit test in high school was from McCarthy's The Crossing. Those few paragraphs, probably less than a page total, were good enough that I picked the book up, and haven't looked back since. So, yeah, big recommendation from me.

kokiri · #56 11-22-2006, 06:04 AM

under the frog by tibor fischer . It's hard to stress enough how great a book i think this is, especially given how little known it is. Without doubt one of my top 5 of all time. It's the novelisation of Fischer's (grand?)father who played on a basketball team in communist hungary. There are a lot of other good books i could recommend but to name just one, which is likely new to people and that i woud strongly recommend, this is it.

bmxicle · #57 11-22-2006, 06:42 AM

the fountainhead by aynn rand.

Sciolist · #58 11-22-2006, 06:48 AM

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I didn't think I would like the series, but I too loved it. Just finished reading "The Historian." Really good novel based on Dracula. Must read. Also check out Dan Brown's "Digital Fortress."

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The first two Harry Potter books sucked. Then the more recent ones have been pretty good.

I have read the first 100 pages of the Historian, and it's been left at the bottom of my pile of semi-read books. I don't think it'll leave it anytime soon - it's boring.

I have an urgent need to punch Dan Brown in the face.

Sciolist · #59 11-22-2006, 07:01 AM

Under the Frog added to my Amazon list of things to buy Dec 1st (I spend like $200 per month at Amazon).

My favourite three books, in no particular order:

Pattern Recognition, William Gibson (not cyberpunk)
The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami

Also, I really liked "The Player of Games" by Iain M Banks. And most the books by most the authors in this post.

Sciolist · #60 11-22-2006, 07:03 AM

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the fountainhead by aynn rand.

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What did you think of Atlas Shrugged? I mean, I found it quite interesting, but it didn't half drag on. It needed to lose about 400 pages. Is The Fountainhead any better? I only read Atlas Shrugged as I made a deal with my boss that we'd swap books and we had to read them. I gave him a Noam Chomsky book. It was about a year ago and he hasn't finished it yet (Atlas Shrugged was his favourite ever book)