Exciting Books

[wcrase (Waylon (Rain City Skills))]

@yooldman

Anything by:
Terry Pratchett
Jasper Fforde
Neil Gaiman

A man after my own heart. If you ever come to ohio , we need to have some beers and talk books and Yoyos.

[Yoyo_Kangaroo]

@mr.nightshadow95

Hmm interesting is it based on true events?

No. But it is ‘possible’. It’s very realistic sci-fi.

[mr.nightshadow95]

@Shadowz143

A few good series I’ve read are the following:

1. The Ranger’s Apprentice, also, there’s a follow up series titled “The Brotherband Chronicles”. They’re seriously good books. I absolutely love them. They’re not too lengthy, but they are amazing to read. Look them up! I’m always fascinated by medieval books.

2. Percy Jackson, seriously some of the best books I’ve ever read. Seriously, look into them, the movies don’t give them justice. Yes, they’re pretty short and they might be meant for a younger crowd, but I still love them.

3. The Last Apprentice, these are amazing books. Yes, they’re supposed to be horror books, but they’re not that scary! I actually lost track of where I was in this series… I need to catch up… haha!

I know a lot more books but I can’t remember anymore right now…

Hm interesting I haven’t read a scary book in a long time and they can be even worse than a scary movie, and I Love scary movies! the last scary book I read was one of the goosebumps cannot really recall which one but Those are great too. So awesome I will check some of those out!

[Jdrabik]

@Shadowz143

A few good series I’ve read are the following:

1. The Ranger’s Apprentice, also, there’s a follow up series titled “The Brotherband Chronicles”. They’re seriously good books. I absolutely love them. They’re not too lengthy, but they are amazing to read. Look them up! I’m always fascinated by medieval books.

2. Percy Jackson, seriously some of the best books I’ve ever read. Seriously, look into them, the movies don’t give them justice. Yes, they’re pretty short and they might be meant for a younger crowd, but I still love them.

3. The Last Apprentice, these are amazing books. Yes, they’re supposed to be horror books, but they’re not that scary! I actually lost track of where I was in this series… I need to catch up… haha!

I know a lot more books but I can’t remember anymore right now…

How on Earth did I forget Ranger’s Apprentice? That is seriously my favorite book series of all time.

[mr.nightshadow95]

Awesome guys we have some high quality books here I will start diving in when I finish reading this one!!

[Floosh]

@slowyojoe

The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail is, depending on who you talk to, a fully factional/fictional account of the Holy Grail through the ages, and the mysteries associated with the Illuminati and the Templars. It is an absolute treat, and was the basis for/the-original-of/nothing-to-do-with (and I apologize for those who I offend here) Dan Brown’s poorly written barrage of tripe that was the Da Vinci Code. Fermat’s Last Theorem is less controversial but no less cryptic and mysterious. It charts a famous mathematic problem through the ages that was relatively recently solved. However, it is pop-science and facty and therefore may not be your cup of tea, despite being an excellent yarn.

Umberto Eco’s works have a basis in fact but are fictional. However, they are written with the precision, clarity, wit, eloquence and care that few writers can ever achieve. If you are in any doubt as to the quality of the book you are reading, you need only look up Umberto Eco’s biography online to see why he can achieve such excellence in his literature.

Finally, although I didn’t add it before, another favorite author of mine recently passed away; and I would urge anyone reading this to seek out some of Iain Banks’ work. I would recommend his fiction and not his sci-fi (written under Iain M. Banks), from which came his most critically acclaimed work, The Wasp Factory. It may be a little outlandish for some tastes, but his later work like The Business were also well received and are less, well, odd.

Happy reading.

Dude that sounded so awesome.

[jhb8426 (Resident Curmudgeon)]

@slowyojoe

…Alternatively, indulge your fictional side, but still with hints of realism and intrigue and pick up some early Umberto Eco. I recommend Umberto Eco’s work to anyone, and challenge anyone not to become engrossed if you give it some effort. Foucault’s Pendulum will couple the other books nicely.

I’ve tried reading Eco’s “Foucault’s Pendulum” 3 times and could never get into it.

You want exciting, try “We Were Soldiers Once… and Young” by Joe Galloway.
(Skip the movie)

[yooldman]

@jhb8426

I’ve tried reading Eco’s “Foucault’s Pendulum” 3 times and could never get into it.

You want exciting, try “We Were Soldiers Once… and Young” by Joe Galloway.
(Skip the movie)

OK, after this I will admit to two failed attempts at “Gravity’s Rainbow” ;).

[slowyojoe]

@yooldman

OK, after this I will admit to two failed attempts at “Gravity’s Rainbow” ;).

You know what I was thinking about this novel just the other day, and gave it a cheeky Google because I couldn’t remember the name of Slothrop, and the wiki page sheds a little illumination on your pain. It begins…

“A lengthy, complex novel featuring a large cast of characters…”

EDIT: I should add here that I have given up on more worthy novels than I can count. I’m a literary philistine at heart. Anything ■■■■■■■■■■ makes me want to weep…

[yooldman]

@slowyojoe

You know what I was thinking about this novel just the other day, and gave it a cheeky Google because I couldn’t remember the name of Slothrop, and the wiki page sheds a little illumination on your pain. It begins…

“A lengthy, complex novel featuring a large cast of characters…”

Ha, that’s usually what I like. Read much David Foster Wallace? Or Flann O’Brien? (At Swim-Two-Birds is my favorite book ever, narrowly beating The Third Policeman.)

[slowyojoe]

It’s also what I enjoy although the only things I’ve read from those authors is parts of the Dalka(e?)y archive. It was enjoyable in an abstract kind of way. I know it’s based on ideas developed in the Third Policemen, but I didn’t learn that until afterwards. I think it may have been enjoyable to read that first. Needless to say although I enjoyed the bits I read, I wasn’t hooked enough to go back and read more - although this was a while ago, perhaps I’d get more out of it these days. Particularly given that my internal degree of cynicism seems to grow by the hour. David Foster Wallace I have read none of, but shall now look up

[yooldman]

Infinite Jest

Read it, it’s…a long, complex, awesome book. Plus, I’m a massive fan of endnotes and footnotes. Love the extra dimension.

(I’ll read almost anything you annotate.)

[yoyofoot]

@Floosh

I’m Pretty Keen on what I read, I don’t prefer to read any fiction books. I usually read conspiracy theory, Philosophy, Anti-Religion and self help books. I really enjoyed old man and the sea, Tuesdays with Morrie, Kite runner, Thousand splendid suns, Twenty thousand leagues under the sea and Fahrenheit 451.
Some of my favorites out of the genres I listed would be
-Communist Manifesto
-Gods Delusion
-The last lecture
-Why I Became a atheist
-48 laws of power
-Alchemist
-The art of seduction

But these are books I just prefer to read

I’m also a fan of self help books. Have you read any of these?

http://www.sitchin.com/

[mr.nightshadow95]

@yoyofoot

I’m also a fan of self help books. Have you read any of these?

http://www.sitchin.com/

Wow I was just reading about Gilgamesh in my humanities class. That is awesome that he has a book based on that I bet they are pretty interesting!

[Dif-E-YoMaMA]

The shining is great and way better than the movie. The Family is great, can’t say anything about the movie since I haven’t seen it yet. My favorite book that I have ever read was Tick Tock by James Patterson (part of the Michael Bennett series).

[mr.nightshadow95]

@Dif-E-YoMaMA

The shining is great and way better than the movie. The Family is great, can’t say anything about the movie since I haven’t seen it yet. My favorite book that I have ever read was Tick Tock by James Patterson (part of the Michael Bennett series).

If the shining is better than the movie I have to check it out because the movie is great! Very classic horror film

[abby1371]

If you want a book or series to read divergent trailer just came out

Better get reading.

[mr.nightshadow95]

@abby1371

If you want a book or series to read divergent trailer just came out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sutgWjz10sM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Better get reading.

Man that looks AWESOME so many books, so little time, but yes have to check that out!

[abby1371]

@mr.nightshadow95

Man that looks AWESOME so many books, so little time, but yes have to check that out!

from what I see from the trailers the book will be 10x better because from what I saw they already got some stuff wrong.

[Dreamer]

The Book Thief is really good. I love that it’s told in death’s perspective. I heard that it’s a movie too, but I don’t know about that having never seen it.