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Recommend books you enjoyed
This book is so vivid in it's descriptions, you really feel like you are there inside her mind.
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Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller *I've only just started this one, and it's awesome already.
The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West *the very last line of this novel turns its speaker from simply an annoying character to one of the most infuriating examples of human blindness and arrogance in any book that I've read.
- HB
The Continuum Concept
Anything by Tom Robbins especially "Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates"
Anything by Daniel Quinn
Anything by Guy Gavriel Kay
Anything by Wil Wheaton
The Ends of our Exploring
Eunoia
and oh, so many more.
Dreams of Terror and Death : The Dream Cycle of H. P. Lovecraft - "The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath" alone is worth the price of admission.
The Lensman Series by E.E. "Doc" Smith - Space Opera at its best. See also the Skylark Series by the same author.
The Past Through Tomorrow - Robert A. Heinlein's Future History Series.
There's a thin line between genius and insanity - where's my eraser?
Maybe you can guess I'm sick, but I think History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell would be an interesting reading.
As lighter alternative, I strongly suggest the recipe book I wrote: Flavors and Tales of Torino
(who tells hackers don't cook? :D )
I wrote a recipe book...
by far, the most important:
Stranger in a Strange Land (Unabridged)- Robert A. Heinlein
The Abolition of Man - CS Lewis
Enders Game - Orson Scott Card
Enders Shadow - Orson Scott Card (just ignore the rest of the series)
Quicksilver - Neal Stephenson
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
The book that made me work in the IT industry...
John Brunner - Shockwave Rider (1975)
(OK I'm old!) Still a pretty good prediction of our current situation.
(p.s. extra vote for EE "Doc" Smith for a sci-fi romp)!
Is that still a recommendation?
As unread as I am, I did read Ishmael. Very Good.
Anything by Robin Hobbs. I'll never forget the Assassin/Ship/Fool trilogies that make one 9 book saga that I'm unhappy to have finished, and could not put down once i started
There are way to many to list so I will go with what I am reading now. :)
I would highly recommend the Anitta Blake, Vampire Hunter Novels by Laurell K. Hamilton.
I have read the first three and am working on the fourth. I have thoroughly enjoyed them. Her writing style reminds me of Robert Parker's (another author I would highly recommend).
Thus with imagined wing our swift scene flies,
In motion of no less celerity
Than that of thought.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is the best book I have read in a while.
You might want to pick up a copy of Bomber by Len Deighton - very much in the same "war is hell" vein. Masterfully written.
There's a thin line between genius and insanity - where's my eraser?
Does Anything Eat Wasps?: And 101 Other Questions (a collection of readers questions and answers from new scientist magazine*)
The "A song of Fire and Ice" series by George RR Martin (I hesitate to recommend a series of doorstop-sized books before the series has ended, but I really enjoyed these)
The Dark Tower series by Steven King
Anything written by Christopher Brookmyre (one of the only crime/thriller writers that I own everything they have written. I'm more of a sci-fi/fantasy/horror fan)
One for the Money by Janet Evanovich (chewing gum for the brain. Enjoyable pap)
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
*Yes, lots of things do. Birds and spiders. Most of the questions are more complicated that this.
This Space For Rent
Really? In each of those series, I ADORED the first book, thought the second was pretty good, and despised the third one. Especially the Assassin trilogy, when there was new plot strands being introduced 40 pages before the end of the series.
This Space For Rent
Lost Horizon (Milton)
The Summons (Grisham)
Anything by Richard Feynman or Stephen Hawking
Re: Recommend books you enjoyed
Heh. I've had that on my shelf for half a decade or more. You know it has sequels, right? As well as having written at least five other series-es? Pern, Talent (or Pegasus, spanning two entirely different times, one today, another far future), Freedom, and Brainship/Brawn, and one I never really wrapped my head around, just off of the top of my head. She's been writing for five decades or more.
OH MY GOD! Someone else who's read those?! Holy crap! GREAT books! Ancient, but damned awsome.
Yes yes, and Diamond Age! Though I'll admit, Snow Crash is a better story. Diamond Age is just a nice description of the future. And a decent story.
Uhm... decent books?
The Deed of Paksennarion by Elizabeth Moon. (Really anything by Elizabeth Moon.) It's actually three books in one. Huge.
The Wiz Biz (Two books in one), and subsequent books by Rick Cook. If you're a geek, into programming, and also into fantasy, you'll like these.
Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede. Ok ok, so they're books designed for middle school kids, but they've got a feel similar to Shrek's take on various fairy tales, and were written long before Shrek.
A Princess of Mars and subsequent books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Very 1890's type SciFi. These and other books are often mentioned by...
Robert A. Heinlein's Glory Road and many other books by Heinlein.
That's all for now.
Another fun series of books (if you don't think you are to old for them) is:
Horrible Science by Nick Arnold
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0439043638
Horrible Histories by Terry deary
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0439992257
(edit for Haddock-Boy. P.S.: Is everything O.K.? You seem a bit more touchy than usual. I don't think a simple long URL would be enough to piss you off and I don't have enough personal contact with you for you to be pissed at me, so I ask.)
Thus with imagined wing our swift scene flies,
In motion of no less celerity
Than that of thought.
Density of Souls by Christopher Rice.
At the Mountains of Madness by Lovecraft, and pretty much anything else he's written, too.
Anything by Haruki Murakami, but especially Norwegian Wood, or the Wind-up Bird Chronicle.
American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
this is an awesome thread, but for the love of god, if you're not going to linkify the book title, thereby shortening the lengthy amazon url, DISCOVER TINYURL!!!!!
- HB
Or, just cut the link off after the first number - all the rest is unnecessary to get to the Amazon product page:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0439043638
is all that's needed.
There's a thin line between genius and insanity - where's my eraser?
Thanks, Luna. I'll have to take a look. I love getting inside people's minds.
My all-time favorite: When HARLIE Was One. Out of print, sadly, but an excellent blend of Sci-Fi and philosophy that examines what it means to be human.
Also, Fantastic Voyage II. Not quite as deep, but enjoyable still.
By the way, if you want to buy any of these books and they're out of print try http://www.abebooks.com - pretty much anything can be had there, at great prices. Like a first edition hardcover of Steve Martin's Cruel Shoes for $2.25 + $3.00 shipping, or Edward Weston: Nudes in hardcover for $25.00 (check out the $350 "used and new" price on Amazon :D.)
There's a thin line between genius and insanity - where's my eraser?
Another good site for searching for used books is: http://www.bookfinder.com/
It searchs ABEBooks, Biblio, Amazon, etc... about 44 sites in all.
Thus with imagined wing our swift scene flies,
In motion of no less celerity
Than that of thought.
I would highly recommend Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan if you're into the film-noir/sci-fi genre. Most of his novels are really good.
If you're a zombie fan like me, you might actually want to take a look at Stephen King's "Cell". It talks about a violent catastrophe when a single message, broadcast simultaneously throughout the world, causes everyone to go on a homicidal frenzy. Think 28 Days Later with cellphones.
She laughed. ''Are there no heroes?" she asked.
"No," I told her. ''There are no heroes."
She said nothing.
''There are only human beings," I told her.
- Raiders of Gor
I also have too many to list, so here are a few that popped into my head.
I loved "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" by Salmon Rushdie.
I also like anything by Charles de Lint, but if you read too many in a row his stories can get a bit dark.
"Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China" by Jung Chang is an awesome story.
Another good book is "Fast Food Nation" by Eric Schlosser, more because it made me reconfirm why I am a vegetarian. Some scary facts in there!
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