I love to read, but resently i havnt found the time to read anything, with my GCSE exams n training,
also i like to suggest 2 books.

1)Chuck planuik- fightclub ( yes the film, it was originaly a book, but a kick ass film too lol)

2)Chuck planuik- invisible monters

So what kind of books do you guys read

fosse

I'm a big Sci-Fi geek. The Dune series by Frank Herbert is my all-time favorite. I also like pretty much anything by Isaac Asimov, but The Foundation Trilogy is probably my favorite of his.

I read fight club and was suprised how well david fincher pulled that book off. Great book, all fans of the movie should seriously check it out. I tried reading 'choke' by chuck, but honestly didn't care for it. Too wierd, and the story didn't compell me. It might sound odd, but that last really good book I read was 'the three musketers' by Dumas. Yeah, I know, kind of an odd choice but I really enjoyed it. Read 'the hunt for red october' not too long ago, another great book if you're into military/adventure/suspensefull situations kind of stuff. Put the movie to shame.

The Dune series is also my favorite sci-fi series. Herbert's short stories are interesting too, and are available in a few different paperbacks (I recommend "Eye" as a representative collection.) Also in sci-fi are the classic authors (Asimov, Bradbury, Clarke.)

Faust is a great read if you like German literature. Three Muskateers is another great classic, along with the Count of Monte Cristo. Hilarious, too. Catch-22 is up there. Anything by Dante or Chomsky is good. Feynman's books are a nice, easy read (both the physics and non-physics texts.)

William Gibson's Neuromancer is another great book.

I've got many, many recommendations, but will stop now so I don't appear to be too much of the dork.

I read fight club and was suprised how well david fincher pulled that book off. Great book, all fans of the movie should seriously check it out. I tried reading 'choke' by chuck, but honestly didn't care for it. Too wierd, and the story didn't compell me. It might sound odd, but that last really good book I read was 'the three musketers' by Dumas. Yeah, I know, kind of an odd choice but I really enjoyed it. Read 'the hunt for red october' not too long ago, another great book if you're into military/adventure/suspensefull situations kind of stuff. Put the movie to shame.

yeah i wasnt to took back with choke, itwas more of a fight club for sex addicts lol, Hunt for read october is a very good book, i cnt stand the movie, Shawn conery didnt get the feel of the charecter across for me, three musketeers, that dnt seem a strange choice to me, although you should see the books i have on serial killers lol :p

fosse

The Dune series is also my favorite sci-fi series. Herbert's short stories are interesting too, and are available in a few different paperbacks (I recommend "Eye" as a representative collection.) Also in sci-fi are the classic authors (Asimov, Bradbury, Clarke.)

Faust is a great read if you like German literature. Three Muskateers is another great classic, along with the Count of Monte Cristo. Hilarious, too. Catch-22 is up there. Anything by Dante or Chomsky is good. Feynman's books are a nice, easy read (both the physics and non-physics texts.)

William Gibson's Neuromancer is another great book.

I've got many, many recommendations, but will stop now so I don't appear to be too much of the dork.

Bring 'em on! I'm looking for new reading material.

I've read all the ones you listed above. I recognize Neuromancer as a great book, but I really just couldn't get into it very much. Oh well.

Ever read A Canticle for Leibowitz? I believe the author is Walter Miller. It'll mess your mind up.

I had a phone salesman calling me while I was waiting for the bus. He asked me if I was one of the few left who really appreciated a good book, and I was like 'hahaha!!!'. Then he pursued 'You wouldn't want to be one of them?' (or something similar) me; 'ahahaha!!'. 'So I can't interest you in a book?' 'hahahahha-no-hehehe'.

I like books like Auto Repair for Dummies though (er, like to buy them and think that I will once read them). And I do have a weak spot for Jack London and Marian Keyes. But that's about it.

Stories about people surviving in the outback or walking through Canada's wilderness are welcome under my Christmas three, but they better be about experiences I feel I can learn from and a place I find interesting.

I had to read a novel for my exam this year and I read the first 50 pages (took me about 3-4 weeks) and the last 30-40. I made the rest out from varoius summaries.

Okie dokie, you asked for it.

Kafka - The Metamorphasis
Camus - The Stranger (One of my favorites, I heart nihilism/fatalsim)
Dante - Inferno, Purgatory
Unknown - The Nibelungenlied
Unknown - Beowulf
Chomsky - Anything, but I like Powers and Prospects
Salinger - Catcher and the Rye (Another one of my favorites)
Heller - Catch 22
Newton - Principia
Feynman - Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman?, as well as his Physics Lectures
Montaigne - His collection of essays
Milton - Paradise Lost
Aristotle - On Man in the Universe
Swift - A Modest Proposal (Heh, eating babies), Gulliver's Travels

Williams - Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn Series (Cheap Tolkein Fantasy Rip-off, but I like it :P)
Bradbury - The Martian Chronicles
Card - Ender's Game (Card is an ass, but his book is still good.)
Heinlein - Anything, I love his books.
Philip K. Dick - Again, Anything. Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep is my favorite

That's all I can come up with at the moment, I'll add later as I think of more.

I'm a big Sci-Fi geek. The Dune series by Frank Herbert is my all-time favorite. I also like pretty much anything by Isaac Asimov, but The Foundation Trilogy is probably my favorite of his.

I just finished Chapterhouse two days ago after starting the original Dune like 12 years ago. I re-read the original trilogy a few times along the way, but I always had to take a break after each of the last 3 books, just to absorb what was going on. Tripping without acid.

The new books by his son suck bad. It makes me sad. Supposedly he is now writing the book that was supposed to come after Chapterhouse, but I actually really liked the ending of Chapterhouse and thought it was a fine place to stop the series. Oh well.

Constantly. I'm reading "Mind Wide Open" by Steven Johnson right now.

I'm all about non-fiction.

I'm just now reading the Dune series (for the first time) and it's totally a favourite; I'm halfway through Children at the moment.

My favourite books are:

Count of Monte Cristo -- Dumas
Great Expectations -- Dickens
The Club Dumas -- Arturo Perez-Reverte
Dune (series) -- Frank Herbert
Mayfair Witch Chronicles (series) -- Anne Rice

i have lots of books that i dont finish :(. I reading the star wars episode 3 novel right now. these are the books on my desk that i have to finish.

Ayn Rand-Atlas Shrugged
Anne Rice- The Witching Hour
John Irving-A Widow for One Year
audrey Niffenegger-The Time Travlers Wife, this one is my favorite of the bunch.

I'm a big Sci-Fi geek. The Dune series by Frank Herbert is my all-time favorite. I also like pretty much anything by Isaac Asimov, but The Foundation Trilogy is probably my favorite of his.

That's Hot.

I really wanted the seventh and final book to "wrap everything up" so I was kinda mad at where Dune concluded. I haven't read his son's books I hear they are horrible.

I am just getting into Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson and am impressed so far.

-Allen

wish i had more time to explore new authors but so far my favorite since high school has been Dean Koontz, all his books are amazing

That's Hot.

I really wanted the seventh and final book to "wrap everything up" so I was kinda mad at where Dune concluded. I haven't read his son's books I hear they are horrible.

I am just getting into Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson and am impressed so far.

-Allen

Cryptonomicon is a great read, but I can't say I recommend the rest of the Baroque Cycle or whatever he calls it. Pretty lame.

wish i had more time to explore new authors but so far my favorite since high school has been Dean Koontz, all his books are amazing



I really like Dean Koontz- especially Intensity and Midnight. I also read Anne Rice and some Stephen King. I've been trying to step out of the ordinary lately, though. I purchased and read The Story of O, and was weirded out by that- wasn't at all what I expected. One of my favorites is Angela Carter, she writes variations of fairy tales with psychological twists and adult themes. One of her stories was made into a movie, "The Company of Wolves", which is one of my fave movies. It's a variation of Red Riding Hood, which I have some strange fixation with.

I also read some "kid's" books, if I need light reading, such as right before bed- That has included the first Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events, and all the Harry Potter series. My all-time favorite author is JRR Tolkien, and I was a Middle Earther waaaay before those beshitted movies came out. I'm the type that will also read Dungeons and Dragons books. I'm a geek! An old geek! Roll the 20-sided dice!

When in the dumps, a little old Bloom County comics is my standard fare, with the occasional Garfield.

Okie dokie, you asked for it.


Unknown - Beowulf


That's all I can come up with at the moment, I'll add later as I think of more.


I read that on like 2 years ago, nice story indeed :tucool:


How do you guys get into this hobby... most of the books that I read I have to read them because they're a must for some classes :confused:

Okie dokie, you asked for it.


Unknown - Beowulf


That's all I can come up with at the moment, I'll add later as I think of more.


I read that on like 2 years ago, nice story indeed :tucool:


How do you guys get into this hobby... most of the books that I read I have to read them because they're a must for some classes :confused:

My all-time favorite author is JRR Tolkien, and I was a Middle Earther waaaay before those beshitted movies came out. I'm the type that will also read Dungeons and Dragons books. I'm a geek! An old geek! Roll the 20-sided dice!

I'm with you all the way!

Lately I find reading to be very disapointing. I don't know, I just don't like modern literature. My 3 most favorite books are The Lord Of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien, Scarlet Sails (http://home.wanadoo.nl/scarletsails/) by Alexaner Green, the most beautiful love story I've ever read (though the heroine's name was odd ;) ) and both Hodja Nasreddin tales by Leonid Solovyov. My favorite autors are Mark Twain, Jerome K. Jerome and Mayne Reid. Probably there are more, but I can't think of any at the moment.

it's nice to see so many Dune fans in one place. normally when i mention that, all i get is a strange look or the "isn't that a movie on the sci-fi channel" question.

yeah, the lack of a seventh book kind of screwed me up as well. i got done with chapterhouse and then nearly cried. he opened up a whole can of worms there and now we'll never really know where he wanted to take it.

the nice thing about the Dune series is that you can reread it as many times as you want, and you never really get bored of it. well, i don't anyway.

as for the 'prequels', don't waste your money buying them. herbert's ideas were used as plotline base, but the writing is absolutely horrible.

also /agree with the lord of the rings series. although ... i like the movies too. don't stone me!

i really had high hopes for stephen king's dark tower series, but the last three books in it were crap, and the final book was basically stephen king giving all of his loyal dark tower fans the finger. i'm still mad at you, stephen king. anyone else notice a great decline in his writing ability after his car accident? anyway, the first dark tower novel is awesome, so i'd recommend that ... but don't bother with the rest of the series.

Constantly. I'm reading "Mind Wide Open" by Steven Johnson right now.

I'm all about non-fiction.

What the general story of that about, it sounds great, although never judge a book by its cover lol.

i love books that play with your mind you no where u finish it, and u sit back and think, woow that kicked ass lol :p

I'm rereading all my Stephen King books, because I'm a huge King fan. (Although his new colum with entertainment weekly is utterly, utterly terrible. UGH.)

PS. Does anyone happen to know where I can acquire the loads of short stories he's published in various magazines over the years, but haven't been collected and republished in paperback form?

I'm a librarian and work in the book industry, but still don't get to really read very much. I'm way overworked! :d_frown: Not enough time for reading when you work a lot of overtime.

I see there's a few here who liked Dumas books... those are my favorite. I read "The Man in the Iron Mask" years ago and loved it! Then I had to go back and read the other 4 books which led up to it. And then I had to read "The Count of Monte Cristo". I love the action and friendship in Dumas' books. I was crying my eyes out over Porthos in "The Man in the Iron Mask", and I seem to remember getting emotional quite frequently while reading all of those books.

I love "Lord of the Rings", which I've reread at least 3 times. I also love the Harry Potter books, which kind of surprised me at the time I read the first one.

The most recent book I read was an advance reading copy of Paulo Coelho's "The Zahir" (coming out in September) which was excellent.

My favorite strength training book that I read recently was "Getting Stronger" by Bill Pearl! :bb:

My comments and recommendations of things I've read recently in non-linear order:

- Stephen King: The first two Dark Tower books were f"ing awesome. I lost track of the books for a while and then tried to read one of the newer ones and was dumbfounded at how bad it was. His other books I loved: IT (all time, all time favorite. He makes the kids in that book seem SO real) and Cujo (scared the crap outta me. I can still "taste" sour milk from reading that damn book!!!)

- Road Dahl (best known for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory): His short stories are truly superb. "My Uncle Oswald" is one of the funniest books I've ever read (verrrrry adult humor).

- James Jones "The Thin Red Line": Absoultely one of the most horrifyingly, true life accounts of what slogging through the Pacific Theater in WWII was really like. The book literally gave me nightmares! For those of you who like a "non-war" war movie, the film of the same name is great as well, although, not taken DIRECTLY from the novel.

- Romeo & Juliet: Probably the finest writing in an otherwise out of this world catalog. Juliet is the most beautifully written/spoken character in literature, IMO.

- Herman Hesse "Siddhartha": Special book about self knowledge and discovery.


Other errata:

- David Eddings "The Belgariad" Series is something I remember liking many years ago.

- Orson Scott Card: Ender's Game is brilliant, though the sequels suck. His Alvin Apprentice Series is pure brilliance. Hart's Hope is good, but I tire of the religous gavel pounding.

- John Steinbeck is the finest American Author ever...Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, Cannery Row, East of Eden, 'nuff said

- Old time (High School and Before): John Norman's "Gor" Series, Piers Anthony, Phillip K. Dick, Dune, LOTR, so many more.........

Just finished Shogun and was enthralled through all 1200 pages. Amazing novel. I found myself completely capitaved by the beauty of feudal Japanese culture and appalled by it's brutality and callousness towards life all at the same time.

I'm going to start Tai-Pan next. Takes place 250 years later in Hong Kong.

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Just some of my personal favorites, I'm still reading Atlas Shrugged, but so far I absolutely love it

it's nice to see so many Dune fans in one place. normally when i mention that, all i get is a strange look or the "isn't that a movie on the sci-fi channel" question.

yeah, the lack of a seventh book kind of screwed me up as well. i got done with chapterhouse and then nearly cried. he opened up a whole can of worms there and now we'll never really know where he wanted to take it.



Without getting too spoilerish, I've heard some speculation that the last three pages of Chapterhouse are really about Herbert and his wife, about how he created Dune but it, in turn, defined him and became it's own autonomous universe, almost beyond his control. I like that explanation. :)

Without getting too spoilerish, I've heard some speculation that the last three pages of Chapterhouse are really about Herbert and his wife, about how he created Dune but it, in turn, defined him and became it's own autonomous universe, almost beyond his control. I like that explanation. :)

That sounds like a pretty good explanation. I'll have to go back and reread the last chapter.

I always just assumed it was a jumping off point to go into another realm completely, but I've been known to be wrong before :).

That sounds like a pretty good explanation. I'll have to go back and reread the last chapter.

I always just assumed it was a jumping off point to go into another realm completely, but I've been known to be wrong before :).

I don't buy it. It was some radical shift in the story. There was a LOT more to that story.

-Allen

Yeah, the ending of Chapterhouse is only frustrating when you realize that you will never hear the end of the story from Herbert himself. Sure, the seventh book will be based off his notes and be written by his son (is Kevin J. Anderson working on it, too?), but he is most definitely not as talented as his father. Damn, now I need to reread the series again.

The first couple Dark Tower books are great, and King also wrote a fantasy novel called "The Eyes of the Dragon" which I enjoyed. The Star Wars books are fun to read if you are just looking for escapism and some fan service.

My friend also has me reading some books by Leo Strauss, a prominant neoconservative. Very, very interesting if you are into that sort of thing.

I just read another good book turned into a good movie (although both the book and the movie fall short of their Fight Club analogs), Solaris by Stanislaw Lem (translated into English, not in French or Polish). I highly recommend it to anyone who likes Science Fiction, and I recommend it, but a little less highly, to people who aren't really into science fiction. It's a lot more "sciency" than the movie is.

I was a huge Asimov fan back in the day, and continue to be, although I feel like I've read all 535 or whatnot of his books twice each (although that is clearly not true). I read the Norby, the Mixed-Up Robot books when I was a kid, and Asimov's Chronology of the World was my by-the-bed reading for a long time while I was in high school. And, of course, the Foundation books, the Empire books, the Robot books, the short stories, the Memoires, all of it. I even read Opus 100 when I found a copy of it on a bookshelf in a rented beach house. Great stuff.

Not much. I read about six crappy novels a year. Clive cussler and junk like that. My primary source of literature is forums (ha!) and the news. I don't really have that much time to read. I could find an hour a night, I suppose, but after getting home and eating dinner/exercising/family time, it's time for bed and I'd rather get 8 hours sleep than 7 + 1 of reading. The exception to this would be when I'm into a really good book. I read the most on vacation when I fly or am on the beach or something.

I read a good bit as a kid and I think in fact that the more sh*t my damn english teacher shoved down our throats the less my love for reading. Those people can really take the love of learning from a person when the "learning" is the scarlet letter, tale of two freaking cities, and old totally irrelevant garbage like that. You know there's something inherently wrong with English courses when the majority of the books are abhored by the students. I liked lord of the flies and catcher in the rye, but most of the other books just plain old sucked. Thank god for Cole's notes (Clif's in the US...).

OMG the worst was shakespeare. Why exactly do school systems think that a kid is being helped much by being force-fed a couple of shakespeare books a year? My school, which was better than most, spent more time on that crap than the basics: after grade school they totally gave up on teaching us punctuation and grammar and how to actually _write_, which is why most people have fairly poor writing. I've had to play catch up on my own time in recent years. I'd forget the difference between it's and its, by by god I'd read that fvcking hamlet play, hadn't I?

Eek, time to put back the devil with.

It can be tough to read something that you don't understand, about things you seemingly have no interest in, about ficticious people that may or may not have lived 1,000 years ago.

It is also hard to get out of bed in the morning and go to the gym, to pass up the cake after dinner, to drink 1.5 gallons of water a day, to do 10 more minutes on the rowing machine, and just 10 more crunches.....

I read whenever I get the chance to. I read Dune a long time ago. One of my old roommates had the Dune series on VHS and I cought bits and pieces of it, and remembered some. I'm going to re-read it eventually. Right now I'm re-reading LOTR. My amazon wish list has over 100 sci-fi/fantasy books on it :D.

Lately Ive been working on this series by Laurell K Hamilton. the Anita Blake, vampire hunter series. Its pretty good actually. Takes place in present day St Louis just full of vamps and were's.

I was never a big sci-fi buff but back in my early 20's I dated a guy who was big time into all that and he got me to read Piers Anthony. The series was "the incarnations of immortality" and those books rocked. As soon as I finished one I started another.

I also wanted to reccommend a book I just finished reading about the Battle of the Bulge. Its by Donn Pearce (author of Cool Hand Luke) and its called Nobody Comes Back. I was surprised as someone who is not a lover of war books or movies, I really got into this. Sometimes books give you more of an education then school....

I just read another good book turned into a good movie (although both the book and the movie fall short of their Fight Club analogs), Solaris by Stanislaw Lem (translated into English, not in French or Polish). I highly recommend it to anyone who likes Science Fiction, and I recommend it, but a little less highly, to people who aren't really into science fiction. It's a lot more "sciency" than the movie is.

I read that book. Although I'm not a sci-fi person that book was intriguing enough, and had a very interesting concept.
The movies sucked though. The Russian movie was so boring I thought it might have been used as a form of torture somewhere. The American was cheesy and unaccurate.
But I don't see how a book like this can be made into a block buster anyway.

Another very favorate autor comes to mind - Agatha Christie!
Her books are a wonderfull read! She really knew how to build tension, and in all of her books that I read (I must have read all of them!) I've never figured out who the killer was! Well, except of one short story she wrote. It was pretty lame, she was much better at writing long stories.

Well, since I read her books in the army, I might as well mention another autor who's books I read while serving - Terry Goodkind.
Though this guy won't get any honorable mention! Although he writes fantasy books - a genre that I like, he is too much of a perverted sex maniac to actually enjoy the plot in his novels...
(Now I probably got people curious :p )

Lately Ive been working on this series by Laurell K Hamilton. the Anita Blake, vampire hunter series. Its pretty good actually. Takes place in present day St Louis just full of vamps and were's.

Just a warning, the last couple of books in that series are more like soft-core porn reads than novels. The first four or so are pretty good, though :).

I used to read Choose Your Own Adventures :flex: I think I also read a few Agatha Christie mysteries ... then I moved on to Stephen King. Lately I've been reading Palahniuk. I've read everything he has released except for the latest -- Haunted. I typically only read on plane trips and quiet parts of vacations.

I read that book. Although I'm not a sci-fi person that book was intriguing enough, and had a very interesting concept.
The movies sucked though. The Russian movie was so boring I thought it might have been used as a form of torture somewhere. The American was cheesy and unaccurate.
But I don't see how a book like this can be made into a block buster anyway.

I think if they wanted to make it a blockbuster, they probably should have just added a bunch of dinosaurs. Or maybe Darth Vader.

Yeah, the American movie drifted far away from the concept of the book, but the concept was bizarre and unfilmable enough that I don't blame them too much. Yeah, it was cheesy and pulled on the heartstrings quite a bit - but I enjoyed it well enough to consider it well-TiVoed.

Just a warning, the last couple of books in that series are more like soft-core porn reads than novels. The first four or so are pretty good, though :).


Haha, trust me, i've been warned already. Im a member of her forums and thats all everyone talks about is how much of a slut she becomes in the last few books. Im on Narcissus in Chains right now (where her slutness starts) it doesnt offend me but im getting kind of bored with it already and its only just begun. :rolleyes:

Haha, trust me, i've been warned already. Im a member of her forums and thats all everyone talks about is how much of a slut she becomes in the last few books. Im on Narcissus in Chains right now (where her slutness starts) it doesnt offend me but im getting kind of bored with it already and its only just begun. :rolleyes:

yeah, holla! i was skipping pages in that book to bypass the sex and find the plot! i don't mind that stuff scattered here and there, but sheesh, if i wanted that much, i could just go to literotica.com, you know? :spaz: but i did really like the series. until that book.

I thought Dan Simmon's 'Hyperion' and 'The Fall Of Hyperion' were some of the best SciFi I've ever read, but the two books after that were'nt as good.

I just finished 'Faithful' by Davitt Sigerson, which I thought was very good.

My favorite book is 'Angle Of Repose' by Wallace Stegner.

A couple more SciFi recommendations are 'Replay' by Ken Grimwood, and 'Oryx And Crake' by Margaret Atwood. I also heartily recommed Richard Morgan's 'Altered Carbon' and 'Broken Angels'.

For Mysteries, I recently enjoyed 'Bangkok 8' by John Burdett. The image of how a man is murdered at the beginning of the book is one I won't soon forget.

For something different, I recommend 'My Name Is Red' by Orhan Pamuk.