I recommend...

Beren3000 · 06-04-2004, 07:06 AM

Have you read any good books that you'd like to recommend?

Post your recommendations here.

I recommend:

-Any Harlan Coben book (especially Tell No One )
-Any Stephen Hunter book
-The Jester by James Patterson and Andrew Gross

Hawklan · 06-07-2004, 05:02 PM

okey dokey here we go

for grown ups - Chung kuo series by David Wingrove

for teens - The dark is rising series by Susan Cooper

for all - The Chronicles of Hawklan by Roger Taylor ( I cant recommend them enough - wonderful evocative and heroic blah blah blah, plus I actually got an email off the author !! )

There you go see what you think - love to know if anyone has read them

zinnite · 06-07-2004, 08:15 PM

Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Cosmonaut Keep by Ken MacLeod
Random Acts of Senseless Violence by Jack Womack

...just for starters.

Hawklan · 06-07-2004, 08:19 PM

..its damn hard to stop...

try lord of the rings by JRR Tolkien, its quite good

Beren3000 · 06-07-2004, 11:29 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Hawklan
try lord of the rings by JRR Tolkien, its quite good

good one

Starr Polish · 06-07-2004, 11:31 PM

Garth Nix's Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen (in that order) for those who really like fantasy.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

Beren3000 · 06-07-2004, 11:42 PM

I would also recommend Paradise Lost to any who haven't read it. It's simply AMAZING!

BelegS · 06-08-2004, 07:45 AM

More seconding then recommending but still,

Catch-22 by Heller.

Cryptomanicon by Stephenson.

Lady Ravyn · 06-15-2004, 10:17 PM

The Pearl Saga (The Ring of Five Dragons, The Veil of a Thousand Tears, and The Mistress of the Pearl) by Eric Van Lustbader

all threee books very good; the way lustbader does the societal makeups of the two peoples is amazingly well thought-out. he's got a very detailed caste system that, if you think about it, applies to the world here, just very subtley(sp?) try them! you'll like it!

Beren3000 · 06-16-2004, 01:40 AM

Thanks, Lady Ravyn. But the thing is I can't find the whole saga. I know there's the Ring of Five Dragons in one of the bookshops here, but I couldn't find the other two volumes

The Gaffer · 06-16-2004, 03:26 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by zinnite
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Two absolutely top choices there.

The Flounder by Gunter Grass (heavy going but a great variation on the Fall [that's in the biblical sense, not in the Mark E Smith sense])

Perfume and The Name of the Rose for those who like medieval murder mysteries.

Captain Correlli's Mandolin is a great love story, in spite of the film.

old scholar · 06-16-2004, 09:56 PM

i highly recommend Roots by alex haley and DonQuixote to everybody

Lady Ravyn · 06-20-2004, 02:02 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Beren3000
Thanks, Lady Ravyn. But the thing is I can't find the whole saga. I know there's the Ring of Five Dragons in one of the bookshops here, but I couldn't find the other two volumes

i don't know if you shop online or if your parents would let you borrow their credit card (that's what mine do and i pay them back in cash when i get the books) but i found them on amazon: Mistress of the Pearl
The Veil of a Thousand Tears
hope the links work...

Beren3000 · 06-20-2004, 02:23 PM

Thanks for the link, Lady Ravyn (it does work).
But unfortunately, I haven't managed to convince my parents to shop for books online (yet... bwahahahaha!) *ahem*

but anyway, how does this series compare to other fantasy series (Wot, Lotr, Dune, etc...)?

sun-star · 06-21-2004, 10:17 AM

I recommend "The Heir of Redclyffe" by Charlotte Yonge. You will start reading it and think it is boring. Then you will realise it is fantastic

Lady Ravyn · 06-21-2004, 10:32 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Beren3000
Thanks for the link, Lady Ravyn (it does work).
But unfortunately, I haven't managed to convince my parents to shop for books online (yet... bwahahahaha!) *ahem* but anyway, how does this series compare to other fantasy series (Wot, Lotr, Dune, etc...)?

actually, i think since this is in general lit, we shouldn't be talking about fantasy; there's a thread for fantasy recomendations in that forum. i'll review it there, k?

btw, a very good non-fantasy is The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. depressing, but good. another sad but good one is The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Hawklan · 06-24-2004, 07:05 PM

Ive just finnished 2 books:

Band of brothers - Stephen e Ambrose

Eon - Greig Bear

Both excellent books and highly recommended

Beren3000 · 12-15-2004, 05:39 AM

BUMP

I recommend Demian by Herman Hesse to anyone, but especially to teenagers. If any of you has already read it, please tell me as I would enjoy discussing it.
Btw, for those of you who speak German, you might want to read it in its orginal language: Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend.

Ephel Duath · 12-22-2004, 12:15 AM

I would recomend Haroun and the Sea of Stories to all who haven't read it. This is an short, easy read but it is worth reading. I can't remember the author's name at the moment.

Mercutio · 12-22-2004, 01:15 PM

PG Wodehouse stuff is very fun, light reading. Also good, umm...ah I have a question for someone else. Would anyone here reccommend reading "Darcy's Story"? It's P&P told from Darcy's point of view; I saw it referenced somewhere else as being decent.

tell me more!

06-04-2004, 07:06 AM	#1
Beren3000 Fëanorophobic Join Date: May 2004 Location: Between the pages of a book Posts: 1,417	I recommend... Have you read any good books that you'd like to recommend? Post your recommendations here. I recommend: -Any Harlan Coben book (especially Tell No One ) -Any Stephen Hunter book -The Jester by James Patterson and Andrew Gross

06-07-2004, 05:02 PM	#2
Hawklan Enting Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: wirral - The Shire of the North Posts: 72	okey dokey here we go for grown ups - Chung kuo series by David Wingrove for teens - The dark is rising series by Susan Cooper for all - The Chronicles of Hawklan by Roger Taylor ( I cant recommend them enough - wonderful evocative and heroic blah blah blah, plus I actually got an email off the author !! ) There you go see what you think - love to know if anyone has read them __________________ . We know where the music's playing, let's go out and feel the night. Because I'm still in love with you, I want to see you dance again, because I'm still in love with you on this harvest moon.Well the sun is surely sinking down But the moon is slowly rising So this old world must still be spinning 'round And I still love you NIL SATIS NISI OPTIMUM

06-07-2004, 08:15 PM	#3
zinnite Elven Warrior Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Lawrence, Kansas, USA Posts: 195	Perdido Street Station by China Mieville A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Cosmonaut Keep by Ken MacLeod Random Acts of Senseless Violence by Jack Womack ...just for starters. __________________ A citizen runs to the fire department yelling that he's spotted a roaring blaze from his car. "WHERE IS IT?" the fire department asks, pen ready. "It rises like some brooding , glaring trail of cosmic fury from- " "WHERE? WHERE?" "Oh. Well, it blazes up from a crimson-sheathed visage brooding darkly above the haunted towers of impotent indignity which, like melons hovering unhappily over lifetimes of empty meaning which-" "THE ADDRESS!" "Oh. Oh, I didn't notice. But look for a brooding, glaring trail of cosmic fury rising from a crimson-sheathed visage-" They lead him back to his car, and send him on. -- Philip K. Dick "Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." -- Diderot

06-07-2004, 08:19 PM	#4
Hawklan Enting Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: wirral - The Shire of the North Posts: 72	..its damn hard to stop... try lord of the rings by JRR Tolkien, its quite good __________________ . We know where the music's playing, let's go out and feel the night. Because I'm still in love with you, I want to see you dance again, because I'm still in love with you on this harvest moon.Well the sun is surely sinking down But the moon is slowly rising So this old world must still be spinning 'round And I still love you NIL SATIS NISI OPTIMUM

06-07-2004, 11:31 PM	#6
Starr Polish Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Slow down and I sail on the river, slow down and I walk to the hill Posts: 2,389	Garth Nix's Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen (in that order) for those who really like fantasy. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. __________________ “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” –Bertrand Russell

06-07-2004, 11:42 PM	#7
Beren3000 Fëanorophobic Join Date: May 2004 Location: Between the pages of a book Posts: 1,417	I would also recommend Paradise Lost to any who haven't read it. It's simply AMAZING!

06-08-2004, 07:45 AM	#8
BelegS Enting Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 64	More seconding then recommending but still, Catch-22 by Heller. Cryptomanicon by Stephenson. __________________ Member of Guild of Bumbling Toilet Cleaners.

06-15-2004, 10:17 PM	#9
Lady Ravyn Thief Queen of Entmoot Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: oh, I just wander around, aimlessly... Posts: 1,060	The Pearl Saga (The Ring of Five Dragons, The Veil of a Thousand Tears, and The Mistress of the Pearl) by Eric Van Lustbader all threee books very good; the way lustbader does the societal makeups of the two peoples is amazingly well thought-out. he's got a very detailed caste system that, if you think about it, applies to the world here, just very subtley(sp?) try them! you'll like it! __________________ smooch Proud Member of the Evil Mooters and upstanding citizen of the Planet Bob! And all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be... My Space! Cynicism is what happens when a person opens their eyes; stops blinking in the sun, and starts wondering "why". Question everything, believe only that which you yourself deem true. Go ahead- Call me cynical.

06-16-2004, 01:40 AM	#10
Beren3000 Fëanorophobic Join Date: May 2004 Location: Between the pages of a book Posts: 1,417	Thanks, Lady Ravyn. But the thing is I can't find the whole saga. I know there's the Ring of Five Dragons in one of the bookshops here, but I couldn't find the other two volumes

06-16-2004, 09:56 PM	#12
old scholar Hobbit Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico Posts: 27	i highly recommend Roots by alex haley and DonQuixote to everybody __________________ ``Here at the end of all things, Sam´´ - Frodo

06-20-2004, 02:23 PM	#14
Beren3000 Fëanorophobic Join Date: May 2004 Location: Between the pages of a book Posts: 1,417	Thanks for the link, Lady Ravyn (it does work). But unfortunately, I haven't managed to convince my parents to shop for books online (yet... bwahahahaha!) ahem but anyway, how does this series compare to other fantasy series (Wot, Lotr, Dune, etc...)?

06-21-2004, 10:17 AM	#15
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	I recommend "The Heir of Redclyffe" by Charlotte Yonge. You will start reading it and think it is boring. Then you will realise it is fantastic __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

06-24-2004, 07:05 PM	#17
Hawklan Enting Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: wirral - The Shire of the North Posts: 72	Ive just finnished 2 books: Band of brothers - Stephen e Ambrose Eon - Greig Bear Both excellent books and highly recommended __________________ . We know where the music's playing, let's go out and feel the night. Because I'm still in love with you, I want to see you dance again, because I'm still in love with you on this harvest moon.Well the sun is surely sinking down But the moon is slowly rising So this old world must still be spinning 'round And I still love you NIL SATIS NISI OPTIMUM

12-15-2004, 05:39 AM	#18
Beren3000 Fëanorophobic Join Date: May 2004 Location: Between the pages of a book Posts: 1,417	BUMP I recommend Demian by Herman Hesse to anyone, but especially to teenagers. If any of you has already read it, please tell me as I would enjoy discussing it. Btw, for those of you who speak German, you might want to read it in its orginal language: Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend.

12-22-2004, 12:15 AM	#19
Ephel Duath Hobbit Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Fangorn Posts: 21	I would recomend Haroun and the Sea of Stories to all who haven't read it. This is an short, easy read but it is worth reading. I can't remember the author's name at the moment.

12-22-2004, 01:15 PM	#20
Mercutio Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Narnia Posts: 1,656	PG Wodehouse stuff is very fun, light reading. Also good, umm...ah I have a question for someone else. Would anyone here reccommend reading "Darcy's Story"? It's P&P told from Darcy's point of view; I saw it referenced somewhere else as being decent. tell me more! __________________ Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?". Interested in C.S. Lewis? Visit the forum dedicated to one of Tolkien's greatest contemporaries.

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