Books that you should read

[Murchie]

Read a lot of books?
List your favorites here.

I'll start it off with just a few.

The Da Vinci Code
Prey
The Count of Monte Cristo (hated the movie)
LOTR Series
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Siddhartha
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
1984

[Zanza]

I havent heard of any of those...no wait...yeah havent heard of em

[Gmex]

the deltora seires

[Z3r0]

aurgh i hated 1984... i thought it was pointless but dats probably just me...

harry potter anyone? hahhahaa

[Gmex]

as i said deltora seires now thats an awesome book series

[Murchie]

i hated 1984

LoL.
I loved that book.
Everytime I reread the book, I can see it from a different point of view.
But then again, I love those kind of books.

[Bap]

aurgh i hated 1984... i thought it was pointless but dats probably just me...

harry potter anyone? hahhahaa

O.o you hated 1984???? geez...i guess some people just can't handle the truth :P

lets see...Brave New World is another kinda like 1984 but not really..still good though
another one to read - RA Salvatore books..any of em, they are great

[Murchie]

Brave New World was alright.
Didn't enjoy it as much as 1984.
Harry Potter is cool too. But the 6th book will never come out :?

[Anbu Kunoichi Arashi]

:shock: I have scanned this thread and I am shocked and appalled that NO ONE listed "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams. Shame on y'all!

I would also like to recommend The Elvenbane series by Andre Norton and Mercedes Lackey as well as ANYTHING by Edgar Allan Poe.

[Anbu Kunoichi Arashi]

Harry Potter is cool too. But the 6th book will never come out :?
What's this about the 6th book not coming out?

[WhatsYourPoison?]

Eh, can't really books you should read, cause most of the books on my shelves are either lesbian trash novels or poetry and short SF stories...well that and non-fiction.
Wuthering Heights
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's nest
To Kill A Mockingbird
These three books taught me all i need to know..never fall in love..never get locked up in a mental insitute..and never ever go into the deep south of america

[ZrAeNiAn]

Brave New World was alright.
Didn't enjoy it as much as 1984.
Harry Potter is cool too. But the 6th book will never come out :?

i havent heard anything about a 6th book not comming, if she wont write a new one, she will leave millions of ppl in doubt. WAHTS gonna happen :S, the story aint finished. You cant just let millions of ppl in doubt

-Zr-

[Lixie]

Read a lot of books?
List your favorites here.

I'll start it off with just a few.

The Da Vinci Code
Prey
The Count of Monte Cristo (hated the movie)
LOTR Series
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Siddhartha
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
1984

I've read four of the things on your list. The ones in bold.

Other good books:

Prince of Nothing trilogy (the third is not out yet)
Sara Douglass' The Wayfarer's Redemption series
Sevenwaters Trilogy
Princes of Dublin
No Angels
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Battle Royale
The Swans' War trilogy (3rd's not out yet either)
The Queen's Fool
The French Lieutenant's Woman
The English Patient

Nonfiction:
The Friendly Dictatorship
Republic of Plato
Eyewitness to History

That's a small section of my book case, some of them are to the left of my bed. There are just too many good books out there.

[DJ Jaime]

What do you think about " Angels and Demons " ? >_<

Is it good? Im thinking in buying it, and I dont have much money right now...

Is it worth the buy? It seems like a good book :P

[K3V]

Hmmm...me doesn't really read that much...
Read quite a few of the discworld series....that's not too bad..

Hitchhiker's guide is good ^.^
me currently listenning to the radio version XD

[ScareCrow]

Don't make fun of me...but i love reading books..just a hobby i picked up over the years...

-Da Vinci Code
Tom Clancy books
STephen Hunter books
JAck Higgins books
Terry Brookes books
Mel Odom Books
LOTR series
Harry Potter is decent...
Picture of DOrian Gray
Watership Down
Anne Rice books
Tim la haye books
star wars books
manga :) if it counts
these among others...

[Murchie]

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

Yes, definitely a good book.
Oh, and concerning the sixth book in Harry Potter, I was just complaining about it because of so much delay it has had. As far as I know, the author already finished writing all the books.

[DJ Jaime]

Well, actually, that's not true, she's finishing the 6th one, but he hasnt finished either the 6th book nor the 7th one.. :wink:

[Murchie]

Oh, I read from a source somewhere else that she had finished all her books.
Also, forgot to add the Bourne series.

[DJ Jaime]

Yeah, the books are way better than the movie :P

I read in a newspaper about Harry Potter, and I read that J.K Rowling has almost finished writing the 6th one, but I think It will be released until 2005-2006 :cry:

[Bap]

i heard the sixth potter book is called like "The Half-Blood Prince" i think...i liked them all

i'm currently reading King Solomon's Mines..anyone read this one?? is it good?

[Kokoro]

i heard the sixth potter book is called like "The Half-Blood Prince"

It's true, that's the name of the sixth book, and it refers to Voldemort :wink:
I love all the books from Isaac Asimov, there truly great sci-fi with interesting twist, and they're all related to the universe he creates in his books :D I haven't read the ALL, but I've read quite a few of him.
I like books from Stephen King, specially The Shinning (THIS IS SCARY, unlike the movie...)
Edgar Allan Poe wrote great histories, worth reading at :)
Also, I love the books from Fredich Nietzche (I don't if I wrote that well), I've read The Antichrist and Human, too human. :wink: Great philosophy!

[Murchie]

Yah, Edgar Allen Poe is great.
Especially loved "Tell-Tale Heart"

[narutoIZZAbest]

i heard the sixth potter book is called like "The Half-Blood Prince"

It's true, that's the name of the sixth book, and it refers to Voldemort :wink:
I love all the books from Isaac Asimov, there truly great sci-fi with interesting twist, and they're all related to the universe he creates in his books :D I haven't read the ALL, but I've read quite a few of him.
I like books from Stephen King, specially The Shinning (THIS IS SCARY, unlike the movie...)
Edgar Allan Poe wrote great histories, worth reading at :)
Also, I love the books from Fredich Nietzche (I don't if I wrote that well), I've read The Antichrist and Human, too human. :wink: Great philosophy!
Stephen King?
I heard of him.Are his stories really that scary?
Whats that one about?

[B166ER]

what about terry pratchett ??!!! his books are maybe the funniest I ever read, and his world, the discworld is really great !!!! I onlly read the three first books, and I'll read the fourth when I'll have time but I recommend it for all of u

PS: who is it on your avatar murchie ?? is that u ?? cause if it is, I gotta say that you're really handsome:)

[Murchie]

LOL

Maybe I should change my avatar.
She's a Korean Actress.
I'm kinda infatuated over her after her performance in this one drama.

Anyways, I just finished Animal Farm.
Similar to 1984 but still brilliant.

[B166ER]

>Son of snaily/Dweezil
>Brother of pico/TheImprisonedOne
>Great grandkid of thompkinsbrian
>Grandkid of Lixie
well, I was kinda stupid :wink: it's difficult for u to be kid, a son, a brother ( so a guy...:p) and this beautiful woman on your avatar...
anyway what does 1984 talk about ??? everyone around me has already read it, everyone on this forum seems to have read it too, and I don't even know the subject of this so famous book

[Lukasz]

george orwell 1984
it is kinda political fiction.
it is happening in 1984. it was written before 84 so orwell was writting about future.
it talks about country where there is no freedom, no pleasure, no family and no friendship. and everything is controled by gov. : big brother.
it is very sad and it doesnt matter that it is happening in 84 (so in the past)
when orwell was writting the book there was no internet, cameras were rare things and were huge. the space was still empty. human brain was unknown thing. but orwell was able to write a very realstic book about society controlled by "bigbrother"
read the book,
it should be in schools (it is not in poland)
it teaches us how humans can be beaten by themselfs.

[Blue_Raine]

LOTR, although it realllllyyy drags.

"Jeet Kune Do" - Bruce Lee. For a man to invent his own martial art and understand it's principles, is amazing. Only 18 or so pages, but a good read.

[Lukasz]

i heard that shun tzu's Art of War is great thing to read and everyone should read it.
i read small exctracts from it and it sounds cool.

[Blue_Raine]

here's a link:

http://www.chinapage.com/sunzi-e.html

It's split up into annoying chapters, but at least its translated. Pretty interesting and ingenious stuff. It could be abridged, though.

[ZrAeNiAn]

i heard the sixth potter book is called like "The Half-Blood Prince"

It's true, that's the name of the sixth book, and it refers to Voldemort :wink:


that is not true, at the website of J.K. Rowling you can read it does not refer to Voldemort, i do have a hunch that its Neville Longbottom.

also there will be a new character introduced (maclachlan, or something like that) and there will be another dead. The speculations say it will be Mr. Weasly/Lupin/Snape but still al are speculations and i do not trust any other source then the writers website.

-Zr-

[MDFreak]

Harry Potter books are an annoyence:<

The Wheel of Time series-Robert Jordan
The Rai-Kirah series
the Brothers War-Jeff Grubb
The Burning City
Shades Children-Nix
Ender's Saga-Orson Scott Card
Beans Saga-Orson Scott Card
The Blending series

[W4ph3r]

books i'm currently reading...

1. Divine Comedy Vol. 1 - Dante Alighieri

2. Mythology - Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes - Edith Hamilton

3. Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton

[GM Juggernaut]

Go Divine Comedy! ^

Currently (re)reading the Hellsing manga series...recommended to all over 14 years old.

Also going through the With Fire and With Sword trilogy by Sienkiewicz. A classic.

Recently picked up What If? A hstory analysis that is really interesting...

Any of Asimov's books....I have all his works. I recommend them to Sci-fi readers everywhere.

[BlueSpider]

anyone heard of Raymond E Feist?
read his first book Magician

[Kuchiki]

I've got almost all of Feist's books. For the most part they're pretty good, easy to read. magician is probably the best of the lot, although the trilogy Dughter, Servand and Mistress of teh Empire were quite good too.

For really an excellent period piece I recommend Patrick Obrien who wrote Master and Commander and the Far Side of the World. These are two separate books which were combined to make the movie. They are excellent but I warn you, they are quite heavy on the jargon about the old warships of the 17-19th centuries.

[BlueSpider]

I've got almost all of Feist's books. For the most part they're pretty good, easy to read. magician is probably the best of the lot, although the trilogy Dughter, Servand and Mistress of teh Empire were quite good too.


the Empire trilogy was good but i liked the oroginal trilogy the best and the Sepentwar Saga. Im now waiting for the next lot of books set after the Sepernt Sage to come out.

[Kuchiki]

There are two of them already, Talon of the Silver Hawk and King of Foxes