okay so I'm going to some book depot place on thursday and I guess you fill up a whole box of books and it just costs 30$. so I was just wandering is there any books that you can sugest to me, I'm more into fictional stuff. any books that you think are good, sugest please :)
Well, you are going to need to be more specific. Fantasy, noir, sci-fi ... etc.?
a good fantasy book would be nice, also I'm a fan of books about people stranded on islands etc. I read "hatchet" and " the Cay" and I loved them. I also read the Darren Shan series (teenage half vampire etc.) and I loved them the most. from that what can you sugest? or should I get into more detail?
Theres this book called dr.Illuminatus by Martin Booth. Its about these 2 kids (Pip and Tim) who live in a mansion. They find this kid who lives in their house named sebastion who is the son of an alchemist. Then he tells a story about this guy who was his dad's enemy.Then they go on an adventure to stop him. Pretty good book. Theres a sequal called soul stealer that im reading now.
What you like probably sucks. So instead, I'm going to list what I like.
# "House of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski because it will **** you up.
# Ear Swagger and Bob Lee Swagger series by Stephen Hunter - apparently "Point of Impact" is being made into the movie "Shooter"
# "World War Z" by Max Brooks. Couple years in the future. It's about a virus that quickly spreads that kills and revives its victims. Tells the tale of the world civilizations being destroyed and rebuilt. It's written as in an interview style, or people integral to the war/random people experiencing horrific events retelling what they went through. Just awesome stuff really.
# "Battle Royale" by Koushun Takami. Kids kidnapped, taken to an island, and forced to kill each other in the name of a government program.
# "The Berkut" by Joseph Heywood. Russian elites on the pursuit of a Nazi SS who took Hitler into hiding after he faked his suicide.
# "Prey" by Micheal Crichton. Probably his best book. nuff said.
etc etc
World War Z,and Battle Royale sound good. but what exactly is prey?
Anything and everything by Simon R. Green is phenomenal. My recommendation is to start out with the Deathstalker series, then read Blue Moon Rising, the 2 recently published collections of the Hawk & Fisher Adventures, and Beyond the Blue Moon. After that, you're ready for the first 3 Nightside books, followed by Drinking Midnight Wine, Shadow's Fall, and then the remaining Nightside books. He's my favorite living author after Douglas Adams died, and while he writes with more serious overtones, there is a lot of good ol' British comedy and even a referrence or two to Adams. Remarkable violence, melodramatic heroes and villains, and epic universes are what this man has created.
Right now I'm reading Scar Night, Alan Campbell's first novel. He was one of the designers/programmers of the grand theft auto series. While I didn't care for his video games, his book is top-notch! It's a dark fantasy tale of a vast city suspended over a bottomless abyss that worships an angry and vengeful god who has given the civilization military might and powerful heroes in exchange for the immortal souls of its citizens. Check it out.
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick. It's not really fantasy, but who cares, it's an awesome book.
Prey (one of the best books ever) ~ Michael Crichton
Wheel of Time series ~ Robert Jordan
House by Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti
Black by Ted Dekker
Red by Ted Dekker
White by Ted Dekker
Ted Dekker is one of my personal favorite authors. As, I'm sure you can tell.
I hate most books but the best book, war wise, I have ever read is Fallen' Angels by Walter Dean Myers. Also if you want something fantasy thats a little out there, but still not to unrealistic, read Inkheart, and its sequal, Inkspell, and sometime in the near future there will be a third, called Inkdawn. Happy reading.
I know its after the thursday but next time you go look for these.
Also if your a fan of Bruce Cambell, which is seen in the awesome movies Evil Dead 1-3, Within The Woods, and the old spice commercial, then you might want to check out his autobiography, If Chins Could Kill, and a new book he wrote called, Make Love The Bruce Cambell Way (nothing to do with sex i dont think)
No. Idiot.
Good call.
Idiot.
The Cleric Quintet by R.A. Salvatore
I'd suggest anything not by Salvatore. He sucks. He's seriously not a good writer, save decent fight scenes. He's the George Lucas of fantasy when it comes to character development and drama. Blows hard.
I'd recommend A Game of Thrones, by George R. R. Martin. If not that, they try any of the Ender series by Orson Scott Card. Nonfiction- Mere Christianity by CS Lewis, Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut, or Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk. Good starters.
I like nonfiction law stories. A Civil Action and The Innocent Man are my picks. Both very good reads.
A Civil Action is about a top-of-the-game lawyer who puts a great effort into a case only to lose everything.
The Innocent Man is about the wrongful conviction of a man with ongoing mental issues.
Scholastic Childrens Dictionary
Reminds me of when I used to climb trees
wondering if I should rep or de-rep you for that.
EDIT: your rep means nothing to me, especialy since it's non existant.
Gregory Maguire, you can't go wrong with his books but I'd recommend Wicked.
I don't read a book unless I know what it's about!
trailers spoil movies, descriptions spoil books.
face it there's no way to be completely un-spoiled unless you have no clue what you're watching or reading.
hey guys, let's debate whether or not reading the descriptions of books spoil them, and whether or not people can be held accountable for commenting about said descriptions... seeing as how that's relevent to the topic and all.
wow, joke get? I personally don't give a **** about spoilers unless the person spoils every moment of the book.
I was actually crackin on Red. Your reply was too short to require my effort (and it was obv a joke)
That wasn't in direct reference to you anyways.
Intensity by Dean Koontz
Tad Williams' trilogy of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn (The Dragonbone Chair, The Stone of Farwell, To Green Angel Tower) is quite good, as is his latest series which begins with Shadowmarch. Shadowplay is the second book. Sadly, just about everything else by this author sucks hard enough to get a bowling ball through a drinking straw.