Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson. All of his books are great but that's my fave.
"My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan." - Eric Cantona.
Lord of the Flies.
This is one of those things I could go on and on about. I read a lot, and I'm doing an English degree right now, so I'm also reading stuff that I might not otherwise have done.
What I read depends a lot on what kind of mood I'm in. Some books are much easier to read than others, the less serious books with less technical literary stuff going on, I guess.
For light, easy reading:
Terry Pratchett's Discworld series is a great set. Yes, there are a few duds in there, but there are about 30 books by now, and most of them are excellent.
Children's literature is often good for light reading. Harry Potter is good stuff, and gets much more interesting as it goes on. C.S. Lewis' wrote well, as long as you don't mind the heavy-handed Christian analogies.
Page-turner style "airport novels" are something I'll dip into. Tom Clancy has some good stuff. "The Da Vinci Code" was a good read, although the rest of Dan Brown's books are just rubbish. I used to read a lot of Stephen King when I was younger. While they're fine for a few hours distraction, in the past few years I guess I'm just finding them too superficial. It's like going to see a Bruckheimer movie, lots of flash and bang, very little real substance.
Sci-fi and Fantasy can be light and easy, like Pratchett, but it's not always. I enjoyed the Ender and Shadow series by Card. The Upllift series by David Brin is fascinating. I've read Lord of the Rings at least 11 or 12 times, so I must like something about it, but I've read very little other fantasy that I care to remember; fantasy writers seem a bit lazy to me, they just churn out a new take on the genre every few months.
Right now I've just finished reading Patrick O'Brien's "Aubrey-Maturin" series (from which the "Master and Commander" movie comes from. If I were to recommend any one thing from what I'm listing here, it's this series. Twenty books is a lot, and the first one takes a bit of working through the rather technical language, but once you're in it's awesome. I'm now moving onto Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, 'cause I've been watching the movies on DVD.
For serious stuff, I go back a bit. Edgar Allen Poe's short stories are among my favourite written works. Sheer brilliance. Wuthering Heights is a fantastic novel for examining, it's complexities are fascinating. James Joyce is excellent, "Ulysses" is worth the effort, I assure you. "The Canterbury Tales" are over 600 years old, but they're still great. And if you want something from beyond that, try Seamus Heaney's translation of "Beowulf".
Looks like my prediction of going on and on was right... I'll stop now.
What I read depends a lot on what kind of mood I'm in. Some books are much easier to read than others, the less serious books with less technical literary stuff going on, I guess.
For light, easy reading:
Terry Pratchett's Discworld series is a great set. Yes, there are a few duds in there, but there are about 30 books by now, and most of them are excellent.
Children's literature is often good for light reading. Harry Potter is good stuff, and gets much more interesting as it goes on. C.S. Lewis' wrote well, as long as you don't mind the heavy-handed Christian analogies.
Page-turner style "airport novels" are something I'll dip into. Tom Clancy has some good stuff. "The Da Vinci Code" was a good read, although the rest of Dan Brown's books are just rubbish. I used to read a lot of Stephen King when I was younger. While they're fine for a few hours distraction, in the past few years I guess I'm just finding them too superficial. It's like going to see a Bruckheimer movie, lots of flash and bang, very little real substance.
Sci-fi and Fantasy can be light and easy, like Pratchett, but it's not always. I enjoyed the Ender and Shadow series by Card. The Upllift series by David Brin is fascinating. I've read Lord of the Rings at least 11 or 12 times, so I must like something about it, but I've read very little other fantasy that I care to remember; fantasy writers seem a bit lazy to me, they just churn out a new take on the genre every few months.
Right now I've just finished reading Patrick O'Brien's "Aubrey-Maturin" series (from which the "Master and Commander" movie comes from. If I were to recommend any one thing from what I'm listing here, it's this series. Twenty books is a lot, and the first one takes a bit of working through the rather technical language, but once you're in it's awesome. I'm now moving onto Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, 'cause I've been watching the movies on DVD.
For serious stuff, I go back a bit. Edgar Allen Poe's short stories are among my favourite written works. Sheer brilliance. Wuthering Heights is a fantastic novel for examining, it's complexities are fascinating. James Joyce is excellent, "Ulysses" is worth the effort, I assure you. "The Canterbury Tales" are over 600 years old, but they're still great. And if you want something from beyond that, try Seamus Heaney's translation of "Beowulf".
Looks like my prediction of going on and on was right... I'll stop now.
Here it is. This hardly represents 1/1000th of my personal collection, but I'm not going to bother editing it:
http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?id=43783
http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?id=52995
Similar topics:unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Here's some awesome writers and some of their books. The ones listed are not by any means the only good ones I think these people have written, but they are ones that popped out in my mind when I skimmed my nearby bookshelf.
Douglas Adams ...even if you've read 2001-3001, you can't call yourself a sci-fi fan unless you've read some of these.
'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe'
'Life, The Universe and Everything'
'So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish'
'Mostly Harmless'
'Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul'
'The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time'
Robert Aspirin
'M.Y.T.H.' series
'Phule' series
Piers Anthony ...only this author seems to range from near-childrens'-sounding titles ('The Magic Fart') to books called 'Pornucopia.'
'Balook'
'Bio of a Space Tyrant' series ...is usually centered around events taking place on the United States of Jupiter and nearby moons, and moves now and then to other planets.
'Hard Sell'
'Incarnations of Immortality' series
'Killobyte' ...another take on killer video games (for real)
'Prothso Plus' ...a xenoperiodontist's adventures...
'Rings of Ice'
'Xanth' series ...is filled with enough puns for two years vomit supply.
Peter S. Beagle
'The Last Unicorn' ...might seem a bit sappy to some people, but it's classic fantasy.
Ray Bradbury
'Fahrenheit 451' ...don't settle for Moore's 911 rip-off.
Ben Bova
'The Grand Tour' series, starting with 'Mars', occasionally branches off into miniseries here and there.
'The Winds of Altair'
Diane Carey
'Best Destiny' ...is yet another Star Trek novel, but it goes into Kirk's past as a juvenile delinquent.
Lewis Carrol
'Phantasmagoria'
Jack L. Chalker
'Well of Souls' series ...almost as strange as you can get, except for a few Heinleins. This series packs its share of WTF's.
Deborah Chester
'LucasFilm's Alien Chronicles' trilogy ...is one I hope will never be made into a movie while Lucas is alive to potentially mess it up.
Arthur C. Clarke
'2001', '2010', '2061', '3001' ...are four awesome books. Not much else to say, really.
Gordon R. Dickson ...is an awesome writer and, being dead, thusly fulfills one of the high school reading prerequisites.
'The Dragon and the...' series
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' ...probably inspired Bruce Campbell's 'Army of Darkness: Evil Dead 3'.
T.S. Eliot
'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats' ...which Disney was thankfully unable to license, inspired the stage musical 'Cats'.
Alan Dean Foster
'Codgerspace'
'The Damned' trilogy, starts out in which humans, as the galaxy's most ill-tempered sentient species, are discovered by both sides of the galaxy's civil war, who both use various methods to try and recruit us.
'Spellsinger' series ...in this series, a flunky singer gets teleported to a dimension where songs influence magic. In no other series will the phrase 'time keeps on slippin'...into the future' will summon up an angry horse god.
Christie Golden
Warcraft: Lord of the Clans ...attempts to revive the storyline that Blizzard threw away when they ditched the animated adventure Warcraft title and went with World of Warcraft. I think Myst killed the adventure genre...let's hope Alan Wake can bring it back.
Winston Groom
'Forrest Gump' ...is a random collection of even more extreme and unfortunate events than was present in the film adaptation. Includes profanity.
Robert A. Heinlein
'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress' ...is the quintessential moon nation rebels against the earth story. Copied many times since.
'The Sixth Column' ...is almost universally derided by critics as being early, unpolished work and racist towards Asians. It isn't racist, and it's an awesome book.
'Starship Troopers' ...yes. Before you go professing love for the dumbed-down and ill-equipped and ill-funded movie, go read the real thing.
'Stranger in a Strange Land' ...available in an extended edition, is probably the only book I have ever heard of that features a human Martian messiah.
Brian Herbert
'Legends of Dune' and the 'Dune: House Trilogy' series ...are prequels to Frank Herbert's Dune.
Frank Herbert
'Dune' series ...up to #6, Chapterhouse Dune
'The Green Brain'
Robert E. Howard
'Conan' series ...continued by numerous other authors
C.S. Lewis
'The Chronicles of Narnia' ...consists of seven of his most popular books.
Anne McCaffrey
'Dragonriders of Pern' ...is quite a long and awesome series that began with the futuristic settlement of a world populated by small creatures resembling dragons. Recently taken over by Todd J. McCaffrey.
Larry Niven
'Gas Ring' series ...beginning with 'The Integral Trees'
'Ringworld' series ...alot of Halo fans think that Halo is so unique because it has a ring-shaped planet. I think not...
Chuck Palahniuk
'Fight Club: A Novel' ...you saw the movie? Fine, now read the book. Finished? Read some of his other stuff.
James Patterson
'Maximum Ride' series ...about escaped mutant bird things that run around, steal food, and run from/kill other mutant goons the lab sends after them. Sorry, they're not furries. Indistinguishable from humans, in fact, if you discount the wings, x-ray images, organ structure and DNA samples.
Ayn Rand
'Anthem'
'Atlas Shrugged'
'The Fountainhead'
J.K. Rowling
'Harry Potter' series ...is almost done being written. Despite its detractors, it is a viable work of fiction. And no, you won't learn Satanic rituals from it.
R.A. Salvatore
'The Dark Elf Trilogy', 'The Icewind Dale Trilogy', 'The Legacy of the Drow' series ...are nine books compressed into three books, set in the Neverwinter Nights universe. Hardcore fantasy.
'Echoes of the Fourth Magic' ...An interesting book about a submarine transported to an alternate dimension through a rift. Part of the 'Chronicles of Ynis Aielle' series.
William Shatner ...yes, I know...
'The Return' ...in this, Kirk is brought into the future yet again, but Shatner does a good job of it.
Robert Louis Stevenson
'Treasure Island' ...yes, the pirate book.
J.R.R. Tolkien ...you can't call yourself a fantasy fan unless you've at least read at least the basics
'The Silmarillion'
'The Hobbit; Or, There and Back Again' ...the Illustrated Edition is the second best.
'The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'
'The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers'
'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'
Want More Tolkien?
'Annotated Hobbit' ...addresses a few apparent inconsistancies
'Road Goes Ever On'
'The Tolkien Reader' ...also includes all contents from the out-of-print 'The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, and Other Verses from the Red Book'
'The Book of Lost Tales 1 (The History of Middle Earth, Vol. 1)'
'The Book of Lost Tales 2 (The History of Middle Earth, Vol. 2)'
'The Lays of Beleriand (The History of Middle Earth, Vol. 3)'
'The Shaping of Middle-Earth (The History of Middle Earth, Vol. 4)'
'The Lost Road and Other Writings (The History of Middle Earth, Vol. 5)'
'The Return of the Shadow: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part One (The History of Middle Earth, Vol. 6)'
'Treason of Isengard: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Two (The History of Middle Earth, Vol. 7)'
'The War of the Ring: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Three (The History of Middle Earth, Vol. 8)'
'Sauron Defeated: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Four (The History of Middle Earth, Vol. 9)'
'Morgoth's Ring: The Later Silmarillion, Part One (The History of Middle Earth, Vol. 10)'
'The War of the Jewels: The Later Silmarillion, Part Two (The History of Middle Earth, Vol. 11)'
'The Peoples of Middle Earth (The History of Middle Earth, Vol. 12)'
Jules Verne
'Around the World in 80 Days'
'20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'
'Journey to the Centre of the Earth'
H.G. Wells
'The First Men in the Moon'
'The Food of the Gods'
'In the Days of the Comet'
'The Invisible Man'
'The Island of Dr. Moreau'
'The Time Machine'
'The War of the Worlds'
------------------------------------------------------------------------
'Aliens vs. Predator: Prey' (Steve & Stephani Perry)
'Aliens vs. Predator: Hunter's Planet' (David Bischoff)
...these two books illustrate how the movie AvP should have been (Prey), and how its sequel should be (Hunter's Planet), had the movie been like Prey.
http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?id=43783
http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?id=52995
Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2007-05-28 17:44:38)
Franz Kafka - The metamophosis
James Joyce - A Portrait Of The Artist as A Young man
The novelisation of Caddyshack
James Joyce - A Portrait Of The Artist as A Young man
The novelisation of Caddyshack
Litterature? too easy *walks away...Archer wrote:
Post Away.
EDIT: Crap, wrong forum. Oh well, this talk's serious, dunno about debate. But serious.
I stood in line for four hours. They better give me a Wal-Mart gift card, or something. - Rodney Booker, Job Fair attendee.
the dictionary, so i know how to spell.
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson is fantastic (everyone should read it)
Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow (and those series)
Armor by John Steakley (it's sort of similar to Ender's game, psychological type)
Without Remorse, Clear and Present Danger, Patriot Games (and the other Clancy books)
1984
Brave New World
Crime and Punishment
The Picture of Dorian Gray (by Oscar Wilde)
Harry Potter books
Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow (and those series)
Armor by John Steakley (it's sort of similar to Ender's game, psychological type)
Without Remorse, Clear and Present Danger, Patriot Games (and the other Clancy books)
1984
Brave New World
Crime and Punishment
The Picture of Dorian Gray (by Oscar Wilde)
Harry Potter books
Alex Garland (The beach is a excellent book, I bring it with me every time I go on Holidays !)
Friedrich Nietzsche - thus spake zarathustra (good but heavy read, still haven't finished it after 3 years)
Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting, Porno (the follow up to trainspotting) It's good, he writes the Glasgow accent like it sounds.
Bringing Down the House : The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions.
it's not exactly brilliantly written but its really good for a true story (for any college guys who think they are good at math)
Friedrich Nietzsche - thus spake zarathustra (good but heavy read, still haven't finished it after 3 years)
Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting, Porno (the follow up to trainspotting) It's good, he writes the Glasgow accent like it sounds.
Bringing Down the House : The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions.
it's not exactly brilliantly written but its really good for a true story (for any college guys who think they are good at math)
Dune.
His Dark Materials (Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass)
most of Dean Koontz's books.
oh and butters I read bringing down the house, I thought it was very good
His Dark Materials (Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass)
most of Dean Koontz's books.
oh and butters I read bringing down the house, I thought it was very good
Last edited by SargeV1.4 (2007-05-29 03:35:10)
I'm with Bubs on this one.Bubbalo wrote:
I always hate these thread because they remind me of how many great books I really should read...................
Bubbalo Bill!
Whoa... Can't believe these forums are still kicking.
I'd agree with your friends. Mr Clark is the bomb.Archer wrote:
Ah, Tom Clancy had always been good. Remember the "His head exploded like a melon" line? lawlAdams_BJ wrote:
Rainbow 6
Though my friends say Without Remorse is his best work.
I've read countless books, but here a some of my favourites:
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
The Shining by Stephen King
I'll search my bookshelf when I get to motivation to move from this chair, but for now, they're the ones that spring into my mind from what I've read.
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
The Shining by Stephen King
I'll search my bookshelf when I get to motivation to move from this chair, but for now, they're the ones that spring into my mind from what I've read.
1984--George Orwell
Where The Red Fern Grows--Wilson Rawls
The Catcher In The Rye--J. D. Salinger
The Odyssey-Homer
Dirty Jokes and 101 Big Dick Jokes--Drew Carey
Leiningen Versus the Ants--Carl Stephenson
The Jungle--Upton Sinclair
Hatchet--Gary Paulson
How To Get A Girl To Anal In 3 Easy Steps--Unknown, found it in a truck stop bathroom about 4 years ago. Worked pretty good. Good read.
Where The Red Fern Grows--Wilson Rawls
The Catcher In The Rye--J. D. Salinger
The Odyssey-Homer
Dirty Jokes and 101 Big Dick Jokes--Drew Carey
Leiningen Versus the Ants--Carl Stephenson
The Jungle--Upton Sinclair
Hatchet--Gary Paulson
How To Get A Girl To Anal In 3 Easy Steps--Unknown, found it in a truck stop bathroom about 4 years ago. Worked pretty good. Good read.
playboy
Read a few (...uhm most...) of the above. The one (actually currently 11) that is my favorite:
Robert Jordan - The wheel of time - fantasy series.
Definitely the best fantasy book that I have ever read.
R
Robert Jordan - The wheel of time - fantasy series.
Definitely the best fantasy book that I have ever read.
R
All the jack reacher novels by lee child. jack will kick your ass
The Pendragon Series - T.J. MacHale (my favorite books ever)
Harry Potter Series
The Lord of the Rings
All Tom Clancy's work
Dan Brown's work
Any sports writing
Harry Potter Series
The Lord of the Rings
All Tom Clancy's work
Dan Brown's work
Any sports writing
Halo trilogy & Ghosts of Onyx
Batman : Breaking of Batman
Superman : The Death and Life of Superman
Wolverine : Lifeblood
Tom Clancy : Rainbox Six <----------------- The BEST
: Splinter Cell 1 - 3
: The Bear and the Dragon
: Executive Orders
: Patriot Games
: Clear and Present Games
: Sum of all fears
W.E.B. Griffon : The Hostage
Star Wars : All 6 episodes
: and alot more titles that I can't remember
Batman : Breaking of Batman
Superman : The Death and Life of Superman
Wolverine : Lifeblood
Tom Clancy : Rainbox Six <----------------- The BEST
: Splinter Cell 1 - 3
: The Bear and the Dragon
: Executive Orders
: Patriot Games
: Clear and Present Games
: Sum of all fears
W.E.B. Griffon : The Hostage
Star Wars : All 6 episodes
: and alot more titles that I can't remember
Non-Fiction:
Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden
No True Glory by Bing West
Fighting for Fallujah by John R. Ballard
The Devil's Sandbox by John Bruning
Fiasco: the American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks
The Troubled Future of Unconventional Warfare by Hy Rothstein
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
The E-Bomb by Doug Beason
Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War by Judith Miller
Silence Was a Weapon by Stuart Herrington
Fiction:
Lots of Stuff by Tom Clancy( especially Red Storm Rising, Patriot Games, and Executive Order)
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Kilo Class by Patrick Robinson
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
The Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Prey by Micheal Crichton
Relic, Thunderhead, Riptide, and The Ice Limit by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden
No True Glory by Bing West
Fighting for Fallujah by John R. Ballard
The Devil's Sandbox by John Bruning
Fiasco: the American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks
The Troubled Future of Unconventional Warfare by Hy Rothstein
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
The E-Bomb by Doug Beason
Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War by Judith Miller
Silence Was a Weapon by Stuart Herrington
Fiction:
Lots of Stuff by Tom Clancy( especially Red Storm Rising, Patriot Games, and Executive Order)
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Kilo Class by Patrick Robinson
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
The Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Prey by Micheal Crichton
Relic, Thunderhead, Riptide, and The Ice Limit by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Michael Crighton
Tom Clancy
Lord of the Rings
Harry Potter(yeah, flame away, but they're interesting)
There's some good star wars stuff out there too.
Tom Clancy
Lord of the Rings
Harry Potter(yeah, flame away, but they're interesting)
There's some good star wars stuff out there too.
FAR's
Picked up 3 new books recently.
In the Company of Heroes (Black Hawk Down Story)
Flyboys (Story of WWII pilots)
Terrorist (derka)
Finished Flyboys. It's awesome.
Halfway through Company of Heroes.
In the Company of Heroes (Black Hawk Down Story)
Flyboys (Story of WWII pilots)
Terrorist (derka)
Finished Flyboys. It's awesome.
Halfway through Company of Heroes.
Last edited by Poseidon (2007-06-16 22:00:44)