I just got Stephen King's The Stand and The Dark Tower I from my grandma at her Christmas Eve party :thumbup:

Michael Crichton was a great author, I've read Jurassic Park a few times, and Disclosure, that was brilliant.

 

Ever read Prey? One of my faves.

 

I've got that lying around somewhere, never bothered to read it. I agree on Jurassic Park and The Lost World, though.

Michael Crichton was a great author, I've read Jurassic Park a few times, and Disclosure, that was brilliant.

 

Ever read Prey? One of my faves.

 

 

 

Can't believe I didn't mention Mr. Crichton. Prey was amazing, as was Disclosure (a book about office politics, interesting?! How the hell--).

 

 

 

I was so sad when I learned that he died.

I read alot. But I download the books off The Pirate Bay or something... I don't have the money to buy books. :?

 

I've never thought about downloading books before...

 

I know! I spent all this time downloading movies and TV shows, then I realised books were being torrented too.

 

I tried to read Brave New World on my computer, stopped at the sixth page. I can't stand it. :|

 

 

 

I don't think you got far enough to really have a good opinion on it. The starting chapters drag a bit, but it does pick up around the time "The Savage" is really introduced, albeit he is probably more civilised by my standards.

 

 

 

Anyway, I'd reccomend

 

 

 

Catcher in the Rye

 

Harry Potter series

 

His Dark Materials series

 

LOTR

 

Brave New World (assuming you can get past the first chapter at least)

 

Cal

 

Alex Rider series

 

 

 

Thats all I can think of for now.

 

 

 

His Dark materials is very good, i agree. =D> Northern lights and whatnot, eh?

Just finished reading "Secrets of the Monarch" - What the Dead Can Teach Us About Living a Better Life By Allison Dubois

 

 

 

It's a good book, even if it's not something you believe in there are some really valuable lessons about life.

 

 

 

A good book for someone who enjoys the TV Series "Medium"

i only read books when i have to :ugeek:

I can't believe I forgot to mention this: House of Leaves. By far my favorite book ever. It's just like nothing I've ever read before. Parts of it, I think-though I'm not sure-are written in stream of conciousness, the author writing everything he thinks. I've been meaning to try out another one like that.

Some books that my class requires me to read are alright. So far, I am liking "My Antonia".

I read all the time. At the moment, I love Twilight, and I'm re-reading Inkheart & Inkspell because Inkdeath just came out

 

Russell Brand's autobiography was amazing, as was Anthony Kiedis'

 

And I finished Motley Crue's 'The Dirt' a while back, that was really good

 

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I read a lot when I was a kid, not so much now though. Might be the lack of books.

 

Animal farm is very interesting. It's like communism written in kid language

Michael Crichton was a great author, I've read Jurassic Park a few times, and Disclosure, that was brilliant.

 

Ever read Prey? One of my faves.

 

I've got that lying around somewhere, never bothered to read it. I agree on Jurassic Park and The Lost World, though.

 

 

 

You should make a pointed effort to find your copy of Prey. It's top-notch Crichton.

 

 

 

I own all of his works of fiction, and have read all but Eaters of the Dead - I'll get to that eventually, though.

 

 

 

I highly suggest them all though! Congo was amazing, too. As was Next, although that was a real mind-twister... it's scary to think about patenting gene sequences, and finding out that a corporation can own part of your DNA..

I'm currently reading Douglas Adams' 5-book trilogy, the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy and all those. I enjoy witty English books \

Good books that I've read:

 

1984 & Animal Farm by George Orwell

 

The Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell

 

Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy

 

Don Qioxte by Miguel De Cervantes

 

Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

 

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

 

The Odyessy by Homer (of course)

 

The Ender's series (and Bean series) by Orson Scott Card

 

Eragon and it's sequels by Christopher Paolini are alright if you're looking for some generic fantasy

 

 

 

All I can really think of atm, might add some more later.

Read BladeRunner Screenplay, I highly reccomend it.

 

A Fine Balance (Rohiton Mistry)

 

Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)

 

The Tomorrow Series (John Marsden)

 

Anything by Kafka.

 

Catcher In the Rye.

 

To Kill A Mockingbird.

Eragon and it's sequels by Christopher Paolini are alright if you're looking for some generic fantasy

 

 

 

We being serious here?

 

 

 

But if you like the use of magic in there,seriously check out Spellsword by Tracy Hickman/Margaret Weiss (I forget which,they're usually together).Magic is like a currency and stuff,and its really interesting.

Wheel of Time series-my favorite fantasy series ever

 

Harry Potter-who hasn't read that by now

 

Twilight-they're fun reading

 

Inheritence-I like the idea of the series but author's choices annoy me a lot, as does Eragon himself

 

Farenheit 451-I liked author's commentary after book was best of all

 

Brave New World-book was interesting, and I got the extended version which i really enjoyed, about 100 pages extra of Huxley's world beliefs

 

To Kill A Mockingbird-I had to read that 9th grade but I never really understood why it was so great, it just seemed like another book to me

 

Any and all Star Wars books

 

Song of Lioness quartet was good, but I liked Jon better than George

 

Lord of the Rings-I love most of it but the Sam and Frodo parts I skip

Lord of the Rings-I love most of it but the Sam and Frodo parts I skip

 

 

 

What the hell? Why?

 

 

 

Those parts are the whole point of the books, the quest to destroy the ring.

I'm going to go to the bookstore tomorrow and grab what I can find of Crichton's. I haven't read a fiction book in so long.

 

 

 

I enjoyed the movies, let's see if the "book is better" mantra applies here.

Lord of the Rings-I love most of it but the Sam and Frodo parts I skip

 

 

 

What the hell? Why?

 

 

 

Those parts are the whole point of the books, the quest to destroy the ring.

 

 

 

Wandering through the wilderness complaining how bad the ring is gets boring. So I don't feel need to re-read those parts. I do enjoy the meeting with Faramir though.

Lord of the Rings-I love most of it but the Sam and Frodo parts I skip

 

 

 

What the hell? Why?

 

 

 

Those parts are the whole point of the books, the quest to destroy the ring.

 

 

 

Wandering through the wilderness complaining how bad the ring is gets boring. So I don't feel need to re-read those parts. I do enjoy the meeting with Faramir though.

 

 

 

Don't read Harry Potter.

 

 

 

I've not read Point of Impact for daaaaaaaaaaays.I need to get it back from school =(

I like to read...But I dont usually dont read much...

 

 

 

I dont know much books I would reconmend to you as I dont know you that much...But I would reconmend War of the Worlds. Awesome book. :

Lord of the Rings-I love most of it but the Sam and Frodo parts I skip

 

 

 

What the hell? Why?

 

 

 

Those parts are the whole point of the books, the quest to destroy the ring.

 

 

 

Wandering through the wilderness complaining how bad the ring is gets boring. So I don't feel need to re-read those parts. I do enjoy the meeting with Faramir though.

 

 

 

Don't read Harry Potter.

 

 

 

Hah, thats true. Alot of Deathly Hallows is more pointless wandering than Return of the King and Two Towers, and if finishes too soon.

ROTK and Two Towers are pointless wandering?

ROTK and Two Towers are pointless wandering?

 

There's maybe only one chapter in RotK that I would classify as pointless wandering.

 

Though I admit I don't like The Two Towers that much. (Neither the book or movie - Or even the soundtrack) Though the Rohirrim are awesome...

ROTK and Two Towers are pointless wandering?

 

 

 

Well, I was more or less referring to how revan skips the Sam and Frodo parts...

 

 

 

But yeah, some parts do seem like more pointless wandering than anything. Not a bad thing, after all, I do like the detail into which Tolkien goes about the journey.

 

 

 

Honestly, I think that the book wouldn't be as great without the amount of detail that Tolkien goes into about Sam and Frodo's journey.

 

 

 

Whereas in Deathly Hallows, Rowling seems to have attempted this and failed. While Sam and Frodo kept moving, what was happening in Deathly Hallows? Sticking in 1 place most of the time, planning the next move. Got more repetitive the second time through than reading the entire LoTR series 4 times through.