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| Book Recommendations | Started by: AllDiceNotNice on Apr 13, '18 11:37 |
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Anything by Jim Butcher. Dresdan files are great urban fantasy, Codex Alera is rockin' high fantasy, and the cinder spires is shaping to be wicked good steampunk. |
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| Reply by: Philli-stein at Aug 27, '20 00:16 | |
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Obviously, Ready Player One if you haven't read it. (Just on the brain waiting for the sequel coming out.) Big thing is what have you already read? Dark Fantasy: Elric series by Moorcock is required reading. Historical Fiction: Fatherland is an awesome Alt History book. The list is endless |
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| Reply by: Enrai at Aug 27, '20 00:31 | |
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The Giver series is a fantastic four book series that goes through a "new world" where everyone are assigned jobs when of age and do that for the rest of their life. It's very dystopian and a fantastic read. |
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| Reply by: Kenji at Aug 28, '20 04:49 | |
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Stephen King's 'the dark tower' series is fabulous, less horror than his usual stuff but incredibly good, dark science fantasy. |
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| Reply by: Stoned_Cricket at Aug 28, '20 09:33 | |
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Anything by Terry Pratchett. |
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| Reply by: AllisonReynolds at Sep 10, '20 19:51 | |
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| A random one here. For kids my son bloody loves the brown bear brown bear what did you see series. Yes he's 1 | |
| Reply by: SammyNoShoes at Sep 11, '20 02:33 | |
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the Secret of the Golden Flower |
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| Reply by: Homey at Sep 11, '20 03:07 | |
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For anyone wanting to become a writer, Stephen King has a great book. |
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| Reply by: Ennio_Morricone at Sep 11, '20 03:48 | |
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| The Great Wall of China | |
| Reply by: Jono at Sep 11, '20 05:33 | |
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god damnit The Great Zoo of China * |
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| Reply by: Jono at Sep 11, '20 05:33 | |
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I am more of a non-fiction reader, and reader should read “listener” as I use audible alot. Here are some of my latest recommendations: Yuval Noah Harari - Sapians & 21 Lessons for the 21st Century Robert Sapolsky - Behave, Biology of Human Behavior (this is very meaty and technical, but goes through a primer in the earlier chapters, I am still reading it.) Both of these authors have done a bunch of TED talks, interesting guys. Regarding non-fiction, I started listening (probably because I returned here, heh, to Mario Puzo’s Godfather, the version I picked up on audible is narrated by the voice actor that plays as Fat Tony in the Simpsons, very entertaining so far. |
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| Reply by: Sal_Giaquinto at Sep 16, '20 12:21 | |
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From a fiction standpoint, I love the Raven King trilogy by Lawhead. It adds a slight twist to the traditional Robin Hood story. From a non-fiction standpoint, Azar Nafisi's books are wonderful. She is a lit professor from Iran who immigrated to the US years after the revolution. Great first hand perspective of what it meant to be female in a Muslim country during a revolution and the impending fall out of political change. Her books are some of the few I can't part with. |
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| Reply by: Avni-I at Oct 09, '20 22:33 | |
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The last good book I finished was The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. It has a lot of philosophical undertones that I enjoyed, and it's easy to get through it in one sitting too. It's a shame I haven't picked up a book since I finished this one in November 2019 though. |
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| Reply by: Kaya at Oct 10, '20 01:25 | |
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metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky, its also online in audio book form. Anyone who has played the metro games, will be familiar with the name, but is a dystopian future post nuclear bombing where people live in the moscow metro. The way trade and living has evolved, and the search for more survivors in the wider areas. It also shows even when people have no reason to help and nothing to gain, sometimes they do. I found parts of it a scary possibility of Russia, especiallly as go further through the books 2034/2035. |
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| Reply by: ChristianTheCleaver at Oct 10, '20 01:57 | |
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The Trial by Franz Kafka, kinda a trip |
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| Reply by: Grouse at Oct 10, '20 03:06 | |
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