Book recommendations

Raxmei · Post by **Raxmei** » 2003-01-18 02:32am

A counter to the movie recommendations thread. Tell us about what cool books you've read.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-01-18 02:34am

Catch Me If You Can is rather enjoyable.

Voodoo Science by Robert Park is an entertaining read.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-01-18 02:36am

When I was in New Zealand over the winter, I picked up The Lord of the Rings Location Guidebook. It's pretty cool and tells you where they filmed everything, the history of the places, and even leads you exactly to where different things were shot.

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-01-18 02:36am

Wheel of Time series - Robert Jordan

LotR and the Salmarillian (sp?) - JRR Tolkien

Watership Down - ?

Anthem, Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

It, The Stand, and various others - Stephen King

Sphere, Jurassic Park, The Lost World, others - Michael Chrichton

Catch-22 - ?

The Scarlet Letter - ?

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-01-18 02:39am

verilon wrote:Wheel of Time series - Robert Jordan

LotR and the Salmarillian (sp?) - JRR Tolkien

Watership Down - ?

Anthem, Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

It, The Stand, and various others - Stephen King

Sphere, Jurassic Park, The Lost World, others - Michael Chrichton

Catch-22 - ?

The Scarlet Letter - ?

FYI, the late Joseph Heller wrote Catch-22; Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote The Scarlet Letter.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-01-18 02:40am

Last two books I read were non-ficton but I recommend both.

1) Crusade by Rick Atkinson - a book about the Gulf War. Very interesting. Tells some of the stories of the personalities involved and their thinking. Also relates some personal events of the little guys.

2) Blind Man's Bluff by Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew - Book about the exploits of USN subs during the cold war.

Sokar · Post by **Sokar** » 2003-01-18 03:01am

The Song of Ice and Fire Series by George R.R. Martin. A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords will change the way you read fantasy fiction, they are awesome and everything else , especially the Wheel of Time books, are so weak and repetitive by comparison the fourth book is on the way , tenativly titled A Feast for Crows

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2003-01-18 03:11am

The whole gigantic Drizzt Do'Urden series by R.A. Salvatore is pretty good, with a few exceptions. Next book is due out October.

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2003-01-18 03:15am

JediNeophyte wrote:The whole gigantic Drizzt Do'Urden series by R.A. Salvatore is pretty good, with a few exceptions. Next book is due out October.

Yeah, that's a pretty good series.
Not another rehashed plot, but an actual new one.
Plus, Drizzt Do'Urden has the coolnes factor.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-01-18 03:31am

Gates of Fire, Tides of War-Scott Pressman (Greeks were fuckin' KICK ASS!)
Coldheart Canyon-Clive Barker
Cantavle for Liebowitz-Miller

One True Spoon · Post by **One True Spoon** » 2003-01-18 04:29am

The Salmon of Doubt-D Adams
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy(A trilogy in five parts)-D Adams

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2003-01-18 05:31am

Mutineers Moon, The Armageddon Inheritance and Heirs of Empire by David Weber
The Culture series by Iain Banks
Magic: The Gathering - Ashes of the Sun by Hannovi Braddock
Magic: The Gathering - And Peace Shall Sleep by Sonia Orin Lyris
There's one I read back in school, something about a girl who lives on an island alone because all her people were evacuated and she got left behind. Dolphin Island or something like that. That one seems to have been good.
Another one, same year, about a kid who gets lost in the desert - I think he was in a plane crash which killed his father and grandfather - and he has to walk back to civilization on his own. That one seems to have been good too.
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Principia Discordia by Omar Ravenhurst and Malaclypse the Younger
The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea
Flatland by Edwin Abbott

mmmm, that's all for now

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2003-01-18 05:38am

XaLEv wrote: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Principia Discordia by Omar Ravenhurst and Malaclypse the Younger
The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea

Fnord.

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2003-01-18 05:42am

In no particular order:

Alice in Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass
Catch-22
Great Gatsby
Of Mice and Men
Old Man and the Sea
All Quiet on the Western Front

...and that's all I can think of right now.

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2003-01-18 05:42am

Illuminatus Primus wrote:

Fnord.

Indeed. 220 micrometers on mine.

CmdrSweevo · Post by **CmdrSweevo** » 2003-01-18 06:58am

One True Spoon wrote:The Salmon of Doubt-D Adams
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy(A trilogy in five parts)-D Adams

Last Chance to See... - D Adams

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-01-18 07:09am

Very good, haven't read it in Years, one of my best friends is having a kid so I have to hunt down another copy.

Oh, The Places you will GO!-Dr. Suess (for ages 0 to 130)

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-01-18 07:33am

HHGTTG Obviously,
Watership Down - Richard Adams
The Forever War - Joe Haldeman?
Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson
I am Legend - Richard Matheson
Babel-17 Samuel R Delany
The Stars my Destination - Alfred Bester
Moving Pictures - Terry Pratchett
1984 -George Orwell
The Lost World - Arthur Conan Doyle

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-01-18 01:28pm

The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

Dune - Frank Herbert

Starship Trooper - Heinlien

The Horatio Hornblower series - CS Forrestor

The Culture novel - Ian M Banks

Mutineers Trilogy - David Weber

The three B5 trilogies - various

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-01-18 01:33pm

The whole gigantic Drizzt Do'Urden series by R.A. Salvatore is pretty good, with a few exceptions. Next book is due out October.

Dunno about the new ones, but in the ones I've read- ick.

First person to recomend 'The Sword of Truth' will be horribly injured and beaten with a large stick.

I recommend The Black Company for superior fantasy, and Ender's Game for superior sci-fi.

CmdrWilkens · Post by **CmdrWilkens** » 2003-01-18 01:44pm

Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
The Nicholas Seafort Saga by David Feintuch
Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley
War for the Union by Allan Nevins

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2003-01-18 01:57pm

Star Wars EU
Discworld series - Terry Pratchett
His magesties Starship - Ben Jeapes
Redwall series - Brian Jacques
Some ninja novels by Eric Lustbader
The Beach and The Tesseract - both by Alex Garland (the book of the beach is far superior to the film)
Colony - One of the blokes that did Red Dwarf, funny stuff.
Lord Of The Rings - JRR Tolkien

Raxmei · Post by **Raxmei** » 2003-01-18 02:33pm

Here're a few off the top of my head

Snow Crash - Neil Stephenson (cyberpunk parody)
Feersum Endjinn - Iain M. Banks (weird, even for cyber)
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks (No M. Check literature section. Weird)
Chanur Series - C.J. Cherryh (slow but suspenseful)
Shards of Honor - Lois McMaster Bujold (It is often packaged with sequel Barrayar under the title Cordelia's Honor. Romance/action scifi)
Rats, Bats, and Vats - Eric Flint and Dave Freer (Has some problems, but a fun popcorn action book)

Raptor 597 · Post by **Raptor 597** » 2003-01-18 02:53pm

1984 - George Orwell
The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkein
Prize - Book about the influence of oil on the American Goverment
Huey Long
Confederate Private Front & Rear
D-Day: Operation Overlord to the Liberation of Paris
Liberty
Band of Brothers - Steven Ambrose
All Quiet on the Western Front
Victory! - The complete and detailed account of the US War in the Pacific including every report of tonnage sunk and minor events on any giuven day in World War II
Patton
The Slient Service

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-01-18 02:53pm

Dreadnought by Robert K. Massie(sp?)

Destination Void by Frank Herbert

The Journeyer by Gary Jennings- The tale of Marco Polo with all the debauchery, violence, sex, and sexy debauchery you can stomach. Oh yeah, it has violent debauched sex, as well.