Book Reccomendations & What are you reading?

Foxy 

I Love that book, I remember you posted a pic of yourself with that book in the background

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brooder

A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami

It reads like a waking dream -- surreal and absurd. Fun stuff. I highly recommend any of his stuff. Beautiful writing.

mr_resi

RUN FOR COVER: THE ART OF DEREK RIGGS

Best...Book...EVER

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mushroomedmario

i only read books by two authors
1) dan brown-amazingly genious, but all his books are the same
2) j.k. rowling-i bet you all know the deal with her
read all their books up to date

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sherwood3570

I'm a quarter through "My War" by Andy Rooney and tonight I'm starting a book called "Mafia Kingfish" by John Davis.

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wii_cammy

J.k Rowling who is she
Oh...
The dinner lady at my shcool
Kiddin on I know she wrote lord of the rings

Gymdawg

Dan Brown is an idiot.

I'm currently reading Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman.

I like anything by Jim Butcher, author of The Dresden Files series and the Codex Alera series.

Fight Club was good too.

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Beki_J

I read that too for GCSE I was soo sad when Roger threw the rock on piggy and he died lol and the conch shell shattered - symbolism of the break down of society + Jack reminded me of Draco Malfoy so I liked him lol.

The best books ever are Harry Potter...but the Tiffany Aching books by Terry Prachett are good too and soon I am gonna read Eragon + Eldest.

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immortaldave

"Why do Men have Nipples" is another good book.

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BrandonMcAuslan

If you like Fight club check out "Survivor". Thats Chucky P's best book! (again in my opinion).
Interestlingly Chuck Phalaniuk (spelling?) says fight club the film is better than the book - I agree. Not often a film is better than the book...

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Shiftfallout

Robert Jordan's the wheel of time series (rereading it, one of the best series ever written and hailed as the next lord of the rings)(one of the few novels i know that has spawned not only a video game, but a soundtrack and a tv series that never got made)

George R. Martains's A song of Ice and Fire series. (great recommendation)
the first book is called A Game of Thrones. I think this guy is a better writer than tolkein to be honest, and I wont be suprised that 20 years down the line if they do not threat this series in the same light. This guy really is the best writer I can think of, and I have read a lot, even the classics.

The Drangon Lance and Forgotten Realms collection of Dungeons and Dragons books is also fairly good. The famous writer R.A Salvatore wrote a number of books, a big series in fact, for forgotten realms. You might have heard of the hero he created, Drizzt Do'Urden. That fictional character has more fansites and press than any i have ever known from a book series.

Ann Rice has a series about Vampires. Also very good, very strange though as well. Her books spawned the movie Interview with a vampire, later queen of the damned (horrible movie but the book was good), and some other things.

ok thats just a few. Those series alone have a large number of books and would keep anyone busy for a long time.

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BrandonMcAuslan

Ann Rice's vampire chronicles are great. "The vampire Lestat" is by far the best-leading into Queen of the damned.
Been contemplating picking up the first in the wheel of time series for a while now. Maybe next time I'm in Waterstones I'll pick it up.

No one will ever be shown in the same light as Tolkien. He created/defined what Fantasy is. Without him there would be no D&D etc. Also the thought behind Middle earth was tremendous. Its like a fantasy pre-history/mythology of Europe. The Shire is in fact oxfordshire, Mordor is where the black sea would be, moria = the Andes etc. The themes of power and corruption are universal too. blah blah could go on..
Not that I'm bashing George R. Martain or anyone else. Just Tolkien got into the top slot first, I don't think anyone is going to shift him. And a lot of these writers either took inspiration from Tolkien, or from a source inspired by Tolkien.

Frogger

Jack was evil and wanted to destroy everything and abolished nearly all the rules, in fact, basically all the rules. I hated the character of Jack ever since the beginning because he was always so bigheaded and outspoken.

I liked Simon and Samneric.

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wario2ooo

im reading a book written by stephen king, the book is called "it"

i like it

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ThePrinceOfSoul

pedagogy of the oppressed.

by Paulo Freire.

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Shiftfallout

have you read a george r martin book yet? I used to think like you too. Between CS Lewis's chronicles of Narnia and the Hobbit/fellowship of the ring series, nothing else could come close. Oh sure Tolkein helped pioneer the fantasy genre, but it has been around long before tolkein I am affraid. Especially the hero's journy aspect of it all. Take Beowulf for example, or the old norse ledgends that inspired tolkien.

Tolkien is great, but untill you have read George R. Martin's series, you wouldnt understand that another great writer has been born. I am by far more impressed by George R. Martin's ability at story telling and his character creations than Tolkien, which suprised me at first. All authors are fantastic, but the song of fire and ice will echo in literature circles for generations.

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mr_resi

Lol self quote, anyways, goof luck finding this book cuz i got the ast copie (Baught it from martin himself)

Anyways heres a pic of the cover(Drawn by derek riggs himself)

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