Books Anyone?

[Starelementpoke]

Any books anyone likes/liked? Can be from 3rd grade or college, just some good interesting books and or series. Just an FYI, not mentioning Harry Potter, 90% of the population loves the books, including me.

[Oberon.Smite]

The Outsiders, good book and also good movie. 

[ThermalCocky]

Ayn Rand - Anthem

[Doughnutnator]

Do you like Stephen King? Also read Momo, it's quite good.

[skyress3000]

Inheritance Cycle (it's a series) by Christopher Paolini

[LeapFrogMasterRace]

the hungry caterpillar

[FatPenguin]

I don't read. 

[ALwin]

Any books anyone likes/liked? Can be from 3rd grade or college, just some good interesting books and or series. Just an FYI, not mentioning Harry Potter, 90% of the population loves the books, including me.

 

I'm a fan of the Dragonlance series of fantasy novels.  My favorite of them being the Elven Nation Trilogy.

Firstborn

The Kinslayer Wars

The Qualinesti

 

I like David Weber's Honor Harrington series of novels.  Jeff Lindsay's Dexter series, Jeffery Deaver's Bone Collector series, Pauline Réage's Histoire d'O, and so much more.  Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers, Joe Haldeman's The Forever War, Sun Tzu, Musashi's Go Rin No Sho, etc.

 

I guess I'm one of the minority who doesn't care much about Harry Potter or Hunger Games or Mazer Runner or what's its name about choosing factions when you reach a certain age, was made into a movie.  I definitely don't like any of Jane Austen's books.  Reading Pride and Prejudice made me want to burn that book.

[Albatross]

A Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan

A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R Martin

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien + The Hobbit

Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer

Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon

The KingKiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss

Malazan: Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson

 

Inheritance Cycle (it's a series) by Christopher Paolini

 

He rips off every best seller out there like Dragonriders of Pern, Earthsea, ASOIAF, A Wheel of Time and many more. :angry:

[KraftDinner]

The Outsiders, good book and also good movie. 

Oh man that was a dope book, I feel like everyone had to read that in 8th grade haha

[Curufinwe_wins]

Inheritance Cycle (it's a series) by Christopher Paolini

This one is good provided you don't mind it's insanely derivative universe (its basically a well done fan fic).

 

 

The Malazan Book of the Fallen series is an all time great if you are an avid reader, although it's main series length of over 2.5 million words is a time investment  (took me about a month to read all 10 700-1200 page books)...

 

Likewise if somehow you haven't read LotR, then you should. If you have, then I'd highly recommend Children of Hurin (short great read), and The Silmarillion (which if people weren't so lazy they would recognize it's greatness). Even still no matter how much you dislike long character lists, Ainulindale (the opening section of The Silmarillion) is one of the best short stories ever written (I have read on of a few million pages in my relatively short life, and it's still my favorite.)

[Curufinwe_wins]

A Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan

A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R Martin

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien + The Hobbit

Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer

Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon

The KingKiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss

Malazan: Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson

 

 

He rips off every best seller out there like Dragonriders of Pern, Earthsea, ASOIAF, A Wheel of Time and many more. :angry:

All of these are good recommendations, and LOL as much as I love the Inheritance cycle, it is obviously that way. see above comment.

[Starelementpoke]

Do you like Stephen King? Also read Momo, it's quite good.

I've read under the dome by stephen king, but nothing else really Was a good book.

 

A Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan

A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R Martin

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien + The Hobbit

Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer

Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon

The KingKiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss

Malazan: Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson

 

 

He rips off every best seller out there like Dragonriders of Pern, Earthsea, ASOIAF, A Wheel of Time and many more. :angry:

Funny enough, I read the Odyssey this year in high school.

[Starelementpoke]

On a somewhat related note, did anyone ever read a book out of a dare? To be honest, I only ended up reading Under the Dome when I saw it had like 1000 pages, and my health teacher said it'd take me over a month. I finshed reading it over the weekend end in 4 days, and that's because I had a lazy day for Saturday.

[Albatross]

All of these are good recommendations, and LOL as much as I love the Inheritance cycle, it is obviously that way. see above comment.

 

I like Inheritance too, at least for Brom and the writing in the first book (definitely not for the "conlang" mess though). But it isn't original and it really does feel like a really well written alternative universe fanfiction of each of those titles. lol

 

@Starelementpoke

 

Carrie by Stephen King is a good read too.

 

Ah, cool! How did you like Odyssey?

[Starelementpoke]

I like Inheritance too, at least for Brom and the writing in the first book (definitely not for the "conlang" mess though). But it isn't original and it really does feel like a really well written alternative universe fanfiction of each of those titles. lol

 

@Starelementpoke

 

Carrie by Stephen King is a good read too.

 

Ah, cool! How did you like Odyssey?

It was pretty good, although I haven't met a book that I didn't think wasn't a good read. Mainly because I'm a 9th grader who has enough imagination to ride a scooter with the front wheel busted, waving around a plastic sword, pretending I'm in my own little fantasy world where I've fought Superman, Goku, Chuck Norris, and etc, and gotten enjoyment out of it for the past 5ish years, (give or give) all while in my backyard.

[The_Stig]

Inheritance Cycle

The Seven Realms (The Gray Wolf Throne)

The Martian (It was a book first, ya know)

The Fourth Stall

Warriors (I read the series first in 3rd grade and looking back, I realize how non-kid-friendly it is (It starts out pretty kid friendly but then a cats throat gets slit and other more mature themes enter the series))

Cherub

Divergent (the first book is ok)

The Roar

Artemis Fowl

Maximum Ride (Gets worse as the series goes on)

What if?

 

These are just he one on the top of my head, I will post more when they come up. I read a lot.

[Curufinwe_wins]

On a somewhat related note, did anyone ever read a book out of a dare? To be honest, I only ended up reading Under the Dome when I saw it had like 1000 pages, and my health teacher said it'd take me over a month. I finshed reading it over the weekend end in 4 days, and that's because I had a lazy day for Saturday.

4 days?!?!? You can do better.... 

 

My average pace reading is ~100 pages per hour with funny stuff taking a bit longer, and rereads/YA books closer to 150 (see Harry Squatter and the Failures of Reasoning.)

 

Speaking of which... "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality" is the best fan-fiction I have ever read and pretty damn good as an original work.

 

It's available online at hpmor.com (I'd recommend an e-reader with pdf), and while his work still has some failures of thought (mainly with his particular world view superimposed on the story), it's one of the best logic bounds available.

 

Additionally, "The Art of War" with annotations is something everyone should at least check out. Nothing spectacular, but it still isn't long either.

 

 

I can't believe I forgot to mention the D'artagnan Romances (Three Musketeers), which contrary to popular opinion today is neither bad nor a children's story...

 

Finally another thing I doubt many people here would mention is "la commedia divina" (Dante's Divine Comedy). Again in this case annotations are a must, and what translation you get matters a lot, but the Longfellow translation is generally held to be one of the greatest translations ever done into English.

[Starelementpoke]

 

Warriors (I read the series first in 3rd grade and looking back, I realize how non-kid-friendly it is (It starts out pretty kid friendly but then a cats throat gets slit and other more mature themes enter the series))

Fuck yeah I love that series. Still sad I don't have enough money to get the 3rd book in the (5th I think) series.

[asiancorruption]

to kill a mocking bird, diary of a wimpy kid and the outsiders.

[Starelementpoke]

4 days?!?!? You can do better.... 

 

My average pace reading is ~100 pages per hour with funny stuff taking a bit longer, and rereads/YA books closer to 150 (see Harry Squatter and the Failures of Reasoning.)

 

Speaking of which... "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality" is the best fan-fiction I have ever read, and pretty damn good as an original work. It's available online at hpmor.com (I'd recommend an e-reader with pdf), and while his work still has some failures of thought (mainly with his particular world view superimposed on the story), it's one of the best logic bounds available.

Hey, I took a lazy day. Also It was a summer after I had practically nothing good to read for like 2 years straight. It fell back to read reading Harry Potter, which is why I've read the series like 35 times.

[The_Stig]

Fuck yeah I love that series. Still sad I don't have enough money to get the 3rd book in the (5th I think) series.

I read all the books only because I tore apart libraries looking for them and bought a few. I also bought all of the special editions and they took up all the space on my shelves until my little cousin took them.

[Ddave]

Ready Player One. 

[Albatross]

On a somewhat related note, did anyone ever read a book out of a dare? To be honest, I only ended up reading Under the Dome when I saw it had like 1000 pages, and my health teacher said it'd take me over a month. I finshed reading it over the weekend end in 4 days, and that's because I had a lazy day for Saturday.

 

nice work for such a boring book. :gets shot

 

I picked up A Dance with Dragons and everyone told me "It would take you a month at the least!" but I ended up reading it in two and I was sick with a massive migraine. lol

 

It was pretty good, although I haven't met a book that I didn't think wasn't a good read. Mainly because I'm a 9th grader who has enough imagination to ride a scooter with the front wheel busted, waving around a plastic sword, pretending I'm in my own little fantasy world where I've fought Superman, Goku, Chuck Norris, and etc, and gotten enjoyment out of it for the past 5ish years, (give or give) all while in my backyard.

 

lol that just means you'll find many books you like. That's not a bad thing.

[Curufinwe_wins]

Hey, I took a lazy day. Also It was a summer after I had practically nothing good to read for like 2 years straight. It fell back to read reading Harry Potter, which is why I've read the series like 35 times.

It's all good, just keep pushing yourself hahaha.

 

I only have about 10 reads of that series haha. I've had an e-reader for about 5 years now and while I still prefer physical books, I have well over 300,000 pages worth of books on the thing, and so even when I go into rereading mode (I'm currently re-reading Malazan Book of the Fallen), I no longer have to just go Artemis Fowl -> Harry Potter -> LotR -> Inhertance cycle -> repeat (obviously in each case only the books that were out) like I did as a kid.

 

 

 

 

Additionally, "The Art of War" with annotations is something everyone should at least check out. Nothing spectacular, but it still isn't long either.

 

I can't believe I forgot to mention the D'artagnan Romances (Three Musketeers), which contrary to popular opinion today is neither bad nor a children's story...

 

Another good historical fiction (and a bit more gritty then most of the books recommended elsewhere) is The Forgotten Legion by Ben Kane, dude really did his research (like insanely on point). Three books in the series, all worthwhile reads.

 

Finally, I doubt many people here would mention "la commedia divina" (Dante's Divine Comedy). Again in this case annotations are a must, and what translation you get matters a lot, but the Longfellow translation is generally held to be one of the greatest translations ever done into English.