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Hello, i just bought my first android powered device (phone) and you won't believe how much it changed my life, one of the most interesting thing is that, this is the first time i'm actually reading books FOR FUN! one of the main reasons i didn't read a lot is just because i'm far so lazy to carry the extra weight of a book every day, also it's kinda annoying trying to read a full size book in the bus while it's moving, so the e-books have completely changed my view about books; and i was wondering wich English spoken books are really good to get, i've got a lot of great spanish books but now i feel like i want to have more practice (since my english sucks, as you can easily see); in the furture i'm gonna have the TOEFL exam so, you know i need as much practice as i can get.

 

Then, please give some advice of wich are the best of the best in English spoken books, some grammar would be great. (also french books if you want, but my frech is even worse than my English :P) 

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Joseph Conrad learned English as a second language and perhaps because of that his writing is impeccable. Heart of Darkness is perhaps his best known work. The Secret Agent and Lord Jim are also good reads.

 

Ernest Hemingway was a newspaper reporter early in his career. His writing style reflects that informality but with a real facility for evoking powerful images and emotions. For Whom The Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea, A Farewell to Arms, and The Sun Also Rises are a few of his well known works.

 

Does your local library have e-lending services?

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A Song of Ice and Fire would be my recommendation.

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Joseph Conrad learned English as a second language and perhaps because of that his writing is impeccable. Heart of Darkness is perhaps his best known work. The Secret Agent and Lord Jim are also good reads.

 

Ernest Hemingway was a newspaper reporter early in his career. His writing style reflects that informality but with a real facility for evoking powerful images and emotions. For Whom The Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea, A Farewell to Arms, and The Sun Also Rises are a few of his well known works.

 

Does your local library have e-lending services?

 

 

I'm gonna look for that e- lending options too.

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I heard about this book named CTHULHU but i'm not sure who wrote it.

Does anybody know?

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I heard about this book named CTHULHU but i'm not sure who wrote it.

Does anybody know?

 

H.P. Lovecraft. But it's not a book. Rather it's a character that appears in a number of short stories.

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im thumbing my way through my Unreal Manuals :3 like 4 books teaching how to master the Unreal engine

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  • The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Idiot by by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The World Set Free by H.G. Wells

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

The Sherlock Holmes series by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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im thumbing my way through my Unreal Manuals :3 like 4 books teaching how to master the Unreal engine

 

Souns creepy, i heard it's something like a demon, but i'm not sure, first time i heard the word "cthulhu" was in the castlevania symphony of the night game back in 1997.

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Souns creepy, i heard it's something like a demon, but i'm not sure, first time i heard the word "cthulhu" was in the castlevania symphony of the night game back in 1997.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Advanced-Level-Design-Unreal-Technology/dp/0672329921/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1385501536&sr=8-3&keywords=unreal+engine

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Feel so stupid now. :o. 

Sorry, a tech moron here LOL.

lol its ok... i have about 130 books all dedicated to Games design/ development... most of them are Game engine manuals :| Unreal takes up about 12 books and thats just UE3... UE4 is due to launch soon >.< more moneys to spend for my Office library lol

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The English version of ANYTHING by Markus Heitz or Bernard Hennen if you like a bit of fantasy with an interesting take on it.

 

For sci fi I can hearily reccomend the Culture series by Iain M. Banks

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Thank you guys,I'm looking for each book  (A song of ice and fire looks so good) but got troubled with this one:

Metro 2033, it appears with two different autors.

Dmitry Glukhovsky and Andrej Djakow wich ir the real one?

 

By the way what's up with the levitra thing?

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Thank you guys,I'm looking for each book  (A song of ice and fire looks so good) but got troubled with this one:

Metro 2033, it appears with two different autors.

Dmitry Glukhovsky and Andrej Djakow wich ir the real one?

 

By the way what's up with the levitra thing?

look at some Warhammer books... there relatively decent fantasy stories... id recommend "Path of the Seer"

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Enders game. 

Adventures of Rumo.

The Hobbit.

The lord of the rings trilogy.

Check out the author Conn Igulden.

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My vote is also for Ender's Game. It's written at like a jr high reading level, but is amazingly entertaining and part of one of the greatest scifi series of all time. One of my favorite books! Funny thing - it's actually on the recommended reading list in the US Military.

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