Good Books

Im slowly running out of books to read :(/> I've got some books listed on my to-read list but I'm not sure if they are worth reading..
So if anyone has any good books to recommend (to anyone, not just me) pos them here! :D/> (also motivate what's so good about them)
Notable books I've read:
-A song of ice and fire (series, as far as it's released)(also known as game of thrones)
This series is just amazing, the first and fourth books are a little bit tough to get trough (english is not my first language) but the other books are awesome. They are not as epic as harry potter or eragon but thats one of its charmes. (age recommandation: 15+ due to complicated storyline)
-Inheritance series (also known as eragon)
Another great series of books, I reeeaally enjoyed reading them (read them in dutch first, later re-read them in english), the story very much entertained me to great lenghts but in hindsight it is a tad childish. A recommendation to any dragon lovers from ages 10 to 22ish.
-Harry potter
I haven't read this series in english (apart from the last book) but it was one of my favorite books when I was a bit younger (same for the movies). It's one of the must-have-read series if you are 9-20ish years old.

-Ficciones (from Jorge Luis Borge)
This is my first classical fiction books (written somewhere from 1940-1950 if im not mistaken) I've read (still reading) but it is great. It gives a whole different perspective to fiction how we see it today and gives a lot of things to think about. Rather then writing 1000 page long stories, this writer prefers to write short stories filled with information (more a summary or résumé then a full book, he explains why in the introduction of his book). It is very tough to get trough the english translation of the book (original is written in argentenian i think), but its worth it and i might read more from Jorge Luis Borge later


Books I'm considering reading (tell me if they are any fun if you've read them):
The wheel of time (fiction)
The curve of binding energy - John McPhee (non-fiction)
The age of wonder (non-fiction)

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Have you read the hunger games trilogy? It's freaking awesome!

I've seen the movie, which was OK.. I heard the books are better but It's not really my style of books.. Its kinda sci-fi, almost detective/action story, wheras i'm more into fiction and fantasy books.

Ready Player One is a good book.

At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, READY PLAYER ONE is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut—part quest novel, part love story, and part virtual space opera set in a universe where spell-slinging mages battle giant Japanese robots, entire planets are inspired by Blade Runner, and flying DeLoreans achieve light speed.

It’s the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place.

Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia that lets you be anything you want to be, a place where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets.

And like most of humanity, Wade dreams of being the one to discover the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this virtual world. For somewhere inside this giant networked playground, OASIS creator James Halliday has hidden a series of fiendish puzzles that will yield massive fortune—and remarkable power—to whoever can unlock them.

For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that Halliday’s riddles are based in the pop culture he loved—that of the late twentieth century. And for years, millions have found in this quest another means of escape, retreating into happy, obsessive study of Halliday’s icons. Like many of his contemporaries, Wade is as comfortable debating the finer points of John Hughes’s oeuvre, playing Pac-Man, or reciting Devo lyrics as he is scrounging power to run his OASIS rig.

And then Wade stumbles upon the first puzzle.

Suddenly the whole world is watching, and thousands of competitors join the hunt—among them certain powerful players who are willing to commit very real murder to beat Wade to this prize. Now the only way for Wade to survive and preserve everything he knows is to win. But to do so, he may have to leave behind his oh-so-perfect virtual existence and face up to life—and love—in the real world he’s always been so desperate to escape.

A world at stake.
A quest for the ultimate prize.
Are you ready?

The series 'The secrets of the immortal Nicholas Flamel' By Michael Scott is very good. It is about sorcery which I see you read (Harry Potter)

I see most of the books you listed are more magic/fantasy type,
But the Ender's Game books by Orson Scott Card are an awesome sci-fi series.

tomass1996, on 22 March 2013 - 10:05 PM said:

I see most of the books you listed are more magic/fantasy type,
But the Ender's Game books by Orson Scott Card are an awesome sci-fi series.

Did you say Ender's? ^_^/> I may have to check that out…

SuicidalSTDz, on 22 March 2013 - 11:49 PM said:

Did you say Ender's? ^_^/> I may have to check that out…

Yeah it's the main characters name, Ender's Game

I just finished reading "Replay" by Ken Grimwood. It's about a man stuck in a time loop where his life repeats over and over, and it was the inspiration for groundhog day,

Also, if you never have: read the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy right now.

dan200, on 23 March 2013 - 02:08 AM said:

I just finished reading "Replay" by Ken Grimwood. It's about a man stuck in a time loop where his life repeats over and over, and it was the inspiration for groundhog day,

Also, if you never have: read the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy right now.

the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy is one of my favorite

Sci Fi/Fantasy books you must read:
Ender's Game (and the rest of the books in that series)
The Hunger Games
The Dark Tower series (Stephen King rocks)
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Eragon (And the rest of the books in that series)
The Sword of Truth series
The Wheel of Time series

I consider these my absolute favorite Sci Fi/Fantasy books.

Also check out:
Year Zero: It's a silly book about aliens that come to earth because they owe tons of royalties on pirated music from the earth.
Hull Zero Three: A thrilling book about clones, space, and really messed up stuff.
The Halo books: I recommend these to everyone because they are written so well. There is such a huge Halo universe.

Read LOTR. Freaking fantasic books.

tomass1996, on 23 March 2013 - 01:07 AM said:

Yeah it's the main characters name, Ender's Game

Ok, I have to read this book now. I will die trying!

dan200, on 23 March 2013 - 02:08 AM said:

I just finished reading "Replay" by Ken Grimwood. It's about a man stuck in a time loop where his life repeats over and over, and it was the inspiration for groundhog day,

Also, if you never have: read the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy right now.

Replay sounds interesting.. Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy; I've seen the movie several times, so it wont be fun to read the book anymore :P/>

Cranium, on 23 March 2013 - 02:18 AM said:

Sci Fi/Fantasy books you must read:
Ender's Game (and the rest of the books in that series)
The Hunger Games
The Dark Tower series (Stephen King rocks)
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Eragon (And the rest of the books in that series)
The Sword of Truth series
The Wheel of Time series

I consider these my absolute favorite Sci Fi/Fantasy books.

Also check out:
Year Zero: It's a silly book about aliens that come to earth because they owe tons of royalties on pirated music from the earth.
Hull Zero Three: A thrilling book about clones, space, and really messed up stuff.
The Halo books: I recommend these to everyone because they are written so well. There is such a huge Halo universe.

Thanks for that list, I might read the wheel of time, but it is such a long series it'll probably take me at least a year to get trough (considering I only read about 4-5 hours a week at not amazing speeds (I like to understand the deeper layers of the storyline and think about the possible reasons the writer had to write certain things)).

By the way to come back to the introduction to Jorge Luis Borge's introduction to his schort stories (a book called Ficciones), which I have almost finished reading now and where I am very very enthousiastic about, if anyone is interested in some brain-food and scratching the surface of Borge's exellent foundations he layed to modern fiction, you might want to read THIS Story he wrote. It's one of the shorter stories in his collection, but one of my favorites. It gives a pretty good example of how his stories are shaped..
Tell me what you think about it if you take the time to read it :)/>

There are 5 books in the hitchhiker's series (and… one valiant attempt at finishing a 6th), none of which are close to the most recent movie. You should read them.

Read the maze runner series, amazing first book.

Since my last post here I finished reading ficciones, then read eagle - Jack Hight, which was pretty good but not good enough to read the rest of the trilogy..
I've now started reading the wheel of time series. I loved the prologue book (New spring) and I'm currently about halfway through The eye of the world. I'm very much enjoying the series so far (thank you, people who suggested this series).
Also I cant wait for the next book from the "a song of ice and fire" series to be finished :)/>

Off topic: sorry for reviving this old thread but I felt like giving this a little update

ummmm…
If you liked Hunger Games then read Battle Royale, it's really good.
Life of Pi surprised me, although the film was a disappointment the book was really good.
I would hope that Terry Pratchett would be an obvious one, but I dunno if he's all that big out of the UK… but yeah, read the Discworld novels.
The Black Magician isn't very well known, but it is awesome. Quite a good ending :P/>
The books of Pellinor are OK, I got a bit tired of them but at least the first one is worth a try
Obviously GoT is good.
There are a billion and one other good books that I could recommend, but I don't want to ramble ;P

The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons (amazing science fiction series):
Hyperion
The Fall of Hyperion
Endymion
The Rise of Endymion

Dune by Frank Herbert, one of the best science fiction novels ever written.

The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss (one of the best fantasy series ever written):
The Name of the Wind
The Wise Man's Fear

Screw it, the topic's already revived.
Marines and that whole series: http://www.amazon.com/Marines-Crimson-Worlds-Jay-Allan/dp/0615694918/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1370894382&sr=8-4&keywords=crimson+worlds

Larry Niven's Ringworld series is quite good. Actually, Halo is practically a mashup of Ringworld and Starship Troopers (not the horrendously bad movie, the book by Heinlein). Starship Troopers is good too, but it's not the best book to start in on Heinlein with. Check out Stranger in a Strange Land first instead.

Erebos (thriller for teenager). Sorry that it's a german wiki page…

Short form of the content:

Nick Dunmore is a 16 years old boy.
He goes to a school in London where a very exciting game is played of most of the pupils.
This game is called Erebos.
Nick started playing Erebos a can't stop.
The game gives him tasks he have to do in the REAL world. One of this tasks is "kill your teacher".

Erebos wants to kill a man called Ortolan because Ortolan was going to steal software of the creator of erebos.

Erebos is watching you,
Erebos is giving you tasks,
Erebos has one goal: It wants to kill!

Some background-info to Erebos:
The game has a AI so it learns what you want/need/like.
Erebos has some psychologic software that analyses your music to give you a unforgettable music experience.
The graphics are looking realy real.
The world of erebos is a copy (with some changes) of london.