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BlueFalcon
Word To Your Mom
March 28th, 2012 @ 8:49AM
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| I recently read this on my Kindle:
Man is a Wolf to Man
It's not a light and breezy book, but it is written in a very novelistic style. I finished it in a few days.
Here's my all-time favorite. It's allegedly non-fiction, but I believe the author took a lot of liberties. It's a real page turner though.
The Forgotten Soldier
EDIT: Added second book.
EDITED: 2012-03-28 08:53:38 |
forest_queen
Dame
March 28th, 2012 @ 8:55AM
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2003-03-26
Location:
WA
Posts: 1244
| Yeah, you don't want to read Hunger Games. Now Twilight is something you'd LOVE! hahaha
I read 'The Life of Pi' awhile back and really liked it, but I don't know what you're into. |
tappertrainman
Conservative
March 28th, 2012 @ 9:14AM
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2003-03-26
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San Diego, CA
Posts: 631
| The Temeraire series is kinda fun. It's basically about England in the late 1700's early 1800's during Napoleon's time, except there are dragons in the world that make up air forces. Pretty fun reads, and no other "magic" or anything, just the dragons. |
Dazrin
Marine
March 28th, 2012 @ 9:14AM
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2003-04-19
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Portland, OR
Posts: 41
| Hard to recommend books for you based on the little you have here for types of books you like.
Here is a starting point to find some: "Recommendations for Your Favorite Book Genre" (New Window) on mobileread.
EDITED: 2012-03-28 09:40:39 |
jaykaywhy
Peon
March 28th, 2012 @ 9:24AM
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| The last good book I read was Generation: Kill, which was a mini-series on HBO. It`s about 1st Recon Marines (USMC Special Forces) during the initial push into Iraq. It`s fairly old, but still entertaining. It was written by a reporter who was embedded with one of their platoons.
Really interesting, and really shows the difference between the idealized "Greatest Generation" of WW II, and the armed forces today. |
Slev
Marine
March 28th, 2012 @ 9:55AM
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Seattle
Posts: 471
| Read game of thrones (series is called a song of ice and fire). 5 books out right now so will keep you busy for a while. |
m0rb0
General
March 28th, 2012 @ 9:59AM
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San Antonio, TX.
Posts: 469
| I updated the thread with my most recent reads.
I don't do a lot of fiction.... |
undreaming
Kali Compton
March 28th, 2012 @ 10:02AM
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SLC, UT
Posts: 255
| Just finished A Fire Upon the Deep by Verner Vinge. It's hard sci-fi, but I couldn't put it down for two days. About 400 pages of pure awesome. Going to work after getting 3 hours of sleep a night was not fun. |
justinr
Marine
March 28th, 2012 @ 10:06AM
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2003-04-13
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Houston, TX
Posts: 119
| Wizard's First Rule. First book I read after reading the original WarCraft novel. Still my favorite book to this day. It's a nice fantasy series. |
m0rb0
General
March 28th, 2012 @ 10:13AM
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San Antonio, TX.
Posts: 469
| Life is Pi and Man is a Wolf to Man look really good, thanks for the suggestions crum-bums! |
undreaming
Kali Compton
March 28th, 2012 @ 10:14AM
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SLC, UT
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| Life of Pi is less than impressive, Morbo. You can read it, but don't expect any new wonders or revelations from that. |
m0rb0
General
March 28th, 2012 @ 10:16AM
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| @undreaming maybe I'll check out the sample then. I always like to pull something meaningful from the books I read.
"The Driver" really impacted me in a way I'm still trying to process. It was a really great allegory for my life in a lot of ways, whereas on the surface it's just some story about a fool in an m5. |
Blazer
Instigator
March 28th, 2012 @ 10:16AM
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2003-09-04
Location:
Syracuse, NY
Posts: 1821
| Piers Anthony: On a Pale Horse
It's a fantasy series (7 books) that involve humans taking on the role of deities. The first book is about the Grim Reaper, and the others in order revolve around Chronos (god of time), Fate, War, Mother Nature, Satan , God. They're all about the struggle of heaven and hell with the deities in the middle. |
keepersmith
Marine
March 28th, 2012 @ 11:05AM
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| Try REAMDE. It is pretty quick and mostly action, but the backdrop is a super-successful next-generation MMO that encourages chinese gold-farming. Here is how it works: The Game Company charges next to nothing for playtime. Players can choose to be high-level "heroes" and spend a lot of time and/or gold to get levels/gear, or they can be "miners" and spend their time building mines, digging up gold, and defending their turf. You can convert in-game gold back and forth from real-life currency. The Game Company just makes sure that more money flows "into" the game than "out of" the game - they can control this by controlling the gold vein spawn rate. |
Trickshot
Peon
March 28th, 2012 @ 11:22AM
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Lansing, Michigan
Posts: 357
| If you like Horror, Stephen Kings son, who writes under the name Joe Hill, wrote a good book about a retired rock star who buys a haunted suit off the internet. |
m0rb0
General
March 28th, 2012 @ 11:26AM
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San Antonio, TX.
Posts: 469
| @keepersmith now that sounds REALLY cool. I will definately check that one out. Sounds morals-isy :) |
m0rb0
General
March 28th, 2012 @ 11:40AM
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| @TrickShot I haven't read a Steven King book since Highschool.
Do you have a link to the son's book? King's style wore on me after 3 or 4 books. I'm all for vivid storytelling, but King goes the extra 500% to express a point. |
Deester
Marine
March 28th, 2012 @ 12:23PM
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2003-03-26
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Missouri
Posts: 240
| Agree with justinr. The Sword of Truth series is my favorite fantasy series of all time. Boom. |
Disastrous Fate
General
March 28th, 2012 @ 12:32PM
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| If you like fantasy, I highly recommend A Song of Ice and Fire, Malazan, and the Black Company. I also recommend "Name of the Wind," which is part of the Kingkiller Chronicles.
Scifi: Foundation series, Robot novels (i.e. - Caves of Steel, Naked Sun, etc.), the first Dune book (but not the sequels for the love of God), Starship Troopers, Ender's Game
I can give you more specific recs if you want them. What do you like? |
Disastrous Fate
General
March 28th, 2012 @ 12:36PM
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| A bit more detail: both Malazan and the Black Company are big fantasy epics with dark themes. Also, both focus largely on military organizations, with soldiers and commanders making up a good chunk of the major characters. They're awesome.
Malazan is, perhaps, a bit much to rush into. If you're interested in either, start with the first Black Company book. It's a quick, easy read, and it's fun. If you like it, read the sequels. If you liked it but wanted something a bit meatier, read the Malazan books. If you didn't dig on the military elements or the dark thematic elements, feel free to move along. |
Wootah
non-leet
March 28th, 2012 @ 12:42PM
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2003-05-16
Location:
Utah
Posts: 1465
| Wizards First rule?
I thought it was alright, which got me to pick up the first book in the terry goodkind seeker series, whatever it was. I disliked it. I LOVE fantasy in general, but Terry Goodkind was WAY too Horribly graphic for me. Of my friends who read the rest of the series, they are split.
If you want Old school Fantasy try the original Dragon Lance Series. Chronicles is decent and Legends is Fantastic although you really need to read chronicles to appreciate Legends. A lot of the later dragonlance stuff sucks, but the originals were great.
Also of all the Shannara series, I feel that
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_of_Shannara
Was the best of the lot.
I have heard that the mistborn series by sanderson is very good.
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m0rb0
General
March 28th, 2012 @ 12:49PM
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| I'm not much into fantasy reading. I really like to be able to draw parallels to what I read. I'm more of a logical thinker.
I use games/movies/my own writings for my fantasy outlet(s) |
Thrash1
Marine
March 28th, 2012 @ 1:15PM
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2003-03-30
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Texas
Posts: 97
| If you're into zombies than World War Z is a good one. Just don't read it at night right before going to bed. |
m0rb0
General
March 28th, 2012 @ 1:28PM
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San Antonio, TX.
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| @Thrash1 Someone else recommended that to me a while back... |
Dazrin
Marine
March 28th, 2012 @ 1:37PM
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2003-04-19
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Portland, OR
Posts: 41
| I don't read much non-fiction, so I don't have much to recommend, but these three are all on my reading list.
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (new window) I may read this next month as part of a book club on mobileread.
Broadmoor Revealed: Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Asylum (new window)
Terror by Night (new window)
Or you can try one of these links since you have a couple biographies on your list:
Autobiography Recommendations? (new window)
Nonfiction Recommendations (new window) |
m0rb0
General
March 28th, 2012 @ 1:49PM
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| @Dazrin Broadmoor Revealed looks like it's right up my alley. It was also FREE on amazon kindle. Huge props for that recco! |
Trickshot
Peon
March 28th, 2012 @ 1:53PM
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Lansing, Michigan
Posts: 357
| Sorry about that it`s called Heart Shaped Box
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Disastrous Fate
General
March 28th, 2012 @ 3:32PM
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| If you like political history at all, George Orwell's 'Homage to Catalonia' is ballin'.
I also like 'All Quiet on the Western Front,' and a bunch of Kurt Vonnegut's stuff (especially Slaughterhouse-Five).
Hermann Hesse is good. Steppenwolf is better than Damien or Siddhartha, but they're all somewhat similar. |
Noss
Peon
March 28th, 2012 @ 6:56PM
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2004-02-10
Location:
Canada
Posts: 1133
| I`m with Trash1 on this, World War Z is really awesome and if you read it, it`ll probably ensure that you`ll find the movie to be a travesty (although I hope it ends up good).
Or also from Max Brooks on zombies, The Zombie Survival Guide. |
TheSilver_Ghost
is awesome.
March 28th, 2012 @ 8:39PM
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2003-03-25
Location:
wisconsin, USA
Posts: 1066
| Man. I could go nuts in this post.
But since you seem to have a fantasy bent (which I don't) I would have to suggest Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay.
I can't say I was a huge fan of his writing style, but I really, really dig the themes in the book. |
m0rb0
General
March 28th, 2012 @ 9:12PM
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2003-03-27
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San Antonio, TX.
Posts: 469
| @DisastrousFate I will probably check all of those out. they all look pretty awesome. Thanks! |
