Book Recommendations

[Cosmic]

Recommend a book. Comics and graphic novels are welcome, of course.

 

[Mr. Thing]

To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee

I just read it for the first time in years, and damn, it's fantastic.

 

[JLBats]

Polaris by Jack McDevitt
Anything by Neil Gaiman
Underworld by Don DeLillo
Rats Saw God by Rob Thomas

 

[Tangled Web]

Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Anthem - Ayn Rand

 

[Jolie_Desastre]

Speak
After
Cirque Du Freak
Dead Witch Walking
Hawksong

all i can think of right now

 

[Speedball]

I'm reading A Game of Thrones by George Martin right now.
It's like a very adult LOTR, and so far it's pretty good.

 

[LadyVader]

Liviu Rebreanu - Ion



It has teh sex in it!

 

[CyberFaust]

Liviu Rebreanu - Ion

one of the best books i have ever read, it is a verry good book about man in the rural early 20 century society, just briliant

and yes it has lots of teh sex, lust like rural early 20 century life

 

[Arkady Rossovich]

The first 3 Harry Potter books.
Novels i would say are.."Animal Farm".."A Day No Pigs Would Die" and "Canyons",

 

[mightiest_mortal]

Madrox : Multiple choice... HAS to be read


OOh.. also, I got given the Moomin books for christmas.. thought they were for kids when i was little but theres something eerily cool and surreal about them still.

 

[Cosmic]

I recently picked up Parable of the Sower by the late Octavia Butler. It's about a telepathic girl living in California in the near future, where massive ecological disasters have drastically changed the world. Basically, imagine what life would be like if the country started to fall apart, piece by piece. Imagine the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, on a worldwide scale, with no rescue and recovery operations for anyone who can't afford to pay for them. Imagine this as our daily reality. The main character feels the physical pain of others, as a side-effect of medication her mother took while she was pregnant. She's trying to survive and lead people into creating a better world. It's a really good, tough, heart-wrenching book...I only wish that I'd read it while the author was still alive.

 

[Panophobia]

The Hannibal series by Thomas Harris

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

 

[ShadowBoxing]

I really like Andromedia Strain when I was young.

 

[bdpaco]

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlien
actually I would recommend reading all of his books..he is one of the greatest science fiction authors ever...and if you have seen Starship Troopers and liked it then you need to read the book...so much was changed and left out. the book is so much better

 

[CConn]

The most recent really, really good books I've read...

Comics
Batman and the Monster Men
Daredevil: The Devil, Inside and Out
X-Factor: The Longest Night
X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Amazing Spider-Man: Death of the Stacys
Superman: Birthright
Teen Titans: A Kid's Game
The New Teen Titans: Terra Incognito
The Ultimates
Ultimates 2

Novels
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Batman: No Man's Land by Greg Rucka
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Star Wars: Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn
Star Wars: Dark Force Rising by Timothy Zahn
Star Wars: The Last Command by Timothy Zahn

 

[Galact-Gal]

Any of the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett. Humorous fantasy with great characters!

 

[mightiest_mortal]

Any one read the Dexter books? the series was the most AMAZING series that been on TV in the past 5 years, im curious to find if the books were as good

 

[The Question]

Anything by Neil Gaiman

I was just about to recomend American Gods. And I will anyway:

Here's "the skinny." The story centered around Shadow, a man serving a three year sentence in prison for assault an battery. One day, a few days short of his release, he gets some good news and bad news from the warden. The good news is that he's being let out a few days early. The bad news is that they're letting him out a few days early because his wife died in a car accident and they're letting him atend the funeral.

Obviously, this doesn't make him a happy fellow.

Anyway, on the planeride from the city where the prison's in to home, the plane flies through a thunderstorm. It's then that Shadow notices a middle aged man with a red beard and a glass eye sitting next to him. His name is Mr. Wednesday. Mr. Wednesday, knowing an aweful lot about Shadow, offers him a job. Not knowing at the time that Mr. Wednesday is in fact the Norse god Odin, Shadow accepts. A rather large mistake on his part, in the long run.

 

[StorminNorman]

I am really enjoying my Christmas Book:

Its Superman!: A Novel

 

[tzarinna]

I recently picked up Parable of the Sower by the late Octavia Butler. It's about a telepathic girl living in California in the near future, where massive ecological disasters have drastically changed the world. Basically, imagine what life would be like if the country started to fall apart, piece by piece. Imagine the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, on a worldwide scale, with no rescue and recovery operations for anyone who can't afford to pay for them. Imagine this as our daily reality. The main character feels the physical pain of others, as a side-effect of medication her mother took while she was pregnant. She's trying to survive and lead people into creating a better world. It's a really good, tough, heart-wrenching book...I only wish that I'd read it while the author was still alive.

I was just going to recommend this. I had nightmares while reading this book. I sadly had the opportunity to meet her at a book reading at one of the museums here and I opted to do something else. Her death was ****ing wrong.

 

[Mr. Credible]

Recommend a book. Comics and graphic novels are welcome, of course.

fight club, choke, survivor, invisible monsters, lullaby... basically anything by chuck palahniuk. the man really is a literary genius.

 

[Mr. Credible]

ooh, and the confessions of max tivoli, be andrew sean greer is probably one of the best books i've ever read, too.

 

[Sam Fisher]

 

[SapphirePrima]

I recently picked up Parable of the Sower by the late Octavia Butler. It's about a telepathic girl living in California in the near future, where massive ecological disasters have drastically changed the world. Basically, imagine what life would be like if the country started to fall apart, piece by piece. Imagine the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, on a worldwide scale, with no rescue and recovery operations for anyone who can't afford to pay for them. Imagine this as our daily reality. The main character feels the physical pain of others, as a side-effect of medication her mother took while she was pregnant. She's trying to survive and lead people into creating a better world. It's a really good, tough, heart-wrenching book...I only wish that I'd read it while the author was still alive.

I love this book!!!!!!!!! I read it in two days. She is one of my favorite authors. I read Parable of the Sower too which is pretty twisted. I wish she didn't die. I heard she had a third Earthseed book in the works.


If you like those read Kindred that one is pretty good too.

 

[Spider-Man Luvr28]

The Notebook!!!!!!!!Dheart: By Nicholas Sparks:heart: