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09/02/2007 11:59:50 PM · #1 |
I need a good book to dive into.
Suggestions? |
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09/03/2007 12:04:32 AM · #2 |
| Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. |
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09/03/2007 12:05:47 AM · #3 |
Great choice from _eug.
Tranquil, at least give us a genre. Where do your interests lie? |
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09/03/2007 12:26:21 AM · #4 |
| I just finished reading Middlemarch by George Eliot for school and want something very, very, very far away from that. Maybe something thought provoking but not too heavy? Don't know if that helps at all. Anything in the realm of good fiction that isn't a romance novel will do. Don't know if that helps at all.. :) |
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09/03/2007 12:38:56 AM · #5 |
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09/03/2007 12:46:49 AM · #6 |
The Traveler by John Twelve Hawkes
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09/03/2007 01:19:09 AM · #7 |
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09/03/2007 01:20:40 AM · #8 |
Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers?
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09/03/2007 01:39:50 AM · #9 |
Nineteen Minutes -- the latest Jodi Picoult, amazing story. I am recommending this to everyone right now.
anything by Marian Keyes -- hilariously funny, yet serious. My favorite are Rachel's Holiday and Anybody Out There?
I just read my first Jonathan Tropper (How to Talk to a Widower), and loved it. hilarious & serious as well. Reminded me a lot of Nick Hornby.
A few more of my favorite non-classic books: Water for Elephants (Sara Gruen, I think?), Digging to America (Anne Tyler), Never Let Me Go (Ishiguro), Love Walked In (Marisa De Los Santos).
OK, I just checked and realized that the OP is a guy. :) Many of these still stand, but you might want to put a paper cover on the Marian Keyes or the Love Walked In if you read those. :)
Message edited by author 2007-09-03 01:40:51. |
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09/03/2007 01:40:01 AM · #10 |
I can not advise on what to read. Last book that I liked was khalil gibran's Broken Wings. I read it some years ago.
If you are wondering that I do not do any reading, that would be wrong.
My readings now only include:
Engineering books, mathematics books, Journal papers related to aerodynamics and phd thesis.
and if I get time (now a days) the book will be something like 'how to speak japanese ... '
sorry not big help.
(do not force it into rant though)
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09/03/2007 02:06:13 AM · #11 |
Originally posted by _eug:
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. |
+1 for the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy... I really liked the trilogy up until the fourth book, I only made it about half way though and gave up,
I guess I should go back and finish it.
Message edited by author 2007-09-03 02:06:40. |
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09/03/2007 02:23:48 AM · #12 |
| Black Swan Green by David Mitchell |
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09/03/2007 11:03:39 AM · #13 |
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers? |
Boy, you need to get out more... |
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09/03/2007 11:43:10 AM · #14 |
My current favorite books. Don't know if this helps.
I like histories of small stray happenings as opposed to major events.
Ohran Pamuk - My Name is Red. Historic fiction, Istanbul miniaturists meet European art, with a murder mystery.
Simon Winchester _ The Professor and the Madman. A tale of Murder, Insanity, and the making of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Tom Reiss - The Orientalist. Biography of a Russian Jew who passed himself off as a Muslim prince in Nazi Germany.
Gavin WEightan - The Frozen-Water Trade. In the 1800's New England ice was cut from winter ponds and shipped around the world. |
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09/03/2007 11:49:07 AM · #15 |
| The Time Travellers wife. |
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09/03/2007 11:52:17 AM · #16 |
His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman.
The first one is called Northern Lights or The Golden Compass (USA) depending on where you live. These books are stunningly brilliant and will probably turn into your favourite read. Worked with me.
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09/03/2007 11:58:06 AM · #17 |
| Another vote for The Time Traveller's Wife and the Dark Materials trilogy. The latter may be childrens' literature, but is a damned good read! |
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09/03/2007 12:00:37 PM · #18 |
| My son is just finishing one of my favorite books of all time, The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne. Link goes to free text version at Project Gutenberg. |
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09/03/2007 12:16:41 PM · #19 |
Originally posted by _eug:
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers? |
Boy, you need to get out more... |
Last piece of Fiction I read was a book called Lesbian Horse Stories. And no it wasn't as bad as it sounds... LOL. Very tame.
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09/03/2007 12:18:05 PM · #20 |
| Any of the Mode books or the Xanth books by Piers Anthony... they are GREAT fiction (and I read a LOT). |
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09/03/2007 12:25:32 PM · #21 |
Originally posted by TCGuru:
Any of the Mode books or the Xanth books by Piers Anthony... they are GREAT fiction (and I read a LOT). |
Seconded! The Xanth books are a little less serious of a read, just FYI :p |
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09/03/2007 12:30:50 PM · #22 |
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09/03/2007 12:31:46 PM · #23 |
My favorites. The following are the books that I looked at the clock, and decided I could read for another hour and still get 4 hours sleep.
1) Last of the breed, Louis L'Amour, “Warning” don’t start this book when you have something to do the next day.
2) Tom Clancy novels, “Patriot Games” is where I started, now I have 1st , 1st’s, of all of his novels.
3) The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, yes the movies where good, but fell short of the books.
4) Battlefield Earth, Robert A. Heinlein. If you saw the movie, don’t for a second think this is what the book is about.
I agree with The Hitchhikers Trilogy, not in my top 10 or even 20, but a fun read all the same.
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09/03/2007 12:38:48 PM · #24 |
Originally posted by Redneck:
The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, yes the movies where good, but fell short of the books. |
If you need something quick and funny, check out Bored of the Rings by the editors of the Harvard Lampoon ... |
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09/03/2007 12:52:09 PM · #25 |
I recently read Everything's Eventual by Stephen King. It's a collection of 14 short stories, most of which are very good. It's nice to be able to pick up a book and finish a story or two in one sitting.
If short stories aren't for you... The Husband by Dean Koontz is great. The Taking by Dean Koontz is great. Cell by Stephen King is also great.
All three of those are suspenseful page turners, very hard to put down until you finish them. And all three of them will stick in your mind for a while after you finish them.
The Taking and Cell are apocalyptic stories. Excellent ones. The Husband is a story of a husband whose wife was kidnapped and the things he does to get her back. |
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