Your recomendations on books

Ok, here:

The Old Kingdom Trilogy by Garth Nix (Sabriel and sequels) Awesome.

Bartimaeus trilogy by Jonathon Stroud. Parallel universe, where people can summon djinnis (genies) and Bartimaeus is hilarious Really awesome books. One of the best fantasy series I've ever read.

The Noble Warriors trilogy by WIlliam Nicholson.

Eh, too much to explain.

Cell by Stephen King. One day, people suddenly start going crazy and killing everyone, and it turns out that it was because of their cell phones.

Favourite authors: S. King, William Nicholson, Garth Nix. They're all amazing...

Ah, my friend loves that.

Oh I really like crime mystery... I bought a Dean Koontz book (maybe you've read it, von tesla?) called The Good Guy.

by who?

Haha, we read the Lord of the Flies twice, in 8th and 10th grade. Fun book.
I read Fahrenheit 451 recently for similar reasons, didn't read it in school but heard it was really good Sci-Fi.

I read Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton this summer as well. Not a lot of action at all, but I found the biology discussions fascinating and it was surprisingly thrilling/suspenseful. A very well-written book.

I'm reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy currently, I'm nearly done. Hilariously crazy book it is.

Btw, if you have any other great Sci-Fi recommendations, please post them!

Ok, so I just finished reading Dracula. It was pretty good, and I'm quite glad I knew all the vampire lore already, or I would have been quite confused as to what the heck was going on. It was an ok book.

A big problem for me were the characters in the story. I know they lived in a different time period, but the culture shock was too big. They were all ridiculously earnest about everything. Example of something they'd say: "Oh, Mrs. Harper, dont you fret your pretty, little face. Us men in all our energies will make sure that wicked devil will never see the light of day again. For, as surely as we stand right here, we will give our lives to this cause." BLECK! I would kill myself if I ever got sucked into a time warp and arrived in that time period.

But yeah, it was still good, I guess. The pace might be long, but it's also natural. They cant go off in kill Dracula in two days; that's just not probable. I'm spoiled with Hollywood's fast-action storylines. Haha.

Edit Warning: The vampires in Victorian Age literature aren't killed by sunlight. It took me a while to figure that out. I had no idea why Dracula was standing around in the afternoon.

Haha, I've heard about that book. I even read a children's version of it. You cant beat an army of knights with a bicycle calvary.

Anybody read Then it came to an end by Joshua Farris? It's a book written from the point of view of people working in the workplace. It's quite funny.

Apparenttly it was on New York Times Top Ten books of the year of 2007 or something. but it's good.

Well I haven't read it, so I don't know if it has anything in common with Lost, but apparently it's about time travel.

A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby.

This TV presenter who's been jailed for having sex with a minor and divorced and whatnot decides to commit suicide by throwing himself off a building. however, 3 other people join him, each with their own reasons why to commit suicide. They fight a bit, eat some pizza and decide not to die that night, and from then on they form a little sort of club where they meet up regularly to check if they still wanna die.

It's funny and kinda sweet

and this is a really crap sypnosis.

I read the beginning a couple of years ago... it bored me, and I don't really feel like reading it.

What's it bout? Ï don't think my one had a blurb.

The Night Watch Trilogy by Sergei Lu-------- (don't really know his last name )

It goes like this: At the start of time, there were these people called Others who wielded supernatural powers. Specifically, there were Light Others and Dark Others. They were about to go to war, but the leaders of each side figured that they'd all die if they fight, so they made a Treaty.

The Light Ones form the Night Watch, which is when the Dark Ones are most active, and the Dark Ones created the Day Watch.

So it fast-forwards to present day, following a Light Other, Anton Gorondevensky (I think that's it :S) and a couple of operations he undertakes against the Dark Ones.

They've made the books into movies... though not sure how successful it was over in America.

Um, there's the Night wAtch, the Day Watch and the Twilight Watch. I've seen Day Watch, which is actually the last half/third of Night WAtch, and I have the Day Watch. My friend has Night Watch....

It's kinda like the matrix except more powers, less martial arts, less confusing, and I think less boring.

Chuck Klosterman is my favorite author. He writes funny books and essays about pop culture and music. I highly recommend Killing Yourself To Live: 85% Of A True Story, as well as Sex Drugs And Cocoa Puffs.

I also really really like Kurt Vonnegut. I think everyone should read Slaughterhouse-Five. And I mean EVERYONE.

Oh, and Stephen King's "Dark Tower" series is fantastic.

Let's see... I read a few interesting ones.

Ender in Exile. Card. Continuation of the Ender's Game series, definitely one worth reading. At THE VERY LEAST read Ender's Game, which is the best Sci-Fi book I've ever read.

Wildside. Gould. A young man finds a portal to an alternate world, one where humans never existed. At first he catches extinct birds and sells them for money, then he recruits his friends and they go to search for gold. The government finds out, and conflict ensues. I enjoyed it, more adventure than action though.

The Accidental Time Machine. Haldeman. A graduate student accidentally sees that a device he built disappears for a moment. After testing it, he discovers that it actually skips forward in time, with that time increasing exponentially. He uses it to explore into the future, while trying to find a way back. I thought the explorations of possible futures was insightful and fun.

Rollback. Sawyer. A famous astrologer woman finds a way to contact aliens on a planet many lightyears away. In an effort to have her be the constant contact, she and her husband are given a "rollback" to restore them to their youth. Problem is, it only works on her husband, who the story is about. I thought it was very good, and the sci-fi was interesting, and will look into the author's other books.

Inside the Animal Mind. Non-fiction. A look at the emotions, intelligence, and psychology of animals through several anecdotes and accounts of animal researchers. I actually read the whole thing and found it very interesting.

I'm looking into other Sci-Fi books, probably going to read Foundation next.

I didnt read this thread because it would probably make me cry

anyway you all need to read everything by:
james joyce, thomas pynchon, david foster wallace, william faulkner

dfw's by far the easiest to get into, thomas pynchon the awesomest