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So: reccommend me some books.

I'll start:

Margaret Atwood : Oryx and Crake

It's a dystopian fiction which descirbes a bleak future of biological experimentation and changéd weather.

Not too challenging in the old vocabular department, but an interesting book nonetheless.


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[fishybawb]

So: reccommend me some books.

I'll start:

Margaret Atwood : Oryx and Crake

It's a dystopian fiction which descirbes a bleak future of biological experimentation and changéd weather.

Not too challenging in the old vocabular department, but an interesting book nonetheless.

OK321Go



Here you go.

 

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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. This is a fantastic book, witty and engaging. I urge everybody who hasn't read it to do so.

I also recommend anything written by Jasper Fforde, especially The Eyre Affair and the subsequent series. Very funny novels, with a lot of literary jokes so you can feel all smug when you understand them.

 

[daclassicgamingmaster]

HARRY POTTER

 

[Ganepark32]

An Unquiet Mind by Kay Jaimeson Redfield. A fantastic book all about the writers own experiences of depression and how it drove her to become a psychologist and help solve the problem of depression. It may be a little 'science-y' at bits, but I say look past it because it truly is a fantastic book giving us an insight into the mind of a manic depressive.

In fact, everyone should read it.

 

[Nova]

Barely legal teens.

 

[goobers]

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

It's pretty short- it only took me an evening and a morning and I thought that it was pretty darn good.

 

[BaDToaD]

The Gap series by Stephen Donaldson.

A huge story spanning 5 books. Science Fiction IMHO has never been better than this. Characters so violent and evil that you hate the bastards and that's the heroes. This is simply the most powerful novel I've ever read. To find yourself swearing at a book is quite weird. But I have found myself on occasion saying "What a f%*ker" etc. This is a book that could NEVER make it to film. No censor would allow it through.

I'm currently re reading it for the third time.

As one Amazon UK review says about the first book:

"Read this book. Be disturbed. Be outraged. Be offended. Be persistent.
Read the rest of the series and be amazed. Be awed. Be rewarded."

 

[Null]

or alternatively Battle Royale.

 

[goobers]

*snip!*
or alternatively Battle Royale.

 

[Null]

+ book suggestions, William Gibsons sprawl trilogy.

 

[Goity]

Jacqueline Wilson does Dallas: The Novelisation

 

[Fyvve]

World War Z. Its a collection of first hand accounts 10 years after the end of the war with the zombies. Really really awesome book especially if you dig zombies. http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/worldwarz/

I promise you wont be disappointed.

 

[bennyboy]

Jasper Fforde is fantastic! Love the thursday next books as well as the nursery crime ones! Both hilarious!

 

[Goity]

Cleopatra's Carpet

"It's true. It is different for redheads!"

 

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Okay Goity: STFU! And stop watching porn while you are posting on this board...

I recommend "Lucky You!" by Carl Hiaasen... hilarious novel. Both comical and intelligent.
If you are at it, go read everything Robert Anton Wilson ever wrote! DO IT NOW! I really recommend for everyone to pick up "Illuminatus!". Best SciFi book ever. Involving everything from heavy drug abuse, raunchy sex scenes, violent shootouts to politics, philosophy and spirituality. He also wrote "Schroedinger's Cat" which is also very good.

If you want to read something more serious, check out some classics! Hermann Hesse's "Siddharta" is a very great novel. Pretty much all about the search for the inner self and happiness. Very fine read!

Right now I am still biting my teeth out on James Joyce Ulysses. Damn... not too easy to follow if you are not a native English speaker.

 

[daclassicgamingmaster]

I bought the Illuminatus! trilogy last year. Cba to read it :lol:

Portnoy's complaint is a classic. There's a scene with a nice moist piece of liver involved . I actually read that for 10th grade and convinced my teacher that it's a classic (which it is). She allowed me to read it, but I couldn't do an oral presentation because it was "naughty" or something. Whatevs

In Cold Blood is great. Johnny Got His Gun is also a classic. If you like weird econ books, check out Freakonomics and The Millionaire Next Door.

 

[Null]

Any book written by Edward Gorey.

 

[gruso]

Any book written by Neal Stephenson.

 

[Ganepark32]

@ Xnopasaranx - I know just how hard Ulysses is. I haven't read it but I used to get quoted it by my old english teacher all of the time. I have seen bits and pieces of it though. May get round to reading it. When your finished that you should give Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzche a try. That's even more perplexing.

I'd like to thank you for the suggestion of 'Siddharta' as well. Sounds quite interesting and the sort of thing I like to read in books so I'm going to look into it.

Back to this. If you want something a little simplistic but with deep meaning you can't go wrong with Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. If you aren't moved by that book then I don't know what's wrong with you.