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Touching Spirit Bear.
Great book. I've read it maybe 14 times. LOVE. IT.

At 10/5/09 01:00 PM, PabMo wrote:

At 10/5/09 12:49 PM, CastleVaniac wrote: Harry Potter series

Joke?

Harry Potter are good books.

My favorite book series are the Dune books. I fucking love 'em.

percy jackson and the olympians, the entire series is about 1200 pages or so, but its really good.

the eragon series are fairly good

also......yay 100th post

Terry Pratchett's discworld novels for shear awesome and witty-ness
Bravo Two Zero for "OMG i'm so wet for the SAS"
Jeremey Clarkson (if you know who he is) for epic opinions on british politics

Books are for NERDS

Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky

The Castle - Kafka

Slaughterhouse-Five - Vonnegut

Just for starters.

I'm a sci-fi person so the books I'm going to mention is that genere.

Static to Noise by Eric Nylund
Contact with an alien race is made. The alien gives information in exchange for some, but what they learn turns things upside down. Meanwhile the alien is subtly pushing humankind towards its demise. A lot of the writing was an eye-opener for society and individuals for me. Gave me a different perspective to look at. And has a lot of action at the end. The author wrote most of the Halo books, but this isn't related to that story in any way.

Engines of God by Jack McDevitt
Not a religious writing. This is the first book of a sci-fi series set in a world where archeology is at its peak. No longer is it confined to studying human history but the history of whole different species on another planet! Humanity is the only sentient species in the Galaxy. On Earth things are deteriorating so a terraforming mission in put into act. However archeologist race against time to uncover the mystery of the monument-makers and the un-natural formation on the planet's moon.
(It's more actiony than I made it sound. It's got tense moments and laughs.)

At 10/5/09 04:44 PM, Decagonian wrote: Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse.

Absolutely.

At 10/5/09 08:04 PM, Sh0T-D0wN wrote: I read constantly, and I've read some of these more than once.

1. All Quiet on the Western Front. (Personal favorite)

I still need to read that. I almost bought it at a used book store but didn't want to shell out 7 bucks. So I bought a Russian copy of Crime and Punishment instead.

5. A Clockwork Orange.

Definitely.

6. 1984.

A must. George Orwell is amazing.

I would also recommend his essays, like "Shooting an Elephant", "England, Your England", and "Why I Write".

8. The Stand.

It is really cool for the first half, but then it turns into a soap opera and ends with a (literal!) deus ex machina.

At 10/5/09 10:03 PM, Leidolfr wrote: Thus Spoke Zarathustra [ Also Sprach Zarathustra ] by Nietzsche

An interesting one, for sure.

A Brief History of Time by Steven Hawking

Very worthwhile read.

Pride, Prejudice and ZOMBIES.

Real book.

Atlas Shrugged.

Dan Brown books are good and short, but Atlas Shrugged is really something if you're willing to read 900 pages. Trust me, it is worth it.

Too many books what have I created

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At 10/5/09 12:31 PM, therealanimator wrote: read the zombie survival guide guaranteed to make you board up your house and develop a fear of zombies.

Hahah, this man speaks truth. Awesome book. Also, "I AM AMERICA AND SO CAN YOU" by Stephen Colbert.

The Road

watership down. its a classic

The Stand, clocks in at about 1,000 pages. Basically what Fallout is based on.

call of chutlu

a shadow out of time

At 10/6/09 01:49 AM, Lagatag wrote:

At 10/5/09 01:00 PM, PabMo wrote:

At 10/5/09 12:49 PM, CastleVaniac wrote: Harry Potter series

Joke?

Harry Potter are good books.

Yeah I actually like them. I stopped at Order of the Phoenix, but I felt like reading them again so I might just do that.

I recommend The Things They Carried or One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, both very excellent.
Dark Tower series by King is also a good one.

The graveyard book
The chronicles of vladmir tod
The alchemists son Dr. Illuminatus and soul stealer
I am America and so can you

Pretty good books.

Read "a crack in the line"
The main character was watching porn while his mom died in a train crash.
He also meets a female version of himself (Rule 63?) in a alternate universe, and has somewhat sexual thoughts about her.
Its fucking amazing.

At 10/5/09 12:30 PM, UCanCallMeJesus wrote: I have read everything by chuck palahniuk.

Did I recommend those to you? That sounds like something I would recommend to anyone.

Read Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman next. Do it, do it, do it!

At 10/5/09 03:39 PM, JaY11 wrote:

At 10/5/09 03:29 PM, UCanCallMeJesus wrote:

At 10/5/09 03:25 PM, JaY11 wrote: Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is really cool and brutal.

Read the first post dumb ass.

Interesting.

What about The God Delusion?

that book is boring

Into the wild by Jon Krakuer.
Watchmen by Dave gibbons and Andy Moore
Speak
The outsiders
Great reads.