Author Topic: Book Reading Suggestions (Read 6613 times)

GGKoul · « **on:** January 18, 2005, 10:49:26 am »

Hello

I'm looking for a new book to read. As I just finished "Angels and Demon's" last weekend and Muhammed Ali's "Soul of a Butterfly" a few weeks ago. And now I'm stumped on what book to read next.

I read "The Davinci Code" awhile ago and I'm looking for something similar but I'm not sure whatelse is out there that is like the Davinci Code.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Hoagie_one · « **Reply #1 on:** January 18, 2005, 11:04:25 am »

Are you into fantasy \ Scifi?

GGKoul · « **Reply #2 on:** January 18, 2005, 11:08:14 am »

Quote from: Hoagie_one on January 18, 2005, 11:04:25 am

Are you into fantasy \ Scifi?

I can't say I've ever read a Fantasy / Scifi book.

Jabba · « **Reply #3 on:** January 18, 2005, 11:46:30 am »

I was cleaning up the basement a few weeks ago and came across a box of paperbacks from my teenage years. I just finished reading a Sci-Fi called "The Mote in God's Eye" by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. This was an Excellent, Excellent read even if you have not read Sci-Fi.

Two authors teaming together to work on a very well-though out book.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671741926/104-0252320-5689502

I am reading Lucifer's Hammer now by the same two authors. I can't put it down!

shmokes · « **Reply #4 on:** January 18, 2005, 11:52:25 am »

The two best books I've read recently are The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon (he won a pulitzer for it - Also the guy who wrote Wonder Boys, the movie with Michael Douglas and Toby McGuire) and The World According to Garp by John Irving.

Also, Life of Pi was an excellent book that was written recently. M. Knight Shamayalan (or whatever his name is) is currently making this into a movie.

GGKoul · « **Reply #5 on:** January 18, 2005, 01:00:57 pm »

Quote from: shmokes on January 18, 2005, 11:52:25 am

The two best books I've read recently are The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon (he won a pulitzer for it - Also the guy who wrote Wonder Boys, the movie with Michael Douglas and Toby McGuire) and The World According to Garp by John Irving.

Also, Life of Pi was an excellent book that was written recently.

SirPeale · « **Reply #6 on:** January 18, 2005, 02:02:08 pm »

Quote from: GGKoul on January 18, 2005, 01:00:57 pm

I think I'm going to get Life of Pi and 5 people you meet in Heaven or The Twin Travellers Wife.

Do you mean The Time Travellers Wife?

Hoagie_one · « **Reply #7 on:** January 18, 2005, 02:19:58 pm »

just for fun reading, i recomend the harry potter books. far from difficult reading though.

lokki · « **Reply #8 on:** January 18, 2005, 02:23:47 pm »

If you like conspiracy theories like Da vinci code, Check out Foucault's Pendulum.
Amazon.Com Link

umberto Eco also wrote Name of the rose which was made into a movie by Sean Connery a while ago. also a pretty good read.

Fantasy I recently read Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel. Excellent book.

Amazon.Com Link

Scifi. One of my favorites still is cryptonomicon (huge book) by neal stephenson. I could never really get into the whole The Baroque Cycle series that just came out. but have read the cryptonomicon a couple of times.

fredster · « **Reply #9 on:** January 18, 2005, 02:28:06 pm »

Start with the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe.

Then pick up a copy of Rainbow Six.

Then pick up the Dark Tower series by Stephen King.

Harry Potter books are really fun to read, I agree.

There are a series of old books called the Stainless Steel Rat, the Stainless Steel Rat saves the world, etc, those are good too.

GGKoul · « **Reply #10 on:** January 18, 2005, 02:28:34 pm »

Quote from: Peale on January 18, 2005, 02:02:08 pm

Quote from: GGKoul on January 18, 2005, 01:00:57 pm
I think I'm going to get Life of Pi and 5 people you meet in Heaven or The Twin Travellers Wife.

Do you mean The Time Travellers Wife?

Yep.. thanks!!

SirPeale · « **Reply #11 on:** January 18, 2005, 02:49:33 pm »

Quote from: GGKoul on January 18, 2005, 02:28:34 pm

Quote from: Peale on January 18, 2005, 02:02:08 pm
Quote from: GGKoul on January 18, 2005, 01:00:57 pm
I think I'm going to get Life of Pi and 5 people you meet in Heaven or The Twin Travellers Wife.

Do you mean The Time Travellers Wife?

Yep.. thanks!! Have you read it? Is it good?

I did. I'm facinated with time travel, so when I saw it @ the library I took a chance. It was awesome! Very sad at the end, though. I admit, I cried.

Luxury · « **Reply #12 on:** January 18, 2005, 03:04:15 pm »

After getting bored with fantasy/sci-fi, I just switched over to horror. I got a book of H.P. Lovecraft, and after reading it, bought everything he has done. Very cool stuff. But all short stories...not "a good read" like a whole weekend kind of thing, but nonetheless I recommend.

DrewKaree · « **Reply #13 on:** January 18, 2005, 04:07:18 pm »

The Photoshop Bible

You Have More Than You Think - The Motley Fool (The Gardner Brothers)

The Real America - Glenn Beck

The PreHistory of The Far Side - Larson

The Case For Christ - Lee Strobel

Small Engine Repar - Chilton or Haynes version, whichever you can get

The Dictionary - Webster's

Take Dead Aim - Harvey Penick

Payne Stewart - Biography

danny_galaga · « **Reply #14 on:** January 18, 2005, 09:11:27 pm »

if you like time travel, then i recommend 'timescape' by gregory benford.

i love old school science fiction- none of this stuff they have in the bookshops now. that's for girls! gimme robert silverberg, ray bradbury etc. the pinnacle of that age i reckon would be 'neuromancer' - by william gibson. was a pretty good guess at the future of the world wide web and hacking etc.

on h.p lovecraft i think he is to horror what l.ron.hubbard is to science fiction, read into that what you will...

on popular science- 'in search of schroedingers cat'- by john gribbin is great as is the older 'relativity simply explained'-by martin gardner

on original works BY scientists (that you can actually follow) you can't go past 'on the origin of species'- by charles darwin and michael faradays book (or collocted notes, i can't remember now).

the five books of the hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy trilogy is good although the last book seems like a contractual obligation

oh, and drew- you mean OXFORD, don't you?

DrewKaree · « **Reply #15 on:** January 18, 2005, 09:19:13 pm »

Quote from: danny_galaga on January 18, 2005, 09:11:27 pm

oh, and drew- you mean OXFORD, don't you?

Crap....my bad. Colour me embarrassed.

Generic Eric · « **Reply #16 on:** January 18, 2005, 09:40:06 pm »

Bones · « **Reply #17 on:** January 19, 2005, 01:16:50 am »

Quote from: danny_galaga on January 18, 2005, 09:11:27 pm

on original works BY scientists (that you can actually follow) you can't go past 'on the origin of species'- by charles darwin

Man, did I struggle with that! I got maybe 1/4 into it and stopped. I was not enjoying it at all.

I would recommend The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, it's a brilliant piece of writing.

Currently reading Ayrton Senna (The whole story).

shmokes · « **Reply #18 on:** January 19, 2005, 01:53:01 am »

I'll second Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainance. It is a book that will likely completely change the way you view the world......until a couple of years go by and you forget most of it. Then you'll be like, "man, I've got to read that again."

Great book, seriously. Pontentially life-changing.

GGKoul · « **Reply #19 on:** January 19, 2005, 01:58:49 am »

Quote from: BrokenBones1 on January 19, 2005, 01:16:50 am

Quote from: danny_galaga on January 18, 2005, 09:11:27 pm
on original works BY scientists (that you can actually follow) you can't go past 'on the origin of species'- by charles darwin

Currently reading Ayrton Senna (The whole story).

There's a Ayrton Senna book??? What is it called?

Bones · « **Reply #20 on:** January 19, 2005, 02:08:38 am »

Quote from: GGKoul on January 19, 2005, 01:58:49 am

There's a Ayrtin Senna book??? What is it called?

GGKoul · « **Reply #21 on:** January 19, 2005, 02:10:17 am »

Quote from: BrokenBones1 on January 19, 2005, 02:08:38 am

Quote from: GGKoul on January 19, 2005, 01:58:49 am
There's a Ayrtin Senna book??? What is it called?

menace · « **Reply #22 on:** January 19, 2005, 07:03:46 am »

I read clive cussler (any of them) same sort of action just more cheesy, Jack Dubrul--really like his book so far, Jeff Long (enjoyed them as well) Lincoln Child and Douglas preston books (riptide, thunderhead, cabinet of curiosities etc.) Typically I like the archaelogical/action books.

And yes Harry Potter's are a good read. I'm reading the dark tower series but have been unimpressed so far--he has basically taken excerpts from his other books and tied them all into this one--seems like the same stories but with different characters--and of course cause its steven king it takes a character a page and a half to say yes or no...

Samstag · « **Reply #23 on:** January 19, 2005, 07:43:11 am »

Quote from: lokki on January 18, 2005, 02:23:47 pm

If you like conspiracy theories like Da vinci code, Check out Foucault's Pendulum.
Amazon.Com Link

Definitely a great book.

Magnet_Eye · « **Reply #24 on:** January 19, 2005, 09:12:24 am »

Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut

Steppenwolf, Siddhartha - Herman Hesse

On the Road - Jack Kerouac

Women - Charles Bukowski

Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig

SciFi/Futuristic stuff, check out William Gibson!

fredster · « **Reply #25 on:** January 19, 2005, 11:04:15 am »

How to talk to a Liberal - If you must by Ann Coulter

Winning the Future by Newt Gingrich

lokki · « **Reply #26 on:** January 19, 2005, 12:03:26 pm »

Regarding popular sciences, I recently read a couple of books by James Burke (he does the connections series and a few others for TLC )

I read circles and the day the universe change. Pretty interesting stuff. I'm looking for more of his stuff.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-author=James%20Burke/102-3609187-9909764

Daniel270 · « **Reply #27 on:** January 19, 2005, 12:50:19 pm »

Quote from: menace on January 19, 2005, 07:03:46 am

shmokes · « **Reply #28 on:** January 19, 2005, 01:05:12 pm »

Quote from: fredster on January 19, 2005, 11:04:15 am

How to talk to a Liberal - If you must by Ann Coulter

Winning the Future by Newt Gingrich

The Gingrich one is likely good -- or at least factual. He's a bright fellow. I wouldn't trust Coulter as far as I could throw Gingrich.

Magnet_Eye's list is supurb. Breakfast of Champions may be my all-time favorite book. I've got a signed leatherbound copy.

Shape D. · « **Reply #29 on:** January 19, 2005, 01:19:17 pm »

Try the Imajica by Clive Barker, Its a two book series.

Warning Books contain aldult subject matter

Daniel270 · « **Reply #30 on:** January 19, 2005, 01:36:49 pm »

Something that was just brought to my attention...

Today is Edgar Allan Poe's birthday...

fredster · « **Reply #31 on:** January 19, 2005, 04:49:39 pm »

Shmokes,

That's for the unsolicited critique, again. God you are so smart and witty.

DrewKaree · « **Reply #32 on:** January 20, 2005, 01:53:47 am »

Playboy, Penthouse, Juggs, Swank.....you'd be surprised at the insightful stories they have.

(I have a smiley to go with this post, but it's WAY too graphic and inappropriate for a family forum

)

GGKoul · « **Reply #33 on:** January 20, 2005, 01:56:36 am »

Quote from: DrewKaree on January 20, 2005, 01:53:47 am

Playboy, Penthouse, Juggs, Swank.....you'd be surprised at the insightful stories they have.

(I have a smiley to go with this post, but it's WAY too graphic and inappropriate for a family forum

DrewKaree · « **Reply #34 on:** January 20, 2005, 02:11:28 am »

I know PG-13. They don't have bodily fluids in PG-13.

You're trying to get me kicked out!

Now I'll have to start my "I'm leaving cuz nobody loves me" thread and start the farewell tour.

*insert Fred Sanford voice and gestures*
Floyd......Floyd......ahm comin' ta join ya Floyd!

Trimoor · « **Reply #35 on:** January 20, 2005, 09:27:36 am »

I like the classics.

1984 -- Very scary book. Don't read it if you're prone to being paranoid.
Gone with the wind -- They loved each other, but never at the same time.
David Copperfield -- Very sad.
Encyclopedia -- Much better plot than the dictionary.

GGKoul · « **Reply #36 on:** January 20, 2005, 11:16:38 am »

Quote from: DrewKaree on January 20, 2005, 02:11:28 am

I know PG-13.

Shape D. · « **Reply #37 on:** January 20, 2005, 11:29:28 am »

How come nobody reccomended this one?

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GGKoul · « **Reply #38 on:** January 20, 2005, 11:35:54 am »

Quote from: Shape D. on January 20, 2005, 11:29:28 am

How come nobody reccomended this one?

http://xrl.us/this

Already have it

Luxury · « **Reply #39 on:** January 20, 2005, 12:05:28 pm »

Quote from: Shape D. on January 20, 2005, 11:29:28 am

How come nobody reccomended this one?

http://xrl.us/this

suck up


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