[Books] Suggest Me a Book

[Dudenoso]

Diaspora, by Greg Egan.

The beginning (orphanogenesis) was possibly the most beautiful thing I have ever read.

[Nihilist74]

The Dark Tower series by Stephen King ( post-apocalypse, sci-fi, horror )
Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy ( This book is about a fictional world war 3 between America and Russia. )
Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice ( This is a book about god and the devil )
Valis by Phillip K Dick ( god is an artificial intelligence in another galaxy )
Anything by Kurt Vonnegut
War of the Worlds and The Time Machine by HG Wells
Mountains of Madness by HP Lovecraft ( Geologists discover some strange things in Antartica )

[Deleted]

I suggest the book of kings: Shahnameh

[Inukashi]

Your list doesn't really help. It's totally mixed, but I try to find something good for ya.

-The Hobbit,
-(maybe) 'moon of the spider' or 'sin wars' - diablo
-(maybe) you might want to read Karl May if you can find english versions of him. I liked his books. Especially the stories of the orient. 'in the desert'
-Necroscope (starts as crime with some xmen mixed in, ends as WoW outlands adventure)

[Deleted]

If you liked Lord of the Rings, you should give The Silmarillion and The Unfinished Tales a try, they're also by JRRT but focus more on the First and Second Era

[Khadgar]

A book I read in High School that I thoroughly enjoyed was To Kill A Mockingbird to Harper Lee

[Ivanstone]

Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis.

His comics contain many horrible things that are "inspired" by the world around us.

After reading this book I got the impression this was all the weird shit he couldn't convince an artist to draw.

Except for Macroherpetophiles. He did manage to get Jacen Burrows to draw that.

[Daedius]

If you enjoyed the Hitchhiker series I highly recommend the Discworld series if, for some reason, you haven't read any.

[Wermys]

The Stand by Stephen King Patriot Games by Clancy Foundation Series by Asimov, Dragons Dawn by Mccaffery and GOT by Martin

[Grimbold21]

A book I read in High School that I thoroughly enjoyed was To Kill A Mockingbird to Harper Lee

I had heard this title vaguely before, but I went ahead and read it. Short but very enjoyable read.

Thanks for the suggestion

[Brautigan79]

Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson

[luckyjack]

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. Read it in one afternoon waiting for my then girlfriend to get off work at a hotel. Read it in the parking lot on a beautiful day and day dreamt about the futility of our existence and the dark humor behind it.

[Super Kami Dende]

Ciaphas Cain: Hero of the Imperium

[Vathoren]

If you want good young adult fiction, I can highly recommend the Mortal Engines series by Philip Reeve. Very well written post-apocalyptic diesel-punk, currently being turned into a movie franchise by Peter Jackson.

[Piglord]

The Expanse, The Old Man's War, and Expeditionary Force series are three I usually recommend for Sci-fi. IF you are looking for something similar to Ready Player One, I recently listened to the first three books from a series called Ascend Online. It is no literary masterpiece, but it was enjoyable to listen to.

Edited to add: If you pick up the Old Man's war series you can skip book 4. It is the same as book 3, but is told from a teenage girl's perspective.

[Deleted]

Been having a great time reading the Misborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson recently. I'd also suggest looking into the Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks.

[Deficineiron]

Edited to add: If you pick up the Old Man's war series you can skip book 4. It is the same as book 3, but is told from a teenage girl's perspective.

i stopped the series right there when it was published. How did he think that was a good idea?

The whole situation felt like the situation Card had with ender's game - a great story expanded to a novel, and then nothing but books in that setting after, but the subsequent books are quite different. maybe more extreme in card's case.

[Piglord]

i stopped the series right there when it was published. How did he think that was a good idea?

The whole situation felt like the situation Card had with ender's game - a great story expanded to a novel, and then nothing but books in that setting after, but the subsequent books are quite different. maybe more extreme in card's case.

I speculated that the change of writing style was when he was shopping the series to TV networks. I liked book 5, but it was hard to get through because it was written like a screenplay. Practically the entire book was nothing but dialogue.

[Deficineiron]

I speculated that the change of writing style was when he was shopping the series to TV networks. I liked book 5, but it was hard to get through because it was written like a screenplay. Practically the entire book was nothing but dialogue.

that is an interesting idea, and certainly if he was looking to shop rights on the series, I guess any number of things become possible.

I liked his re-write of Little Fuzzy, and I assume I would like other standalone projects if he did them, but it is something of a trap for an author with one really big best-seller right out of the gate. Publishers want sequels, authors have bills, etc.

[Hammerfest]

Howling Mad
Salem's Lot
Captain Steel & Other Stories
Mindhunter
The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay