Book Sugestions

Anyone have some books to Suggest? i need some thing to read!

House of Night, Vampire Academy, Maximum Ride, Inheritance Cycle
All great series. 

Anything but Twilight.

House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Half-Asleep In Frog Pajamas - Tom Robbins

A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway

Chronicle of a Death Foretold - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
Mercy Among the Children - David Adams Richards
Lullabies for Little Criminals - Heather O'Neill
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
De Niro's Game - Rawi Hage
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce

If you're more into fantasy:
Song of Ice and Fire - George RR Martin [Caution: Prepare to hate him if you love his books.]

I've lately started reading some books by Greg Iles, he's sort of a romance/thriller/mystery writer. Good stuff, thought it may take a few chapters to adjust as he often writes in first person present tense.

Anything by Dan Brown. He's by far my favorite author.

We're trying to help him find good stuff. Dan Brown and First Person choose-your-own mystery novels are going to turn him off of reading.

Dan Brown is actually one of my favorite authors. Admittedly, the one that got him the fame, the Da Vinci Code, was a little too hyped up due to its controversy, but it's still a good read to me.

Thanks! and i have alrady read Maxium Ride! U should check out daniel X. and i like Dan Brown a little hav't read much of his stuff though

You don't type like you can read higher level literature. .-.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There - Lewis Carroll
I, Robot -    Isaac Asimov
The Sword of Truth series - Terry Goodkind

Also Comics (They're comic books, not comic magazines.)
The Walking Dead - Robert Kirkman 
Chew - John Layman

I read Better then i type! thanks for the help every one!

If you read books of high quality and of finer literature, you should naturally be integrating the styles and the syntax into your writing. Of course, this is mainly applied to writing that you do for school or some essay, but I don't think that I, personally, would be able to respect myself for typing (because typing is a form of writing) in the manner that you do and still read fine literature; it seems more like a facade.

Stop trying to act smart, Moo.

Of course, this is mainly applied to writing that you do for school or some essay, but I don't think that I, personally, would be able to respect myself for typing (because typing is a form of writing) in the manner that you do and still read fine literature; it seems more like a facade.

Most ironic run-on sentence award.

That's just how I usually type. Also, I don't pretend like I read literature or anything. In fact, I tend to avoid it. So it's really not ironic.

What is ironic is that you're correcting me, but the sentence isn't even a run-on sentence at all. There's proper punctuation to separate the independent clauses. It's not a run-on sentence but just that the sentence is wordy.

Someone's in high school english

No, it's a run-on sentence. You should very rarely use more than two commas per sentence, but especially not when you use parenthesis or a semi-colon. The irony part comes from how you corrected someone's typing.

I love semicolons; every time I see one in a sentence I squirm with joy.

Can we get back to books please?

There are plenty here. Pick one and read it.

Thanks for the help!

Mystic Warrior (and, by exstention, the whole of the Bronze Canticles collection, although I have only read this first installment) by Tracy and Laura Hickman.

It's basically three stories in one and is a book I've read more than once. I love it, hahaha!

Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino

Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino

yes yes yes yes. do love.

Got anything more in to the fantasy/contemporary fantasy area?

Harry Potter.

Preferably, anything besides Harry Potter. And while on the subject, I wad reading a book, witch and the wizard, in the end it says something about Garry Blotter and through Gild of rejects

Got anything more in to the fantasy/contemporary fantasy area?

House of Night, Vampire Academy, Maximum Ride, Inheritance Cycle
All great series. 

Vampires, Vampires, Not sure what that would fall under...people with wings and various other things, and fantasy

Anything but Twilight.

I consider any thing with vampires Twilight-ish, and since I'm the only one who hasn't put a book down, try Leviathan

Anything but Twilight.

I consider any thing with vampires Twilight-ish, and since I'm the only one who hasn't put a book down, try Leviathan

The Elric Saga. wut wut.

Dr. Seuss has some nice books

Like "Green eggs & Ham?"

If you like video games I highly recommend Extra Lives by Tom Bissel. Very good and in depth about game design and narritive and its problems. He talks about the story in video games and its problems. Great

The Hobbit is a nice read for fantasy. or you can read Emperor: The Gates of Rome.

The Death Gate Series is amazing

The Eragon books are pretty good, and there's always my personal favorite for fantasy; The Merlin Trinity by Mary Stewart

13 Reasons Why: About a girl that committed suicide, and leaves a cassette tape with 13 reasons why she did it. She leaves the tape for a boy that liked her (secretly). It's real sad and awesome at the same time. Lots o' twists. But I'm a Law and Order type of guy, so yea, I love that stuff.

Catcher in the Rye: You probably read it, but if not, come on man.

It: Steven King. Freakin' creepy. Reason why I hate clowns.

The Shining: Read above.

Pet Cemetery: Read above above.

Hatchet: Survival book. Teen ends up in a jungle due to the crashing of a plane that he was in.

Bud not Buddy: Just a good book lol. Read it in 6th grade.

Ikigami: Awesome manga. Don't know if you're into manga's, but this is about a new program in Japan used to help the Japanese appreciate life more. So, they set up this thing where in the 6th grade (or something like that) every student is given a shot. A few given the real thing, the others given a placebo. The ones given the real shot end up dying on their 18th birthday or so. The book is about the guy that has to hand out the Ikigami (the letter) that lets the person know that they will be dying in 24 hours. It's so good bc of the reactions of the people that get them and the extremes that go to as well as why this is being done and the people trying to stop it.

i dont like sad books, cause there sad. and eragon is by far my favorite fantasy series.

Skeleton Crew and Night Watch are neat little horror collections and are well worth picking up. I got both for about £2 all together at a secondhand bookstore as a christmas present to myself.

Okay, Thnx for the help.

The Dresden Files: Modern Fantasy about a wizard who basically whores his services out illegally. He screwed up somewhere along the line and lost his license to practice magic or somesuch in the magical community. As such, he has started to offer his services to those who don't really believe in magic. Often he gets called in for bogus stuff where he doesn't really do anything, but sometimes he is able to land a case that will make full use of his skills as a detective and a wizard.

Thanks. Man, I haven't been on here in forever. And Here are some books I've read. They're Young adult, book they're good and/or my favorite books.

White Fang-Jack London

Leviathan\
Behemoth>-Scot Westerfield
Goliath/

Maximum Ride Series\
Daniel X Series\
Witch & The Wizard Series.> James Patterson

Clockwork Angel-Cassandra Clare (Idk why I read that one...)

Book Thief-I forget.

Tom Sawyer-Mark Twain

I am #4-\
Power or 6-Pittus Lore (propably got first name wrong)

And that's all that comes into memory right now. I also am writing my own book. Seee the topic for more. I need help on it.

metro 2033

LotR

beyond band of brothers by Major Dick Winters

For fiction, I always recommend Vonnegut. Palahniuk is also great, and Mark Haddon has a few good books. I also really liked Craig Clevenger's first two novels, but haven't followed his new ones. Im reading Hermann Hesse's Siddartha right now, which is incredible. For more advanced books, check out House of Leaves, which is my favorite fiction of all time. Also hood, but difficult to follow in a wonderful way, are Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, and David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas.

If you like non-fiction journalism, read anything by Malcolm Gladwell. Especially Tipping Point.

The Abhorsen series is excellent if you're into fantasy.

For high-fantasy set in the real world that isn't Harry Potter, I suggest the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer.

And anyone hasn't read this phenomenal series, dash to the nearest library and read Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Brilliant literature. He was a fantastic author, I also suggest Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. Of course, these are only at their most hilarious if you appreciate British humour.

Song of Ice and Fire - George RR Martin [Caution: Prepare to hate him if you love his books.]

I keep hearing accolades about this series. I'll have to check it out sometime.

I don't know how anyone can read fantasy books. They're so boring, and they're all nearly identical to me.

they can be rather similar, but sometimes they have differnet conflicts, plots, and twists. ome include magic, some include mythological beasts. It all depends on what you see when you read.

And I've already read the Fowl Series, Pacman. I can read the Gnommish Alphabet as easy as our own.

Don't read Lord of the Rings, it may as well have been titled "The Really, Really Long Walk". Read The Hobbit though, it's interesting.

Don't read Lord of the Rings

Pacman, I am disappoint.

Well, I mean for an entertaining read. I know that it's supposed to be an epic saga, what would happen if the love child of Jesus and Batman wrote a book, the epitome of fantasy literature and all of that. I found most of it boring, except The Hobbit. Maybe it's my age and someday when I'm older I'll re-read them and see them in a completely different light. Maybe not.
The only thing I do know is that Tolkien got really into it. Have you read the Silmarillion? That's my proof.

I liked the LOTR series, but the hobbit was def better.

Can't go wrong with Andy Griffiths or Steven Herrick.

Oh and Brave Story is a cool book if you can look past its terrible cover.

I find the history behind LotR much mire interesting than the actual books. Tolkien was a linguistics expert, and he created the world to be as an "alternate history" of the Earth. This is why it ends in the Age of Man. Basically, he designed the lore to be a fictional account of Earthly prehistory. That is very cool. The stories themselves are pretty boring though.

Don't read Lord of the Rings, it may as well have been titled "The Really, Really Long Walk".

Stealing jokes from Cracked doesn't make you funny.

Not trying to be mean, just saying.

Don't read Lord of the Rings, it may as well have been titled "The Really, Really Long Walk".

Stealing jokes from Cracked doesn't make you funny.

Not trying to be mean, just saying.

What?
I got that from my cousin, who I do know obsesses over Cracked. So I may have indirectly pinched that.

I find the history behind LotR much mire interesting than the actual books. Tolkien was a linguistics expert, and he created the world to be as an "alternate history" of the Earth. This is why it ends in the Age of Man. Basically, he designed the lore to be a fictional account of Earthly prehistory. That is very cool. The stories themselves are pretty boring though.

I'll agree with that. The Silmarillion, albeit insane with detail, is loaded with fantastic lore. I just think that LotR isn't that interesting.

I"m currently waiting for the inheritance series to come out. I assume it will be as good as it's predecessors.

Eragon is too much of a mary-sue clichefest for me.

I'm a sucker for the lore.
Also dragons 'n shit.

I haven't read any of them in years though because it takes him so god damn long to come out with half a book.

The Plague by Albert Camus. It's a novel about an outbreak of plague in a fictional Algerian city, and chronicles the life, death, and, maybe most importantly, outlook of its inhabitants, but in a really absorbing and emotional way. It is the only book to which I've ever shed a tear. It's also my favorite book, for what it's worth.

Ubik by Philip K. Dick. Sci-fi novel about a team of superhuman anti-anti-industrial espionage agents trapped in a decaying world. Philip K. Dick wrote superb sci-fi, so if you're into it definitely read his other books. I'd highly recommend The Man in the High Castle as well, but it's alternate history.

Do you like autobiographies and non-fiction?