Book Sugestions

[Malson]

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.

[Holkeye]

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

[Black Breeze]

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.

[pacdiggity]

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.

[Acolyte]

Don't read Lord of the Rings

Pacman, I am disappoint.

[pacdiggity]

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.

[Sophist]

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

[cozziekuns]

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.

[Holkeye]

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.

[Malson]

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.

[pacdiggity]

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.

[Black Breeze]

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

[Acolyte]

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

[Dwarra?]

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.

[SirJackRex]

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.

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