Can you reccommend a good book for me?

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  • TigressPat
    TigressPat Posts: 722
    One of the best things I have ever read is The Name Of The Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. Great, lyrical, wonderful.

    lol

    couldn't get past chapter 2
    and I like rothfuss as a person/character
  • cloveraz
    cloveraz Posts: 332 Member
    National Book Award Finalist, The Yellow Birds, by Kevin Power...
  • shelbrain
    shelbrain Posts: 7 Member
    I really like anything by Greg Iles.
  • TigressPat
    TigressPat Posts: 722
    since this topic already exists, can anyone recommend something funny/witty?

    and no, I don't mean joke books or base scatological humour.
  • TigressPat
    TigressPat Posts: 722
    anyone?
  • TigressPat
    TigressPat Posts: 722
    Bueller? Bueller?
  • grimendale
    grimendale Posts: 2,153 Member
    You may have read some of these, but still. This is sort of a scattershot of various types (all great books). I'm a voracious reader, so if you want more than is listed here, feel free to ask me for others.
    Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
    The Child Thief
    The stories of HP Lovecraft
    The Known World
    A Light in August
    The Sound and the Fury
    Catch-22
    Rebecca
    Tess of the D'Urbervilles
    Things Fall Apart
    Dubliners (read before attempting Joyce's novels)
    Secret Identity Crisis
    Understanding Comics
  • dejamos
    dejamos Posts: 53 Member
    I read a lot, too. it's hard to recommend books to someone when you don't know their taste. I did not like The Book Thief at all. I might have enjoyed it more if the author had done some research and knew anything about World War II, or perhaps if I had known less.

    In no particular order, these are books I have read and enjoyed over the years:

    Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
    Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
    Home by Marilynne Robinson
    Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
    Stoner, by John Williams
    The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
    The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
    Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
    Out by Natsuo Kirino
    Winner of the National Book Award by Jincy Willett
    Shelter by Jayne Anne Phillips
    The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
    The Gormenghast Triology by Mervyn Peake
    Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem (pretty much anything by Jonathan Lethem)
    You Remind Me of Me by Dan Chaon
    Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabakov
    Ada, or Ardor, by Vladimir Nabakov
    The End of Alice by A. M. Homes
    Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
    Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
    The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe
    A Death in the Family by James Agee
    The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks
    The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
    The White Bone by Barbara Gowdy
  • TigressPat
    TigressPat Posts: 722
    You may have read some of these, but still. This is sort of a scattershot of various types (all great books). I'm a voracious reader, so if you want more than is listed here, feel free to ask me for others.
    Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
    The Child Thief
    The stories of HP Lovecraft
    The Known World
    A Light in August
    The Sound and the Fury
    Catch-22
    Rebecca
    Tess of the D'Urbervilles
    Things Fall Apart
    Dubliners (read before attempting Joyce's novels)
    Secret Identity Crisis
    Understanding Comics

    next?
  • TigressPat
    TigressPat Posts: 722
    i guess it's true that no one reads anymore!
    :sad:
  • maiaroman18
    maiaroman18 Posts: 460 Member
    I love reading.

    Room, Running with Scissors, Sarahs Key, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, A Child Called "It"
  • CkepiJinx
    CkepiJinx Posts: 613 Member
    A Theory of Relativity by Jacquelyn Mitchard

    Love it
  • simplyciera
    simplyciera Posts: 168 Member
    I liked warm bodies it was suprisingly well written

    God yes. I hateeee commercial stuff. The plot was a little 'ehhhh' but the writing made up for it! It was great.
    Some of my fave classics are

    The Phantom Tollbooth- Norton Juster
    Ethan Frome- Edith Wharton
    The Awakening- Kate Chopin (this changed my life)
    Metamorphosis- Frank Kafka

    Lets start a book club! I love reading anything as long as it's fiction or interesting non-fiction!
  • PhoenixRising7
    PhoenixRising7 Posts: 194 Member
    I will try and come back tomorrow with more suggestions, but I am currently reading Serena by Ron Rash. It reads like a reworking of Shakespeare's Macbeth, though I think Serena is even more evil than Lady Macbeth.
  • GnomeLove
    GnomeLove Posts: 379
    My favorite book is 'The Time Machine' by HG Wells.
  • BleedsCoffee
    BleedsCoffee Posts: 247 Member
    Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
    World War Z by Max Brooks
    Bill The Vampire (Trilogy) by Rick Gualtieri
    The Vampire Chronicles (Series) by Anne Rice
    Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Johnathan Safran
    The Last Hiccup by Christopher Meades
    Bloodletting And Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam
    The Headmaster's Wager by Vincent Lam
    The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland by Catherynne M Valente
    The Perks Of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
    This Book Is Full Of Spiders by David Wong

    Just a few of my favourites!
  • Lochlyn_D
    Lochlyn_D Posts: 492 Member
    Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
    World War Z by Max Brooks
    Bill The Vampire (Trilogy) by Rick Gualtieri
    The Vampire Chronicles (Series) by Anne Rice
    Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Johnathan Safran
    The Last Hiccup by Christopher Meades
    Bloodletting And Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam
    The Headmaster's Wager by Vincent Lam
    The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland by Catherynne M Valente
    The Perks Of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
    This Book Is Full Of Spiders by David Wong

    Just a few of my favourites!

    A bit too teenage-y for me, thanks though!
  • Lochlyn_D
    Lochlyn_D Posts: 492 Member
    My favorite book is 'The Time Machine' by HG Wells.

    very good book. I might re read this one. Been a long time.
  • Lochlyn_D
    Lochlyn_D Posts: 492 Member
    Really enjoyed "The Art of Racing in the Rain" by Garth Stein. Told from the dog's POV.

    I also just finished "Room" by Emma Donoghue. I can't say exactly that I "enjoyed" it, because it was very dark (think the kidnapping story from Ohio, told by the child's POV) but I could NOT put it down.

    Ken Follett is an author who's worth reading, the Pillars of the Earth and its sequel World Without End are both really big, epic tales, and very engrossing. I got very attached to the characters.

    I will check out racing in the Rain, for sure. And Room.

    I loved the Pillars and World W/O End series'. So amazing!
  • Lochlyn_D
    Lochlyn_D Posts: 492 Member
    I love reading.

    Room, Running with Scissors, Sarahs Key, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, A Child Called "It"

    Five people was great.
  • WalkingMermaid_
    WalkingMermaid_ Posts: 205 Member
    'Wild' by Cheryl Strayed << AMAZING book :)
  • Lochlyn_D
    Lochlyn_D Posts: 492 Member
    "The End of Oil" Illustrates how this world will always be dependent on fossil fuels.

    Sounds like something I'd like. thank you.
  • kmartinixx
    kmartinixx Posts: 197
    I'm not much for books like this but you should definitely check out Khaled Hosseini's "A Thousand Splendid Suns." He writes about life in Afghanistan through the eyes of the younger generation (typically children/teenagers who grow into adults as the book progresses). It's most definitely not a romance book and while it does include teenage characters, it's such a different culture that it is -- in no way -- a young adult book. I would never have even given it a chance if it wasn't a required book in one of my classes. I thoroughly enjoyed it and ended up reading his first book ("The Kite Runner") which I found was still very good, but not as good as "A Thousand Splendid Suns." Look it up on Amazon for a preview inside the book and see what you think! :-)

    I was going to say the SAME THING! There are two of my favorite books! He has just come out with a new book! I purchased it and plan on reading it when I'm on vacation next week!
  • tigerblood78
    tigerblood78 Posts: 416 Member
    The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
  • Lochlyn_D
    Lochlyn_D Posts: 492 Member
    I APOLOGIZE FOR THE CAPS IN ADVANCE.

    PLEASE NO TEENAGE OR KID BOOKS.

    Some people seem to be overlooking that in the original post.

    Thanks again.

    Really some great suggestions out there.
  • amyk0202
    amyk0202 Posts: 666 Member
    One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    The Dollmaker by Harriet Arnow

    It's been years since I read them, but they have stayed on my mind as excellent, powerful books.
  • Sarah_L_S
    Sarah_L_S Posts: 121
    I love Mararet Atwood as well. A few books I enjoyed:

    Angelmaker - Nick Harkaway
    1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
    The Cathedral of the Sea - Ildefonso Falcones
    The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Perfume - Patrick Suskind
  • Kxgz
    Kxgz Posts: 198 Member
    Canticle for Leibowitz. Pick up some Hemingway. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett and Pope Joan, forgot the author.
  • ChristinaD2
    ChristinaD2 Posts: 57
    The Masters of Rome Book Series by Colleen McCullough?
  • Lochlyn_D
    Lochlyn_D Posts: 492 Member
    I will check out the last three posts there. All sound good.

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