Reading recommendations

Oh hey, did you know that Tolkien did a translation of Beowulf?

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/beowulf-j-r-r-tolkien/1118935267?ean=9780544442788

Any suggestions for the Fantasy fiction genre would be appreciated. I feel like I'm forever between books.

A Song of Ice and Fire (the GoT series), I also enjoyed Wizards First Rule by Terry Goodkind. Though I'm guessing you've read both. A less popular one that I really enjoyed is The Deed of Paksenarrion.

Have you checked out Baen books? They are a sci-fi/fantasy publisher and they have a free library of digital books.

Read all of the GoT series. I have NEVER read Terry Goodkind or Terry Brooks. In fact, The Sword of Shannara is sitting in front of me as we speak, unopened and unread. :laugh:

Also in for book suggestions. It's an older book but I really enjoyed Michael Crichton "Prey". Kinda Sci-fi but good.

And I am not religious but I do sometimes like reading about it. I read these books not long ago called Conversations with God.... they were interesting....

I don't do romance novels either.

Also in for book suggestions. It's an older book but I really enjoyed Michael Crichton "Prey". Kinda Sci-fi but good.

And I am not religious but I do sometimes like reading about it. I read these books not long ago called Conversations with God.... they were interesting....

I don't do romance novels either.

Have you read Pillars of the Earth? I'm not religious either and this is about the building of cathedrals/religion in the 12th century. It's fiction, but it's well researched and fairly accurate to the time period. I loved it.

I have not... Thanks..... sounds interesting.

One of the best series I've ever read (GoT).

Anyone willing to share their top 5/10 so I can get some new picks?

The series I have mentioned in the post above are all very good reads, I would also recommend Wilbur Smyth's 'Egyptian' series, do read your books the tradional way or ebooks?

I'm reading game of thrones at the minute..

Fantastic series just wish he would get his finger out and get the next one finished, I'm going to re-read them all in the run-up to the next release just to get a feel for them again. I'm watching the TV series and doubting myself as to certain things happening although I realise they have been changing things around.

Ebooks generally. I tried to read the Dark Tower series and couldn't get into it - I'll try again (King is one of my very favorite authors.)
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I'm a King fan as well. His son, Joe Hill, has a similar style and reminds me of King's earlier works. NOS4A2 and Heart Shaped Box were entertaining.

the Divergent series was also really good. Number 4 comes out in July

Ebooks generally. I tried to read the Dark Tower series and couldn't get into it - I'll try again (King is one of my very favorite authors.)

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I'm a King fan as well. His son, Joe Hill, has a similar style and reminds me of King's earlier works. NOS4A2 and Heart Shaped Box were entertaining.

Have you read 11/22/63? One of my favorite books of all time, although it's very different from his usual (probably why I like it so much, lol). It's more in the vein of The Green Mile, but if you read IT there's a lot of references to that in the storyline that you might enjoy!

I've heard 11/23/63 is good. Anyone read Doctor Sleep?

i'm reading "pillars of the earth" RIGHT NOW! how crazy you mentioned it!

i don't know how interested you are in being really depressed, but "king leopold's ghost" is great. "mukiwa: a white boy in africa" by peter godwin is absolutely amazing. "season of migration to the north" or really anything by tayyib saleh--he writes a lot of short fiction about sudan. can you tell i'm an africa junky?

if you wanna go more philosophical, "life of pi," "the wind-up bird chronicle" by murakami, or "the black swan: the impact of the highly improbable" by nassim taleb.

simple entertainment, "the guernsey literary and potato peel pie society," "crime and punishment," "river town" by peter hessler about his peace corps years in china.

but the best book of all time, coming in at a whopping 1200 pages and easily the best book i have ever read in my entire life: "the count of monte cristo".