The Official Book Thread

*smiles thinly* Maneuver until you have the force to crush your enemy. I think I'll just keep my goals to myself, thanks.

 

Yeah it is going in my top 5 books as well, right up there with Shutter Island.

I got Tai Pan as well, I will read it next.

 

I'm currently reading Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer. Great so far.

I recently read The Lathe of Heaven by Ursala K. Le Guin. She lives in Portland and the book was based in a future Portland. Great short science fiction book.

 

Not sure how I missed this thread before, but am getting lots of great suggestions to throw on my library hold list, thanks.

Just finished reading Born To Run. Not sure if there are any other runners here, but if so, i definitely recommend it. Recently read the Hunger Games series. Alright. First one I liked the most, for sure.

 

I also recently read the Hunger Games series. I can easily see how people who only view books as art wouldn't like it because of it's unoriginality, but it was pretty entertaining to me and I think would be to most pleasure readers.

 

Just finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo over the past week, and I am starting the second one in the series tomorrow night.

 

I'm been on a massive Stephen King binge. I haven't read very much, because in between reading about boring academic blah, my only spare time to read for fun is on the bus/can.

I finished the Dark Tower series, and now I'm about 2/3rds of the way through the unabridged version of The Stand. Oh man. So good.

 

Also, I would recommend everyone read these books:

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams
Neverwhere and American Gods by Neil Gaiman
The House on the Borderland William Hope Hodgson (like Lovecraft, by way way way better)
Anything by Harlan Ellison (fantastic psychedelic sci-fi short stories)

 

Shogun?! One of my Top 2 or 3 books of all time. Incredible story, interesting, characters, and high adventure. The only thing htat comes close is Clavell's Tai Pan which I actually liked better, and it was a tad shorter.

 

I am re-reading The Cider House Rules. Stil great. Does anyone else here like John Irving?

 

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I'm reading that right now, actually. It's pretty good.

 

Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson is pretty fantastic. A pretty poppy cyberpunk book. By which I mean that it's not self-serious sci-fi. It's very entertaining and has an amusing style in addition to being a gripping story.

 

Currently reading the "Dune" series. On book 2, "Dune Messiah".

 

Currently checking it out from the Library. Read the first 15 or 20 pages and couldn't get really into it, though I enjoy cyberpunk. Maybe I'll give it another try because it seems to be well liked by everyone.

 

It was amazing, better than Tai Pan, even though that was probably his second best.

I wasn't too thrilled with the ending though. I think that book could have gone on for at least another 500 pages.

 

My wife downloaded a bunch of Sherlock Holmes books on her Kindle. Granted, not classics, but something to read in the evening.