Recommend some good fiction

[seemingly random]

Originally posted by: lykaon78
Thanks for all the good recommendations!

I asked the wife pick up Ender's Game but she ended up with Ender's Shadow. Okay to read that one first?

Also picked up 1984 - its about time I read this classic. Also requested any book bu Scott Turow and ended up with one about heroes but the title escapes me at the moment and I'm too lazy to walk to the bedroom.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinary_Heroes_(novel)

Probably my least favorite of his. Any of his first six are good - read in order of publication date would be a strategy.

Hopefully, you're getting these from a library.

 

[sao123]

Originally posted by: lykaon78
Thanks for all the good recommendations!

I asked the wife pick up Ender's Game but she ended up with Ender's Shadow. Okay to read that one first?

Also picked up 1984 - its about time I read this classic. Also requested any book bu Scott Turow and ended up with one about heroes but the title escapes me at the moment and I'm too lazy to walk to the bedroom.

you may not understand enders shadow without reading enders game first.

 

[Chunkee]

2009 USA Fiscal Budget

 

[SlitheryDee]

Originally posted by: loki8481

Originally posted by: lykaon78
Thanks for all the good recommendations!

I asked the wife pick up Ender's Game but she ended up with Ender's Shadow. Okay to read that one first?

Also picked up 1984 - its about time I read this classic. Also requested any book bu Scott Turow and ended up with one about heroes but the title escapes me at the moment and I'm too lazy to walk to the bedroom.

only if you're super into mormon propaganda.

I thought he kept the mormon propaganda down to a tolerable level. I didn't even notice it on the first read, before I knew he was a fundie. Knowing what I know now, it's hard to miss but I don't think it ruins the book or anything.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

The Ultramarines Omnibus by Graham McNeill

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: SlitheryDee

I thought he kept the mormon propaganda down to a tolerable level. I didn't even notice it on the first read, before I knew he was a fundie. Knowing what I know now, it's hard to miss but I don't think it ruins the book or anything.

the original books weren't too bad, but Ender's Shadow reeked of Mormonism and homophobia.

 

[SunSamurai]

Originally posted by: OCguy

Originally posted by: SoulAssassin

Recommend me some good fiction

The Bible

Originally posted by: NSFW

Originally posted by: OCguy

Originally posted by: SoulAssassin

Recommend me some good fiction

The Origin of Species

Morons.



Some short stories;
Jifty was Five
Huddling Place
Twilight
Why I left Harry's All Night Hamburgers
The nine billion names of god

 

[nakedfrog]

I don't think I've ever read a bad Alan Dean Foster book, and the man has written so many in different settings, he's bound to have written something that would suit you

Originally posted by: Kadarin
Peter F. Hamilton - The Dreaming Void / The Temporal Void

If you want to go lighter than that, Robert Heinlein's The Number of the Beast is a good choice.

The latter is one of my all-time favorites

 

[cronos]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
John Scalzi - Old Man's War (military SF, but lighter than Drake or Weber)

I second this. I really like Scalzi's writing style. Very casual and enjoyable to me.

In fact, get all three books of the trilogy. The second one is The Ghost Brigades. The third (The Last Colony) is the best of the three imo, and a very nice conclusion to the story arc.