Someone recommend some fiction

[ElFenix]

i finally finished the stack of books i bought back in october or so, and i need something to read. i like: scifi, fantasy, techno thrillers, that sorta thing. new author/book recommendations would be good. i'm willing to branch out into other things, as long as its not too much like the crap i read in high school english (i'll argue until my death that faulkner is a horrible horrible author. thomas hardy too. a$$holes.)

 

[TuffGuy]

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "trilogy"
LOTR
Brave New World
Metamorphasis
My Year of Meats
Grapes of Wrath
East of Eden
The Sun Also Rises
Good Earth
Native Son
Bulfinch's Mythology (includes Age of Fable, Chivalry and tales of Charlemagne)
Doll's House
Feminine Mystique
Brief History of Time
Interpretation of Dreams
The Sound and the Fury
Bleak House
anything by Shakespeare

 

[JaiKnight]

Anything by Orscon Scott Card (Sci-fi), especially Ender's Game, and it's parallel book Ender's Shadow, I'm working on Shadow of the Hegemon right now actually...
I think Ender's Game is actually being made into a movie right now, don't have many details about it though..
He also had another 4 or 5 book series, I don't remember the name of the books though, something like Earthborn....I dunno

 

[Farbio]

well it doesn't fall under your sci fi category, but its my absolute favorite book ever, i've read it about 6 times since my senior year of hs and made almost all of my friends read it as well.
a prayer for owen meany, by john irving (he also wrote 'the world according to garp' and 'the cider house rules')

 

[ElFenix]

thanks for the recommendations, i'll check em out.

jeez... threads drop fast here even at midnight... guess its only 10 pm for you westerners.

 

[SpongeBob]

I'd recommend anything by Vonnegut, especially Cat's Cradle, or Breakfast of Champions. Also, another cool book I read a few months back was Fermat's Enigma, by Simon Singh.

 

[1967mustangman]

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Tuff Guy?

ON the other hand I would recomend anything by tolkien, dickens, or clancy.

 

[TuffGuy]

she *made* me read it... that's my story and i'm sticking to it.

 

[ElFenix]

i've got the tolkein down... silmarillion was fun fun fun. clancy too. plus every crappy star wars book you could imagine. robert jordan, steven coonts, george rr martin, orwell, huxley. speaking of whom if anyone hasn't read yevgeny zamyatin's we i highly recommend it. its the dystopia that started them all.

as for more literary titles... well... maybe it was the fact that i read them under a gun, but the sound and the fury, grapes of wrath, even the great gatsby didn't sit with me too well. i've heard steinbeck's other stuff was better than grapes of wrath, though, so i'll give it a shot.

anyone read foundation? like it?

 

[Sluggo]

I still like Carl Hiaasen.

Started reading a couple by Clive Cussler he is alright, kinda like a 007/Indiana Jones.

I like Stephen King short stories, but cant read a whole novel from him.


DISCLAIMER:
All of those are just stupid &quot;pass the time&quot; books and have no redeeming social value.