Which book should I read next?

[datalink7]

Here is my bookshelf of "to read" books. Actually, I have a whole bunch more but they couldn't fit on the bookshelf. I'm almost finished with "For Whom The Bell Tolls" and was looking at where I should go next.

*Note that if there is a book in there that is part of a series I'd probably just read the whole rest of the series.

All those books are ones I haven't read but looked interesting. I try to stay out of bookstores because I never come out of them spending less than $100.

Anway.

The bookshelf

 

[ChaoZ]

Hitchhiker's

 

[SlitheryDee]

When in doubt, you can't go wrong with Terry Pratchett. There's lots of good stuff on that shelf though. 1984 is highly recommended. Anything by Dan Simmons (I see you have Ilium).

Originally posted by: ChaoZ
Hitchhiker's

Oh didn't see that. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is great.

 

[pcslookout]

Låt den rätte komma in. Great book.

 

[panipoori]

cant believe you havent read 1984

 

[RESmonkey]

wrpd; pf warcarft

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: panipoori
cant believe you havent read 1984

seriously. get to it. i love the ending.

 

[Q]

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, about a nine year old kid who's father died in 9/11 and he's trying to figure something out about him (can't remember what). It's actually really funny, since it's 'written' by the nine year old, very cute.

 

[ZOOYUKA]

The Gunslinger

 

[BlueWeasel]

If you've read it, how was Dick Winter's memoir? I loved BOB (both the both and the series) but haven't got that particular book yet.

[Edit] I'm a dumbass. Saw this was the "to read" shelf.

 

[IronWing]

Worlds of Exile and Illusion. I don't know anything about it but I figure jumping from Hemingway to LeGuin should be interesting. Don't read 1984 yet. Winter depression is bad enough w/o that piles on top.

 

[robphelan]

how about Ender's Game or Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card? I haven't read Game, but am listening to the audiobook of Shadow right now.. it's really good and as soon as that's done, I'll move to Game.

also, a fantastic read is Cody McFadyen's The Face of Death - excellent book if you can handle the brutality of it all.
http://www.amazon.com/Face-Dea...&qid=1230959091&sr=8-2

 

[Perknose]

Of the ones in your pic, Enslaved By Ducks sounds very, very promising.

It's got "a gender-confused African gray parrot named Stanley Sue" in it, as well as a scene where a duck gets 'eaten' by a raccoon, though they don't say if there's any gender confusion involved.

 

[Turin39789]

Originally posted by: ZOOYUKA
The Gunslinger

This


or the Tom Robbins.

Throw away Terry Pratchett.

Get some Cormac McCarthy

 

[Rockinacoustic]

Still Life with Woodpecker was very enjoyable.

I also recommend The Nietzsche book, and unless you've already read some of Kant I can't imagine why you'd torture yourself with his hardest critique.

Everyone reads 1984 and Catcher in the Rye. While good books, it's nothing you haven't seen adapted over and over on TV.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Please tell me you have more books than what's in the pic or, that you trade all of your books on a monthly basis. Lose the Hemingway and Hobb. Give The Black Rose a try by Thomas B. Costain.

 

[knawlejj]

i absolutely hate reading...i want to get into it but i just cant find a reason to when i have the internet!

anyway, ive probably read less than a dozen books all the way through and two of them happen to be on that shelf: Band of Brothers and 1984. I really, really enjoyed BoB (along with the hbo series)

 

[xanis]

Band of Brothers gets my vote. It's a good story, and Stephen Ambrose is a good writer IMO.

 

[nageov3t]

I plowed through Isaac Asimov's Foundation series a couple weeks ago and really really dug it.

I'd go against conventional wisdom the give the Gunslinger a big thumbsdown... the first three books were pretty good, but they got progressively worse. Wizard and Flashbacks bored me to tears and The Dark Tower was one of the biggest literary pieces of shit I've ever had the misfortune of reading.

 

[Chryso]

Going Postal

 

[Pheran]

Stephen Baxter is fantastic hard SF, so I would go with one of those, but Hitchhiker's is great too.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Throw most of that stuff in your fireplace.

Catcher in the Rye is by default the best book you own. 1984 and Still Life with Woodpecker are comparatively OK.

After Salinger get some Hesse, and A Confederacy of Dunces, then on to Vonnegut.