I personally read The Hobbit and LOTR when I was a teen. Both pretty good and fun books, if you're into that stuff Also have read A Clockwork Orange and The Little Prince. Oh! And I read A Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien Años de Soledad) in Spanish. Great pieces of literature. What books have you read/recommend?
xD (TL; DR: just read the entire A Song of Ice and Fire series by George.R.R Martin) Spoiler I'm an avid bookworm, so I recommend the following books which are my favs in their respective genres (I own copies of most,if not all of them) (Hope this keeps anyone who's bored busy >:O) For Fantasy fans: 1)LOTR+The Hobbit (and if you want to go hardcore- The Silmarillion+ The Book of Lost Tales+Unfinished Tales+Children of Hurin) by J.R.R Tolkien 2)The Song of Ice and Fire series by G.R.R Martin (Or Game of Thrones-the books flesh out the show in so many ways) 3)Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time Series :> 4)The entire Narnia Series by C.S Lewis (Not including Harry Potter because you should have read that already ogod) For Mystery fans: 1)All of the mysteries starring Hercule Poirot by Agatha Christie 2)The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 3)A Crime in the Neighborhood by Suzanne Berne 4)The Eye of the Beholder by Marc Behm For Chick Lit <3 1)The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger 2)The Food of Love by Anthony Capella 3)Something Borrowed by Emily Griffin 4)Lipstick Jungle by Candace Bushnell 5)The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger For other serious fiction: 1)Onyx and Crake by Margaret Atwood 2)1984 by George Orwell 3)Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie 4)To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee Harper 5)His Dark Materials Series by Philip Pullman 6)A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami 7)Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 8 )The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Non fiction: 1)Freakonomics by Steven Lewitt and Stephen J Dubner 2)Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) is freaking amazing. The first book is about appreciating/learning George R.R. Martin's style as well as figuring out who the hell all of the hundreds if not thousands of characters are. Once you get into the second book, shit gets good. The stage has been set and you can now predict the direction the series is heading: a bloody mess of death and destruction (freaking awesome) packed into 5000 pages thus far. Once you get about halfway through the second book, it is amazing from then on out. You can't put the book down. Every page has interesting shit going on. The third book is my personal favorite, and favorite novel of all time. It is so elegantly put and everything has meaning. Nothing is unimportant and you sit and enjoy it every step of the way. By this point, you don't even care if people die because it is always so f**king awesome. The next two books are taking place during the same time period, but since there are so many characters so it is split up. Book four is where you have realized you now have an obsession. You start learning the history of the 7 Kingdoms and Essos, as well as a bit of Sothyros (if I spelled that right.) Book four is a bit more time consuming because it is filled with the rather dull characters, and it has many abstract parts. You start to realize that the words have more meaning than the surface level. Then you get into the fifth and final book released so far: A Dance With Dragons. I mean come on, the title is f**king awesome. This book is 1000+ pages of pure amazingness and you start exploring lands you have never been around in the novels and you meet so many new people. There is so much action and fantasy you can almost not stand it- but you do because you are obsessed and you are now in complete love with the series. Then you finish book five, and you are left with maybe reading those Egg novellas in the same universe, or just talking to others who have read it. You also begin to cry at night hoping your beloved GRRM does not die because he is so old and fat. But GRRM is glorious. He is our savior. I mean, look at that sailor outfit, the beard, glasses and hat. He is some divine. He will lead us to satisfaction. I also agree that To Kill A Mocking Bird is a great book, as suggested by Christine.
The 66 books in the Super Mega Blockbuster Best Selling Critically Acclaimed series called The Bible and Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil.
I used to read a lot as a child, not necessarily novels, but have since stopped... the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer, the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, the Robert Langdon books by Dan Brown (along with some of his other novels) and some of the Jack Reacher novels by Lee Child. I mostly read a lot of articles on the day's topic of interest... anywhere from human biology to Nazi Germany to the religions of the world. The advantages of not being in school are that you have lots of time to read anything and everything that interests you. 8D Probably my favorite read ever was a book called This Is Your Brain On Music written by Daniel Levitin. Psychology's always fascinated me, and the effects of music on the way people think is actually rather profound. Another one of my favorites was a fictional novel called Blindness by Jose Saramego. It outlines a plague that stripped basically an entire city (and implies that it spread through the entire world) with no cure, which caused complete, 100% blindness. The character you follow is the wife of one of the first people to be stricken by the plague, and she is never affected. It's hard to explain how... profound it was to read it, I reckon you'd have to read it yourself to understand. #weirdgirlweirdtastes
I used to read, then I read so many pages of textbooks that I hit my "printed words" quota for the next 20 years. I have read a lot of interesting books for my philosophy classes though. (Sartre especially) For everyone recommending ASoIAF.... eh. The first three were great, but at this point I just feel like GRRM has written himself into a corner, and nothing is really happening that I care about. Plus we'll be lucky if the last one comes out in his lifetime. Christine, I have to thank you for bringing up "his dark materials" - haven't read that trilogy in at least 10 years... I can't even remember what happens in it, so I'm definitely going back over it during winter break. I've also been intending to read Mark Lawrence's Broken Empire trilogy (got the ebooks downloaded and everything, just keep getting distracted) and to finish Orson Scott Card's books, both the ender saga and the shadows saga, especially speaker for the dead which I hear is fantastic. Looks like I have a lot of reading to get in the way of my royaling coming up!
It's a damn shame I dont read anymore Fantasy/Sci-Fi Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams Foundation by Isaac Asimov The wild ass's skin by Balzac The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke Coma by Robin Cook The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick Starship Troopers by Robert A Heinlein Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan A Song of Ice and Fire series by GRRM Ringworld by Larry Niven Contact by Carl Sagan Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson Lord of the Rings series by JRR Tolkien Mystery Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie Lost Horizon by James Hilton Enigma by Robert Harris Other The Stranger by Albert Camus 1984 by George Orwell Life of Pi by Yann Martel Siddhartha
this goes for me and television/movies, i can only enjoy good movies now, all the scheise that's coming out of hollywood (iron man, hunger games,...) are all movies that i can't watch without doing something else (mostely ironing) books get my full attention, but then again i need my full attention, i can't read on trains, subway, busses,...
Just got into reading A Song of Ice and Fire a little while ago, by George R.R Martin, so far I'm through the two first volumes and just began reading the third one... The books are soo much better than the TV series, if you ask me. Don't get me wrong though, Game of Thrones on the telly is pretty damn good too!
Man, I'm super late to that party but... is ASOIAF really that good? I love me a good fiction series, but it sounds like a whole lot of content.
