Anyone Read Any Good Books Lately?
So anyone read any good books lately or do you all never leave your PCs? lol
I just re-read a great book by author Tracy Hickman.
Its called The Immortals. Its takes place in the near future when they discover a cure/Vaccine for AIDS.
However over time large amounts of people developed a huge side affect. Basically your immune system is "reset" making your body defensless against even the smallest cold. In other words you get this new disease (its called VCIDs in the book) That is just like AIDS but worse. It gets so bad the US has to quarintene entire citys. There is such a panic from non infected people that the government puts the US under martial law and everyone who is infected is rounded up into camps like in the holcaust. The book tells about the lives of some of the patients More lile prisoners in the quarentene camps.
Good book I recomend it.
What are some of the awsome books you people read?
I just re-read a great book by author Tracy Hickman.
Its called The Immortals. Its takes place in the near future when they discover a cure/Vaccine for AIDS.
However over time large amounts of people developed a huge side affect. Basically your immune system is "reset" making your body defensless against even the smallest cold. In other words you get this new disease (its called VCIDs in the book) That is just like AIDS but worse. It gets so bad the US has to quarintene entire citys. There is such a panic from non infected people that the government puts the US under martial law and everyone who is infected is rounded up into camps like in the holcaust. The book tells about the lives of some of the patients More lile prisoners in the quarentene camps.
Good book I recomend it.
What are some of the awsome books you people read?
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gunnm (or the localized title, battle angel alita)
it's about how a girl with amnesia lives her life in the scrapyard, a disgusting wasteland city resting below the sky-city, tiphares.
she's not just a girl, tho. she's one of the greatest manga or anime asskickers of all time.
meh.
Listening to: Beatles: Ticket to Ride
Ha I remember reading that in highschool! When I took a literature class in college I as disapointed b/c I had read like 90% of all the novels and poems and plays already in High school. It was like a repeat. Oh well. I had A's on all the tests and stuff and I never had to read any of the stuff b/c i remembered it from before. Guess im a <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'><!--endemo-->
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wow he goes FORWARD in time to save the world. That doesnt happen every often . Sounds interesting.
best series ever.
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also, i just finished reading "the blue nowhere" by jeffery deaver
its about a KRacker [note: not hacker, not cracker] who gets into peoples systems, and then kills them [i.e finds out info about them, hunts them down, social engineers them and then kills them]. then another hacker is brought in to stop him, and theyre the two best hackers in the world
keke
its good, though
but read ender's game
Books I highly recommend are the Ender's Game series. Other good books are the X-Files books (Antibodies, Ground Zero, Ruins, Skin), Hitchiker's Tiliogy (which is really 5 books), Consider Phlebas, Genetic Soldier, Enter the Game (which was actually a school title for me), Brave New World (another school title), Quarantine (a "hard" SF novel), Babylon 5: Psi Corps Trilogy, Permutation City, and the list goes on...
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OMG, this is the stupiest swear filter of all time where I cant even say the freakin author's last name... Philip K. D i c k. Take that stupid filter. <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif'><!--endemo-->
Michael Crichton wrote some good stuff. Airframe, Jurassic Park, Congo...
Clive Cussler writes nice, light adventure stories that are always easy to read. Those are fun.
Of course, nobody's life is complete without reading every book ever written by both Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett. Two of the funniest authors ever.
There's the classics and stuff, but everyone's either already read those or isn't going to read them.
Enders Game and Snow Crash are two real good sci fi books. Come to think of it, Snow Crash was 10X better.
Tom Clancy's stuff is so-so to great, but it's all pretty long.
All of Mark Twain's humor is hilarious. Huck Finn doesn't have anything on it. The first four Rogue Squadron books by Michael Stackpole are pretty good, for both Star Wars fans and just general nerds <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'><!--endemo-->
There's probably some other good stuff you can read that I can't remember right now. Oh, you know that guy who wrote SHOGUN? Well, he wrote a 15 page book called <u>Children's Story</u> or something like that. Takes 10 minutes to read, and it's great.
Also, books on WW2 by Stephen Ambrose are gripping, and educational!
One of the BEST SERIES ever. Read them all.
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<i>Wayfarer Redemption</i>, <i>Enchanter</i>, <i>StarMan</i> by Sara Douglass
Another really cool series, but the first book is kind of slow.
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<i>The Dungeon Series</i> by Philip Jose Farmer
I've read the first two, really entertaining
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<i>Good Omens</i> by Neil Gaimen & Terry Pratchett
Basically poking fun at religion, don't read if your really religious.
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<i>American Gods</i> by Neil Gaimen
Pokes some more fun at religion.
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<i>Dune</i>, <i>Dune Messiah</i>, <i>Children of Dune</i>, <i>God Emperor of Dune</i>, <i>Heretics of Dune</i>, <i>Chapterhouse Dune</i> by Frank Herbert
Another one of the BEST SERIES ever. Read them all, but don't bother with the "House *insert name*" books by Brian Herbert. They suck.
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<i>A Song of Fire & Ice</i> by George R.R. Martin
That's the title of the entire series, not the indivdual books but look it up on Amazon and you should see them. Can't remember individual titles.
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<i>Fight Club</i> by Chuck Palahniuk
Really weird stuff but it's entertaining
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<i>Interview with The Vampire</i>, <i>The Vampire Lestat</i>, <i>Queen of The Damned</i>, <i>The Vampire Chronicles</i>,<i> Blood & Gold</i> by Anne Rice
I like vampire stuff and these were the best written that i've read. These are what the *mediocre* movies are based on.
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<i>Halo: The Fall of Reach</i>
Pretty good and entertaining, especially if your a fan of Halo. I haven't read the second one
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If you finish reading all these any time soon, come back and ask for more.
[edit] I read, a lot, if you can't tell. I've read pretty much all of these in the last three months, re-arranged for alphabetically by Author (last name)[/edit]
Rainbow Six -By Tom Clancey (i'm working on Clear and Present Danger.. about half way through)
To Kill a Mockingbird is pretty good too.
Some other good books.
<i>Of Mice and Men</i>
<i>Flowers for Algernon</i>
<i>Where the Red Fern Grows</i>
Some other good books.
<i>Of Mice and Men</i>
<i>Flowers for Algernon</i>
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Read Mice and Men and Flowers...
Flowers for Algernon is a short story, isn't it?
Chuck Palachinux (sic) - Fight Club
Starship Troopers - Robert A. Hienlem
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carrol
Those are probably the four books i have read 10 times each. There are heaps of great books out there, but those are the ones i keep coming back to.
great stuff!
some part of a review from: <a href='http://www.crescentblues.com/4_2issue/Bk_anderson_fantastic_voyage.shtml' target='_blank'>http://www.crescentblues.com/4_2issue/Bk_a...ic_voyage.shtml</a>
by: Teri Smith
...Boys, this book is right up your alley. Instead of the revolting rebels they intended to smoke, some Russian MIGs shoot down an alien space ship. Inside the pod, they find an alien body full of all sorts of nasty and weird and neato things.
One of the Russians who takes custody of the alien pod ships it to a secret underground lab in the mountains of California. This lab spends billions and billions of American taxpayer dollars to shrink things. (OK, Congress does stuff like that already, but they don't do it secretly underground, although sometimes you wish they would.)
Read it the same time as Enders Game and I found it much more compelling.
Robert R mcGammon - Stinger
Stephen King - The Stand
Stephen King - It
Dan Simmons - Carrion Comfort
All the Henry Russell Wakefield short stories, scary scary stuff
Comedy
Lawrence Block - here comes a hero
Joseph Heller- catch 22
Herman Brusselmans : all of his fictional stuff (Belgian author)
There are more books I like, like most of the Koontz novels and other misc books but these I really, really like
and yeah, almost anything by Crichton is good, but Prey was a bit of a let down, still good but not as good as some of his others (Jurassic park etc) But yeah, I highly recommend Ludlum
recently finished:
Matt Reilly - Area 7 and Ice Station
First, a few books many of you may not yet have heard of:
<li>Dürrenmatt: 'Die Physiker' (The Physics): A play about the biggest genious of humanity - who puts himself in a sanctuary because he realizes he's too dangerous to live outside.
Also look for 'The Pledge' by the same author. Or watch the movie with Jack Nicholson.
<li>Döblin: 'Berlin Alexanderplatz': One of the maybe most difficult books in recent history, but if you're into hard texts, it's worth it.
<li>Kurt Tucholsky: Whatever you find. Tucholsky is the in my opinion best German author of the last century.
Now, for English literature:
<li>William Gibson: The 'Futurematic' triology ('Virtual Light', 'Idoru', 'Futurematic'): In my opinion better than Neuromancer.
<li>Philip K. D*ck (talk about a crappy name): 'Foster, you're dead.': One of the best short stories of all times.
That's it for now.
With my knife - Andrew Lansdown
The Silver Crown - Robert O'Brien
The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
Amazing how well a good story stands the test of time ^_^
<b>Angela's Ashes</b> - By <i>Frank McCourt</i> - Do a Google search for him
and you'll get to read some nice interviews. This man has had a
tough life and it's hard to put the book down.
<b>T'is</b> - By <i>Frank McCourt</i> - The sequel to Angela's Ashes. Abit better
than Angela's Ashes but simply because it was alittle easier to read.
<b>Are YOU Dave Gorman?</b> - By <i>Dave Gorman</i> and <i>Danny Wallace</i>
I think EVERYONE should know of Dave's and Danny's story. Its too damn funny
to live without. <a href='http://www.davegorman.com' target='_blank'>Dave Gorman . Com</a>
I also enjoyed <b>Saving Private Ryan</b> by <i>Allan Collins</i>. It seemed
to contain more than the film. The lazy ones amongst us should just watch
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Good old PKD! My economics teacher loaned me one of his books "Radio Free Albemuth" and he quickly became my favorite teacher. Absolutely wonderfull book. I should probly start reading more of his books.
Let's see...some other good books:
The Stand by Steven King. His best book, if you ask me. It's a bit long, though.
The Real Frank Zappa Book by Frank Zappa. His autobiography, if you like hearing old guys with possible mental problems rant about the world and laugh the whole time, read this book.
Anything by Douglas Adams. ANYTHING.
Anything by Micheal Moore.
Napalm and Silly Putty by George Carlin. Perhaps the funniest book ever.
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury. A collection of some of the greatest short stories ever written. They are all SOOOO good.
Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking or
Black holes and baby universes by Stephen Hawking
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (pretty damn funny)
My non-geek book record includes a lot of Michael Crighton and Stephen King.