im planning on starting reading books,dno what book i should start out with :D so i thought i'd ask you my dear friends what was your favourite book that you ever read?
Got the first book end of August, read them all by the end of September. Think I spent 90% of my time going "THE FUCK YOU CAN'T DO THAT!!!". Awesome book and I love the way he builds the story in the first book. Sets the scene whilst keeping you compelled. Can't wait for the next installment.
haha ik ook in groep 6 ofzo waar je met klas altijd naar de bieb moest gaan en een boek uit moest kiezen voor een week, goede tijden.... goede tijden..
I don't have any specific book that I consider to be my favourite. However from the last novels I've read lately, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swarm_(novel) stood out by far.
Just a couple of series that i really enjoyed:
-A song of ice and fire
-Tales of the Otori
-His Dark Materials
-Millennium series
but in the end its just about your personal taste
Awesome suggestion MrAwesome! Yep very semi autobiographical, from the Mumbai slums to mujahideen from drug dealing to death inbetween but it's not a thriller / action novel. Throws in an introduction to eastern thinking to boot.
You'll fall for Karla, hands over feet over hands.
As others have said A Song Of Ice & Fire is very easy to read & will draw you in. If you want a more philisophical book Zen & The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance is brilliant but not a night time read. Interesting insights & angles of looking at things told through the story of the narator on a 'chautauqua' whilst motorycling with his son & friends through America.
Anything by Bukowski or Faulks, especially Engleby (which I'd imagine most on here would relate to). The Perks Of Being A Wallflower or Generation Kill would both be a good starting point. And I really enjoyed Heliopolis.
Have fun! It's miles better than TV. A beer in hand, comfy sofa, soothing background music & a good book will improve your life.
Mr two accounts other books I've enjoyed recently include Waiting For The Barbarians (J.M Coetzee), Homicide (David Simons aka The Wire), Something Happened / Catch 22 (both by Joseph Heller), Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck, for the last few pages if nothing else), The Man In The High Castle (Phillip K Dick) & Slaughterhouse 5 (Kurt Vonnegut).
But of all those I'd start with Engleby by Sebastian Faulks as it's brilliant.
Honestly one of the best books I have ever read, have you read it before, or just getting started? There's 2 other books in a somewhat related trilogy, both also very good, but very different from Cpt. Bluebear. If you like this one, I'd definitely recommend you to check out the other two as well, Moers in general is an amazing artist (wouldnt call him just a writer, his cartoons and illustrations are fantastic as well)
Hitchikers Guide To The Galaxy -trilogy, few others from Adams too.
Lots of good ones from Kurt Vonnegut, "Fates Worse Than Death" is my favourite though it isn't a novel, but anyway.
Lots of others too, can't pick any other over those two guys.
To the end of the land seems sick, I'm very excited that I'm reading it.
It's true that you can't rely a favorite book, however you can always mention a special book. For me it was the mysterious island, It's great, I will forever remember it.
I'm afraid I still don't get it :/ Dumas wrote novels and what about The Shawshank redemption, the most overrated movie of all times (obviously because of that #1 rank)? :F
Larkin is very accesible. There's plenty translations for the better English books. I've Brave New World but yet to get around to reading it... it's on a list of books everyone says are great and genuinly are that I'm getting throuh including ones I've read such as 1984, Catcher In The Rye, Animal Farm, Catch 22 etc
Translations aren't the problems, but your classic works aren't known to me. Where as you probably had to read the start up books and work your way up to the other books, I've done this with Dutch literature only so I don't know much of the great writers and what styles they have.
On the road - Jack Kerouac
Another bullshit night in suck city - Nick Flynn
The Actual - Saul Bellow (Not many people like this, but for some reason I think it's great and I've read it at least 30 times)
Dragonlance is much more entertaining than all of fantasy i've read so far (shits like lotr are not even close)
+ The Dark Elf Trilogy by R.A Salvatore is really good trilogy in the universe of forgotten realms, there are also many other trilogies from this author so if you liked this, it wouldn't be over so quickly!
too crowded i hate when u have to wait in queue just to get weights etc..too many polaks wnb buff
and ill prolly join kickboxing club instead
I enjoyed Artemis Fowl aswell :)
For the rest, books are just books bro, no such thing as a best book. It is a very personal thing.
Me
I enjoyed doing that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sven_Hassel
pretty harsh stuff but not to be taken too srs
-A song of ice and fire
-Tales of the Otori
-His Dark Materials
-Millennium series
but in the end its just about your personal taste
"Crime and Punishment"
"The Thin Red Line"
"Solaris"
Digital Fortress, 1998
Angels & Demons, 2000
Deception Point, 2001
The Da Vinci Code, 2003
The Lost Symbol, 2009
Oh and The song of Ice and Fire series, haven't got near completing it yet though.
can't fucking wait for the lost symbol movie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shantaram_%28novel%29
Hands down the best I read.
You'll fall for Karla, hands over feet over hands.
As others have said A Song Of Ice & Fire is very easy to read & will draw you in. If you want a more philisophical book Zen & The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance is brilliant but not a night time read. Interesting insights & angles of looking at things told through the story of the narator on a 'chautauqua' whilst motorycling with his son & friends through America.
Anything by Bukowski or Faulks, especially Engleby (which I'd imagine most on here would relate to). The Perks Of Being A Wallflower or Generation Kill would both be a good starting point. And I really enjoyed Heliopolis.
Have fun! It's miles better than TV. A beer in hand, comfy sofa, soothing background music & a good book will improve your life.
Didn't expect to find good advice here on crossfire.
Agree! Throw in a fat J and we have perfection.
But of all those I'd start with Engleby by Sebastian Faulks as it's brilliant.
Candide
The Doors of Perception
The Rum Diary
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
The 13 1⁄2 Lives of Captain Bluebear
for the tip, will look into the other ones as well : )
pretty good
pretty pretty good
Lots of good ones from Kurt Vonnegut, "Fates Worse Than Death" is my favourite though it isn't a novel, but anyway.
Lots of others too, can't pick any other over those two guys.
It's true that you can't rely a favorite book, however you can always mention a special book. For me it was the mysterious island, It's great, I will forever remember it.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Watch-My-Back-Geoff-Thompson/dp/1840247169/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1318260183&sr=1-1
Zusak is a great writer and its kind of a tragic story.
else if you seek a thriller i can recommend you Obsession by Jonathan Kellerman.
Great book with really unexpected ending
watch pic and dont read text
win
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Chronicles of Amber are pretty epic
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
The Etched City by K.J. Bishop was also great:).
2-5. The Tawny Man Trilogy, Ages of the Five, The Night Angel Trilogy, The Elves
Dan Brown books
Eragon
1984 (must-read)
paul auster (just started reading his books, seems good)
lord of the rings
A Song of Ice and Fire Series.. by far
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If you're looking for some high society I've always enjoyed the poems of Larkin, High Windows & Toads being personal favourites.
I haven't read a lot of foreign books though, mostly just Dutch literature. I wouldn't know where to start with English.
I'll look into Larkin :)
Another bullshit night in suck city - Nick Flynn
The Actual - Saul Bellow (Not many people like this, but for some reason I think it's great and I've read it at least 30 times)
+ The Dark Elf Trilogy by R.A Salvatore is really good trilogy in the universe of forgotten realms, there are also many other trilogies from this author so if you liked this, it wouldn't be over so quickly!
Some of the Raymond E. Feist trilogies.
The dwarves tetralogy by markuz heitz i believe
David Gemell books
can't think of more