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The Power of One is a great book.

Don't read the children's though read the full uncut one becuase it's better to understand the racism and violence and stuff.

I was 13 when I read it and I was sorta shocled with it but if you've been exposed to it before you mshould read it.

  • 12.18.2004 2:57 PM PDT

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I don't know if you guys read Michael Chrichton but I like his books.
-Jurassic Park
-Jurassic Park Lost World
-Sphere

Those are the ones I've read.

  • 12.18.2004 4:45 PM PDT
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Read the Ender series from Orson Scott Card. Actually, read Ender's Game, and the Shadow spin-off series. The other three Ender books, while thought-provoking, are boring as crap.

The Armor by John Steakley is so cool. It's like a cross between Halo and Half-LIfe, and it was written back in the 70's.

Like Halifax said, anything by Dave Barry is freaking hilarious. My personal favorite is the one he wrote that is a spoof on a history book (I can't remember the name off the top of my head, so I'm not gonna go and look.)

Also, this sounds kinda kiddish, but the Series of Unfortunate Events books are a hoot to read. They have some clever and witty jokes, and one book made me laugh almost as hard as a Dave Barry one did.

And, The Count of Monte Cristo is an awesome classic book. So is Huck Funn (that one actually made me laugh out loud several times--and it's over 100 years old!)

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For anyone who likes Stephen King at all, I'd recommend the Dark Tower series. There's about six books(I think), but don't let that discourage you.

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Posted by: CabKiller
I don't know if you guys read Michael Chrichton but I like his books.
-Jurassic Park
-Jurassic Park Lost World
-Sphere

Those are the ones I've read.


Jurrassic Park was by far the best book ive read (maybe cause i love dinosaurs).

i'm in the middle of Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Surpremay, but i lost my book at school. im so pissed.

A Seriese of Unfortunate Events is an amazing seriese (no joke!). read those when u have 5 minutes.

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Its kind of uhm... nerdy... but The Catcher in the Rye is my favorite book of all time, followed closely by Farenheit 451. I like Catcher in the Rye because I could swear that book is about me.

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I'm going to throw in some Lovecraft, too.

All by HP Lovecraft:
* The Call of Cthulhu
* At the Mountains of Madness
* The Dunwich Horror
* The Statement of Randolph Carter
* Herbert West - Reanimator
* The Unnamable
* Dagon
* The Shadow Over Innsmouth

Very good, very short(about 35-40 pages at the most for the longest one) horror stories. Stephen King himself hails Lovecraft as the greatest horror writer of the 20th century.

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I personally liked Fiction. Any fiction suits me. Anyone have any good fiction books in mind? Comdey's O.K. but I love my fiction books.

Some books I've read are:

- The Ender's series (Ender's Game, ect)
- The Forgotten Realms series (Drizzt Do'Urden, ect)
- The Halo series (of course)
- (This is kind of kiddish but...) The Redwall Collection by Brian Jacques
- Some of the Diablo (game's spinoff) books
- The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (and off the record, I read them before the movies came out)
- Also a book called "Jackdaws" by Ken Follett -> about a group of women spec ops in WW2 (fiction, but dedicated to the real women spec ops team of WW2)

On a side note: I'm getting The Art of War for Christmas so I'll be reading that soon also.

If any of you have some "must-reads" to offer along the lines of fictional literature, drop me a PM and I would gladly take any suggesstions. Thanks.

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The white fox chronicals by Gary Paulsen. It is very short but it is a good read.

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here are some that I really like:

Swan Song
The Watchers
Fight Club
Clockwork Orange
1984

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theres also some funny random books like...

Letters from a Nut

Stinky Cheese Man (a classic)

actually.... im out of ideas. g'night!

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The following is a list of novels that I had a choice to read from for a 10th Grade Honors English literary analysis project. I've heard mixed reviews about most of the books, but I'm sure that the list is varied enough and full of classics that most anyone will find a book to read from this list:

Beowulf by ?
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Angelou
Illustrated Man by Bradbury
Wuthering Heights by Bronte
Alice in Wonderland by Carroll
My Antonia by Cather
The Chocolate War by Cormier
Robinson Crusoe by DeFoe (author disputed, however)
Great Expectations by Dickens
Love Medicine by Erdrich
The Invisible Man by Ellison
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Greenberg
Ordinary People by Guest
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne
Siddhartha by Hesse
The Odyssey by Homer
Brave New World by Huxley
The Turn of the Screw by James
Flowers for Algernon by Keyes
The Prince by Machiavelli
The Natural by Malamud
Morte d'Arthur by Malory
Beloved by Morrison
Cry, The Beloved Country by Paton
The King Must Die by Renault
Ivanhoe by Scott
Pygmalion by Shaw
Frankenstein by Shelley
Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck
Gulliver's Travels by Swift
Tom Sawyer by Twain
Around the World in Eighty Days by Verne
The Color Purple by Walker
Ethan Frome by Wharton

From what I've heard, some of these books are the kinds of books that one might find to become a cheezy T.V. Movie. I haven't read nearly half of the books listed above, so I won't say which I found to be great works of literature or not.

Some of my personal favorites are:

Halo: The Fall of Reach by Nylund
Halo: The Flood by Dietz
Halo: First Strike by Nylund
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by Tolkien
The Foundation Series by Asimov
All Quiet on the Western Front by Remarque
The Odyssey by Homer

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  • 12.18.2004 9:51 PM PDT

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The Foundation novels by Isaac Asimov. Best sci-fi i've ever read.

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The Odyssey was another good one. Fantastic erm, poem, I guess.

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MCs Brother "B-Net Saga" is another of my favorites.

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The Odyssey is one of my favorites. There's also a great Simpsons parody of it, too.

"Discus Stu was talkin' to you."

  • 12.18.2004 10:20 PM PDT

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MCs Brother "B-Net Saga" is another of my favorites.


Ha. It's not that good...

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Anything by Robert A. Heinlein, but especially;

* Methuselah's Children
* Time Enough for Love
* The Notebooks of Lazarus Long
* Stranger in a Strange Land (original uncut)

and one other name....

Asimov. (don't worry about the title, and if it is part of a series, get the whole series)


I wasn't aware that there was an edited bersion of Stranger in a Strange Lamd. My copy was printed in 1961, and if that was edited, I'm not sure I want to see the unedited -- it's as controversial as Starship Troopers! Well, almost -- the caning thing in Starship Troopers was a bit off the scale as far as American customs.

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I think my internet or Bungie is screwing up. Anyway -- I wa meaning to ask about an edited version of Stranger in a Strange Land ? My copy was printed in 1961, so I don't know if it's edited or not -- but I know it was damned controversial. Almost as bad as the disciplinarian and political commentary in his Starship Troopers book. Damn shame what they did to Heinlein, letting that crappy movie out.

As for recommended reading? I'm a big fan of almost everything Piers Anthony, for those people that enjoyed the DragonLance or Forgotten Realms books mentioned earlier I would recommend any Ravenloft books. Start with I, Strahd.

For the younger people here, (The Harry Potter Crowd?) maybe you'd like to try the "Harry Potter" of the 70's and 80's -- Diana Wynne Jones' Chronicles of Chrestomanci Series They're impeccably well written, and I plan on reading them with my children once they're 8 years old or so.

  • 12.18.2004 10:40 PM PDT

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I didn't like Starship Troopers that much, however I do like Heinlein. I haven't read Stranger in a Strange Land, but I really liked some of his older books, like Tunnel in the Sky, Farmer in the Sky, Have Space Suit-Will Travel, and Podkayne of Mars(At least I think those last 2 were by him). And Asimov rules, read the Robot Series, then the Empire Series, then the Foundation Series(I reccomend the library for Asimov, he has written too many books to buy). Foundation is an amzing series, except that Foundation's Edge and Foundation and Earth both have horrible endings, but the rest of them before that in the series, not the order that he wrote them, are great and I highly reccomend them.

  • 12.18.2004 10:57 PM PDT

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For anyone that cares, this is the order of the Foundation novels:

Prelude to Foundation
Foundation
Foundation and Empire
Second Foundation
Foundation's Edge
Foundation and Earth
Forward the Foundation

Amazing series of books. IMO, it's Asimov at his best.

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Posted by: CabKiller
MCs Brother "B-Net Saga" is another of my favorites.


Ha. It's not that good...

It's funny, it involves Bungie, and Davester is the bad guy, I like it.

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Posted by: MCs Brother
For anyone that cares, this is the order of the Foundation novels:

Prelude to Foundation
Foundation
Foundation and Empire
Second Foundation
Foundation's Edge
Foundation and Earth
Forward the Foundation

Amazing series of books. IMO, it's Asimov at his best.

Thanks for the list. I didn't know the entire order of the books. I've yet to read the entire series, but I'm in the middle of reading Foundation's Edge. It actually keeps my interest... which is odd seeing as Asimov likes to go off on tangents about robots rather often, but I digress.

So far the series just seems so amazing to me, and I'm not one to like many, if any books. I seriously recomend this series to anyone who loves Sci-fi or a great read in general.

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