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ilovepandas
United States22 Posts
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Mori600
Japan311 Posts
Best fantasy novel I ever read. Completely different from all the other novels I have read. There is also the Twilight series if you are looking for something to bash. | ||
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StorkHwaiting
United States3465 Posts
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Starparty
Sweden1963 Posts
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Fzero
United States1503 Posts
On January 02 2010 11:49 StorkHwaiting wrote: hehe I've heard a bird from inside the industry say some things about A Dance With Dragons being .... I've considered a hunting party to setup a perimeter outside of Martin's house so he can't go on any more book tours for wild cards or some other tripe. | ||
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ggrrg
Bulgaria2716 Posts
CATCH 22 nothing! This book is awesome. When reading I happened to start laughing hysterically in the bus or other public places. | ||
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CatioN
United States136 Posts
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DrTJEckleburg
United States1080 Posts
The Eagle has Flown by Jack Higgins - Another WWII novel that is about Heinrich Himmler sending his agents to rescue a German Oberst(Colonel) who survived the assassination attempt on Winston Churchill. Chains of Command, Storming Heaven, Shadows of Steel, and Wings of Fire by Dale Brown - Military based novels, one of which involved a fictional, heavily armed B-52 Superfortress. All are of the same genre and also involve a nice mix of technology exploration in his writings. 27 by William Diehl - A man's lover is murdered by Hitler's cronies and he begins a relentless campaign against the Third Reich as a mercenary, he finds out more than he wanted to when he discovers the secret mission "27." Seven Days to Petrograd by Tom Hyman - Story of a man who's mission is to board a train from Zurich to Petrograd with the intent to assassinated Vladimir Lenin. Hope that helps! I also enjoyed Pompeii by Robert Harris. | ||
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Ilikestarcraft
Korea (South)17731 Posts
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Liquid`Drone
Norway28726 Posts
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Kenpachi
United States9908 Posts
On January 02 2010 10:36 GreEny K wrote: ![[image loading]](http://www.aavw.org/images/fallenangelstn.gif) One of the best books I've read, it's just soo damn good. I think im gonna re read it. yea its one of the books i enjoyed reading | ||
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rushz0rz
Canada5300 Posts
On January 02 2010 08:56 Oystein wrote: Books I have enjoyed reading before are Dan Brown books, a lot of Tom Clancy books, Tolkien books and the occasional book about WW2. You really need to start reading something else. | ||
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IdrA
United States11541 Posts
On January 02 2010 21:49 rushz0rz wrote: You really need to start reading something else. ya and you should probably start by asking for recommendations on good books to read. oh sorry i didnt realize you were just trying to demonstrate your superiority to uncivilized people who read popular books. | ||
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Nevuk
United States16280 Posts
...But then, I prefer short stories and poems to the novel anyways. The novel is the art form with the greatest capacity, however, unfortunately, this means it is almost always the less refined. ) | ||
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rushz0rz
Canada5300 Posts
On January 02 2010 22:02 IdrA wrote: ya and you should probably start by asking for recommendations on good books to read. oh sorry i didnt realize you were just trying to demonstrate your superiority to uncivilized people who read popular books. Right-o. | ||
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jello_biafra
United Kingdom6639 Posts
On January 02 2010 10:54 sassme wrote: British..? wtf to the OP: i know i only have a few posts but you should read Deathworld by Harry Harrison. It will completely blow you away. I will give you a head if you won't like it. Yeah, it's a British book... And who's head are you gonna give him if he doesn't like it? ^^ | ||
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Nevuk
United States16280 Posts
From the tastes Oystein described in his OP though I would say the Dresden Files come the closest to fulfilling all the requirements without having overwhelming flaws. As far as more "normal" books go, I can only think of american literature due to having had it beaten into my brain for the past 2 years. So apologies to my neglect of the British. I can recall some excellent spanish novelists like Gabria Garcia Marquez as well, but haven't read them deeply enough to recommend them. Danielewski's House of Leaves was excellent, although I recommend skipping all of Johnny's sections after the first 200 pages. Basically it's a horror story set within a satire of academic criticism. Michael Chabon's The Adventures of Kavalier and Klay was extremely flawed but very well done, a sort of faux-history of the early periods of comic books. Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow is terrific, one of my favorite books, howweeever, likely the most difficult book to read in the english (or any other) language. A dystopian examination of the last few weeks of WW2, when parts of the world had not yet realized the war had ended. Pynchon's earlier novel "V." is also wonderful, and considerably less hostile to the reader. Cormac Mccarthy's Blood Meridian is wonderful if the reader has no problem with the disdain Mccarthy has for certain conventions of the english language (He never uses apostrophes and almost never uses contraction marks either. So dont is a frequent occurrence). I do recall the specific thing I read on the jacket that was a great description, "a tale of redemption through violence." It has my favorite opening paragraph as far as prose usage of any book. These are all fairly recent books. I'm going to throw out a list of older-modern books now without as much summary because most people are familiar with them to some extent. Joseph Heller's Catch-22, but also ... Salinger's A Catcher in the Rye (Really, it's good. Yes, it's flawed and a tad overrated but it's a book that most people benefit from reading). Joyce's Ulysses, (Hey! something not american!) George Orwell's 1984 Nabokov's "Lolita", "Pnin", or "Invitation to a Beheading." (Stay away from Pale Fire). (If it weren't for the Cold War he would be considered Russian). I'm tired now. There are waaay more that I love but are almost cliche to recommend, like Moby Dick or Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and still others that are just too out there and hard to find to recommend like Gormenghast. | ||
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sassme
56 Posts
On January 02 2010 22:10 jello_biafra wrote: Catch 22 is one of the greatest books ever, a must read. Yeah, it's a British book... And who's head are you gonna give him if he doesn't like it? ^^ oh man.. I was 100% sure Van Vogt wrote that.. and you know why? There was a book with 3 stories and he was mistakenly listed as an author of Day of the Triffids.. Learned something new today. Aaaand I meant a blowjob | ||
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Horiz0n
Sweden364 Posts
![[image loading]](http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n2/n11686.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://www.bookswim.com/images_books/large/Reliquary_Pendergast_Book_2-119188026896639.gif) there are more books in this fantastic serie by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, but this is a great start | ||
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Slugbreath
Sweden201 Posts
![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c3/1984first.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/01/OfMiceAndMen.jpg) | ||
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