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| #121 Posted 8 months ago | Reply | I would reccomend reading everything by Terry Pratchett.
The "A Song of Ice and Fire" series by George R.R. Martin is also pretty good.
I also liked the "Otherland" series by Tad Williams, though I would have to warn that it does not really pick up until the second book. |
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| #122 Posted 8 months ago | Reply | | I think you should all read the Sword of Truth series. |
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| #123 Posted 7 months ago | Reply | I'd recommend the Interview with a Vampire. Also, the Vampire Lestat. If you are in to that sort of thing.
Classic lit
Shakespeare
Greek Trilogies
To kill a mocking bird (that is something I recommend to everyone.)
Watership Down (it's a story about rabbits. But it doesn't feel like it. There is so much personality in these little creatures that you forget they are rabbits. It's really good.)
Moby Dick. Yes the white whale. It is extremely long, and highly annoying but it's good. There is so much hidden symbolism and back stories.
I'm looking for something more recent though. |
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| #124 Posted 7 months ago | Reply | I don't know if anyone has suggested these, but...
No particular order.
1. The Twilight series (Stephenie Meyer)
2. The Host (Stephenie Meyer)
3. The Pendragon series (DJ MacHale)
4. Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
5. The Artemis Fowl series (Eoin Colfer)
6. The Supernaturalists (Eoin Colfer)
7. The Giver (Lois Lowry)
8. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
9. The Warriors series (Erin Hunter)
10. Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
I can't think of any more off the top of my head... but I enjoyed all of those. Tuesdays with Morrie was an excellent book. I've just gotten back into Pendragon, and The Host just came out.
Gone with the Wind is a classic. It's about 1,037 pages long, if I remember correctly, and I read it in about a week. A school week, too. But I really enjoyed it... once I got past chapter four. And I never saw the movie, so I wouldn't be able to compare them...
Here are a few mangas if anyone wants suggestions for manga:
1. Absolute Boyfriend (Yuu Watase)
2. Alice 19th (Yuu Watase)
3. YuYu Hakusho (Yoshihiro Togashi)
4. Shaman King (Hiroyuki Takei)
5. Dr. Slump (Akira Toriyama)
And there's a few more I need to look up the authors for...
Oh, and I book I haven't read but want to read is called Eats Shoots and Leaves. |
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| #125 Posted 7 months ago, in reply to post #8 by hemntjrseth | Reply | I am currently having it shoved down my throat... trying to read it gives me a headache, though I am having an easier time understanding it than the others in my class...
But I will say that it isn't that bad. I like it more than Romeo and Juliet. R&J is just too... well-known, I guess.
I have to use spark notes to really understand it, though... |
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| #126 Posted 7 months ago | Reply | It all depends on what you like
Personaly i find lots of different storyies facinating with my favorite probably being fantisy and sifi (note I like long series)
so I recomend
Enders game
Dritz trilogy
The wheel of time
if you like the wheel of time series you have to read mistborn and elantris
these are books made by the author who is going to finish the series
also the sword of truth
the seven towers
lord of the iles (may be spelled wrong)
manga wise
D gray man
claymore
shaman king
rave master
fairy tail
black cat
hunter x hunter
o-part hunter
i also agree with Kurama in
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
The Giver (Lois Lowry)
to be honest in the end i just love stories |
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| #127 Posted 6 months ago, in reply to post #18 by lotus | Reply | | edners game is on my school summer reading list... i havent gotten past the 5th page. ughhh... |
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| #128 Posted 6 months ago | Reply | Read the 'Twilight Series'.
Book 1 : Twilight
Book 2 : New Moon
Book 3 : Eclipse
Book 4: Breaking Dawn (Coming out in August, I can't WAIT!!) |
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| #130 Posted 6 months ago | Reply | | Wow. I'm shocked that this thread is still alive. I would have expected it dead 10 months ago. |
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| #131 Posted 6 months ago, in reply to post #125 by KuramaStrassCullen | Reply | It\'s one of the better things that you will read in high school. I had to go through the torture of reading horrible books like Beloved, The Scarlet Letter, Night and Great Expectations.
Anyway, back on topic. It was recommended a while back that I read The Kite Runner. I know recommend it to people too. Brilliant book.
I also recommend Breakfast at Tiffany's. Great read. |
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| #132 Posted 6 months ago | Reply | Well, here's a few "must read" books:
- George Orwell's 1984
- Alex Haley's Roots
- Alex Haley's Autobiography of Malcolm X
- Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth
- Mumia Abu-Jamal's Live From Death Row
- Karl Marx's Das Capital: Volume One through Three
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| #133 Posted 6 months ago | Reply | Ooh! "Feeling Sorry for Celia" by Jaclyn Moriarty. Fantastic book.
Or, "Catcher in the Rye" or "Gone With the Wind" if you haven't already XD |
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| #134 Posted 6 months ago | Reply | hmmmm
cris ryan : alpha force series is fun to read
then there is the chronicles of darkness: wolf brother, spirit walker, soul eater ........
umm also the magician guild trilogy
but i guess it depends on what you like |
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| #135 Posted 6 months ago | Reply | "13 Reasons Why" by Jay Asher. Trust me. It's a magnificent book, and it'll really get you thinking about life.
"Christine" by Stephen King. (Watch the movie, too. It's pretty good.)
"Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown.
"The DaVinci Code" by Dan Brown. |
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| #136 Posted 6 months ago | Reply | Percy Jackson.
Seriously, you'll love those books. |
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| #137 Posted 5 months ago | Reply | | Blind Faith by Ben Elton is good. Past Mortem.... gets kind of wierd but is good too. |
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| #138 Posted 5 months ago | Reply | | A Prayer for Owen Meaney by John Irving. Read it for required summer reading; loved it. |
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| #139 Posted 5 months ago | Reply | | I have to recommend any books by David and Leigh Eddings. Those books are great fantasy stories. |
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| #140 Posted 5 months ago | Reply | | Would anyone read a book if I wrote one and it got published? |
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| #142 Posted 5 months ago, in reply to post #141 by niknnik | Reply | Well, I doubt any fanfiction I wrote would get published... but you know I love it when people read my fanfictions!
I was talking about a novel, though... I have a few ideas. I even started a little bit of one. The others are just... ideas, so far. I was curious to see if anyone would actually be interested in anything I wrote... |
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| #143 Posted 5 months ago, in reply to post #142 by KuramaStrassCullen | Reply | | I suppose it depends more on what you actually write, but it I would probably read it.. |
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| #144 Posted 5 months ago, in reply to post #143 by niknnik | Reply | That's true. The same would go for me.
I think I'll tell you about some of them - somewhere else - if you're interested (in hearing about them, that is). |
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| #145 Posted 5 months ago | Reply | I have a few series/novles that I rather enjoyed, Plus a few manga I think are worth mentioning too.
Books:
The Legend of Drizzt (R.A. Salvatore)
The Bartimaeus Trilogy (dont know the author, sorry)
The Wheel of Time (Robert Jordan)
Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
The Twilight Series! (Stephenie Meyer)
Some Shakespeare stuff is pretty good too!
And a few manga I think are good.
Naruto
Bleach
Yu-Gi-Oh ( it actually isnt bad at all)
And thats about it. |
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| #146 Posted 5 months ago | Reply | | I just read The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver... it wasn't bad, I suppose. If you don't mind religion. (I do, but overall, I still don't think it was too bad.) |
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| #147 Posted 5 months ago | Reply | I really hate religious novels. Most of them feel all preachy and and annoying, like the whole book was just an excuse to promote a certain religion. I know this (usually) isnt the case, but I'm paranoid about people trying to convert me. I'm happy as an Atheist  |
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| #148 Posted 5 months ago, in reply to post #147 by Elbarto | Reply | Then here's a tip: Try to avoid a book called "A Lesson Before Dying". I hated it. (And almost every character was super-religious. Especially the Reverend. Ugh.) And the main character had a really random, huge conversion during the last, like, five pages... it was so forced and OOC. And I even started to like it... until the end. The end was so bad.
On another note, here's a book that everyone should read: The Gospel According to Larry. |
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| #149 Posted 5 months ago | Reply | | has anyone suggested the inheratence trilogy or the belgariad series yet? |
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| #150 Posted 4 months ago, in reply to post #149 by grimfang999 | Reply | | I think someone did suggest the Inheritance trilogy (probably several people)... but I don't know about the other one. |
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