 |
|
 |
| Literature Please come visit. People get upset, write poetry about it, and post it here. Sometimes we also talk about books. |
03-28-2006, 01:50 AM
|
#1
|
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Singapore
Posts: 5
|
Books to Recommend
Does anyone have any good books to recommend?
|
|
|
|
03-28-2006, 04:50 AM
|
#2
|
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: a house full of "catmons"
Posts: 590
|
Can you be more specific than just 'good books'?
__________________
"If I had my way, we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes." - William S. Burroughs, "Queer"
|
|
|
|
|
03-28-2006, 05:00 AM
|
#3
|
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: London, the loneliest city, England
Posts: 435
|
The best horror book I read was The Rats by James Herbert. I think I might have mentioned that before, so go and get the book.
Books are books Kitty, so what do you like?
__________________
"Because in the end, everything we do… is just everything we’ve done." - Corey Taylor/Stone Sour
|
|
|
|
|
03-28-2006, 05:12 AM
|
#4
|
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: a house full of "catmons"
Posts: 590
|
Books are books, true, but I have no idea what darkestmoon likes. I wouldn't waht to recommend Palahniuk to someone who likes Mercedes Lackey. 
I like weird & unusual (Gaiman and Palahniuk are good examples of what I enjoy most).
__________________
"If I had my way, we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes." - William S. Burroughs, "Queer"
|
|
|
|
|
03-28-2006, 11:54 AM
|
#5
|
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Montclair, CA
Posts: 15
|
The last good book I read was "Sex with Kings." It's a history book about the mistresses and courtesans of kings throughout time. It's very engrossing, detailed--some of which are really bizarre. I like to read up on the naughty bits of history so I can put them in my stories. I have worked on some historical horror stories, and I like to seem to know what I'm talking about. 
|
|
|
|
|
03-28-2006, 01:18 PM
|
#6
|
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Wisconsin: The Land of Cheese!
Posts: 57
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by DirtyBlonde
The last good book I read was "Sex with Kings." It's a history book about the mistresses and courtesans of kings throughout time. It's very engrossing, detailed--some of which are really bizarre. I like to read up on the naughty bits of history so I can put them in my stories. I have worked on some historical horror stories, and I like to seem to know what I'm talking about. |
That sounds most intriguing. Can someone recommend me some good fantasy reading?
|
|
|
|
|
03-28-2006, 10:39 PM
|
#7
|
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: a house full of "catmons"
Posts: 590
|
Have you read George R. R. Martin's "A Song of Ice And Fire" series? Four books so far, three more to be written. The best fantasy I've read lately.
__________________
"If I had my way, we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes." - William S. Burroughs, "Queer"
|
|
|
|
|
04-07-2006, 04:31 AM
|
#8
|
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 1,247
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by angel011
Books are books, true, but I have no idea what darkestmoon likes. I wouldn't waht to recommend Palahniuk to someone who likes Mercedes Lackey.
I like weird & unusual (Gaiman and Palahniuk are good examples of what I enjoy most). |
Yup - Palahniuk's "Invisible Monsters" is my favourite. I'd recommend it to anyone. A good book is a good book.
__________________
Petrified for the millionth time...
Slowly my soul evaporates
|
|
|
|
|
04-07-2006, 11:23 AM
|
#9
|
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: wirral, england
Posts: 6
|
Ken Kesey's One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, pretty much anything by Steinbeck, To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee and get some poetry down your neck, a bit of Ted Hughes, Larkin, Yeats, Wilfred Owen and Spike Milligan.
|
|
|
|
|
04-08-2006, 11:29 AM
|
#10
|
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Behind you ... (well, if your back's to London)
Posts: 1,001
|
Chris Kelly, will you marry me?!
I'd like to add The Magic Toyshop and Wise Children by Angela Carter, The Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker and Paradise by Toni Morrison.
__________________
The meek shall inherit the earth. Just as soon as the rest of us have finished with it.
A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick ~ Toni Morrison
|
|
|
|
|
04-12-2006, 09:00 PM
|
#11
|
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Australia / NSW
Posts: 34
|
The "Wheel of Time" Series by Robert Jordan.
Damn its long, but damn its good.
|
|
|
|
|
04-14-2006, 11:45 PM
|
#12
|
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Your back pocket!
Posts: 347
|
I thought "A Great And Terrible Beauty" by Libba Bray was really good. Stephanie Meyer's "Twilight" was also one of my favorites.
__________________
Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that ...
Author: George Carlin
|
|
|
|
|
04-14-2006, 11:54 PM
|
#13
|
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 269
|
"A Brief History of Time", by Stephen Hawking. It was an awesome book.
If you're looking to aquire new skills, then anything by O'rielly or the "For Dummies series".
The Hardy Boys are always a good read. Dan Brown's "Digital Fortress", was good IMHO too. All of the classics by Orwell, Wells, and Tolkein are also good. "Space Odessy 2001", was an odd book, but it was okay. Finally, my personal favorite book, of all time, of ever, ever, ever, ever: "The Giver".
|
|
|
|
|
04-15-2006, 02:04 AM
|
#14
|
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: New Mexico
Posts: 317
|
Lets see. The Darktower Series by Stephen King. Paradise Lost by Milton. The Divine Comedy by Dante (Purgatorio is my favorite of the three), Slaughter House Five and Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut, Beyond Good and Evil by Frederick Nietzsche, The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett, Wilderness: The Lost Writing of Jim Morrison and The Lords and The New Creatures and The American Night: The Writings of Jim Morrison all of them by Jim Morrison, Age of Reason by Thomas Paine, Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience (Two books) by William Blake. Thats all I can do off the top of my head, can ya tell I read alot?
__________________
Since the one thing we can say about fundamental matter is, that it is vibrating. And since all vibrations are theoretically sound, then it is not unreasonable to suggest that the universe is music and should be perceived as such.
|
|
|
|
|
04-15-2006, 02:08 AM
|
#15
|
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: New Mexico
Posts: 317
|
Oh, and of course, La Vita Nuova by Dante.
__________________
Since the one thing we can say about fundamental matter is, that it is vibrating. And since all vibrations are theoretically sound, then it is not unreasonable to suggest that the universe is music and should be perceived as such.
|
|
|
|
|
04-17-2006, 02:56 PM
|
#16
|
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Tucson, USA
Posts: 12
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by angel011
Have you read George R. R. Martin's "A Song of Ice And Fire" series? Four books so far, three more to be written. The best fantasy I've read lately.
|
Awsome series, but alot of people have trouble reading it, dont know why =)
Anyways, I really liked "The Risen Empire" by Scott Westerfeld.
|
|
|
|
|
04-18-2006, 01:44 AM
|
#17
|
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: a house full of "catmons"
Posts: 590
|
"Hannibal" by Thomas Harris was great.
__________________
"If I had my way, we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes." - William S. Burroughs, "Queer"
|
|
|
|
|
04-18-2006, 10:32 AM
|
#18
|
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 380
|
For horror fanatics I recomend Ravens Point by Melinda Metz. Romance and evil with evil speaking through small letter poems everyone now and then and the horror. It encircles teenagers in an island neamed Ravens Point and is truly a 21th century century classic of american horror novels.
|
|
|
|
|
04-18-2006, 10:50 AM
|
#19
|
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Southern California
Posts: 130
|
I highly recommend City Infernal and Infernal Angel by Edward Lee. Two of my favorites ;-).
|
|
|
|
|
04-18-2006, 04:01 PM
|
#20
|
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 380
|
I also reccomend Dracula by Bram Stoker. Traditional vampirism and a great book in the making.
|
|
|
|
|
04-18-2006, 05:01 PM
|
#21
|
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Iowa
Posts: 3
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by angel011
Books are books, true, but I have no idea what darkestmoon likes. I wouldn't waht to recommend Palahniuk to someone who likes Mercedes Lackey.
I like weird & unusual (Gaiman and Palahniuk are good examples of what I enjoy most). |
I read the first couple chapters of Haunted and got too grossed out to continue.
|
|
|
|
|
04-18-2006, 05:04 PM
|
#22
|
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Iowa
Posts: 3
|
I've been waiting for the next Thomas Harris book for about 2 years. It was supposed to come out last November, then March. Now it's supposed to be released with the movie...
|
|
|
|
|
04-18-2006, 05:13 PM
|
#23
|
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Iowa
Posts: 3
|
If you liked Hannibal, I would suggest reading Solar Eclipse by John Farris. Sacrifice by Farris is a must-read.
I've been looking through the book threads and haven't seen anyone recommend Joyce Carol Oates. Bellefleur is one of my all time favorites.
|
|
|
|
|
04-18-2006, 07:13 PM
|
#24
|
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Neverwhere
Posts: 320
|
Joyce Carol Oates is fantastic. Has anyone reviewed her collection of short stories entitled: 'Haunted'? They are quite worth the effort.
|
|
|
|
|
04-18-2006, 07:50 PM
|
#25
|
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
|
I reccomend American Gods.
There's an interesting story involving a tiger's balls which makes the book worth buying just to read it
Although I encourage you to keep reading it. There are a lot of funny parts besides the amazingly entrancing story.
__________________
"No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world.
I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker."
-Mikhail Bakunin
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by George Carlin
People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.
|
|
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -7. The time now is 07:30 AM.
|
|
