Recommend a book!

Maybe this thread would be a better fit for the Sandbox forum?

Anyways, I'll recommend a Memory of Light by Brandon Sanderson. It actually wasn't super amazing, imo, but it is the end to the most epic & famous fantasy series of our time. Originally Posted by jbravo_123

This series was amazing. Long and worth the wait. I only wish Jordan could have finished it himself. I found that Jordan was capable of making the characters come alive so much you parted the pages to check in on friends rather than to read a book.

For a more classic fiction I would highly recommend "The good Earth" Adored this book.

Overall I tend to gravitate towards science fiction myself. A good series right now is a little known Elantra series by michelle sagara. Again another author who's characters just pop off the pages.

For those that enjoy historical fiction my all time favorite "firebrand" is a retelling of the trojan war from Cassandra's point of view.

Believe it or not "how to make love like a porn star" was actually a good read. I was pleasantly surprised.

Overall though there are just far too many books to choose from.

Wow, a subject that is worth posting on and near and dear to me. The Wheel of Time series was definitely worth the read, especially after I had started on it when it first came out.
I would put a book on this list "The Road to Serfdom" by F.A. Hayek. This should be required reading in out schools.

This series was amazing. Long and worth the wait. I only wish Jordan could have finished it himself. I found that Jordan was capable of making the characters come alive so much you parted the pages to check in on friends rather than to read a book.

For a more classic fiction I would highly recommend "The good Earth" Adored this book.

Overall I tend to gravitate towards science fiction myself. A good series right now is a little known Elantra series by michelle sagara. Again another author who's characters just pop off the pages.

For those that enjoy historical fiction my all time favorite "firebrand" is a retelling of the trojan war from Cassandra's point of view.

Believe it or not "how to make love like a porn star" was actually a good read. I was pleasantly surprised.

Overall though there are just far too many books to choose from. Originally Posted by JayceeRivers

The Good Earth - as in the one by Pearl S. Buck?

I actually watched the movie of that when I was in Jr. High

For the folks that read GRRM, Sanderson, and the Wot you should read Name of the Wind. This is one of the top 5 books I have read and I read 103 last year, I recieved an e book for x mass last year is how I know the count. Hyperion is another book that I liked, the story line is unlike anything else I have read. If you liked Wot you should try some Terry Goodkinds Sword of Truth, get past the first one and the rest are very good. For a little different read Old Mans War was good. No matter what style you read just keep doing it.

Yes the pearl s buck "the good earth" I thought the message was amazing. The character development well thought out and the setting realistic.

As for the sword of truth I liked it but it seemed almost dummed down? A easy read no real twists or turns to work out. A good series but not complex.

I will be downloading "name of the wind" later so i will blame this guy for my staying up all night

Anorexia: The Karen Carpenter story
the plots a lil thin, but the endings a "killer"

Yes the pearl s buck "the good earth" I thought the message was amazing. The character development well thought out and the setting realistic.

As for the sword of truth I liked it but it seemed almost dummed down? A easy read no real twists or turns to work out. A good series but not complex.

I will be downloading "name of the wind" later so i will blame this guy for my staying up all night Originally Posted by JayceeRivers

I can go with not complex, its not going to change your life or anything. Just a good read on a cold day. Let me know how you like Name of the Wind, go ahead and get the second book the same time you get the first, the third is not out yet.

Religous: Has to be Richard Bach's "Jonathan Livingston Seagull". His Messiah books are good as well but not near to JLS.

Series: Vamphyria series by Briam Lumley. Get halfway through the first then stop at 7 or so.

Romance/ alt series: The Beauty series by Anne Rice of course.

Romance / fantasy: The Brotherhood Series by JR Ward.

Romance (straight) anything by Kathleen Woodiwiss.

Modern...dang I dunno. If it's under 500 pgs I tend to burn through them in a day so i download so many & just delete when done. I know I have a few gigs of "to read".

I recently went through my Dad's library and have an entire bookcase that I'm reading through right now - none that I'd call modern per se, but just finished "The Devil's Advocate" (1960s) and it was pretty good. Starting on Pork Chop Hill this weekend and will gran another one or two for my tour reads.

For the folks that read GRRM, Sanderson, and the Wot you should read Name of the Wind. This is one of the top 5 books I have read and I read 103 last year, I recieved an e book for x mass last year is how I know the count. Hyperion is another book that I liked, the story line is unlike anything else I have read. If you liked Wot you should try some Terry Goodkinds Sword of Truth, get past the first one and the rest are very good. For a little different read Old Mans War was good. No matter what style you read just keep doing it. Originally Posted by thisguy23

Yeah Rothfuss's stuff is good. The Wise Man's Fear was very good too. Luckily, the series is only planned out to be a trilogy, since he does like to take his time writing them

I never could get into the Sword of Truth stuff. Things just felt too contrived and the later S&M stuff just wasn't for me.

A good popcorn fantasy series is the Dresden Files books by Jim Butcher. They move quickly and are a very easy & fun read.

"The science of getting rich" By Wallace D Wattles.... Great book!

Brent Weeks Lightbringer Series is another series that I liked a lot. For a cheap read under 5$ Michael R Hicks In Her Name is worth the price. Theft of Swords by Michael J Sullivan was one that I enjoyed, The Host wasnt bad it will be a movie soon, some my have different thoughts on this book. Pride and Prejudice was free on my nook when I got it and I was surprised how much I liked it.

[QUOTE=Poet Laureate;1052318026]My Top Ten, in no particular order:

Shogun, James Clavell. He was a master storyteller. Set in the Orient around 1600, it chronicles the intrigue, manipulation, and double and triple dealing in the various courts of the warlords who, emperor notwithstanding, really controlled feudal Japan.

I enjoyed Aztec by Gary Jennings its along the same lines as Shogun.







A Time To Kill, John Grisham. A riveting, ultimately accurate depiction of a racially charged murder trial in the deep south.

I liked A Time to Kill




Dune, Frank Herbert. One critic is famously quoted on the paperback: "A triumph of imagination." Brilliantly conceived and flawlessly executed, Herbert creates an entire world with its own unique ecosystem, all the while showing the reader why love, loyalty, and honor will trump hatred, deceit, and betrayal every


At the time Dune was in a class all its own.

Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Oh yes, Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land - how sad ...

Theodor Adorno - Minima Moralia: Reflections from a Damaged Life

Robert Anton Wilson - Schroedingers Cat Trilogy

Eckhard Tolle - The Power of Now

Ernest Hemingway - For Whom the Bell tolls

"I couldn’t live with myself any longer. And in this a question arose without an answer: who is the ‘I’ that cannot live with the self? What is the self? I felt drawn into a void! I didn’t know at the time that what really happened was the mind-made self, with its heaviness, its problems, that lives between the unsatisfying past and the fearful future, collapsed. It dissolved. The next morning I woke up and everything was so peaceful. The peace was there because there was no self. Just a sense of presence or “beingness,” just observing and watching.[11]



Thanks for all your posts, great recommendations

Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Oh yes, Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land - how sad ...

Theodor Adorno - Minima Moralia: Reflections from a Damaged Life

Robert Anton Wilson - Schroedingers Cat Trilogy

Eckhard Tolle - The Power of Now

Ernest Hemingway - For Whom the Bell tolls

"I couldn’t live with myself any longer. And in this a question arose without an answer: who is the ‘I’ that cannot live with the self? What is the self? I felt drawn into a void! I didn’t know at the time that what really happened was the mind-made self, with its heaviness, its problems, that lives between the unsatisfying past and the fearful future, collapsed. It dissolved. The next morning I woke up and everything was so peaceful. The peace was there because there was no self. Just a sense of presence or “beingness,” just observing and watching.[11]



Thanks for all your posts, great recommendations Originally Posted by ninasastri

There is nothing hotter than a smart girl. If you ever make a US tour count me in.

i highly recommend Stephen King's Dark Tower series... what a great story that is

also along the lines of Horror/Fantasy ...Clive Barker -The Great & Secret Show, also Weaveworld... both are fantastic