Book Recommendations

[paradise!]

Based on personal experience, I recommend The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas (and I agree with whomever listed Catch-22).

Based on what I've heard from friends, I recommend The Romance of The Three Kingdoms and Musashi.

Don't even start with Dumas. I had to read coun de monte crisco in French.

[Cops]

Haha, Brave New World was a high school read, don't think he'd be interested in that.

By the way, I like your choice of authors, especially Jared Diamond.

And Reaver, another book I'd suggest: A Portrait of a Young Artist by James Joyce

1984 is a high school read
Ender's Game is a high school read
The Great Gatsby is a high school read
Animal Farm is a high school read

These books among many others are high school literature, however they are still fantastic books that I regard to be some of the most influential books I've ever read.

[TagMor]

I think Guns, Germs and Steel is an informative read, but should only be on the most nerdiest 'fav book' lists... Its more like reading a documentary than something you can get emotionally involved in.

Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
I'm a Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson
Tono-Bungay by H. G. Wells
The World According to Garp by John Irving

They are all great books.


My favourite of all-time would either be:
Mobey Dick by Herman Melville, or
The Death of My Brother Abel by Gregor Von Rezzori

Recent reads of note:
The Gods of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Nova Express by William S. Burroughs
The ScrewTape Letters by C.S Lewis
The Damage Done by Warren Fellows
Letters to My Israeli Sons by Lynne Reid Banks

[Edify]

How to Talk to Girls by Alec Greven

[grand]

Anything written by James Patterson

[roxxkatt]

Lolita if you like children's novels.

[Weaver]

I liked kim's recommendation of The Life of Pi by Yann Martel.. its an excellent read.

I highly recommend The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay, its definitely the best book I've read in the past couple of years.

[Cops]

I know this might not be the most breathtaking pieces of literature you'll ever read, but I highly recommend Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis and Larry Sloman.

The book in itself is a wonderful story about a kid who wanted to play music, and experienced everything from falling in love countless time to almost killing himself on heroine. If you're a fan of Red Hot Chili Peppers or just someone who can appreciate a great story this book is a definite read.

[Jeenyuss]

i like vonnegut, slaughterhouse v n cats cradle n shit. i also like palahniuk, if you haven't seen the movie i'd say read fight club because it's a pretty close adaptation. choke is also a very good book by palahniuk although the movie sucked. i'm gonna read rant soon also. uh, the average american male (i can't remember the author) was pretty hilarious, but it might not be your thing. if you come across it maybe flip through it and you should know after you're done reading the first page. right now i'm reading the adventures of kavalier and clay by chabon, it's pretty great. it's about comics. if you're into comics and haven't read watchmen yet maybe check that out too, it's pretty good.

hoped that helped.

[Pummel]

Branflaking

Lolsup

but yeah i read Ender's Game aswell, very very good book

there are some sequels..
'Bean' and 'Ender'
Which go more more into the lives of that specific character after Ender's Game

[Saturn V]

favorite all time book: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

this

also

surely you're joking, mr. feynman! by richard feynman

[Blocks]

surely you're joking, mr. feynman! by richard feynman

Seconded, and if you like it, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?"

[Scurvy]

ehh, sorry.

[Stompa]

I'm a vonnegut fanboy

rushdie - midnight's children
nabokov - lolita
any collection of mark twain short stories / essays
foucault - madness and civilization

[Summa]

adventures of kavalier and clay by chabon, it's pretty great. it's about comics.

I read and thoroughly enjoyed this, except maybe for part 3 or 4.....i forgot....i don't mean to spoil it, but its the part other than the 1st thats not located in new york.

Recommendation wise....ummm I haven't gotten much time to read outside of school this quarter, but here's some stuff I have read since Christmas:

Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut
The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
The Prince by Machiavelli (Nonfiction: Philosophy)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Nicholas Chabon
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
The Art of War by Sun Tzu (Nonfiction)
Tao Te Ching (The Way of Life) by Lao Tzu (Nonfiction)
The Tempest by Shakespeare
Vita Nuova by Dante
Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam (Nonfiction)

What I am reading now or will soon be reading:

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zim (Nonfiction)
Slaughterhouse V by Vonnegut

Some of my all-time favs:

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Candide by Voltaire
Macbeth by Shakespeare
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
Watchmen by Alan Moore
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell (nonfiction)

if you can't tell i tend to enjoy darker and more social satire kind of books, if that's not what you enjoy, then you should probably disregard my list