Recommend me some good books

Jude Andrew · Post by **Jude Andrew** » 15 years ago

I would recommend anything written by Leon Uris notebly 'Trinity' and my favourite 'Exodus'. I have also listed a few really good books I have read recently below as they are all quite good.

Q & A by Vikas Swarup
Sepulchre by Kate Mosse
Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
Righteous Men by Sam Bourne
The Historian by Elisabeth Kostova
Animal's People by Indra Sinha
The Best of Men by Claire Letemendia
Weaveworld by Clive Barker

tcliffy · Post by **tcliffy** » 15 years ago

TEB wrote:The Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffery. An excellent series of books.

They are great books, I must agree. Everyone who like fantasy/science fiction should read them.

Also, "The Chronicles of Prydain" are good books.

Yorkie · Post by **Yorkie** » 15 years ago

Jude Andrew wrote:I would recommend anything written by Leon Uris notebly 'Trinity' and my favourite 'Exodus'. I have also listed a few really good books I have read recently below as they are all quite good.

Q & A by Vikas Swarup
Sepulchre by Kate Mosse
Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
Righteous Men by Sam Bourne
The Historian by Elisabeth Kostova
Animal's People by Indra Sinha
The Best of Men by Claire Letemendia
Weaveworld by Clive Barker

Thanks Jude. They look like some serious reads - which would you pick as the @if I could only read one' choice?

Yorkie · Post by **Yorkie** » 15 years ago

tcliffy wrote:
TEB wrote:The Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffery. An excellent series of books.
They are great books, I must agree. Everyone who like fantasy/science fiction should read them.

Also, "The Chronicles of Prydain" are good books.

This list is coming along! Thanks guys, I'll look out for those.

Jude Andrew · Post by **Jude Andrew** » 15 years ago

Yorkie wrote:
Jude Andrew wrote:I would recommend anything written by Leon Uris notebly 'Trinity' and my favourite 'Exodus'. I have also listed a few really good books I have read recently below as they are all quite good.

Q & A by Vikas Swarup
Sepulchre by Kate Mosse
Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
Righteous Men by Sam Bourne
The Historian by Elisabeth Kostova
Animal's People by Indra Sinha
The Best of Men by Claire Letemendia
Weaveworld by Clive Barker
Thanks Jude. They look like some serious reads - which would you pick as the @if I could only read one' choice?

Without hesitation; Weaveworld by Clive Barker. It is very surreal and dark in places but WOW what a read...

Jude Andrew · Post by **Jude Andrew** » 15 years ago

Jude Andrew wrote:
Yorkie wrote:
Jude Andrew wrote:I would recommend anything written by Leon Uris notebly 'Trinity' and my favourite 'Exodus'. I have also listed a few really good books I have read recently below as they are all quite good.

Q & A by Vikas Swarup
Sepulchre by Kate Mosse
Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
Righteous Men by Sam Bourne
The Historian by Elisabeth Kostova
Animal's People by Indra Sinha
The Best of Men by Claire Letemendia
Weaveworld by Clive Barker
Thanks Jude. They look like some serious reads - which would you pick as the @if I could only read one' choice?
Without hesitation; Weaveworld by Clive Barker. It is very surreal and dark in places but WOW what a read...

ooh... and Exodus !!! ya gotta read that book !!

(I know you said 1 book but ....)

Yorkie · Post by **Yorkie** » 15 years ago

Cheers Jude.

Mathmaniac · Post by **Mathmaniac** » 15 years ago

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (my favourite book)
Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card (same timeline as above)

Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind (and all subsequent books)
I'm currently in the second book of the series (Stone of Tears). It is not the lightest of fantasy reads since it offers some philosophical and sociological discussion during it (though it is not preachy in the least).

and if you want to blow your mind open and laugh out loud:
Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton
warning! language and scenes get graphic in almost every use of the word

and with reference to the rabbit:
<singing> Here comes Peter Cottontail, hopping down the bunny trail BANG! <silence>

Narnian · Post by **Narnian** » 15 years ago

I was in Dublin some weeks ago going through London. And in London's bookstore I found an interesting thing - a bookmark "50 books to read before you die" LOL

a little bit funny but maybe it works

h**p://www.thegoodbookguide.com/product_info.p ... ts_id=2132

I would like to read 49 books from that list

Yorkie · Post by **Yorkie** » 15 years ago

Mathmaniac wrote:Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (my favourite book)
Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card (same timeline as above)

Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind (and all subsequent books)
I'm currently in the second book of the series (Stone of Tears). It is not the lightest of fantasy reads since it offers some philosophical and sociological discussion during it (though it is not preachy in the least).

and if you want to blow your mind open and laugh out loud:
Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton
warning! language and scenes get graphic in almost every use of the word

and with reference to the rabbit:
<singing> Here comes Peter Cottontail, hopping down the bunny trail BANG! <silence>

I can add a tick against Orson & Goodkind, not heard of illuminatus though

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Yorkie · Post by **Yorkie** » 15 years ago

Narnian wrote:I was in Dublin some weeks ago going through London. And in London's bookstore I found an interesting thing - a bookmark "50 books to read before you die" LOL a little bit funny but maybe it works

h**p://www.thegoodbookguide.com/product_info.p ... ts_id=2132

I would like to read 49 books from that list

Well, you'd best get typing all 50 up for us because I can't read them off that picture

Narnian · Post by **Narnian** » 15 years ago

Yorkie wrote: Well, you'd best get typing all 50 up for us because I can't read them off that picture

lol

sorry I dont have access to make this pic bigger

and I don't have this bookmark yet.

maybe we have some Libera fans who knows what's on this bookmark?

kthomp · Post by **kthomp** » 15 years ago

indeed i do no whats on the bookmark... my dad has it, but i found a link to a website so i shall cheat and not type it all lol

These are the named books:
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien
1984 by George Orwell
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
THe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
To kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
The great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
The Bell Jar by Sylvie Plath
Brave new World by Aldous Huxley
The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
Don Quixote by Miduel de Cervantes
The Bible by Various
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Ulysses by James Joyce
The quiet American by Graham Greene
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulke
Money by Martin Amis
Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
AliceÂ´s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The way we live now by Antony Trollope
The Outsider by Albert Camus
The colour Purple by Alice Walker
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Frankenstein by Mary Selley
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Man without Woman by Ernest Hemingway
GulliverÂ´s Travels by Jonathan Swift
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe
One flew over the CockooÂ´s Nest by Ken Kesey
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Divine Comedy by Alighieri Dante
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

libera36 · Post by **libera36** » 15 years ago

"The Bible" by Various

Narnian · Post by **Narnian** » 15 years ago

Thanks, Kara

yeah... The bible

... and Leo Tolstoy

actually Lev