Your favorite books?

1C5 · #1 07-23-2005, 10:17 AM

Going to order a couple from Amazon, anything you can suggest? Fiction or non fiction.

And please tell what it is about/ the topic of the book so I can see if it would be something that interets me.

-Skeme- · #2 07-23-2005, 10:18 AM

The Minds Of Billy Milligan

#3 07-23-2005, 10:29 AM

I suggest 'The Chaos Engine Trilogy', fiction and very good,(if you like X-men books)

#4 07-23-2005, 10:35 AM

just read "something happened" Joseph Heller. about upper middle class American family. hilarious depraved book.

smokingrobot · #5 07-24-2005, 04:04 AM

i've been meaning to check that book out ever since i read a review vonnegut wrote up on it.

poker-penguin · #6 07-23-2005, 10:36 AM

Catch 22 - um it's about war and the futility of the small man, or something. It's a modern classic dammit. Enjoyable and poignant all at once.

Any of the discworld novels by Terry Pratchett - technically a fanstasy series, but really it's a comedy. Very funny.

This game of ghosts - Joe Simpson. This is a climbing book but it pwns touching the void (also by him, also good).

TheTROLL · #7 07-23-2005, 07:08 PM

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Catch 22

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Heller was a genius... one of my fave all-time arrogant quotations: In response to complaints that over the years he had never written another book as good as Catch-22, he replied, "Neither has anyone else."

DemonDeac · #8 07-23-2005, 10:43 AM

catcher in the rye
angels and demons
da vinci code obviously

KingDan · #9 07-23-2005, 10:51 AM

Just read Double Play, I enjoyed it.

MrTrik · #10 07-23-2005, 10:54 AM

I'm a huge William Gibson fan, but many of his early books are the love them or hate them variety. I always loved them, but some can't deal with his style.

But more mainstream yet still cutting edge future is "All Tomorrow's Parties". A truly great novel combining today's globalization and some of tomorrow's technology with some of yesterday's technology. Great character and if you get past Gibson's different style for 50 pages or so, it takes off like a bandit.

Snow Crash - by Stepenson (I think) is a early 90's book (I think) but an excellent read if you like the concept of the Net as woven into society as it will be within a few years.

Dan Brown ... the last two for sure, not sure about Digital Fortress though. I haven't made it through this one after two tries.

Lastly, check out "Oryx and Crake" by Margaret Atwood. A mind blower.