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| brownmccoy | 20th February 2007 - 08:42 PM Post #1 | ||
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I am out of english now and I need books to read. Has anyone recently read a good book? It could be a piece of well known literature, recent sci-fi sorta book... anything worth reading? Thanks, Brown |
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| skavenguy13 | 20th February 2007 - 10:21 PM Post #2 | ||
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R.A. Salvatore is the only author that can keep me alive. You know, the guy who wrote the Drizzt stories. Oh and there's lots just down here in the fluff section
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| sebrente | 20th February 2007 - 10:33 PM Post #3 | ||
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J.R.R.R.R.R.R Tolkein???? The Hobbit (there and back) Lord of the rings trilogy Should keep you occupied for a few weeks PS try and read them in order, when i was young (8) i read the lord of the rings first ( The one with a green cover with Gandalf the Grey on the front - I picked it up took one look at the cover and thought - wow he looks dead ard - this books has to good - how right was I? )I got through the first few chapters then realised the hobbit was a prelude of this but thought "I have gone this far i may as well read it all" Then read the hobbit straight afterwards - I think I enjoyed the hobbit the most (until the motion pic came out - though now they are gonna bring out the hobbit )YAY Oops I got a bit sidetracked ... |
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| Frankensqueek | 20th February 2007 - 11:24 PM Post #4 | ||
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Have you read any of the "Sharpe" novels by Bernard Cornwall? Well worth a read. If you have read Sharpe and enjoyed it then how about the "Starbuck series by the same author (its a series about the American Civil War). If you like historical novels then try Simon Scarrow's Cato series, set duing the Roman invasion of Britain. Fantastic series. They were so good that I finished each book in a handful of evenings - they're so exciting and really easy to read. Everything I just suggested is historical novels, and if theyre not your kinda thing then ignore all of the above! James |
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| Bassik Dwarveripper | 20th February 2007 - 11:51 PM Post #5 | ||
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| Stinkhair | 21st February 2007 - 12:23 AM Post #6 | ||
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Just read my first warhammer novel, Gilead's Blood. Was a rather fun book, although I think the author doesn't grasp quite how hard it is to cleave a man [and in one case, a horse] in two, even with a greatsword... :lol: I second the discworld series, also. And anything you see by David Gemmel, if traditional heroic fantasy with bucketloads of gore is your thing.... |
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| Morkskittar | 21st February 2007 - 12:52 AM Post #7 | ||
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| Ratphink | 21st February 2007 - 02:13 AM Post #8 | ||
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And if you're still looking for Tolkien books after those there's the Silmarillion and the Book of Lost Tales. Good book series though? Wheel of Time-A lot of books, but I like them. Jordan really went all out with the depth his World. A Song of Ice and Fire-If you're a lover of Politcal Intrigue in a fantasy setting, this book is for you. George R.R. Martin is an excellent Author as far as I'm concerned. Also, an author you may want to look into, as I'm not sure if it's called a series or not, but Clive Cussler. He writes a bunch of books about Dirk Pitt. An excellent and funny series. I'm also currently reading the Tawny Man series by Robin Hobb. The first person narrative is a bit annoying, in then you have book after book of the same characters perspective, but alas, it's half-decent and kills the time for me. Though I imagine you may want to avoid what I did and start with the first series... I think it's called The Farseer, I may pick them up after these ones. |
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| garthvader | 21st February 2007 - 05:20 AM Post #9 | ||
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i totally Aggree with Frankensqueek the sharpe's novels are awsome
You managed to actually read lord of the rings at that age when i was 8 i got about half way through until i couldnt manage the confusinness of it. arrgghh especially those dwarfs in the hobbit so many names :lol:
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| Warlord Bloodfang | 21st February 2007 - 12:05 PM Post #10 | ||
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Dragonlance books? Oh, another great auther is David Eddings, he wrote a series of books called The Belgariad and The Malloreon, I highly recommend them. Also the Agitha Christie novels, those are really well written but don't read them one after another as you'll soon get sick of murders.
Same here, I stated reading the Lord of the Rings when I was about 9 - 10, though the funny thing is is that my young mind couldn't grasp the enormity of some of the places (I though the Bridge of Khazad-dûm was a small wooden bridge over a hole about 1 metre wide. )
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| Skaskrit Venomclaw | 21st February 2007 - 01:42 PM Post #11 | ||
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The first series in my opinion is much better. Plus, the second makes much more sense if you've read the first. Read Hobb if you like good characterisation. Don't read her if you want a lot of action or a fast moving plot. Also, don't read her if you are upset by characters getting hurt. Being a main character in any Hobb novel is a good reason to increase your medical insurance. I'll note that whilst many of the books listed here are great fun, they're not exactly great literature. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but I'm not sure if it's what you're looking for. Cornwell and Scarrow both write very fun fast paced books about war and battle. Recommended if you like warhammer, you'll probably like these. I've only read one Scarrow book, which was good. Cornwell's Warlord Chronicles, a radical retelling of the tale of King Arthur, is his best work by far. His sharp books are fun, but not as involving. David Gemmel is similar to the above two in style, except in a fantasy setting. I'm not a great fan, but his books are entertaining enough in themselves. I liked his Rigante books best, about a faux-celtic people fighting faux-romans. I've never read Salvatore, but the exerpts I've seen encourage me to avoid his work. I have read Eddings, and I regret it. His books aren't exactly bad, but they have surprisingly little substance to them and are forever repeating themselves. If you read him, don't read more than one series. The others are the same story but with different character names. Jordan's series is very, very long and unfinished. Loved it in highschool, gave up on it when it kept being not finished. Upon re-reading some of the earlier books in college, I cringed at how bad some of his writing is. Still, I'd say the second through fourth book at least are entertaining enough to read. I hesitate to recommend this though. I've never read a Warhammer novel, and the stuff I've seen in a free booklet that came with White Dwarf doesn't exactly encourage me to do so. If you want fast paced books with lots of battle, I recommend some of the above authors (Cornwell, Gemmel) instead. Though those do not of course have Skaven in them, I suppose. Pratchet's Discworld novels are recommended by me too. They're comedy, they're good comedy, and they're surprisingly deep for what they are. Some interesting themes are buried under the comedy, especially in his somewhat later work. His very early books are little more than slapstick, and some of his later ones aren't quite up to his usual quality, but there's a lot of good stuff in between. I recommend "Small Gods". Also, very good is his collaborative novel "Good Omens", written with the also sublime Neil Gaiman. Never has the apocalypse been so funny. The angel and the demon characters are best. Dan Simmons writes some more literate science fiction. I was disappointed by Illium and Olympos, but the Hyperion Cantos is in my opinion one of the great works in science fiction. The first book is based on the Cantebury Tales, except with an actual plot to it. And of course in a space-opera type setting. With reincarnations of 19th century poets. The second tells the tale of... well, read it. I've never read the second Hyperion series, as I've been warned to avoid them and told they ruin the first two books. Finally, George Martin is one of my favourite writers and I've recommended him here before. His fantasy series is deep without losing pace, a good middle ground between difficult but deep writers like Gene Wolfe, and faster paced books with less substance like Cornwell or Gemmel. Very good characterisation and an intruiging plot. Recommended, but be warned that it's set in a world with little of the black and white normally found in fantasy, features a lot of politics, and doesn't hesitate to let characters die if it serves the story. Now, I think I've just about covered all the books and authors in here I've actually read. I could throw in more recommendations of my own, but I think this post is long enough. Hope it provides some food for thought. |
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| Mormeguil | 21st February 2007 - 04:08 PM Post #12 | ||
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I know I like Orson scott's book. The first one is ok, bit childsih but nice. After that the story get better and more adult. You always have the Anne Rice vampire serie, never a bad choice. Finally there is one novel I think everyone should read. Be warned it's a bit lengthy is "les misérables" after some research it seem that the bets english version would be Signet Classics, an unabridged edition. |
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| Skaskrit Venomclaw | 21st February 2007 - 04:13 PM Post #13 | ||
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What's Orson Scott's book? I know the writer Orson Scott Card, but he's written dozens of books. Of which I've read two or three and found them moderately interesting, but I have some issues with the writer himself. |
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"I have a post-Armageddon vision. We and all other large animals are gone. Rodents emerge as the ultimate post-human scavengers. They gnaw their way through New York, London and Tokyo... within 5 million years, a whole range of new species replace the ones we know. Herds of giant grazing rats are stalked by sabre-toothed predatory rats. Given enough time, will a species of intelligent, cultivated rats emerge?" Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale | |||
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| The 13th Master | 21st February 2007 - 07:33 PM Post #14 | ||
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Am I the only lover of classical literature here? Author - Year Published - Title (Description) George Orwell - 1949 - 1984 (the one with Big Brother) George Orwell - 1945 - Animal Farm (When animals take over the Farm. Satires Stalinist Russia) Bram Stoker - 1897 - Dracula (NOT Von Carstein-y! At all! That 1931 film was rubbish!) Johnathan Swift - 1735 - Gulliver's Travels (A great satire of 18th Century England and politics) Joseph Heller - 1961 - Catch-22 (Extremely well written account of insanity and personality in WWII) Harper Lee - 1960 - To Kill A Mockingbird (Amazing tale of racism in small-town America) John Milton - 1667 - Paradise Lost (I can't read the Epic Poetry style, but tells the tale of Satan's fall from his perspective. Very Advanced Readers Only) William Golding - 1954 - Lord of the Flies (A great example of Human Nature revealed. Boys trapped on an Island. With death.) Anything by Charles Dickens.... Jules Verne - 1873 - Around the World in 80 Days (A short little book, but great fun) Robert Louis Stevenson - 1886 - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (One of the best short stories I've ever read. Even though I knew the plot, the original is extremely well written and leaves a sense of Mystery, despite everyone knowing what happens.) |
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| Skaskrit Venomclaw | 21st February 2007 - 08:17 PM Post #15 | ||
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I'll second Catch 22. It's wonderfully funny and dark and at the same time relevant. War at its maddest. | ||
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"I have a post-Armageddon vision. We and all other large animals are gone. Rodents emerge as the ultimate post-human scavengers. They gnaw their way through New York, London and Tokyo... within 5 million years, a whole range of new species replace the ones we know. Herds of giant grazing rats are stalked by sabre-toothed predatory rats. Given enough time, will a species of intelligent, cultivated rats emerge?" Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale | |||
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when i was 8 i got about half way through until i couldnt manage the confusinness of it. 

