supremespleen Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 This is now the good book thread. Post about cool books others should check out! I'm looking for something good to read during homeroom, etc - preferably sci-fi (maybe fantasy!). I'm also looking for these things in it. 1. Easy to find at a book stores 2. Interesting (swashbuckling?) - something that is fun to read through the whole book, epic, but doesn't pull a Peter Jackson (long and unnecessarily drawn out) 3. Action packed! 4. Good comic relief would be fun 5. Not Star Wars or Star Trek (I have plenty of these!) 6. Mostly self-contained - I don't want to have to buy a million books to finish it up Thank you for your assistance, feel free to recommend stuff that does not exactly fit these criteria, I know that's pretty specific. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baleshadow Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. That meets every item on your list. Also try Gridlinked and The Skinner by Neal Asher. EDIT: Wow, that's a lot of Neals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazygecko Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 Hitchhiker? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Mage Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 I enjoy Arthur C. Clarke's Hammer of God as a good, quick read. The story is kinda predictable, and moves fast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brim Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 Hey, I might look into these books myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amayirot Akago Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Quite simply a book everyone should read at least once in their lives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamRod Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 Any of Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt novels sounds just about right here. Same hero but different stand-alone stories. A fun and easy read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supremespleen Posted January 9, 2007 Author Share Posted January 9, 2007 Unfortunately, my ride to the Borders appeared early and I was unable to read any but the first reply. Then, after spending 30 minutes looking and needing to go home and do homework, I realized the book I had chosen was the third in a trilogy. So, I grabbed the first Neal Asher book I saw, Cowl. Looks odd, here's to hoping it doesn't suck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Shadow Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 today i read through half of Kurt Vonnegut's "Hocus Pocus" it is not action packed, per se, lest you count human interaction as action i cant describe it since i havent finished it yet but there are things that made me grin like a motherfucker and that is why i love vonnegut EDIT: oh looks like you made this thread useless before i decided to post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baleshadow Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 Cowl is okay, but Gridlinked and The Skinner are leaps and bounds above it, imo. Although, if you want action, Cowl has plenty of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkeSword Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 Start reading Dragonlance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avaris Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 Start reading Dragonlance. Seconded. The first three books "The Chronicles" are absolutely friggin awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJT Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. That meets every item on your list.Also try Gridlinked and The Skinner by Neal Asher. EDIT: Wow, that's a lot of Neals. Aw man, snow crash is immediately what popped into my head! In other words you beat me to it by a long shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yangfeili Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 Look into Jack Vance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Vance Good place to start would probably be Tales of the Dying Earth (for fantasy), or Planet of Adventure or The Demon Princes (for sci-fi, although Vance's sci-fi is very different from most sci-fi). Honestly, Vance made me throw out a lot of the stuff I had been reading. It's gotten to the point where I find it very hard to enjoy anything by any other author. The few who I do enjoy are usually authors who were inspired by Vance (Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun comes to mind), or who inspired Vance himself (Lord Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith, P.G. Wodehouse). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L4r3 Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 Seconded. The first three books "The Chronicles" are absolutely friggin awesome. 3rded. The Chronicles were the first fantasy books I've read when I was in elementary and they rocked. Also, it doesn't hurt to read the books of "everyone's" favourite dark elf, Drizzt Do'Urden, by RA Salvatore. I've only read one book of his, but I loved it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supremespleen Posted January 9, 2007 Author Share Posted January 9, 2007 Gah, Drizzt. I'll def. check out some of these others. In fact, why not make this, "the good book thread"! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switchstance Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 If you have time or patiente, maybe you could read something from ASIMOV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Shadow Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 "the good book thread"! LULZ READ THE BIBLE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnsalot Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 I suppose I'll be the first to recommend A Song of Ice and Fire. If you're not into series, Dying of the Light is some pretty darn good science fiction in under 400 pages. They're both by George R.R. Martin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitsuta Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 I quite like the Discworld series, by Terry Pratchett... at least as far as I've read. It's chronological and long as hell but each book is pretty much self contained - no cliffhangers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkeSword Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 I suppose I'll be the first to recommend A Song of Ice and Fire. That series is taking too long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitsuta Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 That series is taking too long. It's a successful fantasy series right? That's pretty much a requirement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fire in the Hole Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 You must read Perdido Street Station by China Miéville. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irriadin Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 I recommend Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. Just pray he lives long enough to finish the last book... I also highly recommend the farseer trilogy by robin hobb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parasoul Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 If you have time or patiente, maybe you could read something from ASIMOV. He's killing me. I still have like 10 books by him to read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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