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    Posted: 29 Sep 2011 at 21:44
I love a good book, as I'm sure "and hopeful" others do as well, why not offer a few favorite books for others to look for, in the next library run?


I recommend:

Everything Orson Scott Card ever wrote, the list would be too impractically long to type in here.

451 -  Ray Bradbury

The Broker - John Grisham
Patience is a virtue, resource giving is a sin
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Id have to recommend "the old man and the sea" By Ernest Hemmingway - Its hard to explain exactly what I found so appealing, but somehow it just spoke to me in a very profound way when I was 18.

3 Books I started but never finished that also deserves recommendation:

"Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" (Cause I have a schoolgirls crush on Douglas Adams)
"Hyperion" - by Dan Simmons (Author and a genius - a definite plus)
"Silmarillion" - By J.R.R. Tolkien (Cause its Tolkien, and albeit I didnt get all the way through it, I read enough to gather that Silmarillion most likely was where VALAR found inspiration for their name.)

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I second Orson Scott Card. I'd like to add the entire Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O'brian and a lot of Neal Stephenson's books. And, of course George Martin's... (and I could keep going for many more lines, but will stop here for now)
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HUGE fan of John Steinbeck.

Seriously, East of Eden is a masterpiece, I urge anyone who enjoys books to give that your attention.

While I am a filthy Paddy (This filthy thing catching on is awesome), I thoroughly love this American author.
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I second Patrick O'Brian's series, and would recommend Lee Child, Terry Pratchett and Dick Francis for light reading or Iain M. Banks for epic Sci Fi.
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If you're into fantasy at all, then I recommend checking out Dragonlance. It's a -huge- collection of books. Start with the chronicles trilogy: Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Dragons of Winter Night and Dragons of Spring Dawning, by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.

This is (arguably) the best starting point to get into the world of Krynn. For more info, see here.

I'm a few trilogies into the saga (finished 23 books, on my 24th now), so far all of them are great.
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The Dispossessed - Ursula Le Guin

Romance of the Three Kingdoms - Luo Guanzhong

The Silmarillion - J R R Tolkien

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Originally posted by StJude StJude wrote:

Seriously, East of Eden is a masterpiece, I urge anyone who enjoys books to give that your attention.


Second that.

Anything by Hemingway really, but The Sun Also Rises is great.
Fan of J.G. Ballard, especially Crash.
Roberto Bolano wrote some amazing stuff in his short time with us, Savage Detective is good, still working through 2666.
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski.
Anything by Vonnegut, anything at all.
Confederacy of Dunces, What is the What... plenty more, I'll have to come back to this.

Lots of good nonfiction out there too but most of what I read there is food and photography related.


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Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin
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Malazan Book of the Fallen - Steven Erikson
other malazan books - Ian C. Esslemont

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