Good book recently?

[Xine]

Yes, much akin to the movie thread I decided to cough this one up out of curiousity. Yet, unlike the movie thread this one will probably die a very savage death, but, you never know until you try. So, what's the last good book you read, or ever read?

The one I'm about to finish now is 'The Book of Lies', put out by the Disinformation Company. It's a paranoid's wet dream which revolves around the alternate History of occultism, magick, and all that entails it. Trippy stuff, in the least.

[Vash]

I just finished reading "Ender's Shadow". From author Orson Scott Card. I love the Ender series, excellent books. "Ender's Game" being the best. If you like sci-fi, then definitely give them a read.

[GorroXXII]

I just read the Da Vinci Code, couldnt put it down.

[Drayu]

Oh yes! ANything Clive Cussler! That and then also Changing Minds by Howard Gardner.

[Lord ALF]

I just read the Da Vinci Code, couldnt put it down.

got that book as a christmas gift in '03... didn't pick it up to read until i became unemployed last november. damn good book too! i understand they're writing a movie script for it now.

been reading 'In Search of Zarathustra" by Paul Kriwaczek which is suppose to be the first prophet the rest are all based around. sort of a theory/historical book. not bad if you're into that stuff. also been revisting the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and can't wait for the movie to come out!!!

[Lord ALF]

also a big David Eddings fan. currently reading The Elder Gods.

[FozzyBear]

A big Tom Clancy fan. So most of them.

I just finished reading "Splinter Cell" based on Tom Clancy's game, but written by someone else.

I give it :thumbsup: :thumbsup: 1/2

Da Vinci Code

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If you are in to Sci-Fi

The Foundation Series by Issac Asimov {sp??}

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If you like Fantasy

The Legend of the Drow series by R.A. Salvatore

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[Prowler130]

I just read the Da Vinci Code, couldnt put it down.

if you like this, read angels and demons, its the first in that series and features langdon....many people actually rate it aboce da vinci code

[GorroXXII]

I just read the Da Vinci Code, couldnt put it down.

if you like this, read angels and demons, its the first in that series and features langdon....many people actually rate it aboce da vinci code

Yeah I borrowed it from Drayu, but with school, I couldnt find teh time, I just went out a couple of weeks ago and bought it though, once my onlince class is done, I will be sure to read it.

[Lord ALF]

The Legend of the Drow series by R.A. Salvatore

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an excellent series... although i have yet to pick up the last two. :wallbash:

[Xine]

Yeah The Da Vinci code and Angels and Demons were really good, though I don't normally read novels. I'm just more into information and knowledge-based books rather than stories. Zarathustra? I wonder if that's based on the supposed actual person, or the character portrayed in Neitchze's novels.

[Lord ALF]

Yeah The Da Vinci code and Angels and Demons were really good, though I don't normally read novels. I'm just more into information and knowledge-based books rather than stories. Zarathustra? I wonder if that's based on the supposed actual person, or the character portrayed in Neitchze's novels.


the actual person.

[FiLTHY_SNiPER]

The Shannara series by Terry Brooks.

Best.. fantasy books... EVER. : P

[Private_Pile]

My recent was Valerio Massimo Manfredis "Spartan" very cool book, i'll give it an 8/10!

[dbodenheim]

The Legend of the Drow series by R.A. Salvatore

Thank you for green-lighting me the oppurtunity to rip this puppy apart. I just finished this book last week along with Icewind Dale. Now I would like the oppurtunity to save my fellow readers countless hours of drivel and pain. Why do people love R.A. Salvatore's writing? Because there 12 years old and they found this on the Bookmobile when it came to their school. I read this book because I was bored at work one Sunday for 12 hours.

R.A. Salvatore is a hack. Good fantasy writing ended with the inception of fantasy and Salvatore countinues in the grand old tradition of shitty fantasy. His characters are the standard old cookie cutouts of fantasy of yore including his drow elf ranger Dritzz. There's a dwarf who cant get enough of mining. A stupid barbarian with a big heart. A halfling who cant help but steal. Why do writers countinue in this same never satisfying vein? The icing of crap on this craptastic trilogy is were treated to a GI JOE moral lesson at the begginning of every chapter in the form of a Dritzz written letter. He goes on and on in every letter with the same lesson of "dont-judge-a-book-by-its-cover" crap. Your puking by page 200.

The villains are bad also. The drow elfs for example. "sch and such swaggered evilly into the room and flashed a toothy evil grin." I dont need to know how evil he is. I can determine that on his own by his actions. Artemis is the only redeeming villain in his books but he goes ahead and screws that up too at the end of Icewind Dale.

Why do fantasy authors all make the same mistake? George Lucas ( who wrote a good character in Anakin Skywalker) writes shitty planets. The "desert" planet of tatooine. The "snow" planet of Hoth. The "forest" moon of Endor. Yah right. I'll wager a guess that there isnt a planet like that in the universe.


DONT BUY THIS!!![/quote]

[Lord ALF]

i'm telling you, if you want good fantasy with good character development then go read David Eddings first series, the Belgariad. the first book is Pawn of Prophecy.

or go read Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos series, the first book is Jhereg.

both series stray away from the norm in character development... although Eddings is still about Good vs. Evil (his underlying theme in all his novels), Brust reads more like a soapopera where there's ton of stuff going on and nothing evey quite finishes itself.

excellent writers both.

then again, there's always penthouse letters... good stories and character development. (ha, not)

:D

[dbodenheim]

Ill give them a shot. There is a golden rule in fiction about villains. And 99% of authors fail to follow it. Evil never thinks its evil. I dont know how authors lose sight of this golden rule. A well written villain always thinks he is on the side of right. Its true in reality. Do you think Adolph Hitler laughed an "evil" cackle as drew up plans for the Holocaust? No. He thought he was doing the right thing, and thats sick, twisted, and evil. Im just going to go ahead and write a fantasy book the way I think it should be written. No one is satisying me so I might as well satisfy myself.

[Lord ALF]

Jeff then you'll definitely like Eddings.

[Kev Kanos]

I just read a book called Bad Moon Risin' The Creedence Clearwater Revival Biography. It rocked and I would highly recommend it to anyone who even remotly likes CCR. :thumbsup:

[dbodenheim]

Im in the midst now of reading maybe one of the best books Ive ever read. The book is called "Generation Kill" by Evan Wright, an editor for Rolling stone magazine. He was embedded with the first Marine Recon division that led most of the charge up the road to Bagdad in 2003. He cuts NO corners here, the stuff you read in this book you will never see on television or in the papers. The thing is, he writes in a favorable light of the Marines since he truly became one of them. As he puts it, this is a generation bred on X-box, hip-hop and internet porn.

Examples of passages include, " we rolled up for the night 30 clicks over the border. Old women in long black robes stood in front of their mudhuts curious as to the convoys intentions. Most men were too afraid when taking a crap to leave sight of the convoy with fear of getting picked off by enemy snipers, or worse, getting nailed returning to the line. So we just shit on their front lawns. Colvert specualted, " Can you imagine if an enemy rolled into our suburbia and just started shitting on our lawns? Its fucking surreal."

This book is the bomb if you enjoy military non-fiction. You really get to know every single person in the platoon.