Alastair reynolds and Traci Harding for sci-fi and David and leigh, eddings for all your fantasy needs,
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Anonymous2006-12-14 4:57
I love the Berenstain Bears The Spooky Old Tree.
Jewish literature isn't for everyone though.
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Anonymous2006-12-14 19:15
>>11 I think he was asking for an adult reading list, but you included David and Leigh Eddings.
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Anonymous2006-12-15 18:11
Paradise Lost by John Milton
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Anonymous2006-12-15 19:01
Anything by Jung.
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Anonymous2006-12-16 2:30
The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind is my favorite book series.....and i never hear of ANYBODY online having read the books, even though every single book in the series has managed to top the bestsllers chart.
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Anonymous2006-12-16 23:02
Terry Goodkind is an Objectivist fag who is obsessed with bondage. Confessing that you like the Sword of Truth series is on par to admitting you are a pedophile and furrie so it is not too surprising i see your post on these boards.
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Anonymous2006-12-17 0:12
Agree with 17, Goodkind is a crack head writer who randomly writes about communism vs. captilism then reverts back to asine fillers. Anyone who likes his shit should be shot.
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Anonymous2006-12-17 3:46
Catch-22's a good one. I'm currently reading "The Bounty"
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Anonymous2006-12-18 20:28
It's difficult to come up with one that -everyone- should read. But I've decided on Generation X by Douglas Coupland.
Classic literature fans should really read Headhunter by Timothy Findley. If you haven't read a lot of what I'm assuming are still part of the literature 'cannon', I'm not sure you'd appreciate it as much as it deserves.
Uhm, how about good literature instead of pulp? Or is that all you read?
Tolstoy - The Kingdom of God is Within You
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Anonymous2006-12-26 1:11
yeah because it really makes a difference whether you read what some might consider pulp rather than what others might consider "good literature"....
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Anonymous2006-12-26 3:10
Spin, Robert Charles Wilson.
Or almost anything else by him.
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Anonymous2006-12-26 5:15
>>24
Maybe you should read a book that just has the letter A reprinted on 800 pages (the standard for fantasy books selling weight-wise), since after all, all that matters is that you read latin letters printed on paper.
let me help you: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A
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Anonymous2006-12-26 10:26
>>26
Get over yourself and realize that some people dont want to be educated or enlightened when reading a book. I'm all for reading said books, but I'm not about to try to convince them that reading the philosophical ramblings of a long dead author is the right thing to do. Such coersion is cheap.
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Anonymous2006-12-28 2:39
>>26 Charles Dickens is totally a pulp writer, amirite? Paid by word the fucking hack.
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Anonymous2006-12-28 11:25
Even if you read your whole life, you can only read maybe a thousand (or so) books. Reading shitty pulp = lose and fail.
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Anonymous2006-12-28 13:03
>>29
Haha, oh wow. I'm only 19 and I have a bookshelf with around 500 books on it (all of which I have read) right next to me, and I've read a lot more that I don't own.
And anyone who says that only the old classics are worth reading is simply not worth talking to. It'd probably be difficult if you tried, anyway, what with them having their head so far up their own ass. I really cannot stand the kind of people who say things like that.
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Anonymous2006-12-28 13:09
>>30
Guess what Anonymous? Real literature is a lot harder to read than shit like Pratchett and Le Guin and Brown and ...
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Anonymous2006-12-28 13:44
>>31
I didn't mention what books they are, because Anonymous would just call it lies if I did. But regardless, I didn't say I don't read what you call real literature (because I do read a lot of it), I just said that if you think that everything else written is worthless, you're an idiot.
lol I'm in the same situation, though running out of shelf space now.
Anyway, the important thing to recognize is that literature can not be divided exclusively into "classics" and "shitty pulp." Some of the classics are worth reading. Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, etc. But some of them just suck. Moby Dick is not worth reading. For a much better treatment of similar themes, watch Cannibal Holocaust, lol.
Why should we allow the establishment to dictate what is quality literature? It's not even consistent. Moby Dick was not considered worth reading until the 1920s when faggy academic-types unearthed it. Dickens was considered pulp when it was published. (Admittedly, Dickens is. His works suck.)
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Anonymous2007-05-02 17:50 ID:qW9W83Ap
I recommend Felidae by Akif Pirincci. It is detective story, the detective has to find a serial killer. I know sounds very cliche. The differnce about this book is every charachter (minus a very small handful of minor yet very important charachters) are cats. Mind you they are regular cats not furries. The plot is excelent and it keeps you guessing till the end. And when that end hits, it hits hard.