So, I started reading books

[Donutman]

Three words:

Orsen. Scott. Card.

If you haven't read Ender's Game, do it. Now.

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This thread is so stupid that a bird sitting on a nearby tree just EXPLODED.

[sovereign]

Ender's Game is not the pinnacle of writing that some people make it out to be, but it is a very nice story. Especially what our hero's family does while he's off being Sun Tzu Tactical Jesus... 'tis the source of much after-the-fact lolz. It's a fun read, and I recommend it too.

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[ryeguy146]

My favorite book:
Dune, by Frank Herbert

If you enjoy well written plots that involve riding on the back of enormous worms across the desert, then you might like Dune. Of course, that makes it sound rather fantastical, it is Sci-Fi, but it's well done.

My favorite series:
The Dark Tower, by Stephen King

If you enjoy... screw it. You'll enjoy this series. I guarantee it.

[looqas]

Reading. Smells like good old books to me.

Lately I've been plowing through scifi books by a Welshman Alastair Reynolds. I like his sciency approach, him being on ESA payroll and all, to the genre (traveling faster than light is not possible and the interesting consequences that brings with it). This means that he does not pull too many convenient scifi gadgets and such straight out of his ass like other series of established scifi does.

If you are wanting to get a feel for his style I can recommend his stand-alone novel Pushing Ice. It's a grand space adventure at heart but with real world politics and stuff there too. The ending is open too and leaves you thinking and wanting to know more what happened to human race afterwards.

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Flying under radar.

[Birdtalon]

Although I only like the gameplay of the first game, I like the books too.

I think the lore is nice and the background is very creative. Good choice.

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[swift]

No idea who they are. My knowledge of the book world and who are good and crap is nil. :unsure:

It all depends on what kind of person you are. I'd suggest looking through some of the titles offered on wikipedia, just to know what you'd be getting yourself into and see what seems fun and fulfilling.

Hesse and Poe are very awesome, by the way. Beckett's Waiting for Godot is silly, funny, awesome, and actually not so silly if you get what it's about.
Poe's just awesome and shocking.

I'd also recommend the following (they're some of those I read recently or plan on reading):

• Hermann Hesse - Steppe Wolf
  
• George Orwell - 1984
  
• Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
  
• Glenn Duncan - I, Lucifer
  
• William Golding - Lord of the Flies
  

And now, the best for the end, I fully recommend reading the whole series of the following books with which, I believe, noone can go wrong. They're awesome, very fun, but also not empty as in random stuff, and also have a lot of wisdom and awesome humor in them:
[font=Garamond]Miles Vorkosigan saga by Lois McMaster Bujold

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[13CentKiller]

Books are great for proping your computer up on so it dosn't get so dusty.

The only books worth my mention are the ones I was forced to read which was the Warpath series and anything Chris Ryan. Or at least I think that his name.

Jim Eldridge is the best author I know.

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"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."

[tyro]

I like to read sci-fi books, not fantasy but pure space sci-fi.
from books I read last months I recommend:
- Mike Resnick : Starship: Mutiny, Starship: Pirate, Starship: Mercenary, Starship: Rebel and I am waiting for the last one Starship: Flagship.
- Peter F. Hamilton: The Commonwealth Saga: Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained.
- Jack McDevitt: A Talent for War, Polaris, Seeker.

[Barricade]

It all depends on what kind of person you are. I'd suggest looking through some of the titles offered on wikipedia, just to know what you'd be getting yourself into and see what seems fun and fulfilling.

Hesse and Poe are very awesome, by the way. Beckett's Waiting for Godot is silly, funny, awesome, and actually not so silly if you get what it's about.
Poe's just awesome and shocking.

I'd also recommend the following (they're some of those I read recently or plan on reading):

• Hermann Hesse - Steppe Wolf
  
• George Orwell - 1984
  
• Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
  
• Glenn Duncan - I, Lucifer
  
• William Golding - Lord of the Flies
  

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Good ones, true.
But these are books, I had to read during when I was still in school.
Good ones, but meh....I had to read them and that's a different from reading them because you want it:P

Except of I, Lucifer..dunno about that one

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[bluntpencil2001]

Normally I'd recommend something hefty, but for light afternoon reading, something you can finish quickly, and not lose brain cells reading, I'd suggest George Orwell's 'Animal Farm'.

You could read it in roughly three hours, I guess, and it's a classic, for both the style and quality of the prose, as well as its exploration of certain themes.

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