Book Recommendations please!

[Lord_Nemesis]

Brent Weeks: The Night Angel Trilogy is fucking awesome. I picked up tthe first book and i couldnt put it down. I spent a week reading and nothing else except the minimal effort to live. You know, breathe, eat, hydrate, shit. Be warned, amazing but addictive books.

 

[Blackmagic1515]

If you like Fantasy and you've never picked up The Wheel of Time books by Robert Jordan, I suggest doing that. They're massive - usually between 700 and 1000 pages per book - and there are 13 books so far in the series. Obviously you'd need a long time to get through those but it's worth it. The world he created is incredible, but unfortunately Robert Jordan is dead now so the last couple of books have been written by Brandon Sanderson using Jordan's notes.

Despite the typos increasing as the books go on, I cannot recommend this series enough and you shouldn't hesitate in going out and buying the first one. DO IT NOW.

Hope that helps = D

It does thank you. Actually that series is already on my list as I've had several recommendations for it.

My recommendations are "The Night Watch" by Sergei Lukyanenko; set in present day Moscow where the world is policed by light and dark forces, following an agreement that no good will be done in the world without authorisation by the dark, and no bad shall be done without authorisation from the light. I love his series, but often they seem to end in a "Scooby Doo" way where eveything gets explained at the end, and the reader has no hope of guessing how.

"Myrren's Gift" by Fiona McIntosh is still my favourite of all time though. Basic fantasy mediaeval kingdoms with a nice little twist.

Spoiler

The series follows the idea that the protagonist - if killed and in contact with his killer, switches souls with them surviving in their body while they perish in his. It leads to some interesting ways for the story progressing.

The Night Watch sounds good. I'll have to check that one out thanks. I'm currently reading Myrren's Gift at the moment and it's pretty good so far, even if you can work out the ending pretty quickly.

Terry Pratchett and Stephen King are also on my list for books to get along with Clive Cussler. Thanks for the recommendations so far guys. They've been really helpful. I've got a good list going now.

 

[TipsyPeaches]

Ian Rankin's Rebus books if you like the crime-type of thing. Dunno how well they carry outside of Sctoland right enough; I live in Edinburgh, where they're set, so I have that connection. They are incredibly clever and funny though, and Rebus is rather charming, in his grumpy, recalcitrant sarcastic way ^_^

 

[Anachronism]

If you like Fantasy and you've never picked up The Wheel of Time books by Robert Jordan, I suggest doing that.

Everyone always recommends these, so I can only assume they get better as they go along, but I read The Eye of the World, and I thought it was dull, ridiculously overly long, and hilariously derivative of Tolkien even by the standards already set by the fantasy genre. [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/326.251388-The-Eye-of-the-World-or-The-Fellowship-of-the-Wheel-of-Time#9324801]

start getting into George Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series (you know Game of Thrones and all that)

On the other hand, I cannot recommend ASoIaF enough. They are, without hyperbole, among the best novels I have ever read, irrespective of genre. Whether you're a fantasy fan or not, these ought to be on everyone's required reading list. I honestly think that eventually they'll be considered as important works of literature as The Lord of the Rings.

 

[darth.pixie]

Everyone mentions Discworld. Personally I liked the Johnny Maxwell books, as well.

Also Good Omens, by Pratchett and Gaiman.

Jonathon Strange & Mr. Norrell

Portrait of Dorian Gray.

 

[Niflhel]

The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie.
Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie.
The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie - It have been released this month, and i've yet to read it - But really, it's asinine to believe that Joe Abercrombie could create a bad book!

 

[Nouw]

Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein. Science Fiction Military and it's outstanding!

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[RhombusHatesYou]

I'm currently reading Myrren's Gift at the moment and it's pretty good so far, even if you can work out the ending pretty quickly.

All of Fiona McIntosh's books are worth a read even if she gives the endings away early on... Besides, the whole of The Quickening trilogy is a good mix of fantasy-drama and bodyswapping hijinks.

If anyone recommends that if you like Fiona McIntosh you should read some Sara Douglass... ignore them and read Celia Dart-Thorton's Bitterbynde books instead (or at least first and never start with the Troy Game books).

 

[Yomandude]

This one authour who reviews games, I think his name was Jenga or something, released a book recently... what was it called? Bloogworld?
Lolno.
I recommend the Hunger Games for fantasy, if you haven't read 'em already, and Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman. Everyone above me who said that all the works of Neil Gaiman are masterpieces is BLOODY CORRECT. Eternals, Good Omens, et. al. are all brilliant.
Finally, the Jumper duology (Shut up, that's a real word). Made into a somewhat crummy movie in 2008, this spectacular series by Gould is worth a definite read.

 

[Agayek]

Basically I'm just asking for suggestions of what you guys think would be good books to read. Mainly I'm into fantasy books (David Eddings and Jim Butcher being my favourite authors) but I also love murder mystery books. I'm not too sure how to describe this genre but archaeological adventure books are another one, things such as Matthew Reilly.

Sorry if that's not much help but does anyone have any suggestions?

If you haven't checked out Butcher's other series (I'm assuming you've read Dresden Files, which means Codex Alera), do that.

For other authors, let me consult my bookshelves:

The First Law Trilogy by Joe Abercrombie
The Black Prism by Brent Weeks
The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks
The Nightside series by Simon R. Green (Basically Dresden Files but more weird and a bit less "good")
The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind (This one's kinda iffy, the whole series is basically an Objectivist essay. I like it, but it gets quite a bit preachy so if you violently disagree with the philosophy, you're not gonna like it)

That's all the ones I'd recommend for fantasy. If you like mysteries though, I'd recommend checking out Altered Carbon by Richard K Morgan. It's a sci-fi murder mystery thing in a setting where almost no one dies forever. I quite like it.

 

[pezwitch]

Basically I'm just asking for suggestions of what you guys think would be good books to read. Mainly I'm into fantasy books (David Eddings and Jim Butcher being my favourite authors) but I also love murder mystery books. I'm not too sure how to describe this genre but archaeological adventure books are another one, things such as Matthew Reilly.

Sorry if that's not much help but does anyone have any suggestions?

If you haven't checked out Butcher's other series (I'm assuming you've read Dresden Files, which means Codex Alera), do that.

For other authors, let me consult my bookshelves:

The First Law Trilogy by Joe Abercrombie
The Black Prism by Brent Weeks
The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks
The Nightside series by Simon R. Green (Basically Dresden Files but more weird and a bit less "good")
The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind (This one's kinda iffy, the whole series is basically an Objectivist essay. I like it, but it gets quite a bit preachy so if you violently disagree with the philosophy, you're not gonna like it)

That's all the ones I'd recommend for fantasy. If you like mysteries though, I'd recommend checking out Altered Carbon by Richard K Morgan. It's a sci-fi murder mystery thing in a setting where almost no one dies forever. I quite like it.

If you like Harry Dresden then I second Simon R Green's Nightside series. I also recommed Glen Cook's Garrett P.I. series starting with Sweet Silver Blues. The writing style of all three authors is very similar. (At least with these series.)

 

[Axolotl]

If you're into fantasy I'd definitely reccomend A Game of Thrones it's pretty good although it is rather unhappy. I'd also reccomend Moorcock's Elric series, it's my personal favorite fantasy series and it's just a massive deconstructyion of Tolkein/Howard's style of fantasy but it also is a rather unhappy series.

Speaking of unhappy books I'd also have to reccomend everything by Kurt Vonnegut, his stuff is sort of Sci-Fi byut they are some of the funniest books I've ever read.

 

[Cybele]

The Dragaeran books by Steven Brust are really good.
Also the Witcher saga by Andrzej Sapkowski are a must read!

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Look into Stephen King. His books are fantasy or sci-fi most of the time.

 

[Truniron]

Personal recomendations:

- You're movie sucks (Roger Ebert)
A hillarius book about movie rewievs.

- Wolf of the Plain (Conn Iggulden)
Spectaculiar book about the rise of the Mongolian empire.

- Darlah, 172 hours on the moon (Johan Harstad)
Awesome, but creepy Sci-fi nouvel

 

[spartan231490]

Basically I'm just asking for suggestions of what you guys think would be good books to read. Mainly I'm into fantasy books (David Eddings and Jim Butcher being my favourite authors) but I also love murder mystery books. I'm not too sure how to describe this genre but archaeological adventure books are another one, things such as Matthew Reilly.

Sorry if that's not much help but does anyone have any suggestions?

Sword of Truth, by Terry Goodkind
Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordan
Inheritance, by Christopher Paolini
Dragaeran, by Steven Brust
Night Angle, by Brent Weeks
those are my favorite fantasy series in order. SoT and Wot are absolutely mind-blowing
for more of a mystery flavor,
Attikus Kodiak, by Greg Rucka
and Deception Point, by the guy who wrote Di Vinci code
And if you're looking to try a new genre, any book by Chris Crutcher will really make you think, especiall Deadline.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

"The Last Apprentice" is a damn good book series.

As is "Pendragon", although the final book was a bit disappointing.

 

[kade logan]

Matthew Reilly's books are fast-paced action thrillers for sure. Another writer similar to Reilly is Jeff Edis. I just read his book The Trojan Device. Much like Reilly's early books, Ice station etc.