I enjoyed The World Without Us by Max Brooks. It goes over a plethora of subjects on the earth while narrating what would happen if humanity all of a sudden ceased to exist. It's a really interesting read, I reccomend it to anyone who has a working brain.


This.

Wow, nobody has said Robert Heinlein yet?

Stranger in a Strange Land - Although a science fiction book written in the early sixties contains many technological errors, (This centers around aliens living on mars) this book really helped explain a great many phenomena in our culture that is rather prevalent today. The ending will blow your mind.

This book rocks and I recommend it, but my personal favorite is Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth.

Yeah, I really liked that. The footnotes were good, the characters were interesting. Really enjoyable series.

I'll look into it .

Gawd, I'll have to look into a lot of books . So many positive recommendations for so many different authors I've never heard of.

Ooh, I forgot about him, I love Heinlein. Starship Troopers was good and so was Stranger in a Strange Land.

<3 StarShip troopers.

I know this is technically bumping, but I couldn't resist. I went a bit further into Stephen King's The Dark Tower Septology (?) (seven-book-series), and I've simply never read anything remotely like it. It's simply AMAZING what he did with the characters and how every single character somehow returns again and again and again and again, and then dies, and then returns again. A ton (Wolves of the Calla alone was 900 - and the one before it, I think, was longer) of pages. I was reading Song of Susannah up until 2 AM even though I was tired as hell because I couldn't put it down.

Meh, I'll let it slide. Just this once, I'll let it slide.

Goody. However, now I'm pissed that no one's responding.

Respond, or I eat your babies.

Revived.

"The Giver" by Lois Lowry
-Short, sweet, and to the point book. A fiction about "advanced" society with emotions, thoughts, and actions controlled by gov't.

Previously stated "angles and demons" by Dan Brown

"A Long Way Gone" by Ishmeal Beah
-"In A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Ishmeal Beah, now twenty-six years old, tells a powerfully gripping story: at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gently boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. At sixteen, he was removed from fighting by UNICEF, and through the help of the staff at his rehabilitation center, he learned how to forgive himsllff, to regain his humanity, and finally, to heal. This is an extraordinary and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.(<-- the back cover)

"An Inconvenient Book" by Glenn Beck
-hate it or love it. Once booze drinking womanizer turned LDS(morman). Shares some stories and gives real insight on the worlds biggest problems.(ie. global warming, pornography, family's and divorce) This book favors conservatism extremely, democrats: PROCEED WITH CAUTION! haha

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri - The amazing epic about a mans journey through hell

oh and geez y'all forgot The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien.

and Star Wars saga by George Lucas

The Left Behind Series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins - my favorite religious fiction series.

Self-Aware Universe by Amit Goswami - a very interesting book on the possible connection between consciousness and quantum physics.

thats all i have time to say right now.

The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke

The Sandman - Neil Gaiman

Watchmen - Alan Moore

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns - Frank Miller

I'll just mention a few of my favorites that haven't been brought up already.

-Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen series. Not for the easily confused. It's up to seven books already, with another three in the works, and all of them have been long and complicated. The characters are complex, the story is interestingly tangled, and you're never quite sure who you're supposed to be rooting for. Furthermore, the depth and history of the world are astounding. I highly recommend it for fans of epic fantasy who can handle vast numbers of characters, storylines, and concepts.

-Most of the later works of H. P. Lovecraft. The man was a genius--it's a pity he wasn't more popular in his own lifetime. His stories (most of his work is short stories) are often similar, but always interesting. Remember Cthulhu? Lovecraft was the one who invented him. It's hard to tell sometimes if the events in the books are actually happening or simply delusions his characters are having, and that's often left open to interpretation. Reading some of the stories can sometimes leave you a little paranoid, too, about what might lurk out there...

-On a more serious note, All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren is my favorite book of all time. It's not particularly entertaining like science fiction or fantasy, but it's...deep. It's literature. It offers more different views of the world and insights into thought, morality, and emotion than anything else I've read--all without leaving the mind of one reporter in a small Southern city. It was, and still is, the best book I have ever read.

Fermat's Enigma - Simon Singh

Great educational book talking about the history of math. Talks about the history of the Pythagorus theorem. Prime numbers, Fermat's Enigma, the first computer. I love it.



1337 H4X0R H4NDB00K - tapeworm

Awesome book! It's all a big joke to the Geek's world and way of life. Read a few pages and the ten laws of geek and I had to buy it. I read it front to back in a matter of days. Fun pranks to play, and useful information. I talk to the author once in a while. He's an awesome guy. To bad the publishing company screwed him over on his second book. Found a glitch in the contract and didn't pay him for the work he did. So he backed out, and now there isn't going to be a second book.

No Matt Reilly? His work is less a back than it is an action movie on paper. Over the top non stop action.
I suggest anything by him really, minus the hover car racers one. According one critic, his character development is his only flaw, as his characters don't usually live long enough to be developed. Heres an except from one of his books, Area 7:

'But Mister President, the radio transmitter on your heart, once started, is kinetically operated. If your heart should stop beating, the transmitter will cease to operate, and the satellite's signal will not be returned - in which case, the satellite will instruct the bombs in the airports to detonate.
'Mister President. If your heart should stop, America as we know it dies. If your heart keeps beating, America lives.'

Is that not awesome?

Also anything Lovecraftian.

Watchmen was amazing! And props to whoever mentioned Scott Card, hes great.
best author ever would have to be....
William Gibson

Neuromancer
What brought him to fame. Great book, started the whole 'cyberpunk' genre, and probably one of the most famous sci-fi books ever.

I liked The Running Man the best out of the Bachmen series, but the movie based off it was bad.......

CreepyPasta

Stephen King
Also, Orson Scott Card (The dude who wrote Enders Game)
Edit: Also, reading through this, Stranger in a Strange Land is a great book too.

Here's some more now that my memory has been jogged (I've also recently started reading some more books).

It - Stephen King
Thinner - Stephen King
Dune - Frank Herbert (in the process of reading)
The Five Books of Moses - Moses (Lawlz) translated with Commentary by Robert Alter
The Book of Job - (Traditionally attributed by Jewish Scholars by Moses as a parable).
The Book of Revelation - John of Patmos

I must say my favorite author is:

Orson Scott Card: Ender's series this includes Ender's game,Speaker for the dead, Xenocide, Children of the mind, Ender's shadow, Shadow of the hedgemon, Shadow of the giant, Shadow puppets! >< I also like his homecoming series!.. But out of all the books i have ever read these by far are the best! I love them I am right now reading the shadows again! If you have not checked this author out you should, he really does rock.

Oh yeah! Ender's Game was one of the best books I read in school!

Here are some more:
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sijie
Bookseller of Kabul - Asne Seierstad
I Am The Cheese - Robert Cormier (another good book with a ridiculously low budget film adaption)
J.B.- Archibald Macleish
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon

Some stuff I liked a lot as a little kid:
George's Marvelous Medicine - Roald Dahl
The BFG - Roald Dahl
The Witches - Roald Dahl
Boy: Tales of Childhood - Roald Dahl
Going Solo - Roald Dahl
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Haryy Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Hatchet - Gary Pulsen

The funny thing is that I'm listing almost every book I've ever finished. I suppose I don't read enough, but I never finish books I don't like. (Could never do books reviews).