Recommend A Book!

[Danny]

Post what books you are currently reading or or have read, descriptions and if you would or wouldn't reccomend the book.


I'm not long after finishing A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown.

It's likely the best memoir you will ever read. The whole thing reads like some a really heart wrenching story, only made more heart wrenching by the fact that everything that happened in the book was true. It's a decent sized book which begins with Cupcake brown going into great detail about how her life turned after the death of her mother when she was only eight. She quickly transcends into a life of prostitution, abuse, drugs crime and sex at the age of eight. She endures the worst of ghetto and urban life and comes out a brand new woman. I promise that if you read this you will not be sorry. It makes you appreciate life and further more inspire you to do more with it.

 

[kaze950]

I'm currently reading the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever. I just finished the first book. A pretty interesting fantasy series, especially considering

Spoiler

The main character is a leper, and rapes a girl not too long into the first book

Here's a short synopsis in case you are interested:

The main character is Thomas Covenant, a cynical writer afflicted with leprosy, shunned and despised by society, who is destined to become the heroic saviour of an alternate world - or, perhaps, only of his own sanity. Throughout six novels published between 1977 and 1983, Covenant struggles against the evil Lord Foul — "The Despiser" — who intends to break the physical universe to escape its bondage and wreak revenge upon his arch-enemy "The Creator".

 

[JD_Slasha]

Go with the classics baby.

Dante Algheiri's The Divine Comedy.

 

[Danny]

kaze950, that sounds like quite and interesting book. I don't tend to read much fantasy, but that seems appealing somehow. Is it quite a complicated storyline in terms of following it?

 

[kaze950]

I've only read the first one, but not really. They do use a lot of unfamiliar terms, but there is a glossary at the back of the book.

 

[dupont7]

the topic name is misleading. it seems like your asking for a recommendation for a book

 

[bayonet]

Best book ever is "Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn" by Tad Williams. Brilliant book. Its several books and a fantasy adventure.

Other then that i loved the shanarah series. But don't go near the wheel of time series... its upto to 11 books atm and the author just died leaving the story incomplete QQ

 

[hungery12]

I suggest reading "Split Infinity" - Piers Anthony.
It's pretty good, though a little perverted.

 

[Toams]

The Dark Tower (yeah, with capitals) by Stephen King

People may say: 'I don't like Stephen King'..
Screw them.
This is not some of his regular work.. I find it to be pretty epic.
It's also not a horror book.
It's not even a book..

The Dark Tower is a series of eight books..
Ah well.. take a look..

 

[skirtboy]

I didn't much like the later books in the Dark Tower series. Song Of Susannah in particular was too much in left field.

Probably the best series I've read in a long time was Harry Turtledove's "Southern Victory" timeline.
It's an alternate history based on the premise that a Confederate soldier picked up the dropped special order that in real history was picked up by a Union private and enabled McLellan to stop Lee's first invasion of Pennsylvania. In the alternate, Lee won the battle of Antietam and went on to capture DC, resulting in a total southern victory. The series examines the result of that victory through 1945.

 

[Fayte]

Walter Dean Myers - "Scorpions"

 

[Ellie]

Discworld.

You will never need another book again. Seriously. There's like... 36 of them. And each one is absolutely awesome (though the city watch ones are the best, possibly beaten by the Moist von Lipwig series).

 

[Buster]

Dune by Frank Herbert.

God, this book has everything: politics, theology, mysticism, space travel... and there's some action every once in a while, too. :p
Seriously, it's the only book I've ever read that felt like a real, breathing universe.  Well, besides its sequels, of course...

 

[Fayte]

"Grace After Midnight" by Felicia "Snoop" Pearson

This book is actually really good. It's about the real life of Felicia Pearson (or "Snoop" in The Wire)

 

[skirtboy]

Dune was good, but the sequels were less so.

 

[Buster]

Yeah, the original was definitely the best of the series, but I have to say that Children of Dune was pretty close in my opinion.

 

[Stardust]

The best book series I've ever read is a recent one, Chronicles of the Necromancer by Gail Z. Martin.  The Summoner was absolutely amazing, and I was unsure whether or not The Blood King would be able to rival it, but it was just as good, if not better.  I had a horrible time trying to put either book down.  It's the kind of writing that pulls you in and won't let you go unless you rip yourself from book, and even then you sit up thinking about what's going to happen next.

Also, the covers are awesome.

 

[Dalton]

Discworld.

You will never need another book again. Seriously. There's like... 36 of them. And each one is absolutely awesome (though the city watch ones are the best, possibly beaten by the Moist von Lipwig series).

I totally second that. I have not read all the books there are yet, but I can't get enough of them.

The city watch ones are funny as hell and at the same time extremely thrilling and have a great set of characters (Nobby Nobbs being my all time favorite) so I say they are really the best.
Though I thought the most funny one was "The last continent". You just have to love Rincewind and Ponder Stibbons.