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with a dwindling personal library, comes a point in a man's life when he has to branch out to different books. i, for one, have been keeping to mainly the same authors throughout these past few years of booking or whatever. haven't booked too much modern fiction, and fiction is my primary source of mental engaging or whatever. it is my new year's resolution to find some modern fiction. i don't read biographies, they do nothing for me. for a point of reference to enlighten me here is the last ten books i've read, but please do not curtail older book suggestions, as i'm quite fond. i've grown quite fond of ayn rand and it was the perfect time for me to start reading her, for me

10. demian- hermann hesse (currently reading)
9. do androids dream of electric sheep- phillip k dick
8. fountainhead- ayn rand
7. cossacks and the raid- leo tolstoy
6. anthem- ayn rand
5. cat's cradle- kurt vonnegutt jr
4. atlas shrugged- ayn rand
3. steppenwolf- hermann hesse
2. sex, drugs, & cocoa puffs- chuck klosterman
1. adventures of augie march- saul bellow
 
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One of my favorites is "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
 
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I remember reading Anthem a while back. Great book. Thanks for the list. I just finished a biography and have been looking for a new book to start.
 
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(02-10-2011 01:54 PM)QSECOFR Wrote:  One of my favorites is "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

Had to read that for history class my first quarter at UC, great book.

I personally just got done with two books, The Forge of God and Altered Carbon.

The Forge of God is a "what do we do in the face of apocalpyse" book, thats well written has won multiple science-fiction novel of the year awards, and is one of my personal favorites.

Altered Carbon is a tough book to describe, but won the Hugo award for best science fiction Novel a few years back.

I'm staring to read a book called The Chronoliths, which won the Campbell and Hugo Awards for Futuristic Fiction Novel of the Year in 2002
 
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I stick to Hemingway and whatever I have to read for grad school. Interestingly, the latter is just as fascinating as the former for me.
 
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Unbroken is fantastic book I finished recently. It's the biography of Louie Zamperini who was an Olympic runner in the 30's before becoming a POW in the pacific. Just when you think this story can not get any better than it is - it does, again and again. It basically reads like sitting down with your grandfather and each story from his life tops his last but basically covers the war years.

http://www.amazon.com/Unbroken-World-Sur...1400064163
 
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I've been pretty much exclusively reading fiction as far as books go since college ended, mainly because all i read in college was non-fiction and I know when I start towards my professional degree it will be that way again. Not sure what your preferences are.

The best book I have read so far this year was The Terror by Dan Simmons. It's historical fiction with a blend of horror about Sir John Franklin and his failed exhibition in the arctic to find the Northwest Passage. His descriptions of what it would be like, of the frigid weather which made my cold just reading, and of the medical issues they faced trying to find their way to survival are incredible in depth and almost excessively brutal. The Terror is just a masterful piece of literature one that I would recommend to anyone. It is a brutal tale with much devastation along the way but it is certainly a worthy journey.

Last year I read 20 fiction novels the best being these:

1.Perdido Street Station (China Mieville)- Easily the most original and well written book I read last year. The Slake Moths are absolutely terrifying and the introductory ride into New Crobuzon is breathtaking. China Mieville has a way with words like few authors do. He creates incredibly quirky and interesting species and some ridiculously cool ideas (The Weaver was amazing). The first couple parts are slow, but always fascinating and well written. The rest of the book is just awesome.

2.Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson) - Though a bit dated, Snow Crash is about as fun as a novel can get. From the opening description of the "Deliverator," to the pure awesomeness that is Y.T. this novel remains fun throughout. There is a rather large info dump in the middle which at times can get a bit tedious, but despite that Neal Stephenson delivers with a novel that is just pure entertainment.

3.The Lies of Locke Lamora (Scott Lynch)- Scott Lynch's first in the Republic of Thieves series is both an original take on fantasy and a fun caper tale. The city of Camorr and the underworld that thrives there really comes alive and for a series novel it has a very satisfactory, self contained ending.

4.The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)- A big credit to Eco with this book for as long as the book was and as many names and languages as it had I thought it was actually a fairly quick read. The language is top notch throughout, the descriptions are great, the tension is ever present and the history woven in is virtually unmatched in anything I have read.

5.A Fire Upon The Deep (Vernor Vinge)- The scope of this novel is nothing short of grand. Vinge takes many intriguing ideas, creates multiple fascinating alien races and gives us a tale that is epic in scope and fascinating to read. There are several amazing actions sequences that kept me riveted throughout.

6.A Deepness in the Sky (also by Vinge)- Deepness does not quite have the epic scope of A Fire Upon the Deep, but it's a fascinating tale of the conflict among two groups of human space travelers centered around their varying desires of how to extract resources from the first known alien race. The idea of mindrot is very cool as is the moral dilemma it ends up causing for our protagonist. The alien race to me was very believable and though I found myself more interested in the human plot I thought the way they blended together worked well.

Lastly my seven favorite novels of all time in no order:

1. Hyperion (Dan Simmons)- Written in the style of Canterbury Tales with elements of Keats and Shakespeare woven in, Hyperion is basically the story of 7 Pilgrims and the journey to the Time Tombs on the planet of Hyperion. Each Pilgrim tells their own tale as to why they are making the journey on their way and each tale is completely unique in style and feel. The stories range from pure intrigue, to action packed, to emotionally brutal. The tombs are guarded by a creature called the Shrike who impales his victims on a metal tree. Just an awesome work.

2. Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)- Many are probably familiar with it. It's the story of a brilliant young boy being trained to lead the military and save the world from an alien race that has attacked Earth twice. The brilliance in this book is first and foremost in the emotional impact the decisions Ender is forced to make have on him and his relationships with those involved. Much of what happens take place inside Ender's head, but the story is very good.

3. Speaker for the Dead (Orson Scott Card)- The original sequel to Ender's Game...this is a totally different kind of story dealing with a much older Ender Wiggin. Many did not like it as much as Ender's Game but to me it felt real in very different ways and I liked a totally different take on interactions with an alien race than what we see in most science fiction. Again though Card's best feature is really write characters well.

4. Use of Weapons (Iain M Banks)- Banks is second to none when it comes to sprawling, epic action sequences, but Use of Weapons i believe his his best novel because it offers much more. It's style takes a bit of getting use to as alternating chapters take you from a present tense story that goes chronologically to flashbacks which by in large go in reverse order. It is in these reverse order chapters where much of the depth is added to our protaganist Cheradenine Zakalwe. The added knowledge to the Zakalwe's background and motives that you have by the end of the book invites you to scroll back and re-read certain parts. The toll that Zakalwe's decisions have taken on him to me is what really hits home in this novel.

5. Watership Down (Richard Adams)- A tale about rabbits leaving their warren as it is being destroyed and searching to find a new life is not a story I ever expected to stick with me, but Watership Down has done just that. This story is very fun, the characters are well fleshed out and the action is great. I read it many years back and it sticks with me to this day.

6. Storm of Swords- Actually the third in a series that begins with another brilliant novel called A Game of Thrones (a novel that will be an HBO TV show starting on April 17...I am guessing it will be awesome). I won't say much more other than throughout this series Martin has 10+ character perspectives going, each on interesting in its own way. The action is great but it is the political intrigue and the moral ambiguity of the characters that sticks out.

7. Dune- Another I am sure many have read. Great story of political intrigue, betrayel and religion. It has held up for a long time.

I could talk fiction all day.
 
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The Alphabet of Manliness by Maddox

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I can't recall the last fiction book i've read. I read mostly autobiography's, or non fiction. I read a lot of article in magazines--if somethings interest me I'll seek out something in book form. Last book I read I finished about 6 months ago was The Feeling of Greatness: The Moe Norman Story. I've read it before. great story.
 
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(02-10-2011 01:54 PM)QSECOFR Wrote:  One of my favorites is "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

Nice heavy duty follow up is his real life history version - "The Gulag Archipelago." Make sure to read it during the spring or summer with a vodka on ice. For winter reading its almost too much to bear.

I just finished reading The Hidden Room by Corrie Ten Boom - true story of a simple watchmaking family who showed simple christian kindness to a few folks in Haarlem, Holland during the Nazi occupation and ended up starting a national resistance movement founded upon faith. Somehow this one evaded me for 30 years. Simple read. Uplifting one, too, despite the times it describes.
 
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(02-11-2011 01:54 PM)BJUnklFkr Wrote:  Any books about beer?
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I just read a coffee table book about coffee tables.

Nothing heavy or biographical for me.

Lately I've been reading a whole lot of free stuff from Internet Archive, Project Gutenburg, and numerous Univesity digital libraries. I'm presently reading "Through the Brazilian Wilderness" by Theodore Roosevelt which I believe came from Project Gutenburg.

Some Sci Fi I've read over many years and liked:

The Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson - What if a very few among us are not programmed to die?

To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jose Farmer - The premise is that an advanced race of beings has resurrected every human who has ever lived and placed them along the shore of a multi-million mile river. Imagine what might happen if Herman Goring were to meet Sir Richard Burton. The first of a trilogy.

Lost Horizon by James Hilton - Written in the early 1930's, this book is set in the mountains of Tibet where a plane crashes and group of people find their Shangri-La.
 
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(02-11-2011 01:03 PM)bearcatmark Wrote:  I've been pretty much exclusively reading fiction as far as books go since college ended, mainly because all i read in college was non-fiction and I know when I start towards my professional degree it will be that way again. Not sure what your preferences are.

The best book I have read so far this year was The Terror by Dan Simmons. It's historical fiction with a blend of horror about Sir John Franklin and his failed exhibition in the arctic to find the Northwest Passage. His descriptions of what it would be like, of the frigid weather which made my cold just reading, and of the medical issues they faced trying to find their way to survival are incredible in depth and almost excessively brutal. The Terror is just a masterful piece of literature one that I would recommend to anyone. It is a brutal tale with much devastation along the way but it is certainly a worthy journey.

Last year I read 20 fiction novels the best being these:

1.Perdido Street Station (China Mieville)- Easily the most original and well written book I read last year. The Slake Moths are absolutely terrifying and the introductory ride into New Crobuzon is breathtaking. China Mieville has a way with words like few authors do. He creates incredibly quirky and interesting species and some ridiculously cool ideas (The Weaver was amazing). The first couple parts are slow, but always fascinating and well written. The rest of the book is just awesome.

2.Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson) - Though a bit dated, Snow Crash is about as fun as a novel can get. From the opening description of the "Deliverator," to the pure awesomeness that is Y.T. this novel remains fun throughout. There is a rather large info dump in the middle which at times can get a bit tedious, but despite that Neal Stephenson delivers with a novel that is just pure entertainment.

3.The Lies of Locke Lamora (Scott Lynch)- Scott Lynch's first in the Republic of Thieves series is both an original take on fantasy and a fun caper tale. The city of Camorr and the underworld that thrives there really comes alive and for a series novel it has a very satisfactory, self contained ending.

4.The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)- A big credit to Eco with this book for as long as the book was and as many names and languages as it had I thought it was actually a fairly quick read. The language is top notch throughout, the descriptions are great, the tension is ever present and the history woven in is virtually unmatched in anything I have read.

5.A Fire Upon The Deep (Vernor Vinge)- The scope of this novel is nothing short of grand. Vinge takes many intriguing ideas, creates multiple fascinating alien races and gives us a tale that is epic in scope and fascinating to read. There are several amazing actions sequences that kept me riveted throughout.

6.A Deepness in the Sky (also by Vinge)- Deepness does not quite have the epic scope of A Fire Upon the Deep, but it's a fascinating tale of the conflict among two groups of human space travelers centered around their varying desires of how to extract resources from the first known alien race. The idea of mindrot is very cool as is the moral dilemma it ends up causing for our protagonist. The alien race to me was very believable and though I found myself more interested in the human plot I thought the way they blended together worked well.

Lastly my seven favorite novels of all time in no order:

1. Hyperion (Dan Simmons)- Written in the style of Canterbury Tales with elements of Keats and Shakespeare woven in, Hyperion is basically the story of 7 Pilgrims and the journey to the Time Tombs on the planet of Hyperion. Each Pilgrim tells their own tale as to why they are making the journey on their way and each tale is completely unique in style and feel. The stories range from pure intrigue, to action packed, to emotionally brutal. The tombs are guarded by a creature called the Shrike who impales his victims on a metal tree. Just an awesome work.

2. Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)- Many are probably familiar with it. It's the story of a brilliant young boy being trained to lead the military and save the world from an alien race that has attacked Earth twice. The brilliance in this book is first and foremost in the emotional impact the decisions Ender is forced to make have on him and his relationships with those involved. Much of what happens take place inside Ender's head, but the story is very good.

3. Speaker for the Dead (Orson Scott Card)- The original sequel to Ender's Game...this is a totally different kind of story dealing with a much older Ender Wiggin. Many did not like it as much as Ender's Game but to me it felt real in very different ways and I liked a totally different take on interactions with an alien race than what we see in most science fiction. Again though Card's best feature is really write characters well.

4. Use of Weapons (Iain M Banks)- Banks is second to none when it comes to sprawling, epic action sequences, but Use of Weapons i believe his his best novel because it offers much more. It's style takes a bit of getting use to as alternating chapters take you from a present tense story that goes chronologically to flashbacks which by in large go in reverse order. It is in these reverse order chapters where much of the depth is added to our protaganist Cheradenine Zakalwe. The added knowledge to the Zakalwe's background and motives that you have by the end of the book invites you to scroll back and re-read certain parts. The toll that Zakalwe's decisions have taken on him to me is what really hits home in this novel.

5. Watership Down (Richard Adams)- A tale about rabbits leaving their warren as it is being destroyed and searching to find a new life is not a story I ever expected to stick with me, but Watership Down has done just that. This story is very fun, the characters are well fleshed out and the action is great. I read it many years back and it sticks with me to this day.

6. Storm of Swords- Actually the third in a series that begins with another brilliant novel called A Game of Thrones (a novel that will be an HBO TV show starting on April 17...I am guessing it will be awesome). I won't say much more other than throughout this series Martin has 10+ character perspectives going, each on interesting in its own way. The action is great but it is the political intrigue and the moral ambiguity of the characters that sticks out.

7. Dune- Another I am sure many have read. Great story of political intrigue, betrayel and religion. It has held up for a long time.

I could talk fiction all day.

I was a big Dune fan in high school. Read 3 or 4 of those books.

I'm more of a Fantasy fan than a Sci Fi fan, though.

George R.R. Martin has to be my favorite right now. Never seen an author kill off his main characters so unexpectedly and casually. Kept expecting Eddard Stark to rise from the grave at the end of the first novel. Didn't really like the last installment in the series as much as the other three.

Try Patrick Rothfuss' novel- The Name of the Wind. It's the first of a trilogy but I thought it was a very strong read, lots of mystery and foreshadowing and keeps you turning pages.

And if you like violence, gritty reality, and political intrigue- try Joe Abercrombie's series- The First Law. Hard to put down.
 
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(02-12-2011 09:26 AM)Bearcatbdub Wrote:  I was a big Dune fan in high school. Read 3 or 4 of those books.

I'm more of a Fantasy fan than a Sci Fi fan, though.

George R.R. Martin has to be my favorite right now. Never seen an author kill off his main characters so unexpectedly and casually. Kept expecting Eddard Stark to rise from the grave at the end of the first novel. Didn't really like the last installment in the series as much as the other three.

Try Patrick Rothfuss' novel- The Name of the Wind. It's the first of a trilogy but I thought it was a very strong read, lots of mystery and foreshadowing and keeps you turning pages.

And if you like violence, gritty reality, and political intrigue- try Joe Abercrombie's series- The First Law. Hard to put down.

I actually have read The Name of the Wind. I very much enjoyed it. The Wise Man's Fear comes out this year in that series.

I'm plowing through Abercrombie's First Law right now and it is very good. I just finished the first part of Before They Are Hanged.

If you are big into fantasy my two big recommendations are Scott Lynch and China Mieville... both are very awesome.

Agreed on Martin, that's probably my favorite overall fantasy series right now.
 
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(02-12-2011 09:26 AM)Bearcatbdub Wrote:  I was a big Dune fan in high school. Read 3 or 4 of those books.

I'm more of a Fantasy fan than a Sci Fi fan, though.

George R.R. Martin has to be my favorite right now. Never seen an author kill off his main characters so unexpectedly and casually. Kept expecting Eddard Stark to rise from the grave at the end of the first novel. Didn't really like the last installment in the series as much as the other three.

Try Patrick Rothfuss' novel- The Name of the Wind. It's the first of a trilogy but I thought it was a very strong read, lots of mystery and foreshadowing and keeps you turning pages.

And if you like violence, gritty reality, and political intrigue- try Joe Abercrombie's series- The First Law. Hard to put down.

I actually have read The Name of the Wind. I very much enjoyed it. The Wise Man's Fear comes out this year in that series.

I'm plowing through Abercrombie's First Law right now and it is very good. I just finished the first part of Before They Are Hanged.

If you are big into fantasy my two big recommendations are Scott Lynch and China Mieville... both are very awesome.

Agreed on Martin, that's probably my favorite overall fantasy series right now.

Been holding off on guys like Lynch and Erickson because I hate to get into a big series that only has a few books written. However, I'm running out of good fantasy novels to read (and Martin hasn't come out with another book in what seems like forever).

I spent all those years reading Jordan's massive epic and then he died on me :(. Reluctant to finish the new series written by a new author even if I do like Sanderson's stuff- Elantris was a good novel, and the Mistborn stuff was good, if a little silly at times.

Currently choking down Janny Wurts because I heard so much good stuff about her. Her prose is eloquent- overly so- and I admit that I have some difficulty following the story at times because of her descriptive writing style. Plus, I think she writes male characters that are way too sensitive and subtle.

Definitely planning to check out Mieville on your recommendation.

I also can recommend the first few books of the Black Company, which is a very different style, but easy to read and entertaining.
 
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thanks for the suggestions jerks! i'll look into some of those books mark. if anyone, which one would you suggest? i'm more into the heavyweight authors, but i would like to branch out.

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BearcatMan Wrote:Had to read that for history class my first quarter at UC, great book.

great book indeed. i as was well had to read that for a history class at uc. followed that book up by another one of my favorites, "down and out in paris and london" george orwell. best class ever.

finsished the "tin woodman of oz" l frank baum. this was just so fantastic. figured i needed something lighthearted to read before endeavoring myself in "crime and punishment" fyodor dostoyevsky which currently i'm heavily engaged. simply riveting. was a bit timid to embark on the journey figuring close to 600 page book would dissuade me. glad i chose to read it
 
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If you want a great fantasy series, check out The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. 7 books. And you get to cheat since they are all completed. He wrote the first one when he was in college. Took him over 3 decades to complete. I had to pine away for 12 years waiting for him to finish it. I rank it with Herbert's Dune and Tolkien as far as epics.
 
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(02-23-2011 11:05 AM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  If you want a great fantasy series, check out The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. 7 books. And you get to cheat since they are all completed. He wrote the first one when he was in college. Took him over 3 decades to complete. I had to pine away for 12 years waiting for him to finish it. I rank it with Herbert's Dune and Tolkien as far as epics.

I haven't come across many people who have read those. They are the best thing I have read to date, brilliant work and I'm not really a fan of King otherwise.
 
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Best series ever for me? Donald Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming". He has completed 4 volumes of the 7 volume series. BTW, Volume 4 is actually 5 sub volumes. Volume 5 isn't due to be released until 2020 when Prof. Knuth will be 82 years of age.
 
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