Poll of the Day > please recommend me books

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dresden files
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Name of the Wind. It's fantast, about a man in hiding during a civil war after he killed a king and started it. He relays his story of how he became the world's most infamous person from childhood to present over a course of three days. There are also stories within stories and the mythology/world is top notch.
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OliviaTremor posted...

Name of the Wind. It's fantast, about a man in hiding during a civil war after he killed a king and started it. He relays his story of how he became the world's most infamous person from childhood to present over a course of three days. There are also stories within stories and the mythology/world is top notch.

This, followed by The Wise Mans Fear and The Slow Regard Of Silent Things.

Steven R Boyetts Ariel: A Book of the Change and Elegy Beach.

Ill add more to the list when Im home.

The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Murakami
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I'm just going to copy-paste my entire reading list of recommended books. Almost all of these are free on the internet.

Moral Letters to Lucilius (65AD) Seneca
Discourses of Epictetus (108AD) Epictetus
Meditations (180AD) Marcus Aurelius
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647) Baltasar Gracin
The Sickness Unto Death (1849) Sren Kierkegaard
Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life (1851) Arthur Schopenhauer
Life Without Principle (1862) Henry David Thoreau
On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense (1896) Friedrich Nietzsche
Natural History of Intellect and Other Papers (1903) Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-Control: Its Kingship and Majesty (1905) William George Jordan
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (1907) William James
Notes from Underground (1918) Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Civilization and Its Discontents (1930) Sigmund Freud
The Shape of Things to Come (1933) H.G. Wells
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451 (1953) Ray Bradbury
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (1955) Albert Camus
Mans Search for Meaning (1959) Viktor E. Frankl
Does it Matter?: Essays on Mans Relation to Materiality (1970) Alan Watts
Report on Planet Three and Other Speculations (1972) Arthur C. Clarke
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You know what would be fun?
You could read a book then the movie of the book and discuss that as well.

There's The Maze Runner trilogy, and there's going to be a new Wrinkle In Time movie.

Maybe read the books first.
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Jen0125 posted...

Zangulus posted...

The Tales of Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever by Stepen R Donaldson

based on your description i might buy this lmao it sounds like a doozy

I'll vouch for this. Great fantasy series
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Thomas Sowell - Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy

WastelandCowboy posted...

OliviaTremor posted...

Name of the Wind. It's fantast, about a man in hiding during a civil war after he killed a king and started it. He relays his story of how he became the world's most infamous person from childhood to present over a course of three days. There are also stories within stories and the mythology/world is top notch.

This, followed by The Wise Mans Fear and The Slow Regard Of Silent Things.

Steven R Boyetts Ariel: A Book of the Change and Elegy Beach.

Ill add more to the list when Im home.

I would not recommend, "The Slow Regard of Silent Things". It's a good book, but it took a lot more determination than the others to get through it.
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Y'all need to read some more non-fiction.

https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Forgot-How-Poop/dp/1977639739
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How bout you read the bible, you godless maniac
"yall need jesus" as they say
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Fiction:
Dune
https://www.amazon.com/Dune-Frank-Herbert/dp/0441172717

Crime and Punishment
https://www.amazon.com/Crime-Punishment-Fyodor-Dostoyevsky/dp/0486415872

Non-fiction:
Gdel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
https://www.amazon.com/G%C3%B6del-Escher-Bach-Eternal-Golden/dp/0465026567

The Gulag Archipelago
https://archive.org/details/TheGulagArchipelago-Threevolumes
https://www.amazon.com/Gulag-Archipelago-Abridged-Experiment-Investigation/dp/0061253804

Mead posted...

Ready player one

I haven't read it but this is supposed to be good
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Well, I can tell you about a novel series set in a medieval periods intended for twelve-year-old boys, but I don't think you'd have any interest in it.

The books are really short, and only the first book is any good. It's called, "The False Prince".
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Airport by Arthur Hailey

The dystopia trilogy of:
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
1984 by George Orwell

Douglas Adams' two Dirk Gently novels:
The Long, Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Dirk Gently's Detective Agency
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The Golgatha series by RS Belcher is a fav of mine. Dark fantasy mixed with the old West.

DeathMagnetic80 posted...

The Golgatha series by RS Belcher is a fav of mine. Dark fantasy mixed with the old West.

That description has piqued my interest
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I second the Alchemist, great story.

I really loved Steinbeck's underrated Travels with Charley: in Search of America
it's basically just Steinbeck taking his dog and traveling across the entire country, really fun :D
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SusanGreenEyes posted...

You know what would be fun?
You could read a book then the movie of the book and discuss that as well.

There's The Maze Runner trilogy, and there's going to be a new Wrinkle In Time movie.

Maybe read the books first.

You're just better off not doing that. "Jesus they changed the story so much the adaptation is awful".

shadowsword87 posted...

Y'all need to read some more non-fiction.

Ben Shapiro books?
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shadowsword87 posted...

Y'all need to read some more non-fiction.

My shelf is full of non-fiction, but I figured she wouldn't want to start off reading stuff like that.

I would recommend Losing Our Way by Bob Herbert.
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RCtheWSBC posted...

gguirao posted...

Check out the three books in The Divine Comedy, especially Inferno.

Have you read The Dante Club? It's a good read if you enjoy Inferno.

This is my first time hearing about it.
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i love historical non-fiction books. i even said as much in my opening post in order to get suggestions for that genre as well as fiction books.

i'm going to start reading that agatha christie book that rc posted. it seems very interesting.
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Jen0125 posted...

DeathMagnetic80 posted...

The Golgatha series by RS Belcher is a fav of mine. Dark fantasy mixed with the old West.

That description has piqued my interest

3 in the series so far: "The Six Gun Tarot", "The Shotgun Arcana" and "The Queen of Swords"

Anything by Herman Hesse.
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The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

Mateo is hated and reviled by just about everyone around him, except for one person: El Patron, druglord, and the ruler of the country of Opium, along what used to be the US-Mexico border. El Patron loves Mateo as if he were himself, because Mateo is exactly that-he is El Patron's clone.

She wrote a sequel about 13 years later called The Lord of Opium.
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CyborgSage00x0 posted...

The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

Mateo is hated and reviled by just about everyone around him, except for one person: El Patron, druglord, and the ruler of the country of Opium, along what used to be the US-Mexico border. El Patron loves Mateo as if he were himself, because Mateo is exactly that-he is El Patron's clone.

She wrote a sequel about 13 years later called The Lord of Opium.

Oh yeah, that was a great book.
It's a good YA book before they were considered YA.

Oh s***, she also wrote The Ear The Eye and The Arm, which was great too.

Jen0125 posted...

That description has piqued my interest

oh, you want descriptions too? I didn't think of that.

AllstarSniper32 posted...

The Gladiator by Harry Turtledove.

It is set in a world in an alternate history in which the Soviet Union has won the Cold War.

On the cover, there's a hand holding a D20. That's because an important character in the book runs a tabletop gaming store and some of the characters gather there for things.
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AllstarSniper32 posted...

It is set in a world in an alternate history in which the Soviet Union has won the Cold War.

On the cover, there's a hand holding a D20. That's because an important character in the book runs a tabletop gaming store and some of the characters gather there for things.

Welp, that sounds pretty awful, and I love tabletop RPGs.

The civil war, a narrative by Shelby foot. Best history I've read
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so we're all agreed she should read the dresden files?

good.

i'm glad we could all come to this unanimous decision
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shadowsword87 posted...

AllstarSniper32 posted...

It is set in a world in an alternate history in which the Soviet Union has won the Cold War.

On the cover, there's a hand holding a D20. That's because an important character in the book runs a tabletop gaming store and some of the characters gather there for things.

Welp, that sounds pretty awful, and I love tabletop RPGs.

Although it's spoilers, I will say that the character running the store is against the Soviet Union being in control.
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TES_Nut posted...

The civil war, a narrative by Shelby foot. Best history I've read

i may actually want to read this because i don't know a lot about civil war history and it could be fun to learn something new
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helIy posted...

so we're all agreed she should read the dresden files?

good.

i'm glad we could all come to this unanimous decision

Oh yeah fuck what I said. Dresden is a good fucking choice.
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