Looks decent, haven't heard of Pierce Brown previously. Thanks!
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It's a sort of a combo of a Sci-Fi Hunger Ender's Games of Thrones
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Its a bloodydam great book D: Darn, now i need to read it again D:
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Enjoyed the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Haven't read any of his other stuff.
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You should give a change to his Dirk Gently too, and also have you ever heard about Haruki Murakami he is damn good.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruki_Murakami
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Did you read the other parts? Also there's a last part "And another thing ..." written by Eoin Colfer (officially authorized by Adams' widow). Eoin Colfer himself is well known for his "Artemis Fowl" series, light fantasy themed and witty (though it's child/grown-up-oriented).
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Yes, I remember someone recommended Last Chance to See. I work in the environmental field, so I have a soft spot in my heart for these themes. Thanks!
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We Need to Talk About Kevin. It's an awesome movie too. ^_^ I also like Goosebumps books, Sherlock Holmes books (and detective books in general), and Hugo (it includes some awesome handmade drawings too - and its movie was also awesome). Well, I know so many good books, but I can't remember all their titles right now. :P
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Looks interesting, I dig high fantasy when it's done well. Thank for the suggestion and also for your awesome advent calendar!
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If you are into fantasy books, there are some good Warhammer and Warcraft novels.
The wheel of time I hear is good.
Maybe these:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0161X4Q1S/ref=series_rw_dp_sw
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I lived and breathed the wheel of time until it became aimless and needlessly complex. The first 6 or 7 books are pretty epic.
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One book I really enjoyed was Stephen Fry's "Making History", about an alternative timeline.
And I read in the comments that you enjoyed HHGTTG, have you read all 5 parts? Because if not, you should.
And if you're into a bit more military tactical, try Tom Clancy, his books are great. (Haven't read myself, don't read that much, but my dad reads these) He is the man of "The hunt for Red October", and of course games such as "Splinter Cell" and "Rainbow Six". All the tactics and such are very realistic, because he had advice of actual generals.
Hope you find some good books to enjoy. I know noe that I should as well. You reminded me of that feeling of actually enjoying reading.
Also: thanks for the train and bump
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Making History looks interesting. Thanks for the suggestion!
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It might be. I enjoyed the next three books, but they are definitely a bit slower paced and more philosophical in nature than Ender's Game.
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You should. Between Xenocide and Children of the Mind I thought the story arc rounded out nicely. Although I seem to remember feeling pretty sad during Children of the Mind.
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Yeah, I loved all of the original books in the Ender's Game Series. Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson looks pretty interesting, I think I'll check it out. Thank you very much!
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Yep, they were interesting, though some technical descriptions lack the detail (but then it's not only written for IT workers and gamers..).
Did you mean the "Kill Decision" as third of Suarez? Nice try on swarm intelligence, which reminds me of "The Swarm" by Frank Schätzing (really long and detailed scientific, but imho worth it).
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Bigot Hall by Steve Aylett remains one of my favourites, also the Brentford Trilogy by Robert Rankin (nine novels) is a great read!
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The Aquasilva and Kingkiller trilogies are good reads. More on the line of the first LOTR than ASOIAF due to the pace (slow).
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The Windup Girl is a book i'm trying to read right now and is very good if you like dystopian worlds (it has some concepts similar to the ones in Oryx and Crake, it does not have "crakers", but still). I think you would enjoy it.
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Cool. Oryx and Crake always stuck in my head for some reason. I'll look into that one. Thanks for the recommendation!
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If you enjoy Orson Scott Card's writing, you'll probably also like Robert A. Heinlein. Starship Troopers is more excellent military-themed fiction, and Stranger in a Strange Land has very similar themes and tone to Speaker for the Dead.
I'm also going to throw out some sci-fi that was recommended to me by another user here. Replay, by Ken Grimwood, is essentially a much longer version of the movie Groundhog Day. Instead of just going through the same one day, the protagonist gets to relive a large portion of his life.
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Starship Troopers is short, but good (and nothing like the movie - i remembering feeling like is was a really long essay on his thoughts on citizenship - like that brief discussion in the classroom in the movie). I remember enjoying most of Heinlein, though some of it gets pretty pulpy.
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Love Heinlein. Probably owned about 4 or 5 of his books growing up. I've heard of Replay previously, I'll look for it again since I've had another recommendation. Thank you very much!
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I just finished the Nicolas Flamel Series. The first books were a bit long, but in the end it was an really awesome story
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Greetings! I recently finished Ernest Cline's Armada and it reminded me of how much I love reading. When I was much younger I would tear through multiple books in a week. Now I'm lucky if I finish a couple books a year.
I'm heading on a 5 month vacation in January, so I thought it may be a good time to pick up some decent reads and load up my Kobo Aura. I'm looking for recommendations of your must read/favorite novels/short stories/manga/graphic novels, etc.
A quick round up of some of my favorite books that I've read (in no particular order):
Ender's Game
A Song of Ice and Fire
Tigana
Oryx and Crake
Preacher
LOTR
Maus
Day of the Triffids
Alas Babylon
The Sandman
The Watchmen
Dune
Thank you kindly for your help and here's a little train (closed for now!)for your troubles.
I'll add some flash giveaways randomly over the next few days as I'm able to:
Thanks for the quick responses. I already have some great suggestions! Flash Gib #1 <-over (I'll add some more tomorrow!)
Flash Gib #2 - LV3 <-over!
Flash Gib #3 -LV3 <-over!
Flash Gib #4 - LV4 <- A shadowy gib! (Closed)
*Edit 2 -> Thank you everyone for the amazing suggestions! It's going to take me some time to follow up and make a master list, but I definitely will. I really appreciate the time everyone took so far. I'll add some more gibs as soon as I'm able, as a token of my appreciation.
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