Oh, and yeah, no vampire books please.
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MiZZAmaNda |
Recommend a good good book! |
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Posts: 3357 (10/06/2009 3:17 PM) |
I need something new to read! Something exciting, like science fiction.
Oh, and yeah, no vampire books please.
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Posts: 18700 (10/06/2009 3:27 PM) |
I just started The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown, so if you liked books like The Davinci Code and Angels and Demons you'll like the new one.
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the lakes slave |
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Posts: 64172 (10/06/2009 3:31 PM) |
What kind of science fiction do you like? Are we talking space/alien stuff? Or more...monsters?
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MiZZAmaNda |
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Posts: 3358 (10/06/2009 3:31 PM) |
Perhaps I should give it a try. Not a huge fan of the Davinci Code though...
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Revolutionary115 |
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Posts: 8196 (10/06/2009 3:33 PM) |
It's an oldie, but try "The Illustrated Man" by Ray Bradbury...
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Kit505 |
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Posts: 9217 (10/06/2009 3:33 PM) |
Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game
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MiZZAmaNda |
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Posts: 3359 (10/06/2009 3:34 PM) |
the lakes slave wrote: lol. Don't like aliens, star trek, monsters or anything like that.
I just wanna read something exciting, science fiction was the first that came to mind.
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beautifulbelief |
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Posts: 4763 (10/06/2009 3:38 PM) |
It's not science fiction, but read "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. It's pretty hard to put down.
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HappyCori |
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Posts: 1113 (10/06/2009 3:44 PM) |
The Husband, Dean Koontz
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littlelachey0618 |
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Posts: 680 (10/06/2009 3:47 PM) |
Time Traveller's Wife, I forget the author right off the top of my head.
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99thdegree |
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Posts: 29473 (10/06/2009 3:49 PM) |
Outlander-Diana Gabaldon
I read this a month or two ago and it was really engaging. Very interesting. Romantic. Lots of action. |
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Posts: 6419 (10/06/2009 3:52 PM) |
littlelachey0618 wrote:I was going to say this one too. |
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MiZZAmaNda |
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Posts: 3360 (10/06/2009 3:55 PM) |
jbcox2002 wrote: I saw the movie, and wasn't really that impressed... I don't know. Too much romance perhaps. I want something a bit scary. I like clues and numbers.
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SuperheroPip18 |
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Posts: 23872 (10/06/2009 3:58 PM) |
Dark Tower Series!!!!!!!!!! I'm almost done with book two and it's SOOO GOOOD
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iLOVEtubas |
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Posts: 21553 (10/06/2009 4:04 PM) |
SuperheroPip18 wrote:My fiance LOVES those books. He is halfway through book 7, so hes about to run out of books.
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Jane Smith |
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Posts: 743 (10/06/2009 4:36 PM) |
99thdegree wrote:Seconding this rec. I love the whole series! I just finished Going Bovine by Libba Bray. It was very weird and trippy but good. And funny. If you like that check out her Gemma Doyle trilogy. It's a complete 180 in terms of plot, writing, and subject matter but it's just as absorbing. At the moment I'm reading The Forrest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan which is pretty cool so far. Poison Study by Maria V Snyder was pretty absorbing IMO. I also liked the sequel, Magic Study. There's one more in the series called Fire Study but I haven't read that one yet. These aren't in the sci-fi fantasy area at all but are really good: The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield- I actually expected this to be dull but my eyes were glued to the page. It was creepy in a strange way Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane- There are several times when you think you know how things are working and how the mystery will be solved. Chances are you don't have it figured out right, and even if you predict one plot twist you won't predict them all The Ruins by Scott Smith- The movie is not a good indicator of what the book is. It's dark and scary on a really primal level. The begining is a bit dull but hand in there because it slowly builds. |
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Posts: 22429 (10/06/2009 4:38 PM) |
If you haven't yet- read Day of the Triffids and Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Both are pretty quick reads but VERY GOOD.
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AngelsTearDrop |
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Posts: 22430 (10/06/2009 4:38 PM) |
iLOVEtubas wrote:My sister told me how it ends. At least now I know to never read them. |
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Posts: 2601 (10/06/2009 4:48 PM) |
jbcox2002 wrote:Audrey Niffeneger. great great book. |
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Posts: 5509 (10/06/2009 4:51 PM) |
Homer & Langley, A Novel by E. L. Doctorow based on a true story (kind of like Grey Gardens, but in NYC)
I was a teenager when the Collyer brothers were found dead in their Fifth Avenue brownstone. Instantly, they were folklore. And so there is the real historical existence of them and the mythological existence--two existences, as with Abe Lincoln, though of a less exalted standing. I didn't know at the time that I would someday write about them, but even then I felt there was some secret to the Collyers--there was something about them still to be discovered under the piles of things in their house--the bales of newspapers and the accumulated detritus of their lives. Was it only that they were junk-collecting eccentrics? You see that every day in the streets of New York. They had opted out--that was the primary fact. Coming from a well-to-do family, with every advantage, they had locked the door and closed the shutters and absented themselves from the life around them. A major move, as life-transforming as emigration. In fact it was a form of emigration, of leave-taking. But where to? What country was within that house? What would have caused them to become the notorious recluses of Fifth Avenue? As myths, the brothers demanded not research but interpretation, and when a few years ago I was finally moved to do this book, I felt as if writing it was an act of breaking and entering just to see what may have been going on in that house, which really meant getting inside two very interesting minds. And with the first sentence, "I'm Homer, the blind brother," I was in. |
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Posts: 1051 (10/06/2009 4:53 PM) |
I know you said you weren't a fan of The Davinci Code, but did you read Angels & Demons? I thought it was way better than DVC, and is definitely about
clues and symbols.
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