weemadarthur
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Beowulf
The Nibelungenlied
The Nibelungenlied
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Recommend me a book to read, and I'll read it...
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Magician by Raymond E. Feist
Great fantasy novel, and one of my favourite books ever. I give it a re-read every few years and it's still enjoyable.
Graphic novels, I'll suggest:
Watchmen
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 1 & 2 (read the "Century Trilogy afterwards if you liked the first two)
Batman: Year One
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Batman: The Long Halloween
Great fantasy novel, and one of my favourite books ever. I give it a re-read every few years and it's still enjoyable.
Graphic novels, I'll suggest:
Watchmen
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 1 & 2 (read the "Century Trilogy afterwards if you liked the first two)
Batman: Year One
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Batman: The Long Halloween
chaostrophy
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Use of Weapons, by Iain M. Banks.
weemadarthur
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Yeah, but it's not available in digital format.
Is it available in English? Or has it not been translated either?
SteveWinwood
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War and Peace
yes I have read it
yes you should read it
just for the... experience
yes I have read it
yes you should read it
just for the... experience
Glirk-Dirka
Banned
1984
A Confederacy of Dunces
1Q84
Band of Brothers
The Stand
A Confederacy of Dunces
1Q84
Band of Brothers
The Stand
Don't think I've seen it posted yet so,
The Dresden Files
(There's like 13-14 books all of them great)
It's what actually got me into reading. I don't think I've ever finished a book before reading that series. I believe you can get them digitally on Amazon and they even have some Audible versions read by James Marsters of Buffy/Angel fame.
Edit: There's also some comics made and they even made it a television show for a season which I actually enjoyed for what it was.
The Dresden Files
(There's like 13-14 books all of them great)
It's what actually got me into reading. I don't think I've ever finished a book before reading that series. I believe you can get them digitally on Amazon and they even have some Audible versions read by James Marsters of Buffy/Angel fame.
Edit: There's also some comics made and they even made it a television show for a season which I actually enjoyed for what it was.
Edmond Dantès
Dantès the White
The Alexiad by Anna Komnene and translated by Peter Frankopan
NipplesAndToes23
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Wild Seed by Octavia Butler. It's the best out of her Patternist series and chronologically the first one.
If you want to start reading a solid, down to earth Fantasy writer then I recommend Joe Abercrombie. Start with "The Blade Itself" and just read them as they came out. Amazing world building, great characters, great plots, and an overarching theme that is like no other.
It's not at all nerdy or fruity. It's more gritty and modern than other fantasy. It's as if Quentin Tarrantino wrote fantasy novels.
It's not at all nerdy or fruity. It's more gritty and modern than other fantasy. It's as if Quentin Tarrantino wrote fantasy novels.
It is!
One of the translators wrote an article about it for The Telegraph, if you're interested in what it is about and why it is well-regarded.
Quick and easy adventure story that is oozing with video game and nerd culture. If you are a child of the 80s and 90s read this freaking book NOW.
worst book I've read all year.
targets 30yo with the references, is written in a style targeted at 15 years old.
the sad tales of the brothers grossbart
cloud atlass
le conte de monte-cristo
Orbis Tabula
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Has anyone read À la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust and really enjoyed it? Because that would be a fun obligation for the OP.
Edmond Dantès;139827400 said:
I found an edition edited by Peter Frankopan, but translated by E. R. A. Sewter. Is there another translated by him?
I'm reading it next year~
In English
weemadarthur
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Unfinished? Maybe I'll just go back to The Faerie Queen.
Edmond Dantès
Dantès the White
The 2009 edition for Penguin Classics is the one. Mr Frankopan used Sewter's translation as a basis for his version but there are enough modifications to the text to constitute quite a significant change. His explanatory notes too are very accomplished and add much value to the edition.
It was finished!
After his death
Supposedly based on the author's manuscripts, though there's some scholarly disputes and whatnot
More seriously, it's unfinished in the same way that, say, The Silmarillion is unfinished. It shouldn't dissuade you from it.
Edit: Merci, Monsieur le Comte.
I'm not sure I believe you will, but I hope so! My recommendation is a book I enjoyed, in fact I would use the old cliche and say it changed my life, and at least has been on my mind almost every day since I read it and every time I've read any other book. A wild, wild ride: Villette.
XShadows69
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Fahrenheit 451 is a classic if you haven't read it yet
weemadarthur
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It was finished!
More seriously, it's unfinished in the same way that, say, The Silmarillion is unfinished. It shouldn't dissuade you from it.
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Oh, like the Silmarillion, you say?
<.<
>.>
Nah, been sleeping fine lately.
terrisus
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If it's been 11 years since you read them, I would say give them a read again, and then dive into the other stuff.
Oh, hush you :þ
ThatStupidLion
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where the red fern grows
Polishin8r
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Childhood's end by Clarke
CharminUltra
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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
ThatStupidLion
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dbl post sorry -
uhm.. the harry potters are fun.
uhm.. the harry potters are fun.
thequickandthedead
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Tractatus Logico Philosophicus by Wittgenstein.
I'm not sure I believe you will, but I hope so! My recommendation is a book I enjoyed, in fact I would use the old cliche and say it changed my life, and at least has been on my mind almost every day since I read it and every time I've read any other book. A wild, wild ride: Villette.
How curious. I can't recall even hearing about this before now.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Quicksilver, by Neal Stephenson.
Broder Salsa
Banned
Ada or Ardor, by Nabokov. Enjoy.
It's underrated partly because it's not at all filmable, I can't think of any way of adapting it to a TV or silver screen format and that's how many 'old books' keep their brand these days. But critically it's been gaining ground and hype http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/...te-Why-Villette-is-better-than-Jane-Eyre.html
Lufiaddict
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You are so mean.
Cow Mengde
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The Complete Dinosaur 2nd Edition.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008HNMAJG/?tag=neogaf0e-20
Romance of the 3 Kingdoms
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AQJKOOM/?tag=neogaf0e-20
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008HNMAJG/?tag=neogaf0e-20
Romance of the 3 Kingdoms
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AQJKOOM/?tag=neogaf0e-20
Blood Red Sky
Banned
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, followed by À Rebours by JK Huysmans. Both are available as free Kindle ebooks.
Dorian Gray is just brilliant - beautiful, decadent and twisted - and À Rebours (aka Against Nature) is the poisonous little yellow book that's the catalyst for... you'll see.
Dorian Gray is just brilliant - beautiful, decadent and twisted - and À Rebours (aka Against Nature) is the poisonous little yellow book that's the catalyst for... you'll see.
Blood Red Sky
Banned
So it goes.
The Complete Dinosaur is amazing. If you only read one dinosaur book, you should read that one.
I didn't say it was like The Silmarillion; I said it was "unfinished" in a similar way.
But The Silmarillion is also wonderful.
Yeah, yeah. When are you going to read it?
thecouncil
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Dandelion Wine. Ray Bradbury. My favorite book.
FairFriend
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I've read the first three books and I'm currently reading the fourth one. I would advice against reading them in a row. Actually I read one book per year, growing up with the protagonist (well, the ages don't match exactly). What people usually don't know is that these books are usually light in tone, they often make the reader laugh at the convetions of society and the behaviour of the individual, especially when in love. I've never read more convincing analysis of the human psyche than those contained in these books.
I'll mention more than one book, although I don't know whether they've all been released digitally:
The western canon (and almost every book, poem etc. cited within it), Harold Bloom
The Colour Out Of Space, H.P. Lovecraft (it's a short story, so if you want a book buy the Penguin anthology edited by Joshi; eventually if you are interested in the figure of Lovecraft read his biography, I Am Providence)
Wuthering Heights, E. Bronte
Swann's Way (and the following books, with the aforementioned caution), M. Proust
Proust, H. Pinter (a screenplay, based on the recherche, if you need to orientate yourself)
Dead Souls, N. Gogol
The Plague, A. Camus
Doctor Faustus, T. Mann
We, Y. Zamyatin (I did enjoy it, but I would sugget it anyway just to find out how much overrated the other distopian authors are, especially Orwell. )
The time machine, H.G. Wells
Waiting for Godot, S. Beckett
Endgame, S. Beckett
Everything by Shakespeare (apart from the sonnets, which still have inspired my username), but that should be included in the first suggestion, as well as Dante and Goethe's Faust.
The C programming language, Kernichan & Ritchie, if you feel inclined.
Annotated Turing, C. Petzold (containing the entirety of On computable numbers)
Well, there are so many books worth reading, so little time. Why don't you suggest a specific genre?
Mineshaft_Gap
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A Confederacy of Dunces
maquiladora
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Did you read it in French, or in translation? Do you have a preference on translator? And same questions RE: Goethe's Faust.
This is next on my list.
OP- I just finished 10:04, and quite enjoyed it. Pretentious as hell at times, but was still quite good.
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