Books

Shutter Island
The Entire Hitchhiker's Guide series
Misery
The Hot Zone

Those are my favorites.

Currently reading a book called "We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families" by Philip Gourevitch. About the Rwandan Genocide.

 

I can't believe one could be meh about Monty Python =O But oh well. xD

The Shutter Island film was good, but disappointing to me, especially since it was Scorsese directing and he had all these great actors and beautiful cinematography. It just didn't have the ... sense of insanity that the book did. At least to me it didn't. But that's why I love the book so much more.

The Hot Zone by Richard Preston is a nonfiction book about Ebola, and specifically a small outbreak in DC. The way it is written however makes it rather exciting and horrifying. It's very good.

 

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was the last book I read but to name some authors I adore:

J.R.R. Tolkien, JK Rowling, John Green, Alex Sanchez, Stephen King, Stephen Chbosky, Anne Rice, Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, Darren Shan, Sarah Waters, Douglas Adams, Annette Kurtis Klause, etc etc.

I also really love the "... and Philosophy" series. Its these books that talk about pop culture things and philosophy. Example: "The Legend of Zelda and Philosophy", "Final Fantasy and Philosophy", "Manga and Philosophy", etc. theres even harry potter, t**light, watchmen, house, battlestar galactica, etc.

 

Harry Potter, Alex Rider (last one was pretty dire though) EVE online, Halo, Metro 2033, Darren Shan, Artemis Fowl, The Bible, Small Minded Giants (I am pining for a sequel)

 

MUST. BUY. BSG. ONE.



xD
Also, I really enjoyed the Halo novels too xD And the novelizations and spin offs of the Predator and subsequently Alien series. They're pretty fun. And I'm a big dork. I know. xD OH And there was a pretty awesome Splinter Cell book that I might've read when I was 14 or so. There was quite a graphic sex scene in that (in at least one of the Alien books too xD) and for my age I was quite surprised xD

 

The last book I've read was the 11th book of The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. Talk about a long winded series. Still I'm hooked, and I don't want to stop until I've got the last one behind me.

 

Last book I read was Catcher in the Rye. It was good.

My favorite books are:

Night
Lovely Bones
Anthem
Ender's Game

Anthem probably the best one out of those.

Spoiler

It's a story of a society, hundreds of years in the future that is completely communist. Any singular pronouns have been abolished (saying the word "I" or "Ego (Latin for I)" will get you killed) and the society is ran by a council. This council controls everything from breeding to intelligence. They intentionally put the stupid people in jobs such as scientists (In the book, the Candle was just re-invented) and the smart people in jobs such as street cleaners. Then by the end, the main character and his lover find books from the old era and vow to restore the free age.

 

The last book I read was "The lovely bones"

My favorites are:
The shining
El psicoanlista
Chronicles of Narnia: La travesia del viajero del alba (I dont remeber how to say it in english)
Lovely bones
Hannibal (What I´ve read. I never finished it because of external factors but soon I will)

 

I'm half way through the first book but i'm finding it hard to really get into. I take it you'd recommend sticking with it?

 

I was glad I didnt jump on the lovely bones hype. everyone in my writing group says the book is only worth the first half, then the author starts writing like they lost heart and soul in the second half, or just lost interest in the plot, and start doing irrational things without explenation. the characters start not doing the obvious, and start doing the irrational. It seemed like a good concept... the author just did not know how to make it work without resorting to cliches and cop outs.

 

I just finished Jane Eyre. It's pretty good. Surprising really, given when it was published.

Anything by george orwell is worth reading.

And for fiction, try Stephen Donaldson. The chronicles of thomas covenant has been one of my favourites since i was about 16.

 

I'm reading the girl who played with fire right now, it's pretty good.

My favourites:

Pride & Prejudice (well anything by Jane Austin, i spent the summer re-reading all her novels)
Harry Potter, i think my favourite is the prisoner of azkaban.
Lord of the rings
and most things by E. A Poe
there are probably others but my mind is somewhat blank right now.

I'm almost a quarter way through war & peace and i will finish it some day.

 

clive barker's Mr. B. Gone it has great gay undertones
alex sanchez's rainbow boys series

 

right now I am reading Aneid by Virgil, and The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan.

 

I just finished Pride and Prejudice. Jane Austen is amazing, and this is certainly her best work. Mansfield Park is also really good.

Besides that, I grew up with and love Harry Potter.

 

I love the Harry Potter series, the Anita Blake series, the Sookie Stackhouse series, the Merry Gentry series. I love books that are series a lot more than just single books. Allows you to get to know the characters more