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[Jackrabbit]

It's like the Cloverfield advertisement!

I MUST READ THIS BOOK!

[Jude]

My recommendations are:

A dirty job by Christopher Moore is strange, funny and charming, the Sherlock Holmes books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle should be read by everyone, even if it's just to remove the awful portrayal of him as a bumbling moron that is far too common,

I don't think Holmes has ever been portrayed as a bumbling moron.

Anyway, yeah, read Sherlock Holmes.

Read Gore Vidal - his historical novels, like Julian, Lincoln, Empire, Creation, Burr, and so on. I haven't read any of his weird transexual sci-fi stuff.

Read Tom Wolfe. Either he or Vidal is the best American author of our time. Wolfe's nonfiction is generally excellent and his three novels (Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, and I Am Charlotte Simmons) set a standard of amazing that has never been met.

Steven Pinker, Richard Dawkins, Matt Ridley all write very interesting things on evolutionary topics from genetics all the way up to psychology and language.

[eerr]

Try Wizard's First Rule, by terry goodkind.

It's about some dude with a sword, a hot woman who can "take" people with her magic, and a group of natives who like to get dirty.

Also, theres a few wizards somewhere but they're not important,
Yet.

[DJ]

Anything Poe. His stories are morbidly hilarious. My favourite must be Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym when

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they kill and eat that guy, and only then realize they have an axe, so they break down the kitchen door and go get the food and drinks

[LegoLord]

Try Wizard's First Rule, by terry goodkind.

It's about some dude with a sword, a hot woman who can "take" people with her magic, and a group of natives who like to get dirty.

Also, theres a few wizards somewhere but they're not important,
Yet.

If you read both that and Robert Jordan's series, there really isn't much difference.  Goodkind just uses different terms and characters and does more unnecessarily graphic descriptions of gorey things (little left to the imagination, type deal), and his series came later (though not much later).

[Mr Tk]

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

And yes it is as awesome as it sounds.

[JoshuaFH]

If you can find this book somewhere online for free, I'll love you forever.

[Venturi]

The Tarzan series by Edgar Rice Burroughs is a old excellent piece of work (i have every book but the last in first edition hardback)

Dean Koontz - Watchers.. it's about a dog named Einstein (or any book from him)

The Stand, It ( I use to play in old storm drains when I was I kid, the book scared the hell outta me ) or The Dark Tower series by Stephen King (his short stories are just as good)

Find a Author you like and devour the books!

[Capntastic]

If you can find this book somewhere online for free, I'll love you forever.

Isn't discussing piracy on these forums verbotten?

Anyways, I just wanna point out that on page 2 or so some people were prasing "A Song of Fire and Ice" when the title is actually "A Song of Ice and Fire".   I haven't read it, but I can't see how someone who has would get that wrong.

[JoshuaFH]

Who said anything about piracy? Free does not mean illegal.

[chaoticag]

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

And yes it is as awesome as it sounds.

I have it on my desk, but I do not want to revisit tenth grade... God that was a bad English year, along with eleventh grade. Adding zombies may or may not be worth it... so it is near the bottom of my "to read" list.