Book club

[madmanjock]

Hello. This is not a troll post.

I haven't read a good book in a long long while. I've just bought a kindle and it comes with 3 months of Kindle Unlimited, but I'm happy to buy some others ontop as a Xmas read.

Anyone for some good book suggestions? I'm open to anything. Previously enjoyed 1984, Trainspotting and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

Thanks all, even for those suggestions of `kill yourself` and `What a faggot`.

 

[famicommander]

DUNE

 

[madmanjock]

DUNE

I was actually thinking that. Does the film cover the first book or less?

 

[famicommander]

I was actually thinking that. Does the film cover the first book or less?

The film covers roughly the first half of the book, though they still had to cut quite a bit.

 

[fake]

Recent stuff I've read and liked:
Frankenstein (1818 version)
The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman
Communion
The Forever War
Tolkien's translation of Sir Gawayn & the Green Knight
A compilation of Daphne du Maurier

 

[Lagduf]

The Forever War
Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
A Handmaids Tale
Catch-22
Starship Troopers

 

[ggallegos1]

Recent reads
The Forever War (fantastic and still relevant to a degree)
Just Mercy (much better than the film)
Resilience - non fiction practical book

 

[666ela]

I know this sounds like a feminist suggestion but I promise it is not, I would never base anything off of gender
if you like sci fi, one of my favorites of all time is Octavia butler's xenogenesis trilogy. it's great.
f you like trainspotting: Hubert Stanley Jr.'s last exit to Brooklyn. famous for requiem for a dream, but this is better
James Jones is stunning, my all time favorite being some came running.

and that's all for now folks!

 

[LoneSage]

100 Years of Solitude is one of the most incredible books I've ever read. I'm dumbfounded it isn't as well known as other classics.

 

[Lagduf]

100 Years of Solitude is one of the most incredible books I've ever read. I'm dumbfounded it isn't as well known as other classics.

Read it, now I need another suggestion from you.

 

[fake]

I know this sounds like a feminist suggestion but I promise it is not, I would never base anything off of gender
if you like sci fi, one of my favorites of all time is Octavia butler's xenogenesis trilogy. it's great.
f you like trainspotting: Hubert Stanley Jr.'s last exit to Brooklyn. famous for requiem for a dream, but this is better
James Jones is stunning, my all time favorite being some cake running.

and that's all for now folks!

I read my first book by her earlier this year. It felt like YA stuff but it kept me coming back.

 

[max 330 mega]

Recent favorite book that i came across was Nick Pollota's Illegal Aliens. It was funny, crude, and not PC... Since its from the 80s.

 

[HellioN]

The Shadow Over Innsmouth.
Hell, just about anything by H. P. Lovecraft really.
Isaac Asimov
Phillip K. Dick.
Thomas Sowell
Ray Bradbury
George Orwell
Aldous Huxley

I might come back with more.

 

[666ela]

I read my first book by her earlier this year. It felt like YA stuff but it kept me coming back.

this trilogy is unlike her other books, I swear

 

[SpamYouToDeath]

Yahtzee Croshaw's books are fun.

 

[kingcuckmelon1]

+1 you should read Dune also 'Superintelligence' by Nick Bostrom (also kys faggit)

 

[kingcuckmelon1]

Oh, 'A Clockwork Orange' by Anthony Burgess I'm pretty sure you like the movie and the book is a great read

 

[Late]

Here's some off the top of my head:

Halldor Laxness - The Light of the World and Salka Valka
Yukio Mishima - The Sea of Fertility (on the whole) and The Sound of Waves
Ivan Turgenev - Home of the Gentry
Evelyn Vaugh - Vile Bodies
Viktor Pelevin - Generation P
P.D James - The Children of Men
Ursula LeGuin - The Earthsea quartet
Louis-Ferdinand Celine - Journey to the End of the Night
Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita

 

[Bill Kilgore]

I'm scared to read books ever since i read Tolkiens Lord of the Ring and The Hobbit. Nothing will ever come close to these...

 

[Heinz]

I haven't read a book in years but the last one I read was Hunter S Thompsons Rum Diaries. Better than the film.

 

[madmanjock]

Genuine thanks for everyone’s suggestions - lots of books and authors I’d thought about but still somehow missed out on.

 

[LoneSage]

I am also a huge fan of Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth. In America it's required reading in high school English classes for like 9th or 10th grade but I re-read it every couple of years and still enjoy it.

 

[Burning Fight!!]

Read Logan's Run

Why did you think we were going to call you a ghey? We are civilized.

Spoiler:

Kill yourself

.

 

[NeoSneth]

When i ran out of stuff, I started the Dresden Files. There's 15+ books.
I'm not a massive fan, but I find them entertaining.

 

[Lagduf]

When i ran out of stuff, I started the Dresden Files. There's 15+ books.
I'm not a massive fan, but I find them entertaining.

Yeah Dresden Files is stupid as hell and pretty trashy but I enjoy them also. It’s my guilty pleasure series. Some of the books are way better than others.