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Books you recommend

SheWolf said:
I want to read some fantasy books.. Can anybody recommend something, or something for a first time reader?

The only one I have read is Sword of Truth, and it was ok. I didn't really like the main character and I didn't like the flow of the story either...
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The series from RR martin "a song of ice and fire"
 
  • It doesn't take a hero : General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, the autobiography by H. Norman Schwarzkopf
  • The hunt for Bin Laden : Task Force Dagger by Robin Moore
  • Killer elite : [the inside story of America's most secret special operations team] by Michael Smith.
  • Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers (If you like that read the sequel: Sunrise over Fallujah, also by Myers)
  • The end of oil : on the edge of a perilous new world by Paul Roberts
  • How to make war : a comprehensive guide to modern warfare by James F. Dunnigan.
  • House of war : the Pentagon and the disastrous rise of American power by James Carroll
  • The sorrows of empire : militarism, secrecy, and the end of the Republic by Chalmers Johnson
  • A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
 
Suprisingly good read: Bat Dorn. Found it 20 years ago...loved it. It is a western.
 
Have just finished American Gods by Neil Gaiman and can't recommend it enough. I haven't been transported away by a book like that since I discovered Heinlein over twenty years ago.
 
These are the best books I've read in recent memory...

Novels:
  • The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
  • Leo the African by Amin Maalouf
  • The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al-Aswany
  • The Clothes on their Backs by Linda Grant
  • Brick Lane by Monica Ali

Sci-fi:
  • The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks
Autobiography:
  • Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas
Biography:
  • Tamerlane by Justin Marozzi

History:
  • A Concise History of Byzantium by John Julius Norwich

Psychology:
  • The Selfish Capitalist by Oliver James
 
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Baltim said:
Have just finished American Gods by Neil Gaiman and can't recommend it enough. I haven't been transported away by a book like that since I discovered Heinlein over twenty years ago.
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Yeah, that's a wonderful tale of modern fantasy. Gaiman is just a good author, period. Don't think I'll ever read his "Sandman" though...
 
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Anything by Ann Coulter, anything by Harry Turtledove, The Truth about Muhammad by Robert Spencer, Day by Day Armageddon by J.L. Bourne.
 
marduc said:
Another great series I would recommend is superficially about vampires (yeah I know tired genre but it is a very unique take on it) was the Necroscope series by Brian Lumley. The vampire them is basically used as a scaffold to hang an intriguing page turning fusion of pseudo-fantasy (with very well developed alternate worlds as you get into the series) paranormal, and secret government agency themes that was very intriguing
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For me, vampire sagas begin and end with the Necroscope series (1st five books anyway).

I'd love to see Edward Cullen come up against Faethor Ferenczy :D
 
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