Topic: Great books (Read 1785 times)
Harry Potter
Im not usually a big book reader,but this thread might inspire me to read more thanks
thanks
This is one of my favorites books so far and is ''The Knight in Rusty Armor'' wrote by Robert Fisher wonderful history, I really enjoyed, also I like the H. P Lovecraft books and Edgar All Poe of course also Paulo Coehlo.
Metro 2033 is a pretty good book. I love post-apocalyptic books, i want to read Metro 2034 too but some people say it's not pretty good.
George R.R. Martin is a great fantasy writer, also love his Fevre Dream, a vampire novel from 1982, but still fresh today 
I try to always read a book first, and they are always better, cause everyone has a different imagination, and it's always different (and better). Try it....you'll see, movie can never catch everything you imagine, and complete story, emotions.....
By the way, both great titles, wonder how Thrones will end after almost 20 years.....
By the way, both great titles, wonder how Thrones will end after almost 20 years.....
Game of Thrones
The fault in our stars is apparently good as the movie itself is a huge hit
I watched the movie the other day and it's worth a read i think.
The fault in our stars is apparently good as the movie itself is a huge hit
As I said my love is crime and thriller, so today.....I have read a lot of American crime authors, but i got saturated....In past couple of years, Croatian publishers turned more to Scandinavian crime....and i love it!
Cold, dark, depressive as their winters, they can force you to stay awake for all night...cause you're too scared to turn the light off, or simply cause you can't stop til the last page.
There are a lot of them, but today;
Jussi Adler Olsen
Jussi Adler-Olsen's career is characterised by his great involvement in a wide range of media related avtivities. In 1984 he made his debut as a non-fiction writer. 1997 saw his debut as a fiction writer. His latest novel is The Marco Effect (2012).
Born in Copenhagen, he was the youngest of four children and the only boy. Son of the successful sexologist and psychiatrist Henry Olsen, he spent his childhood with his family in doctors' official residences at several mental hospitals across Denmark. In his late teens, he played in a couple of pop groups as lead guitarist. Graduated from the state school in Rødovre (1970), 1970-78 he studied medicine, sociology (passed History of Modern Politics) and film making
The Keeper of Lost Causes (US), Mercy (UK), 2011
Police inspector Carl Mørck is put in charge of a department of cold cases, joined only by his assistant, Assad. They dig into a case about a disappeared woman.
And that's all I'm going to say.
Short chapters, humor and terror changing in same proportion, great characters, something different and refreshing....
So for all crime lovers, enjoy
Cold, dark, depressive as their winters, they can force you to stay awake for all night...cause you're too scared to turn the light off, or simply cause you can't stop til the last page.
There are a lot of them, but today;
Jussi Adler Olsen
Jussi Adler-Olsen's career is characterised by his great involvement in a wide range of media related avtivities. In 1984 he made his debut as a non-fiction writer. 1997 saw his debut as a fiction writer. His latest novel is The Marco Effect (2012).
Born in Copenhagen, he was the youngest of four children and the only boy. Son of the successful sexologist and psychiatrist Henry Olsen, he spent his childhood with his family in doctors' official residences at several mental hospitals across Denmark. In his late teens, he played in a couple of pop groups as lead guitarist. Graduated from the state school in Rødovre (1970), 1970-78 he studied medicine, sociology (passed History of Modern Politics) and film making
The Keeper of Lost Causes (US), Mercy (UK), 2011
Police inspector Carl Mørck is put in charge of a department of cold cases, joined only by his assistant, Assad. They dig into a case about a disappeared woman.
And that's all I'm going to say.
Short chapters, humor and terror changing in same proportion, great characters, something different and refreshing....
So for all crime lovers, enjoy
Had to read Brave New World in school! Have you also seen the movie adaption? It has Leonard Nimoy (Spock from Star Trek) in it, as well! Pretty funny to see that guy without his pointy ears and snarky remarks.
I had to read it in school too, but I have read it again when i was older, in English, and it was better.....
I have realized that some books i have read when i was young, and they were boring,when i read them now, with more life experience, they are great....Not all of them, some are same boring stuff like before (Goethe's Wherter).
I didn't watch the movie, actually didn't know that there was a movie
Had to read Brave New World in school! Have you also seen the movie adaption? It has Leonard Nimoy (Spock from Star Trek) in it, as well! Pretty funny to see that guy without his pointy ears and snarky remarks.
Today, 2 novels which somehow predicted future....
Aldous Huxley was born in Surrey, England, on July 26, 1894, to an illustrious family deeply rooted in England’s literary and scientific tradition.
Raised in this family of scientists, writers, and teachers (his father was a writer and teacher, and his mother a schoolmistress), Huxley received an excellent education.
Although much of his scientific understanding was superficial—he was easily convinced of findings that remained somewhat on the fringe of mainstream science—his education at the intersection of science and literature allowed him to integrate current scientific findings into his novels and essays in a way that few other writers of his time were able to do.
Huxley’s BRAVE NEW WORLD was published in 1932. His most enduring work imagined a fictional future in which free will and individuality have been sacrificed in deference to complete social stability.
Through its exploration of the pitfalls of linking science, technology, and politics, and its argument that such a link will likely reduce human individuality, Brave New World deals with similar themes as George Orwell’s famous novel 1984. Orwell wrote his novel in 1949, after the dangers of totalitarian governments had been played out to tragic effect in World War II, and during the great struggle of the Cold War and the arms race which so powerfully underlined the role of technology in the modern world. Huxley anticipated all of these developments. Hitler came to power in Germany a year after the publication of Brave New World. World War II broke out six years after. The atomic bomb was dropped thirteen years after its publication, initiating the Cold War and what President Eisenhower referred to as a frightening buildup of the “military-industrial complex.” Huxley’s novel seems, in many ways, to prophesize the major themes and struggles that dominated life and debate in the second half of the twentieth century, and continue to dominate it in the twenty-first.
In the late forties, Huxley started to experiment with hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD and mescaline. He also maintained an interest in occult phenomena, such as hypnotism, séances, and other activities occupying the border between science and mysticism. Huxley’s experiments with drugs led him to write several books that had profound influences on the sixties counterculture. The book he wrote about his experiences with mescaline, The Doors of Perception, influenced a young man named Jim Morrison and his friends, and they named the band they formed The Doors. (The phrase, “the doors of perception” comes from a William Blake poem called The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.)
Born Eric Blair in India in 1903, George Orwell was educated as a scholarship student at prestigious boarding schools in England. Because of his background—he famously described his family as “lower-upper-middle class”—he never quite fit in, and felt oppressed and outraged by the dictatorial control that the schools he attended exercised over their students’ lives. After graduating from Eton, Orwell decided to forego college in order to work as a British Imperial Policeman in Burma. He hated his duties in Burma, where he was required to enforce the strict laws of a political regime he despised. His failing health, which troubled him throughout his life, caused him to return to England on convalescent leave. Once back in England, he quit the Imperial Police and dedicated himself to becoming a writer.
Orwell devoted his energy to writing novels that were politically charged, first with Animal Farm in 1945, then with 1984 in 1949.
1984 is one of Orwell’s best-crafted novels, and it remains one of the most powerful warnings ever issued against the dangers of a totalitarian society. In Spain, Germany, and the Soviet Union, Orwell had witnessed the danger of absolute political authority in an age of advanced technology. He illustrated that peril harshly in 1984. Like Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932), 1984 is one of the most famous novels of the negative utopian, or dystopian, genre. Unlike a utopian novel, in which the writer aims to portray the perfect human society, a novel of negative utopia does the exact opposite: it shows the worst human society imaginable, in an effort to convince readers to avoid any path that might lead toward such societal degradation. In 1949, at the dawn of the nuclear age and before the television had become a fixture in the family home, Orwell’s vision of a post-atomic dictatorship in which every individual would be monitored ceaselessly by means of the telescreen seemed terrifyingly possible. That Orwell postulated such a society a mere thirty-five years into the future compounded this fear.
Of course, the world that Orwell envisioned in 1984 did not materialize, well some things did......
Aldous Huxley was born in Surrey, England, on July 26, 1894, to an illustrious family deeply rooted in England’s literary and scientific tradition.
Raised in this family of scientists, writers, and teachers (his father was a writer and teacher, and his mother a schoolmistress), Huxley received an excellent education.
Although much of his scientific understanding was superficial—he was easily convinced of findings that remained somewhat on the fringe of mainstream science—his education at the intersection of science and literature allowed him to integrate current scientific findings into his novels and essays in a way that few other writers of his time were able to do.
Huxley’s BRAVE NEW WORLD was published in 1932. His most enduring work imagined a fictional future in which free will and individuality have been sacrificed in deference to complete social stability.
Through its exploration of the pitfalls of linking science, technology, and politics, and its argument that such a link will likely reduce human individuality, Brave New World deals with similar themes as George Orwell’s famous novel 1984. Orwell wrote his novel in 1949, after the dangers of totalitarian governments had been played out to tragic effect in World War II, and during the great struggle of the Cold War and the arms race which so powerfully underlined the role of technology in the modern world. Huxley anticipated all of these developments. Hitler came to power in Germany a year after the publication of Brave New World. World War II broke out six years after. The atomic bomb was dropped thirteen years after its publication, initiating the Cold War and what President Eisenhower referred to as a frightening buildup of the “military-industrial complex.” Huxley’s novel seems, in many ways, to prophesize the major themes and struggles that dominated life and debate in the second half of the twentieth century, and continue to dominate it in the twenty-first.
In the late forties, Huxley started to experiment with hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD and mescaline. He also maintained an interest in occult phenomena, such as hypnotism, séances, and other activities occupying the border between science and mysticism. Huxley’s experiments with drugs led him to write several books that had profound influences on the sixties counterculture. The book he wrote about his experiences with mescaline, The Doors of Perception, influenced a young man named Jim Morrison and his friends, and they named the band they formed The Doors. (The phrase, “the doors of perception” comes from a William Blake poem called The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.)
Born Eric Blair in India in 1903, George Orwell was educated as a scholarship student at prestigious boarding schools in England. Because of his background—he famously described his family as “lower-upper-middle class”—he never quite fit in, and felt oppressed and outraged by the dictatorial control that the schools he attended exercised over their students’ lives. After graduating from Eton, Orwell decided to forego college in order to work as a British Imperial Policeman in Burma. He hated his duties in Burma, where he was required to enforce the strict laws of a political regime he despised. His failing health, which troubled him throughout his life, caused him to return to England on convalescent leave. Once back in England, he quit the Imperial Police and dedicated himself to becoming a writer.
Orwell devoted his energy to writing novels that were politically charged, first with Animal Farm in 1945, then with 1984 in 1949.
1984 is one of Orwell’s best-crafted novels, and it remains one of the most powerful warnings ever issued against the dangers of a totalitarian society. In Spain, Germany, and the Soviet Union, Orwell had witnessed the danger of absolute political authority in an age of advanced technology. He illustrated that peril harshly in 1984. Like Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932), 1984 is one of the most famous novels of the negative utopian, or dystopian, genre. Unlike a utopian novel, in which the writer aims to portray the perfect human society, a novel of negative utopia does the exact opposite: it shows the worst human society imaginable, in an effort to convince readers to avoid any path that might lead toward such societal degradation. In 1949, at the dawn of the nuclear age and before the television had become a fixture in the family home, Orwell’s vision of a post-atomic dictatorship in which every individual would be monitored ceaselessly by means of the telescreen seemed terrifyingly possible. That Orwell postulated such a society a mere thirty-five years into the future compounded this fear.
Of course, the world that Orwell envisioned in 1984 did not materialize, well some things did......
I have calculated, learned to read with 5, and since then i devour books....I can read one-two books per day, and some which are more for thinking in few days till week. So, i have read about 4500-5000 books till now, and have to admit, there are only few authors these days (not talking about classics) which can blew me off.
I am a fan of thriller and crime, but also love to read anything good in other fields.
I've discovered her few weeks ago, and think she might be my new favorite author.....Lucia Etxebarria, The Content of Silence.
Her speciality are human relationships, her language beautiful and hypnotic, i think i wasn't this excited since I've read Carlos Ruiz Zafon's The shadow of the wind, Kepler's Hypnotist, or Marqueze's One hundred years of loneliness.
For every bookworm who is not bonded in only one field, but like me loves anything that is really good, warm recommendation, and also for this three books, if you didn't read them
I am a fan of thriller and crime, but also love to read anything good in other fields.
I've discovered her few weeks ago, and think she might be my new favorite author.....Lucia Etxebarria, The Content of Silence.
Her speciality are human relationships, her language beautiful and hypnotic, i think i wasn't this excited since I've read Carlos Ruiz Zafon's The shadow of the wind, Kepler's Hypnotist, or Marqueze's One hundred years of loneliness.
For every bookworm who is not bonded in only one field, but like me loves anything that is really good, warm recommendation, and also for this three books, if you didn't read them
Buru Quartet by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, check them out:
This Earth of Mankind
Footsteps
Child of All Nations
House of Glass
EDIT: You can find them easily on Amazon.
This Earth of Mankind
Footsteps
Child of All Nations
House of Glass
EDIT: You can find them easily on Amazon.
I'd recommend:
"A Song of Ice and Fire" by George R R Martin
And if you like SF:
"A Fire Upon the Deep" and "A Deepness in the Sky" by Vernor Vinge
"Tuf Voyaging" by George R R Martin
Ender saga by Orson Scott Card
"A Song of Ice and Fire" by George R R Martin
And if you like SF:
"A Fire Upon the Deep" and "A Deepness in the Sky" by Vernor Vinge
"Tuf Voyaging" by George R R Martin
Ender saga by Orson Scott Card
the road
Ender's game
Ender's game
Game of thrones books pretty awesome but kinda like the TV show better
You mean A Song of Ice and Fire series?
You should also try out Dragonlance, I really liked that series.
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Noel Adams. It's said. I love that book along with others from this author. Sci-fi at it's best, irrationality at it's finest
Hitchhiker's Guide is an epic book, massive fan of Douglas Adams. Really enjoyed all the Red Dwarf novels, similar kind of wacky dry humor
Think William Gibson also needs a shout out, Neuromancer is a absolute classic.
I think there have been one or two threads about this topic already, but I can only recommend "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" to people! It's awesome, and really a different thing than the movie. The movie is a nice adaption, but doesn't get the point across like the book does. I always meant to read more books by Hunter S. Thompson!
Thank you. I didn't find that title in Croatia, but we got Fear and Loathing in New York, three short stories, and they are on my list
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