Arcesious Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Well, I think the reading bug has bit me this time around. I found "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu on the good old internet and it's simply facinating. What 'Brilliant' books have you recently found/read? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabretooth Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 I'm not reading as many books as I should be, but I finished The Man Who Was Thursday a month ago and loved every bit of it. Before that I read Brave New World and that was quite brilliant. Before that I read The Difference Engine, the definitive steampunk novel. While its not the greatest tome I've read, it was very fascinating and unique in its aesthetic and feel. At the moment I'm reading The Fountainhead at a rather lackadaisical pace. :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Doctor Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Pillars of the Earth and its sequel World Without End, by Ken Follet, are both great. But George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is by far the best book ever written, bar none. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Litofsky Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is by far the best book ever written, bar none. Concur. Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, comes in a close second for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrrtoken Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Off the top of my head; Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein, Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, Animal Farm by George Orwell, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Det. Bart Lasiter Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 At the moment I'm reading The Fountainhead at a rather lackadaisical pace. :/burn it and play bioshock hth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Q Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 No kidding. Ayn Rand has to be the worst writer of the 20th Century. Her novels are excruciating. Read Orwell instead. He can say just as much as or more than Rand with a fraction of the words. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JediMaster12 Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 I read Brave New World and thought Huxley was on something but I see now his point. Gives me a better perspective and comparison with Athem by Rand. Aristotles Poetics I read and found it fascinating particularly the dramatic volume. I did reread Orwells 1984 and thought about whether or not he was like Jules Verne with From the Earth to the Moon; a visionary that saw a possibility even though he was writing political satire. Can't go wrong with Animal Farm either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabish Bini Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 For the third time in a different thread: Life's Missing Instruction Manual: A Guide you ashould've been given at birth by Dr Joe Vitale. All you need to succeed at life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattig89ch Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 I'm re-reading the lord of the rings trilogy. If anyone has read it, I just got to the town with the prancing pony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabretooth Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 No kidding. Ayn Rand has to be the worst writer of the 20th Century. Her novels are excruciating. Read Orwell instead. He can say just as much as or more than Rand with a fraction of the words. I dunno, I've read Orwell and all, but Rand is also very good. I love her writing so far. :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Dravis Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 I agree with sabre, I liked Rand's style as well (and I'll back him up on the quality of The Man Who Was Thursday, an excellent book). I'll add some books: Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, Hesse's Narcissus and Goldmund and Lewis' Till We Have Faces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salzella Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 i'll go for anything by Terry Pratchett, Iain M. Banks, Neil Gaiman or Chris Brookmyre. classics be damned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pho3nix Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 Not really that recent, but The World Without Us by Alan Weisman. Brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnus Q'ol Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions Trevannian - Shibumi Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game Hemmingway - The Sun Also Rises Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev7 Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 The Odyssey by Homer. Not done with it, but we are reading some of it at school. Some good stories. Tom Clancy isn't bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabretooth Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions This reminds me, I'm going to read Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five sometime soon. Has anyone here read it? Any thoughts, etc.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrion Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 This reminds me, I'm going to read Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five sometime soon. Has anyone here read it? Any thoughts, etc.? It's good. Definitely worth the read, anyway - I think it's below 200 pages. I preferred Cat's Cradle to it, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommanderQ Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 Hunt for Red October, definately brilliant. Bravo, Tom Clancy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bee Hoon Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 I preferred Cat's Cradle to it, though. Reading that induced a really surreal mood for the rest of the day I prefer The Sirens of Titan, not the least because I traded Cat's Cradle for it with my sister. Just trying to tell myself that I didn't get cheated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Q Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 I dunno, I've read Orwell and all, but Rand is also very good. I love her writing so far. :/ Don't get me wrong: I love her stories, but her writing style is horrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabish Bini Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 Hunt for Red October, definately brilliant. Bravo, Tom Clancy! Ooh, that's a good movie, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astor Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 I like historical fiction, such as those written by Alan Mallinson (Matthew Hervey series), Bernard Cornwell (Sharpe) and George Macdonald Fraser (Flashman). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth InSidious Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 The Loved One and A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh, Brighton Rock by Graham Greene (watch the film of The Third Man). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommanderQ Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 OOOH! Seeing as this is a Lucas Forum thingy, Karen Traviss and the Republic Commando books!! AWESOME! {It has also been confirmed that she is writing an Imperial Commando book} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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