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I love that this thread was started. I assume we are going to see a huge variety of choices in this...
I read mostly sci fi and fantasy. Almost always fiction. I read for entertainment.
Just this morning I finished Skyward by Branden Sanderson. A fantastic novel about a girl who's father is the best pilot for a futuristic human population stranded on an alien planet being constantly attacked from the sky by another alien race. Well when she is young her father supposedly becomes a coward and runs away and is shot down by his co-pilots in battle. So she grows up constantly being bullied for being the "cowards daughter". This drivers her to be determined to join the very difficult flight school, become a pilot herself, and restore the name of her family. Fascinating world, but what made the book awesome to me was the ending. Lots of questions are answered, but enough were left for it's sequel supposedly coming out in the fall of 2019.
Those are way way way at the top of my all time best list. But Rothfuss has got to finish the dag gum things!
It was a freaking chore to read that mess.... That may very well be my least favorite book ever.
Stormlight is pretty good. But his Mistborn series is his best work IMO. But Branden Sanderson is an amazing author regardless. I've yet to read anything by him I didn't love.
I recently listened to All quiet on the Western Front, somehow missed that in HS, enjoyed it.
World War Z is one I recommend, it was very different from the movie.
I've decided to listen to No Country for Old Men, I read the book a few years ago, I love Cormac McCarthy's style.
I browse the suggestabook type threads on Reddit and other places and I've seen tons of recs for Sanderson. He seems to have a lot of books/series and I've been wondering where would be a good place to start with him? Should I give Mistborn a try or start with a one off to see if I like him do ya think?
The Last Kingdom if you like historical fiction
Read 'The Undefeated: The Story of the Oklahoma Sooners and The Greatest Winning Streak in College Football' also by Dent. It's the story of how Oklahoma rose to prominence in the late 40s and during the 50s under Bud Wilkinson, and it details their 47-game winning streak, and also the aftermath when they finally did lose a game.
It tells of much corruption during their run, and also details interesting players they had back then...Like pro wrestler Wahoo McDaniel, and Prentiss Gaunt....the first black player to ever play for OU.
I highly recommend it if you are a college football fan in general.
On that note, I recently was in a Goodwill store and found a copy of Dooley's book written with Loren Smith on his 25 years coaching at UGA. As I opened the book, surprise, surprise.....It was autographed by Dooley himself. Bought it for only 5 bucks.
Mistborn for sure. It's a completed 3 book series. Although he did write other books in that world that occur much later. But that book series absolutely amazed me and could very well be my favorite of all time. The ending is phenomenal. And what is really neat is that each of the 3 books is very different. Same people and world but the story takes amazing turns that you will never see coming. I truly can't recommend it enough.
Awesome find on the Dooley book. And I'll read 'The Undefeated'. Dent's life was/is a wreck but he is a great author.
The zero dialog except with personified innanimate objects gimmick was awful.
I remember he actually came out with a warning at the beginning of the book that it was not exactly like his other stuff. But geeze, I thought he was just trying to be modest O.O
Here is what I have read in the last year and a half or so. Some were great and some were just ok
The Fortunate Pilgrim by Mario Puzo
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Neuromancer by William Gibson
The Fellowship of the Ring by Tolkien
The Bobiverse Trilogy by Dennis E Taylor
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories by Norman Maclean
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Kingkiller Chronicles part 1 and 2 by Patrick Rothfuss
I am currently reading The Complete Short Stories (Finca Vigia Edition) by Ernest Hemingway
My next two will be
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
Not 100% what is after that
One book I recommend to everyone is A Quiet Place of Violence: Hunting and Ethics in the Missouri River Breaks by Allen Morris Jones
It is a fantastic read about hunting, philosophy, and man's role in nature
Those are books I have read and are all good to great. Ready Player One was a recent movie. The movie was actually okay, and I was kind of worried about it. But that book is straight up fantastic. It's full of 80s nostalgia as well (which is why it was in the movie). I almost mentioned it as a must read. Glad to see someone else read it.
oawful.o> @tfk_fanboy said:
This list covers many good ones. Bobiverse being the sneaky good series I wouldn't have expected to love. Check out the Expeditionary Force series by Craig Alanson and the Magic 2.0 series by Scott Meyer for others that will surprise you.
Great book for sure...Armada is also worth reading if you like Ernest Cline's style.
I loved reading Ready Player One. I agree the movie was ok but that is as far as I am willing to go in complimenting it ha. It probably should have been two movies
I recommend the Bobiverse trilogy if you liked that. Fast paced, easy to read, does not take itself too seriously, and just a fun trilogy.
Yeah, I ended up enjoying it quite a bit.
Funny you mention the magic 2.0 as Off to Be A Wizard is on my to-read list. I have not heard of the other but I will look into it.
If you have any kids the audiobook Zero G by Dan Well is a fun one. My son and I finished it a couple of weeks ago.
I've wanted to.... but I was so worried about a let down since there is no way it could be as good as RP1.