Book Suggestions?

[Mandalore93]

I just got done with the A Song of Fire and Ice Novels (for now) as well as finishing God Is Not Great by Hitchens, World War Z, and Letter To a Christian Nation by Sam Harris. Generally I enjoy books in these genres: Sci-fi, "fantasy", fictional history, actual history, and just in general books that combine action with political intrigue. I listen to audio books while at work so I go through them VERY quickly. Was just wondering if anyone had some good suggestions for me to yo ho ho.

[Millburn]

Anything Philip K Dick is a surefire win. I'm sure you've seen Blade Runner, which was an adaptation of one of his novels. My favorite of his stories though is The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. It's much more of a slower paced book, that deals with the apathy of an individual. The setting is dystopian as one would expect from a PKD novel and pushes every sci fi fans button with drugs, technology, society, spaceships, and aliens.

http://awayandaway.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/The-Three-Stigmata-of-Palmer-Eldritch.jpg

http://www.amazon.com/Three-Stigmata-Palmer-Eldritch/dp/0547572557

[Dalven]

Next to ASOIAF my favourite fantasy stuff is Robin Hobbs' Realm of the Elderlings books (start with Assassin's Quest) and Joe Abercrombie's series which begins with The Blade Itself. Another couple of authors who aren't afraid to put their characters through the wringer, and Abercrombie's stuff has a great vein of dark humour running through it.

[Sirken]

Vlad Taltos series by Steven Brust

[lecompte]

The Black Prism - Brent Weeks
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Dune - you know who.
Taming Fire - Aaron Pogue
The Warded Man - Peter V Brett

[Autotune]

The Black Prism - Brent Weeks
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Dune - you know who.
Taming Fire - Aaron Pogue
The Warded Man - Peter V Brett

My brother-in-law just loaned me this book (The warded man) a few months back and haven't gotten started on it yet.

He mentioned it was very similar to Brent Weeks book The Way of Shadows (The Night Angel trilogy) which I liked quite a bit.

Since I haven't read The Warded Man yet, I'd definitely suggest The Night Angel trilogy by Brent Weeks.

[Orruar]

If you like hard sci fi, go with Flying to Valhalla by Charles Pellegrino or Dragon's Egg by Robert Forward. Anything from Arthur C Clarke is also a good read. Or if you want more Earthly based sci fi, Prey by Michael Crichton is pretty good. For softer sci fi, the Foundation series by Asimov is top notch and can keep you busy for a while.

[Piff]

Anything from Arthur C Clarke is also a good read.

Yes - my suggestion to you, OP, is Clarke's Childhood's End.
It's as interesting as it is brief and the science fiction is brilliant.

[Mandalore93]

My scifi runs pretty soft. I own just about every star wars novel ever created as I love that universe. Never really could get into dicks work for whatever reason.
I'll have to check out all these suggestions at some point. I did discovers bunch of dragon lance and star wars audio books before work and those should occupy me for a month hopefully but I literally go through two in three days usually.

[Bardalicious]

The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan would keep you busy for awhile.

[Robdukes]

Joe Abercrombie's series which begins with The Blade Itself. and Abercrombie's stuff has a great vein of dark humour running through it.

+1 for Joe Abercrombie's "The First Law" series

also since you mentioned history and fictional history I've been reading Graham Hancock's "War God"..about the spanish conquest of mexico. He's a great writer..also worth checking out his videos on youtube. He gives some good lectures on the lost civilizations etc.

[Darkpretzel]

Vlad Taltos series by Steven Brust

fuck yeah loved these

[Zereh]

Neil Gaiman; Neverwhere, Stardust and American Gods were all great reads.

[Langrisserx]

The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan would keep you busy for awhile.

yea because you'll wonder out loud wtf is wrong with the author... oh yea he wanted to be tolkien but he aint

[Bardalicious]

yea because you'll wonder out loud wtf is wrong with the author... oh yea he wanted to be tolkien but he aint

your opinion is obviously ubiquitous to everyone that has read a book, ever.

keep your shitty rants and flames to rants and flames section.

[Autotune]

your opinion is obviously ubiquitous to everyone that has read a book, ever.

keep your shitty rants and flames to rants and flames section.

It's his opinion.

Here is some RnF

You're a fucking moron, faggot.

[Zadrian]

Metro 2033 (I believe there is an english translation out there somewhere...Or this is a good change for you to try to learn a new language.)

A Clockwork Orange

[Neea]

The Steel Remains by Richard Morgan.

First of a trilogy. The second is out, but not the third.

BTW, main character is gay, so don't get this if you are offended by relatively graphic sex.

[indiscriminate_hater]

go old school, read the Three Musketeers saga by Alexandre Dumas (there are 5 books total - Musketeers is the first).

they're excellent adventures stories and historical fictions with lots of political intrigue, so you learn quite a bit about french/english history in that time period

[Sidelle]

Recently read:

* PENPAL by Dathan Auerbach - creepy, psychological-type horror
* EDEN by Dean Crawford - post apocalyptic, book one in a trilogy (will read book two soon)
* THE ATLANTIS GENE by A.G. Riddle - action, political intrigue/espionage, sci-fi, fictional history of human origins. Book one in a trilogy (reading book two soon)

Some older favorites I've read more than once, they were that good:

* THE LIGHT BEARER and LADY OF THE LIGHT by Donna Gillespie - historical fiction set during the Chattian Wars with the 1st century Roman Empire
* OUTLANDER by Diana Gabaldon - historical fiction and time travel. Book one in a series of 6; book 7 coming out soon.

[Chronoburn]

This thread has some good suggestions http://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=117399

I would highly recommend this book though ...

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[Ahldagor]

^that sounds like an infinite jest rip off.

[Retti_]

I read p99 forums

[Bardalicious]

It's his opinion.

Here is some RnF

You're a fucking moron, faggot.

Remember when you didn't have to resort to overplayed trolls to get the attention you so desire?

Eheheh, yeah.. neither do I.

[Autotune]

Remember when you didn't have to resort to overplayed trolls to get the attention you so desire?

Eheheh, yeah.. neither do I.

You think you're funny, but you're not.
You think I was trying to be funny, but I was not.

I was showing you the difference and you seem to be too ignorant to notice.

[Sirken]

Neil Gaiman; American Gods .. great read..

i keep hearing this, probably for sure maybe the next book im gonna read

[Sirken]

go old school, read the Three Musketeers saga by Alexandre Dumas (there are 5 books total - Musketeers is the first).

they're excellent adventures stories and historical fictions with lots of political intrigue, so you learn quite a bit about french/english history in that time period

if u are a fan of Dumas and his Musketeers series, you must check out The Phoenix Guards series by Steven Brust. 5 books in the series, they are: "The Phoenix Guard", "500 Years After", "The Paths of the Dead", "The Lord of Castle Black", and "Sethra Lavode"

get on that.

[Ahldagor]

canticle for leibowitz

[Millburn]

This thread has some good suggestions http://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=117399

I would highly recommend this book though ...

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There's literally no way in hell to do this book in Audio. I had to re-read it at least 3 times and stare at the pages, look at it upside down, flip back and forth between chapters, and I still don't understand it all. It's an amazing book for sure, but it would be absolute shit in audiobook format.