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What are some books you would recommend?

depends on what kind of book you're looking for...
a clockwork orange is good but it does require a little more effort to read than other books. it uses english and nadsat slang, mixture between russian and english, throughout the book. also be prepared to become slightly annoyed with the main character and his crazy actions.
grendel is a good book but i recommend that you read up on beowolf before reading grendel.
if you can handle his morbid writing then buy a book collection of edgar allan poe stories. my personal favorite is the black cat.
if you're looking for a good historical book then i recommend 1776(i truly wish this is how all history text books were written: interesting and engaging)

there are other books but those are all that come to mind.

oh, yes and if you're stuck in the teen book stage then a friend of mine keeps telling me to read the twilight series.

Momo by Michael Ende
The neverending story, also by Ende
any of Calvin and Hobbes
Microeconomics by Samuelson... (yes, it's a joke)
another vote for Clockwork Orange
Almost anything by Asimov and Carl Sagan
ANYTHING BY JULIO CORTAZAR, specially Cronopios

Yep depends on the subject.

I like a lot of horror so my favourite authors are;

Brian Lumley - the Necroscope series is mind blowingly amazing - so is psychosphere.
Stephen King (pref- earlier works), Graham Masterton, James Herbert.

Other non-horror books/authors;

Several of the Star Wars books
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton - so much better than the movie.
Orson Scott Card
Steve Alten - Meg (big mama shark)

A Clockwork Orange gets my vote too...
Tolkien though he's a pain too...

I've also enjoyed most of the Harry Potter books - it's relaxing to switch to kiddie fiction now and then.

Dune by Frank Herbert

House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski

Any Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett

I tried so hard to like Dune but in the end I didn't - mind you, I was a teenager when I read it.

I even read the next 1.5 books but gave up after that.

I was working in a library and said that Frank Herbert only wrote one book - and they said "what about Children of Dune, Dune Messiah etc..." and I said, yes, that's what I meant - he only wrote one book....


I might have to give it another go as an adult.

I recently tried the Stephen Donaldson books - made it through the first 1.5 before deciding it was not interesting enough. Pity, cos I really wanted to like them too.

-Another vote for Jurassic Park (greatest book ever.)
-The Thrawn trilogy of Star Wars books by Timothy Zahn are great.
-The Shining by Stephen King
-One Size Doesn't Fit All by John Madden. (Yeah, I know may not be the sharpest crayon in the box, but I still love him.)
-Edgar Allen Poe does have some great shorts. (the guy in "The Telltale Heart" is just so damn creepy. I also really like "Masque of the Red Death")

Lovecraft's all the stories - to tell the truth they all are the same and this archaic language isn't something what many people derive pleasure from
All by Michio Kaku and Richard Dawkins
Mika Valtari - specially his novels about Turms and Sinuhe

"Lord of the Flies", "The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy", "1984" and "The War of the Worlds" are my favourite novels, I've read them all several times. Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None" is a very exciting read too.

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Weird Weather - By Paul Simons.
A good book if you are interested in weather and strange phenomenons.

If you are a pet lover:

Cleveland Amory's Cat books
The Lillian Jackson Braun Cat Who...series (I love Siamese!)
Marley and Me

some of my all time favorites: catch-22, farenheit-451, speak, fight club, catcher in the rye, hitchikker's guide

as for sci-fi, i like dune a lot but not any of the sequels. also ender's game/shadow. and recently i have been liking robert asprin- the M.Y.T.H. series- he writes short silly books, and i kind of want to meet a pervect...

as for young adult fiction/magic and dragons kind of stuff, some authors i like a lot are: dianne wynne jones, cornelia funke, tamora pierce, eoin colfer, edward eager, shannon hale, gail carson levine, robin mckinnely

Fight Club

and

Trainspotting

Another for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

Strappology for beginners oh wait... it doesent exist hahahahahahaha

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