Books to Recommend for Fellow Users.....

[CrazyFrog1903]

I thought I would make a post about books we would recommend to each other. I will start.

A good friend of mine has released a very good book. It is titled "The Sad Girl". The authors name is Bob Mueller. It is available on amazon to download for the Kindle. I believe it sells for $2.99. You should check it out...




If you have any books to recommend put them in here....

 

[Zelph]

Let's see...some non-history books that people might enjoy.

1) Starship Troopers by Heinlein is a classic.
2) It's on the religious side, but I thought The Five Books of Jesus by James Goldburg was a fairly good non-denominational fictional approach.
3) The Safehold series by David Weber
4) The Stormlight Archive series by Brandon Sanderson
5) The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher

 

[Majestic]

Nice thread CrazyFrog.

My reading atm is rather limited, I have been trying to catch up on all the Trek books. My favourites are the Voyager relaunch books by Kristen Beyer. Though if you haven't already check out the Destiny and Typhoon Pact series (in that order too) they are a good read and cover several series and bring the series in-line rather than them being all over the place.

I recently got some Babylon 5 books, haven't had a chance to read them yet but in a few weeks I am hoping to give up a vast amount of PC time and dive into them.

 

[Rifraf]

Cool thread. I read a lot by only a few authors, but can post the high lights.

1. "The Passage" by Justin Cronin. He released "The Twelve" last year which is the second book, but haven't had time to get into it
2. "One Second After" by William R. Forstchen
3. "Let Me In" by John Ajvide Lindqvist (The one the movie was based on.)
4. "Watchers," "Lightning," "Phantoms," and "The Taking" all by Dean Koontz
5. "Prey" by Michael Crichton

 

[CABAL]

Daemon and its sequel, Freedom™ (yes, that's part of the title) by Daniel Suarez are pretty good. They're about a distributed daemon written by a genius game programmer that suddenly activates and springs booby-traps to assassinate specific people. Then it starts getting really weird. The author started in the IT field so he actually knows what he's talking about, too.

 

[kjc733]

Books, books, where to start...

Firstly, plus one for the Destiny and Typhon Pact series of Star Trek books. Good books all.

Also plus one for Michael Crichton. Some of his books can be a little weak though, and whilst I enjoyed Prey it isn't his best work (and avoid Airframe!). I still think Jurassic Park and The Lost World are some of his best. - and they are far better than the films.

Non-Trek books I've read recently include:
HG Wells War of the Worlds, which still stands up reasonably well, only aging because of references to communication by horseback.
The Hornblower books, the earlier ones are better, as he goes up through the ranks I found he became rather unlikeable.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, its a bit harder work, but well worth a read. And I'm still amazed that Jules Verne makes a reasonable description of a nuclear powered submarine!

But what I'm reading right now ( its turned into one of my favourites) is a B5 fanfiction about the Dilgar War. It is incredibly well written and every bit as epic as the series (and also incredibly long). It can be found here:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2594689/1/The-Dilgar-War

I actually copied it to MS Word (before the site got locked down), so if anyone would like a copy rather than read it off a website just drop me a pm. I also have a ton of Star Trek books in txt format, so if anyone is looking for something in particular again let me know.

 

[Hellkite]

1. Dune
2. Dune Messiah
3. Children of Dune
4. God Emperor of Dune
5. Heretics of Dune
6. Chapterhouse Dune
7. Hunters of Dune
8. Sandworms of Dune

Dune is a science fiction franchise that originated with the 1965 novel Dune by Frank Herbert. Dune is frequently cited as the best-selling science fiction novel in history.

 

[CABAL]

1. Dune
2. Dune Messiah
3. Children of Dune
4. God Emperor of Dune
5. Heretics of Dune
6. Chapterhouse Dune
7. Hunters of Dune
8. Sandworms of Dune

Can't go wrong with Dune.

 

[Hellkite]

Can't go wrong with Dune.

Very true

"I know nothing comparable to it except The Lord of the Rings"
Arthur C .Clarke
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I can not believe that these were not listed to this list

The Silarilion

The Hobbit

The Lord of rings

respectively

The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King

 

[CABAL]

"I know nothing comparable to it except The Lord of the Rings"
Arthur C .Clarke​

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A Song of Ice and Fire is a closer match, but it probably wasn't out when he said it. Duke Leto Atreides and Edard Stark are basically the same character, though Leto is more politically savvy. Not that it saved him.

 

[Hellkite]

What he was referring to was the complexity of the story and the epic scale that no other science fiction franchise has.

Don't get me wrong I love A Song of Ice and Fire, but it dose not hold a candle to Dune on depth and complexity of story. Nor the massive back ground of plots and "Plains with in plains"

Spoiler: Petyr Baelish Littlefinger

The true master mind behind the all of political conflict in A Song of Ice and Fire

Vs a Sister of Bene Gesserit not even a Reverent Mother he would be schooled hard he would not know which way to turn.

 

[CABAL]

Yeah, the average Dune chapter has more scheming and backstabbing than your average assassins convention.

 

[Zelph]

The Stormlight Archive series (In progress) by Brandon Sanderson
The Temeraire series (In progress) by Naomi Novik
The Safehold series (In progress) by David Weber

 

[Hellkite]

Frontlines Book Series by Marko Kloos

Terms of Enlistment (Frontlines Book 1)

Spoiler

The year is 2108, and the North American Commonwealth is bursting at the seams. For welfare rats like Andrew Grayson, there are only two ways out of the crime-ridden and filthy welfare tenements, where you're restricted to two thousand calories of badly flavored soy every day:

You can hope to win the lottery and draw a ticket on a colony ship settling off-world, or you can join the service.

With the colony lottery a pipe dream, Andrew chooses to enlist in the armed forces for a shot at real food, a retirement bonus, and maybe a ticket off Earth. But as he starts a career of supposed privilege, he soon learns that the good food and decent health care come at a steep price…and that the settled galaxy holds far greater dangers than military bureaucrats or the gangs that rule the slums.

The debut novel from Marko Kloos, Terms of Enlistment is a new addition to the great military sci-fi tradition of Robert Heinlein, Joe Haldeman, and John Scalzi.

Lines of Departure (Frontlines Book 2)

Spoiler

icious interstellar conflict with an indestructible alien species. Bloody civil war over the last habitable zones of the cosmos. Political unrest, militaristic police forces, dire threats to the Solar System…

Humanity is on the ropes, and after years of fighting a two-front war with losing odds, so is North American Defense Corps officer Andrew Grayson. He dreams of dropping out of the service one day, alongside his pilot girlfriend, but as warfare consumes entire planets and conditions on Earth deteriorate, he wonders if there will be anywhere left for them to go.

After surviving a disastrous space-borne assault, Grayson is reassigned to a ship bound for a distant colony—and packed with malcontents and troublemakers. His most dangerous battle has just begun.

In this sequel to the bestselling Terms of Enlistment, a weary soldier must fight to prevent the downfall of his species…or bear witness to humanity’s last, fleeting breaths.

Angles of Attack (Frontlines Book 3)

Spoiler

The alien forces known as the Lankies are gathering on the solar system’s edge, consolidating their conquest of Mars and setting their sights on Earth. The far-off colony of New Svalbard, cut off from the rest of the galaxy by the Lanky blockade, teeters on the verge of starvation and collapse. The forces of the two Earth alliances have won minor skirmishes but are in danger of losing the war. For battle-weary staff sergeant Andrew Grayson and the ragged forces of the North American Commonwealth, the fight for survival is entering a catastrophic new phase.

Forging an uneasy alliance with their Sino-Russian enemies, the NAC launches a hybrid task force on a long shot: a stealth mission to breach the Lanky blockade and reestablish supply lines with Earth. Plunging into combat against a merciless alien species that outguns, outmaneuvers, and outfights them at every turn, Andrew and his fellow troopers could end up cornered on their home turf, with no way out and no hope for reinforcement. And this time, the struggle for humanity’s future can only end in either victory or annihilation.

 

[OpetJa]

I didn't read too much bookw, but those I've read I know very well. I strongly recommend The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. Great novel!