Any good book recommendations?

Ready Player One is a good book

 

You mention Vonnegut, so I recommend Kafka On The Shore by Haruki Murakami.

Excellent surreal novel.

 

Search Calibre up...it converts to all forms and hooks up to your ereaders.

EDIT: Also, you can get ereaders for under 100 easily.

 

Blade of the Avatar - Tracy Hickman just to remember SotA
The dark Tower - Stephen King (8 books)
A long way down - Nick Hornby
Three bags Full: A sheep detective story - Leonie Swann there exists also a second book of her around the main chars of this first book but I don't find the title in english, in german it is "Garou"
Metro 2033 - Dmitry Glukhovsky, this is not the game, it is a book
Life and Death are Wearing Me Out - Mo Yan

 

Hah, I am re-listening to The Wise Man's Fear now at work
Just got back from being with Felurian ^^

 

Anything by Michael J. Sullivan or Brandon Sanderson
Game of Thrones

 

Michael Moorcock - The Dancers at the End of Time

Isaac Asimov - Foundation series

Doris Lessing - Canopus in Argos: Archives

 

A Confederacy of Dunces

 

I really liked The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie . It's more a dark fantasy story.

 

Just about anything by Tad Williams.
Especially the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn Series (The Dragon Bone Chain, To Green Angel Tower, The Stone of Farewell).

 

Ebook reader is a good way to go, and yes you can download from well known torrent sites. There is also a bunch of free ebooks on Amazon and Gutenberg (they tend to be older books, 90+ year, because of copyright laws).


Tried to read Steve Eriksen's Gardens of the Moon and just kept getting bogged down. It wasn't as fun as everyone said, but I appreciate that the author is talented.

Patrick Rothfuss's Name of the Wind is currently on my reading list, I've about a third of the way through and enjoying it.

Fully agree. Hated it. By 10% I was completely frustrated with the first book and stubbornness got me to about 50% then I just gave up. The characters are moronic. The plot is repetitive. I'm trying my hardest not to break forum rules and use expletives.

 

My recommendation is:

Ultima Saga - Lynn Abbey Books

The Temper of Wisdom (1991)
Lord Ironhawk's son, Jordan Hawson; Althea; Drum, the blacksmith; and Jordan's kid brother, Squirt, search for Balthan, Althea's magician brother, the only one to know the truth about the evil infesting the land of Britannia.

The Forge of Virtue (1992)
Jordan Hawson and his companions return to Hawksnest only to receive a bitter welcome: their home has been tainted by the same evil they confronted and escaped in the northern forests. Even Jordan's father, Lord Ironhawk, is in the thrall of the corrupt Inquisitor Lohgrin.
With Jordan blind and disheartened, the Inquisitor moves swiftly and without opposition. Magician Balthan is condemned as a traitor, young Squirt becomes a fugitive in his own home, but the worst befalls Althea. The beautiful young woman will become Lohgrin's bride unless her friends find within their hearts the will and courage to free themselves from the Inquisitor's malignant sorcery




Ultima The Technocrat War Series - Austin Andrews

These were made originally for Ultima Online 2.

Machinations (2001)

A WORLD REFORGED A sorcerous cataclysm has remade the ancient and magical world of Sosaria, where a misguided plan to bring ultimate order to the land has altered its destiny forever. Now past, present, and future are one...a unity that sets in motion an astonishing age of discovery and confiict for this strange new world.
Once separated by time and space, the warlike Juka, the calculating Technocrats, the matriarchs of the Meer, and the Virtuous knights of New Britannia are now on a collision course. Fragile alliances threaten to unravel as treachery and deceit pit kingdom against kingdom. Unless bitter enemies can put aside their vengeful differences long enough to uncover the truth, all Sosaria will be ripped asunder.

Masquerade (2002)

TIME OF WAR In the aftermath of a devastating, time-rending cataclysm, the splintered world of Sosaria is now a patchwork of nations ripped from moments in the distant past, the present, and the far future. Three great kingdoms now perch on the brink of war.
The wizards and knights of New Britannia prepare to join the warlike Juka in a battle against the mysterious, calculating Technocrats, who are led by the twisted Lord Blackthorn. In a test that will challenge the limits of their honor, a Jukan warrior and a Virtuous knight must unmask the sinister pact behind the war before the Technocrats unleash a mechanical storm that could bring all of Sosaria to its knees.

Maelstrom (2002)

STORM OF AGES As war ravages the time-torn world of Sosaria, the knights and wizards of New Britannia have joined the warlike Juka to invade the desert wastes of the Technocrats. To uncover the secret plot of the shadowy forces that control the carnage, an outlaw knight and a crafty Jukan veteran must challenge fierce enemies and their own ideas of honor, else the final battle could destroy all three nations and perhaps the very foundations of Sosaria itself.

From http://www.ultimamuseum.com/UltimaNovelsBooks/

 

Yea Joe has good stuff also

 

I am the proud owner of a brandy new Kindle Paperwhite! Thank you community for your recommendations! I will fill this thing up with as many as i can get, and perhaps be ready to write my own series by the end of the summer You folks are great, please keep'em coming.

 

Bio of a Space Tyrant series by Piers Anthony, I remember enjoying that one. Footfall by Larry Niven was fun if you enjoy alien invasion. Delver Magic by Jeff Inlo, enjoyed. Recently, I went to amazon, and download a butt load of the old classics, they were all freeeeeee. A Journey to the Center of the Earth, Frankenstein, The First Men in the Moon, etc. Don't forget to grab a bunch of Steven King for light reading?!

 

Not fiction, but:
The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
The Republic by Plato
The Art of War by Sun Tzu

 

I am into fantasy so these are my favourites

Tamora Pierce

Particularly:
The songs of the lioness series
The Immortals Series
The Circle Series

Fiona Mcintosh

Trinity Series (warning, is quite sexually explicit in parts, adult fantasy)

David Eddings

All of his books but particularly
The Redemption of Althalus
and Belgarath the sorcerer

Someone else mentioned the wheel of time series by Robbert Jorden, for my mind he dragged that out to much just to make more money, there are whole books where there is almost no progress in the story or even any character development

 

It would be a boring world if everyone did.
I make no claim that my opinion is better or worse... only that it differs.

...The sun always rises.

 

Book of five rings and art of war are the best! I have read them several times and often listen to the audio book versions. I have yet to read The Repuiblic. Last days of Socrates was great.

 

another one of my favorites, but I have not thought about it in awhile:
The Complete Book of Swords by Fred Saberhagen
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Book-Swords-Omnibus-Volumes/dp/1568650094